Tuesday, June 21, 2005

1000 Multifarious Uses Of Article 127


Article 127 can be used to:
  1. Dissolve parliament.
  2. Revolve parliament.
  3. Evolve parliament.
  4. Involve parliament.
  5. Resolve disputes.
  6. Light fires.
  7. Ignite hailstorms.
  8. Erupt volcanoes.
  9. Inititate earthquakes.
  10. Clean up Bagmati.
  11. Stop Bagmati in its tracks if it refuses the clean up.
  12. Cause a catastrophe upon Prachanda.
  13. Find out Prachanda actually is not a person but a doll the Maoists worship.
  14. Unearth secrets.
  15. Divulge secrets.
  16. Propagate secrets.
  17. Secretly propagate.
  18. For propaganda.
  19. Turn Girija into a permanent backbencher.
  20. Turn Baburam illiterate.
  21. Turn Ram Chandra Poudel silent.
  22. Invite the Dalai Lama to Lumbini.
  23. To create information.
  24. To disseminate information.
  25. To send out trojan horse viruses across the internet.
  26. To intervene in foreign countries.
  27. To redefine democracy and human rights for the new millenium.
  28. To refine oil. Mustard oil, custard oil, bastard oil, let's start oil.
  29. To install a salt factory.
  30. To stall a revolution.
  31. To forestall dialogue.
  32. To go comatose.
  33. To fend off criticisms.
  34. To inuagurate.
  35. To suffocate.
  36. To obliviate.
  37. To promulgate.
  38. To sustain.
  39. To disdain.
  40. To despair.
  41. To conspire.
  42. To prosper.
  43. To whisper.
  44. Conquer.
  45. Obliterate.
  46. Resolve Kashmir, Palestine, Ireland and Capitol Hill disputes on a permament basis.
  47. Say hello to Moriarty.
  48. Play golf with Moriarty and send Ram Sharan Mahat into fits: "Made my blood boil."
  49. To tour: China, Dubai, Dhaka, if possible, Macau, Hong Kong, Trinidad, Fiji, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, North Korea.
  50. Alleviate Fidel Castro's loneliness.
  51. Make Musharraf feel like he is the modern day Karl Marx, a man with influence beyond his land.
  52. To send Advani to Pakistan on a clean up exercise.
  53. Arrest, release, re-arrest, re-release, re-re-arrest, re-re-release Deuba until Deuba gets tired of it.
  54. Send 50 police officers after Deuba, 150 after Girija, 250 after MaKuNe and 350 after Peter Pan Giri. Send the leftovers after Prachanda, if there are any.
  55. Magically disappear 20 million rupees from Nepal Bank Limited and make it reappear in Bangalore.
  56. Hijack democracy, and give it back one ounce at a time, because it is not Dashain yet.
  57. To wake up Bishta and Giri from the near dead.
  58. To pronounce Badri Mandal as an almost cabinet member.
  59. To induct RK Mainali into the cabinet, and have CK Mainali green with envy.
  60. To militarily capture Gorkha from the Maoists.
  61. To discover the People's Army folks are seldom in uniform.
  62. To bring an end to RNA desertions.
  63. To send an arrest warrant after SD Muni.
  64. Turn Sharad Chandra Shah onto the soccer field so the people can take a good look at him.
  65. Revive street demonstrations.
  66. Tease the idea of parliamentary revival.
  67. Go abroad where even uncensored media don't talk no nonsense.
  68. Prune grass on the Narayanhiti lawns.
  69. Fly helicopters.
  70. Land in some Yadav's backyard, and claim it for a helipad.
  71. To nationalize all private property to pre-empt the Maoists.
  72. To get rid of FM radio stations forever, and instead introduce the use of loud speakers.
  73. To send spies to Delhi to find out what the Indian newspapers have been up to.
  74. To prevent Sikkimization, Tibetizatinon, fossilization, renaissance, and revolution.
  75. To stay put, dig heels and pass it on as resolve.
  76. To fundamentally misunderstand George W.'s "terrorism" rhetoric and blame it back on George W. because W. can't pronounce words right in the first place.
  77. To make the Dharahara stand up straight.
  78. To jump off the Dharahara with a handy umbrella, open it up only half way down. Like Mao swam down the Yellow River to recapture the imagination of the great proletarian Chinese people.
  79. To congratulate Kim Jong Seriously Ill on his gimmicks like he congratulated.
  80. To challenge Prachande to a nationally televised debate. Also to be webcast for the 700 protesting Nepalis in Washington DC who Gorkhapatra claimed had been hired for a sum total of $35,000. That is $50 a piece, Hem Bahadur style.
  81. To enhance tourism.
  82. To energize the economy.
  83. To ameliorate the situation.
  84. To do other good deeds on the shopping list.
  85. To challenge Girija to spell his name.
  86. So Pashupati Rana ain't nobody no more. And?
  87. For royal participation in street demonstrations as an outreach program.
  88. Celebrate monsoon in ways never done before.
  89. Take away all the holidays for one year, so people realize what they might be missing. It ain't just democracy.
  90. To mistake Moriarty as the ambassador from Greenland, and shame him into resuming military aid.
  91. Threaten to cut his water supply and blame it on the monsoon if the threat need be carried out.
  92. To build a east west Gyanendra Highway in the Himal region to rival its counterpart in the Terai.
  93. Make it four lane.
  94. Pretend all residents of Ramechhap are tourists.
  95. Hang up the phone every time Vajpayee calls. He is no longer Prime Minister.
  96. Say, Chandrashekhar who?
  97. Root for the Scindias so the Indians can have a taste of monarchy too.
  98. Offer to go back to Gorkha. The rest of Nepal can go to hell.
  99. Invite all exiled politicians to a party at the palace. Arrest them after getting them drunk.
  100. Declare the civil war over.
I am sure King G can come with the other 900 items on the list.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Full Democracy Soon?


