January 11, 2014
When people get drunk on beer they become obnoxious but, by lust for power and money they become deadly. Playing zero-sum games of ‘us against them’ and ‘guilty until proven innocent by trumping on the rights and freedoms of our people is crude joke of diversions.
by Teshome Debalke
Ethiopia became a comedy club of TPLF‘s crude jokes In the last two decades but, nobody is laughing. It is another tragedy we as people are going through in our history where our rights became a commodity bought-and-sold by ethnic warlords.
The stooges of Woyane masquerading as officials, cadres, parliamentarians, judges, journalists… are nothing more than impersonators of TPLF’s deadly jokes. That isn’t all, if you don’t take their crude jokes as real you are guilty of violating one thing or another—‘terrorism’ being their favorite joke these days for obvious reason. If that don’t work, there is always ‘corruption’, ‘violating the constitutional order’ or my favorite one, ‘to change constitutionally elected government by unconstitutional means’ — as the former comedian chief extraordinary Birket Simon use to put it.
As a result, ‘guilty until proven innocent’ became Woyane’s trademark and weapon of mass terror at the cost of thousands of our people’s lives, rights and freedom.
When they say ‘little knowledge is dangerous’ they weren’t kidding. Thus, when a constitution became a cookbook of ethnic peddlers, it turned into a weapon-of-mass-division. When the courts became lodges of ethnic cadres, they turned into weapon-of-mass-punishments. When the security apparatuses became the club of ethnic assassins, it became a weapon-of-mass-terror. When Election Board becomes a coffee shop of ethnic stooges, it turned into a weapon-of-mass robbery of votes. When the Media becomes a studio of headless cadres, it turns into the weapon-of-mass-deception. When public resources fall under corrupt ethnic officials/cadres, it becomes the weapon-of mass-robbery, and on and on. Welcome to Revolutionary Democracy and Developmental State designed by self-declared minority warlords.
