On the question posed by the thread: The concept of "being ready for democracy" is a farce. Democracy is NOT a package that can be delivered once the supposedly "janne-sunne" dictator decides that "his" people are ready for it. Democracy is a PROCESS, a continuing process, that corrects itself as people experience it more. The moment one seizes the process from the people, then the people would be deprived of experiencing it, therefore they would be deprived of the opportunity to refine it. It can never be perfect, but without the opportunity to live in it, democracy would never become better, stronger and much closer to being perfect than before. On giving the King a chance: Respect and support, for me, are GAINED, and cannot be DEMANDED. And no one can ever convince me to lend my respect and support to dictators, for I have seen examples aplenty of such regimes utterly failing to address the REAL needs of the people. We don't even need to look far to see such an example: Panchayat in our own country was an abject failure in terms of fulfilling even the basic needs of the people, hence the problems we saw -- the weakness that we witnessed in the so-called democracy -- in the 1990s. By taking two major steps that contribute even further to my belief of not trusting dictatorships (the banning of the press, and the formation of a Panchayat-kaal kai loyal but hopelessly vision-deprived mantri mandal, KingG has failed once again to convince his skeptics that he has a genuine desire to do good for Nepal. You ask me to still give him a chance? Sorry, but NO! I cannot, and I will not, in my good conscience, lend even a BIT of suport to something that I know is headed for a doom. You tell me wait and see? Hell NO! We cannot afford to wait even a bit to see if we are being led into disaster. If we wait, it may be too late when we see that it was a mistake. I have been leveled "unpatriotic" for clinging to pessimism about the King. I say, NO ONE has any right to question my, or any other Nepalis' patriotism. I am sure we all love our country equally, and we all wish better future for her. Our differences in HOW to achieve our common patriotic goals is not a measure by which either of us can, and should, judge the other's patriotism.