newuser, just my quick comments on your excellent post: 1. If you are comparing today's Nepal to the 12th century Magna Carta era England, all I have to say is, those days the nation(s)[ States] were isolated and could do anything without affecting the global/international system.The world has changed a lot in the last 800 years. Yes, we have to start somewhere, but we can have a different way and not go through the crises that many European nations went through in democratization process. The new scholarship (again) is quite heretic, it does not subscribe to the overnight democratization, instead they focus on logical sequence: first economic development, then rule of law and then democracy (Joeseph Stiglitz belongs to this school of logical sequence). I agree with this new appraoch to democratization: First create a strong middle class base, then you'll have rule of law (as in HK, Singapore, Malaysia), then after having all the infrastructures/institutions ready for the transformation, democratize. It will be less messy, chaotic and problematic that way. THIS IS MY POINT. Sometimes you have to look beyond your democracy primer theories. Yes, I BELIEVE that the King will create institutions to support and sustain democracy in Nepal. Its my personal opinion, you are free to disagree. We all can believe in what we choose to believe in, that's democracy. I don't wnat you to believe (I was not being persuassive) what I believe in. But I do believe the King has potentials to emerge as next Lee and Pervez Musharraf. Remember, they didn't and they couldn't change Singapore and Pakistan overnight. It took almost 10 eayrs for Lee and slightly less time for Musharraf (thanks to America's war on terror). Neither you nor me can predict the future. Who knows, maybe the King will be our own Lee or Musharraf. All I am saying is its too early to judge him. He has already craeted a strong anti-graft body and the press is not as unfree as it complains. We are in a difficult situation and such difficult/extreeme situations require difficult and extreme measures. Musharraf started with the same measures: anti corruptoion campaignhening the SOEs (State Owned Enterprises), clean and transparent bureaucracy and a responsible govt. It didn't happen overnight. These are my VIEWS- MY PERSONAL VIEWS. I am not stating it as the ultimate truth, nor I claim to be speaking for the masses [ as you do]. FEEL FREE TO DISAGREE. And thanks for your clarification regarding your comments on various threads. Nepe, I see no point whatsoever in discussing with you and I think I have made this clear on many occassions.