Posted by: newuser February 9, 2005
Thinking Impartially and sensibly
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To Isolated freak, Bionepal, freeofdogma and Usofa, Guys it seems you are not happy with the way I am expressing my support to civil liberties and human rights. you think I am partial and biased against King Gyanendra's actions which in your opinion was the last resort to save Nepal from being a failed state. You seem to seek my unreserved support to the King. Here, I disagree with you. I do agree with you that King was the last resort to save Nepal from being a failed state. He had to take some bold steps, which he did and we need to give him a chance. I firmly believe we should give him a chance for the next three years provided his performance in the coming months live up to the expectations of the public. But(sorry to repeat but once again), does it mean that civil liberties and human rights must be abandoned to achieve peace and security in Nepal? Cannot democracy coexist with peace and security in Nepal? According to you guys, democracy cannot co exist with peace and security in Nepal. Here, I must regretfully say that your views are dogmatic. how can you be assertive that democracy doesn't suit to the conditions of Nepal? You think that the last 12 years of rule by political parties is a period of democracy, and because the conditions of Nepal got deteriorated in that period, you think democracy is a failure. Here lies the difference between your belief and my belief. I don't think the 12 years after 2046 was a period of democracy. It was a period of multiparty system. It was not a period of democracy.The constitution defined the monarchy as constitutional but the constitution itself gave the Monarchy unprecedented power which placed the institution above the rule of law. Clauses 127, 27 and many others were themselves unconstitutonal according to the definition of constitutional monarchy. This provision gave the political leaders a sense of insecurity. They feared that the system could at any day be aborted so they opted to secure their future by amassing wealth through corruption. And corruption is not something that conceived after 2046. Corruption was there in the Panchayat era. It was secret as there was no openness, no media and parliamentary scrutiny. So it got unnoticed before 2046. Corruption was taught to the politicians by bureaucrats who worked in the Panchayat era. Believe it or not, if the bureaucracy was clean before, a handful of politicians couldn't have injected corruption in such a large scale. And there was a fear of unprecedented power of the King. They knew that the military was under the control of the King, so they choosed the wrong path fearing that their authority would be short lived by the KIng. You know what? The greatest reason for the Maoist leaders to choose Mao Zedong ideaology that the power is achieved by the barrel of guns was because the constitution gave the KIng unprecedented powers. Becuase they viewed the political changes of 2046 did not gave total power to the people.They knew the King's army are the obstacle for achieving equality and knew they have to fight against them and defeat to achieve their goal. So they opted to raise arms. I agree that their present acts are not by any mean in lines to their goal of achieving social equality. They have fallen to the negative limits. But you can't only blame politicians and the maoists for this failure. The monarchy has played an equally bad role from the oblivion. I don't blame the King for the failure of multi party democracy however.Politicians and maoists have played a much bigger part. But you can't clear the King. Indeed, King did no wrong to cripple our social system. King did nothing to collapse Sajha and Troly Bus, Himal cement and Hetauda Kapada, nepal bank and banijya bank. But don't blame the politicians only for this. There are industrialists and businessmen and smugglars and black market people, who are responsible for this mess. Look, they have so quickly changed their faction and joined to the monarchist. They are set to blackmail and bribe the new administration. They are the biggest culprits for the debacle of multiparty system in Nepal, bribing everybody to bring laws that favour their businesses at the cost of national treasury. If Gyanendra wants to end corruption from the country, he has to sentence Khetan and Chaudhary and his own business partner Pravakar Shumsher. But he won't do that because he is no better then the political leaders. The only difference is he has military with him and he is above law and order. As a conscious and democratic individual of the 21st century, I can't simply believe that a man, inherited of power by birth, without the backing of majority of it's people can rectify our problems and prospere the country. Autocracy is dangerous guys. Unveil your dogma. Let me add one more thing democracy doesn't succeed in 12 years. It needs hundreds of years. But it is democracy that finally delivers prosperity to the nation. Autocracy can never do that in thousands of years. If you don't believe me, read the history of UK, France and the US. Here to give you a synopsis of how democracy got it's foothold in the United Kingdom after absolute monarchy was ended in the islands after the introduction of Magnacarta, let me put you what is Magancarta?
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