Alright patronizing thuldaai, please take a minute to listen to us bhaare-bhure people who know nothing about the villages in Nepal: And by lookin at the happenings from 1990 till 2002, what the hell did democracy do to Nepal. u tell me i'm naive..look at urself guys..u don't even realise who gave birth to the maoists. It was your so called democratic politicians. --> When the Maoist war started in 1996, the political parties had ruled the country, even that with mostly Panchayati bureacrats, for barely five years. And, let us be reminded, going for "saammebaad" has always been a communist slogan. True, after 1990, there was more freedom of speech that allowed the Maoists to rise, but don't you think that people speaking for themselves is a good thing (ok, I am not saying the Maoists are nice people, but you get my point!) Whatever the King has done till now is nowhere near a crime. People are being disappeared by the army that's directly under him, innocent villagers are being killed on suspicion of being a Maoist or a Maoist sympathizer. Now, tell me what's your definition of 'crime'? He has the right to take over the country if it is in a chaos. It is in the constitution. He went by the book. Pardon my jhurpatyaash knowledge of the constitution, but if he truely believes he went by the book, why, for example, the government attacking on the media, even at a time when the case against his atyaadhesh is pending in the supreme court? Now since u guys are the products of those corrupt..shameless politicians, ur gonna tell me the law was wrong in the first place. For you, anyone who opposed the king is a "product of those corrupt..shameless politicians", isn't s/he? May be the law was not wrong, but it was definitely not fair -- not fair to the people down the economic ladder, not fair to the teraibasis, not fair to the janajatis, not fair to women! don't give me bull about the villages in Nepal. I'm sure i know a lot more than most of the people in this site. Honest question for you: how many people do YOU know in this site? Those people in villages trust no one but the King. They don't care or know anything about the politicians. That's why people have to be *hired* -- literally -- when the king goes on his felicitation programs to self-promote himself! That's why even when the state machinery is all set to supress people's right to unarmed assembly, still there are thousands of people marching in the streets of Butwal, Pokhara, Biratnagar and New Baneswor! May be villagers don't care about the politicans, but recent events HAVE proved that people do care about freedom and democracy and, since you seem to know so many people in this site, I am sure you know that many people who support political parties in this site support them because they are the best hope for democracy we have! U know why? that's because a remote village, say in the far west, has never benefitted from your democratic politicians. And yes they have benefitted from the King. That's why, after 30 years of king's rule, the Maoist war still erupted in one of the most remote district in the country! And, that's why the people in the reason joined the Maoists, whose aim is to topple monarchy! And, of course, the Maoists, who, let's face is, mostly come from the poor families in the west, recently formed an alliance with the political parties. If it was the political parties, shouldn't they be forming an alliance with the king to, say, eliminate the political parties? But u wouldn't believe me right? well i don't give a shit That's the problem. If the governments, both under democracy and under the king, had given a "shit" to what the Maoists were saying long time ago, we would not have been where you are here. Keep up your ego - it's take all of us far! I'm so glad the constitution was written like that and that the army only reports to the King. Consitution can do no shit when people using it do not understand the spirit of it. Almost every person who was involved in writing the constitution -- from Biswanath Upadhyaya to Daman Nath and Nilambar Acharya -- is saying what the king did is not in line with the spirit of the constitution. If it wasn't for this smartness of the previous Kings, Nepal would have been under some corrupt a$$hole. We are under a corrupt a$$hole anyway -- he uses the RNAC plane causing thousands of loss to the nation; appoints ex-criminals and ferlizer mafias to ministerial positions...the list can go on!