. when a great ruler does something, the people will say "we did it" -simplified, from the tao te ching now im not saying that SPA and the maoists are great leaders but the way they orchastrated this mass movement was breathtaking in the heat of the moment, in the giddiness, i too thought that this was a spontaneous people's movement. but sit back and analyze the facts and we realize that what the spa-maoist alliance did was plant the germs of this tree, and then basically sat back and watched it take a life of its own the people who joined the throngs didnt do it for the alliance, they did it for themselves, their freedoms, and peace and stability. but who called the strikes and protests in the first place? now, it may be the case that once the movement was started, it spun out of control of the ones who wanted to lead it, but cmon, lets sit back and analyze this whole thing what were the points of the spa-maoist alliance? isnt the mass of humanity demanding exactly the same thing that the alliance had agreed upon in the first place? today, it seems like the people want the alliance to do what the alliance had wanted done the fact is, these folk might not be visionaries in terms of development of the nation, but they understand the process of revolution