political parties had failed to hold elections or bring Maoist rebels
to peace talks

Maoist = Communist (supported by communists from China)


Don't think it couldn't happen here in America. All that's needed is
another terrorist attack on the scale of 9-11, maybe even bigger, and
Americans would practically be BEGGING Bush to take all their freedoms,
take all their liberty, as long as it would save them from the evil
terrorists. The problem is that trading freedom for security is a
bargain with the devil, metaphorically speaking-you lose your freedom
yet are no safer. Benjamin Franklin realized this when he said that
those who trade essential liberty for temporary safety get neither
liberty nor safety. Americans seem to have forgotten that-they'd
willingly trade the Constitution for a police state in order to be saved
from Osama, yet the terrorists would still attack and the only thing
free about the US would be its rhetoric about preserving freedom. Coming
soon to a newspaper in your town: editorials about clean socks.


When communist terrorists start shooting off your children, rape you wife,
and torture your neighbor, YOU TO will be begging the government to
"protect" you!