Freddogg Off The Chain

Demonstrators were “dogged by police in the streets of Kathmandu” --Bob Seager rocks!--on Friday or Saturday it depends on which side of the dateline you live but then a deluge of rain thinned out the crowd followed by a large hail boinking brought down by a friendly yet vengeful god who does not cotton to Maoist rebels who run amok speaking in parables and killing people in the streets.

But it got worse. A hail of rubber bullets which hurt like hell dropped protestors to their knees where they were then beaten with bamboo sticks and trampled by herd of Hindus because someone yelled, ”Half price slurpy sale!” (You right, that was a weak joke.)

The bigger joke will come on Sunday morning on news programs in the United States when President Bush tries to explain to a national audience of U.S. citizens who already believe he’s a moron why we should care what happens in any impoverished nation. “Gas cost $3 dollars a gallon at Wawa and they think they have problems?”

Nepal is a country of 28 million at the foot of the Himalayas whose sole purpose of existence is to take rich white people up the steep side of Mt Everest then subsequently get them lost and occasionally providing hospitality to Harrison Ford and the series of Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.

Another near riot situation flared late Saturday when King Gyanendra cut off cell phone service and screamed from the loud speakers of his guarded palace, ”Can you hear me now assholes!” The King suspended democracy two years ago after a bloody palace coup where his royal family imploded and killed each other. Citizen groups are too fractured and stupid In Nepal to understand sociology 101 and the Social Contract theory and even though in America we have many groups who hate each other we all agree that red means stop and green means go. You know, just the basic shit. They are in a state of anarchy,unemployed and impoverished.

In the last three weeks of protests 14 Napali people have died which isn’t a drop in the Yak bucket compared to downtown Baltimore.

The geopolitical significance of all of this is that Nepal sits between India and China and if that throw down ever gets going the Iraq War and too many Mexicans will be the least of the United States troubles.

But your chances of scaring up an intelligent conversation on Nepal are about as good as finding a Duke grad working the night shift at the 7-11 in downtown Durham.

Peace Freddogg