tic tok!, tic-tok!!

hi, this is your friend Loote, again! hehe. could not help sharing this article. as much as i appreciate freedom of expression, it amazes me when educated people, that too living in US, fail to comprehend maoists revolution-armed revolution and nepal's ground realities.

why would maoists disarm before CA or before they see that a stable enviroment has been set up for a startup?

--to let the royalists take over again? it should be understood that although monarchy is frozen, its NOT dead yet. do you really want them to take over you yet again?
if yes, i have nothing to say.
if no, accept what maoists are saying.

Do you want maoists to retaliate and bring october revolution and hence more chaos in the country?
if yes, i have nothing to say.
if no, listen to them.

this dude's article cracked me up. he is juxtaposing maoists with hezbollah. does he have a slightest clue of the ground reality of nepal? does he know what message an irresponsible statement as such can circulate around the world at this important juncture of peace making process?

pisses me off, yes big time!!! when educated people lacks patience and fail to comprehend our realities.

Nepal’s Maoists Out-of-Sync with Rest of Nation
By Bhupal Lamichhaney

- http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2006/others/guestcolumn/sep/guest_columns_06.php

LooTe

correction: Maybe you are more Maoist than the Maoists themselves!

"do you guys realize that you are taking a postion that not even Prachanda has taken? " needs clarification. Have I ever said there is no need to "manage" arms? There is difference between "managing arms" and disarming, isn't it?

"Have I ever said there is no need to "manage" arms? "

That was clearly implied from your previous posts on this and other threads.

"There is difference between "managing arms" and disarming, isn't it? "

Yes, they are two steps in a linear process - one leads to the next but they are related to the same principle: abandoning the gun as a means to power. You either favor disarmanent (via arms management or other means) or you dont. It's pretty binary.

I won't accuse you of back peddaling but if you are fine with them laying down arms, which was hard to tell up untill this point, then that suits me fine too.

binary is an idea of seeing things in black and white, which i don't tend to do.

Yes, I can tell.

i wrote this in another thread (seems like too many threads are being posted here in this topic hehe :P). just to make some points clear.
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it's been fun discussing the arm management issues with other sajhaians. this is what i have gathered.

1) everyone wants NA to remain neutral. and
2) everyone wants maoists to disarm.

WHEN? --ASAP. and for that, SPA and maoists both have to come into agreement. the sooner the better. as far as i see, congress still want monarchy. i don't know if they are presenting that rhetoric to bargain with maoists but that is not gonna help. maoists are ready for disarmament but as long as maoists leaders don't see that NA could well impede their cause, they are not gonna disarm. so it's high time we move on and do the necessary mutation of NA and create a feasible environment for a violence free and unbiased CA. the more time we take the better it will be for royalists and other external forces to manipulate terms.

Peace!
LooTe