Nepali Army ups ante overnite - 396 Maoists reported dead.

I figured a few socialists and intellectuals would be disgusted by my simplicity, had no idea we were going injun. Walosi, you are an indian? Whats next? How come I don't get to be an indian? At some point, far back, there were hunter gatherers in the munk family...


Anyway, better dead than red goes back to McCarthy for me.

I was wondering if China's statement against the Maoists wasn't a sort of, "you guys are on your own now." If indeed, they had ever had Chinese support.

munk
 
Somewhere, on one of the news sites, is a formal statement of Maoist intent, in Nepal, and the very seriously stated comment that they were gaining such strength that they would take over the world after they had finished with Nepal.

There was never a doubt that there has been outside support for this movement, and that it very probably included Chinese funds, or support, trained cadre - whatever - but the tone and naivete of the person who presented the statement shows how easy it has been for the manipulators to fast-talk a significant part of the Nepali population into fantasy land. No wonder the government accepted surrender from so many, and returned them to their homes in the custody of relatives. This is both the charm and the peril of Nepal, at least away from the cities. These wonderful, open and willing people, given education and tools to build an economy, instead of political BS and agitation (of ANY variety) have more than enough intelligence and work ethic to build a realistically prosperous society. Given time and financing and planning (not the Enron stuff) they could control their own destinies, without having to spend their childrens' food to feed the corrupt.
 
Today Katmandu, (sic) tomorow the world. Unbelievable. These maoists must have been frozen since the 1960's and only recently thawed.

munk
 
Old rhetoric, old weapons and old tactic of stirring up the poor, but there were always "hard men" in the background. Before the truce talks, it was "Phone the police station - tell them we will raid at noon, so no one gets hurt". Comic opera stuff, but acceptable to people with a religious and moralistic background. They re-grouped during the talks, and when they broke them off in Nov., the hard guys took over.The people on the ground will get nothing out of this, no matter who wins, unless there are some wide reforms. The "hard guys" won't be allowed, after things are over, by either side. The "shadow brokers" inside Nepal (and some of the politicians have shown some funny moves in that direction) might have wished to turn a government upset to their advantage, and it seems that the king may have realized that he can't continue as before. Like solving a Chinese crossword puzzle with a Polish dictionary, and no eraser on the pencil.
 
Peru's Shining Path -
Cambodia's Pol Pot -
Nepal's Maoist Rebels -

And 50 years ago, the legacy of a Senate scared by a drunk named McCarthy into infamous treatment of innocent citizens.

Just idle speculation but somehow I doubt I'm the only one on this forum that has a battle rifle like a Garand or Springfield and a couple hundred rounds ammo ready to go tucked away in case.

Hey, aren't those mini mauser actioned CZ bolt actions in 223 and 7.62x39 cute?
 
Those mini CZ's are damned cute. For years all the gun writers had to have a slight carbine in a 'woods' round like the soviet short. There were few around, like the Sako (vixen?) always expensive too. I'll be curious to see if these sell.

Just idle speculation but somehow I doubt I'm the only one on this forum that has a battle rifle like a Garand or Springfield and a couple hundred rounds ammo ready to go tucked away in case. >>>

IN case, what!! Is the question..of course, tell that to a Korean grocer in LA during the riots who kept his property intact with such.
Yes, I am guilty too of tucking away and not so tucked...

munk
 
By the way...Walosi is too much. He knows too much. He can't be what he appears to be, and just what is a 'walosi'?

Who are you guys!!??

munk
 
Somewhere, on one of the news sites, is a formal statement of Maoist intent, in Nepal, and the very seriously stated comment that they were gaining such strength that they would take over the world after they had finished with Nepal.
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I've seen some stuff like that on some of the "Moaist" internet sites as well. Kinda looks like stuff put together by a bunch of idealistic college kids armed with no experience in anything but a couple of years of myopic book-smarts augmented by frequent brainwashing. Most recent state I know of that was run by folks with such "qualifications" was Afganistan. And it could be argued that they had a better book. That "state" musta set a record for goin' backwards fast. My suspicion is these guys are dupes for somebody else.
 
Munk, I used to do this for a "living" - take bales, bundles and boxes of "stuff", reconstruct it into a 40-50 page analysis and time frame. At that point, a bright and ambitchuous O-1 would write a dazzling two-paragraph synopsis, get promoted to O-2, and I'd get moved to a different section because I could be an embarrassment when the kid couldn't remember which country the report covered. Vive La Militaire.
"Walosi" is Tsa La Gi (sometimes Aniyuwiya :rolleyes: ) for "Frog". Poor Singularity...this won't make his English any easier.
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
So do I. I'm not ready to try to mediate this one if it goes in the wrong direction. Sing is working in a second language and remember my story of the Nepali fry bread!!!!
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Uncle's puri (fry bread) story is hilarious - here's a link to it for those who missed it:

Uncle eating 'puri'
 
You answered like a 'company man' or mercenary. For whatever I know about that- nothing. And as you know, I was teasing. You just sounded so damn smart. Like you knew what you were talking about.

I have a saying; "the working man will not win his own revolution."

The second shock of my brief career in a bureacracy was in realizing there was no correlation between work done and promotion. The first shock was in seeing it was not neccesary to accomplish anything.

This is why Capitalism, however flawed, beats well intentioned systems every time. It may even beat good intentions.

munk
 
My reports were more succinct:

It's a hell of a mess. The people are poor and the government is crooked. Some activists are raising hell but they are crooked, too, and more violent than the government. And they target the people they claim to be helping. People getting killed and property destroyed at an alarming rate. Everything needs to be stopped and started over. Send help.

End of report.

Martino
 
my intution hoped the worst was now over- the people saw through the maoists.

munk
 
It is not over yet. Communist and their revolutionary kin grow like fungus in dark, unventilated areas. Until the government inplements some meaningful reform they are still succeptable to the next revolutionary that happens to toppel from the turnip truck.

n2s
 
Originally posted by not2sharp
It is not over yet. Communist and their revolutionary kin grow like fungus in dark, unventilated areas. Until the government inplements some meaningful reform they are still succeptable to the next revolutionary that happens to toppel from the turnip truck.
n2s
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Right on N2S!

Like mushrooms they got to stay in the dark and be fed bull$hit to keep their Maoist crap alive. That may be why they are trying to destroy the Nepalese educational system.

Enlightened capitalists will not fall for the Maoist Communist mumbo jumbo.

Bill Marsh
 
The thing that gives the Maoists their fuel is they are the only alternative to an existing very poor government.
 
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