Where
is the Show of Outrage?
Engineer Ghirma
October 21,
2007
The
Diaspora Silent Majority has been typically mute on the issue of HR 2003 and
its repercussions on the ongoing Security and Development efforts in Ethiopia.
On the other hand, the Vocal Diaspora, with nothing else to do other than
pushing their agenda to grab power by any means possible, is attracting most of
the attention in the biased foreign media. I believe one of the reasons is
because the Silent Majority has not been taking the CUD clowns very seriously.
A
congregation of 200,000 Diaspora Ethiopians in front of Capitol Hill, waving
the Ethiopian and American flags, would definitely eclipse the 100 or so voices
of the sons and daughters of the Neftegna. Such a march by 200,000 real
Ethiopians would also silence the attention-grabbing rogue Congressman Donald Payne
who hails from the great State of New Jersey. I personally laud Ato W. Asa, for his
article on Aiga Forum, which I personally found to be a very revealing glimpse
of the misfit Congressman Donald Payne (http://www.aigaforum.com/A_Misguided_Congressman.htm).
Maybe CUD has promised to bestow on Congressman Payne a seat as House Speaker
in the dream “Neftegna Parliament”, along with shamefully acknowledging
lobbyist Ana Gomes as some kind of “Ethiopian heroine”. The voices of 200,000
sober Ethiopians will send a very strong signal to the US Congress that
Ethiopia is not for sale. Ethiopia will bow to nobody except the Almighty God/Allah:
ኢትዮጵያ ታበጽሕ
እደዊሃ ሃበ
እግዚኣብሄር (Psalm 68:31).
On
the home front, a minimum of 1,000,000 Ethiopians in Addis Abeba alone would
send a very strong message to America, that Ethiopia is united more than ever
before. That kind of energy from every major city of the country will reverberate
around the globe, and expose the miserable CUD and their spokesman Congressman Donald
Payne as enemies of Ethiopia. The message is that Ethiopia cannot be bullied,
not even by the mighty USA. It is inherent in Ethiopia’s long History to become
victorious against any and all odds. Congressman Donald Payne cannot inflict
noticeable “pain” on Ethiopia for very long; even if HR 2003 becomes law, which
I seriously doubt that it will. However, what HR 2003 might do is to dilute
somehow, the ongoing success in the war against terrorism in the region at
large. It may embolden al-Qaeda and inevitably could pose a threat to the
National Security of Ethiopia as well as that of USA.
The
CUD dream of ascending to power in Ethiopia by joining forces with OLF, ONLF,
and PFDJ is repugnant. Little do these clowns understand that Ethiopians
are tired of the old adage “scratch my back and I will scratch yours”. The
youth in Ethiopia must understand that CUD is out to rob them clean of their bright
future. CUD has no forward looking vision for Ethiopia. CUD, under ex-DERG
leadership, is out to take away the rights of Nations and Nationalities of
Ethiopia, with its agenda to scrap the Federal Ethiopian Constitution. The concept
of Ethiopia’s Nations and Nationalities having been empowered to attend to
their internal affairs by utilizing their own languages, as enshrined in the
Federal Constitution, is objectionable to the CUD/DERG/Neftegna Coalition.
Ethiopians
in the home front must be made to understand via local media that CUD’s design
for Ethiopia is divisive and suicidal. Ethiopians must stay vigilant in
protecting their rights under the Federal Constitution. If CUD were to have its
way, it will make the chaos in Darfur look like a walk in the park. A prudent way for Ethiopians in the home front
to show their solidarity with EPRDF and the other legitimate parties
represented in Parliament, is by massive and peaceful show of force on the
streets of Ethiopia’s cities, express their outrage against CUD sponsored HR
2003.
Democracy
is in Ethiopia to stay for good. CUD, the DERG
Clone, has become irrelevant as a
viable opposition party.