Woah! Woah!! Woah!!! Easy there, fellas. Where is all this venom coming from? If anything at all, I lean more towards your republican ideals than Mandale-tantra. Having said that, the question I have posed is still a valid one. With Chinese Government using Yahoo and MSN (possibly Google too) to track down the dissident internet users and locking them up for years, one certainly has to be concerned about similar action that Nepalese Government could possibly take. Now whether that is actually possible or not is a question you have to ask San. Dictatorship ko haat laamo huncha. There is no clear demarcation of ethics and free speech in totalitarian regime. As for my political thoughts, I am of the opinion that monarchy as is is anachronistic institution that serves very little if any purpose in today's Nepal. While an ideal Jeffersonian Republic, with current players, is difficult (note, I said difficult, not impossible) to realize, I would say even at its lesser form, it is preferable over status quo. At least with republic, if we do not like the government, we can give it a boot. At least with republic, your children and my children can be the president. At least with republic, the sovereignty resides with people. At least with republic, accountability goes all the way to the top and everybody is under the rule of law. Not so with monarchy in all four counts. So there, for what it is worth in this public anonymous wikiboard, that's my view out in the open, lest you surmise otherwise. Your response above is probably instigated by my call for proper validation before believing everything said in the other thread about the royal jwai. King's son-in-law could be a devil incarnate, but again he might just be another flawed Nepali. Who is to say? Sure people have opinion of him. And some of the allegations are probably true. As I said, there can be no smoke without fire. But, I, as a reader, have no way to validate those claims. Some have said why don't I contact the guy and ask for his UC Berkeley degree. C'mon, do you seriously think that I can/will do that? And even if I do, do you really think he will meekly acquiesce to my demand? The burden of proof comes with the claim, and unless those two are together, it is what it is, just a gossip. And I stand by what I say. And to messrs gwajyo and prajatantra, do you mind reading my other postings before you lable me as chamcha of Gyanendra? Because,sirs, I respectfully beg to differ.