Friday, June 12, 2009

Crooks and Liars

In his infamous interview with Addisu Abebe of VOA, Sebhat Nega, the aging don of the woyane crime family sat through a 30 minute interview telling Addisu all kinds of brazen lies. It must have been surreal for Addisu, one of the VOA 5, that woyane had charged in absentia for treason, genocide etc.. in 2005 to watch the old man blabber one stupendous lie after another with a straight face.

I know, I know, truth is alien to woyanes, but it is still shocking to listen to a septuagenarian lie through his teeth; then again, what do I know telling fantastic lies might be a favorite pastime for senior citizens in Adwa.

In the Ethiopia of yester year, old men like him used to be considered pillars of the community and respected for their wisdom and sought out for their wise counsel. That was then and this is now.

Anyhow, let me review just some of the brazen lies that will make even Washera and Zeru and Adal, the "unholy troika" blush.

Lie # 1.Ethiopians never knew each other before TPLF moved south to Addis Ababa from Dedebit. Hmm, in introducing himself Sebhat told us that he attended Haile Selassie I University in Addis Ababa and he worked as a teacher in various parts of Ethiopia. So,this dirt poor peasant from a dirt poor land, who can only dream of the luxuries Ethiopia has afforded him was educated, clothed and fed by the generous Ethiopian people whom he did not know. Most people would call that the proverbial ungrateful dog biting the hand that fed him.

Lie # 2. The diabolical TPLF guru also tells us that Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia before the Derg fell from power.Yeah, right. Is the old fool suffering from end stage dementiaor is such bold faced lies a cultural trait? This treacherous monster knows that the albatross hanging on every woyane’s fattened neck is the treason they committed by giving away Assab and deliberately making Ethiopia the most populous land locked country in the world. They know that they will be charged with treason under a future democratic government of Ethiopia. So, this demented mercenary’s attempt to scapegoat the Derg for the loss of Ethiopia’s access to the sea is so amateurish, that it is beyond stupid.

Lie #3. EFFORT (The Endowment Fud For the Rehabilitation of Tigrai) the monopolistic woyane enterprise, according to Sebhat is “# 1 in terms of wealth and the number of companies that are providing strategic services throughout Ethiopia.” Mind you that woyane has been rehabilitating Tigrai at the expense of Ethiopia for 18 long years.

He said, while EFFORT legally belongs to Tigrai, it really belongs to the Ethiopian people. How fresh! I hope he is just thanking the kind Ethiopians a thousand times a day whenever he deposits his looted money in China, Lichtenstein or Malaysia. I also hope that the old fool knows, the future democratically elected and legitimate government of Ethiopia will be coming after the Tigrai mafia’s ill-gotten wealth when woyane bites the dust. Don't make any plans to gorge on your loot, pops. But enjoy youself for now.

I will give the old man credit, only, for threading where no other woyane has threaded before. Then again, this might be another one of Meles’ calculated risk to send out this sad specimen to sing the praises of “revolutionary democracy” on VOA but, ended up on tape bloviating fantastic lies that will be used to bring down the woyane crime family.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Response to Dagmawi: Have you no shame, mister!!!

As a regular visitor to the many Ethiopian pro-democracy websites and blogs each morning, it was with utter incredulity that I read Dagamawi’s Wednesday morning sermon. None of the usual pretense of Dagmawi as the objective prognosticator of Ethiopian politics. This morning Dagmawi is fit to be tied because there is word that Andaragachew is in Asmara.

Well, excuse me! First of all, so what dude? Secondly, why don’t you just mind your own damn business? Thirdly where do you get off pontificating about who any individual or party should talk to, meet with or find common cause to save our Motherland.

I gag when I hear Tigrayans go into a tizzy over Issayas Afeworki , the former godfather of the Tigrai People’s Liberation Front (woyane) but the present day devil incarnate. Gosh, if the hypocracy wasn’t sooooooooooo thick that one could cut it with a knife, some of us might try to understand Dagmawi’s emotional outburst and hope he didn’t suffer a concussion.

Eighteen years ago the northern cousins and comrade-in-arms, Issayas and Meles had formed a united front to liberate Tigray and Eritrea from colonial Ethiopia and taken an omerta in the caves of Dedebit; while I bet Tigrayan compatriots like Dagmawi, inside Ethiopia or in the Diaspora, were footing the bill to actualize the dream of Tigrayan ascendancy to power in Ethiopia. I also bet at that time, to blind ethnic loyalists like Dagmawi, Issayas was a demi-god and a savior they worshipped the Sahel desert he walked on.

It is not only the height of woyane’s and its apologists lunacy, but the epitome of what we call in Ethiopian culture absolute kelet (shame) for the askaris who masterminded the toxic politics of ethnicity, the plunder of Ethiopia to the sole benefit of Tigrayans, the dismemberment of Ethiopia by knowingly signing away our port and making Ethiopia the most populous land locked country in Africa to pontificate about the dangers of making “deals with the devil.” Granted it takes one to know one, but I’ll let Ethiopians decide who is the mortal enemy of Ethiopia today.

Now, if Tigrayans want a laundry list of the treacherous acts and high crimes they have single handedly committed against Ethiopia and Ethiopians, bring it on. For far too long, many of us have appealed to the better angels of our nature hoping against hope that Tigrayans will come to their senses and mend their ways. Instead what we consistently hear is that Tigrayans will rule Ethiopia by any means necessary. We say enough is enough. We are not going to watch our country being destroyed by what Col. Goshu Welde has aptly termed the khmer noir regime in Ethiopia and its Tigrayan ennablers.

You had your chance and you have screwed it up royally. Now whether the askaris crowd in panic mode is fit to be tied, the struggle to free our land from Tigrayans who have murdered, maimed and plundered our people will accelerate by all means necessary, gabish!

Actually, it is not Ginbot 7 you have to worry about, but the righteous anger of the Ethiopian people that has reached the boiling point and will soon devour woyane.