Looks like the threat of a Maoist-Democrat alliance is already working. We have a top Indian minister claiming Nepal is on the verge of restoring full democracy, although I would like to know where he got his information from. On the other hand we have a senior Nepali minister threatening the democrats, that they will be treated like the Maoists should they form an alliance. Carrot and stick? Empty threat? So if the Maoist-Democrat alliance comes together on the issue of Constituent Assembly, you are going to send the army after the democrats? Come on.

Isn't this minister guy the same one that routinely gets into trouble with the Supreme Court? Looks like he is speaking out of his back pocket. Isn't this the guy that imposes imaginative sackles on the press, and when the press asks the king about it, his reply is that such decisions have yet to reach his desk? I mean, this minister guy, does he think he is the modern day Jung Bahadur or what! He sure is going on a tangent on a routine basis.

As for a restoration of full democracy, I will see it when it happens. Frankly, I don't see it in the cards. Although it would be wise of the regime to head that way.

The Maoists have taken their attacks to a whole new level. They are now targeting district headquarters, it seems. If only a few of those were to fall, that would be a major blow to the regime. The war is psychological.

The Maoists are not pretending they have given up on their original goal. And that is why engaging them is the better route to go. Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer, as the saying goes. If you engage them, you stand a chance to tame them. If you stay away, they run amok. Besides, if the consensus is for a political solution to the civil war, that translates into engaging them. So do what you say you will.

If the Monarchists keep digging their heels, the foreign powers will continue to stay away. And I am not sure the recent RNA stunt of trying to buy arms and ammunition from private global markets is exactly a great move on their part. First, the US routinely passes laws prohibiting American companies from doing business with regimes it disapproves of. I would think other democracies do something similar, or are capable of the same. Second, India-US-EU holding back military supplies is not a military move, it is a political move. If the Monarchists see it purely in military terms, they stand to challenge powers like India into changing gears.

Monarchists Invited To The Maoist-Democrat Alliance

The Monarchists have been alarmed by the gelling Maoist-Democrat alliance around the idea of a Constituent Assembly. They need not feel excluded. They are very much welcome to the same alliance. It is not some exclusive club.

Peter Pan Giri and company, stop whining and instead turn the Maoist-Democrat alliance into a Monarchist-Maoist-Democrat Grand Alliance. Seize the moment. It's called Constituent Assembly. It is called going to the people.

E-Mail From Gagan Thapa

I received an email from Gagan Thapa earlier today. I am thrilled. He got arrested when Dinesh (Prasain) was on his US speaking tour, and we all took it very personally. It is good to know Thapa now is beyond arrest, and is politicking freely.

Thapa's point is the four point agenda of the seven parties is a great starting point, but not entirely enough. And that as the movement chugs along, more progress is to be made.

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