Animal trainers use
a whip with a stiff handle to show who the boss is. A whip is used to
gain control and achieve compliance using pain. During slavery in the US
whipping was a powerful weapon used by the white master. Whipping to
humiliate was the hallmark of the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
Whipping is an old fashioned tool and really not that effective. Today
psychological form of mental whipping is what is practiced by
totalitarian regimes.
This cruel art was perfected by the old Soviet Union and taken to new
heights by regimes such as East Germany. The Woyane regime in Ethiopia
and the dictatorship in North Korean are the new practitioners of this
inhuman method of turning a whole nation into one big concentration
camp. How do they do that?
The North Koreans use communism in tandem with a home grown
philosophy called Juche to reengineer the human brain. Individualism is
substituted by collectivism, self- reliance and independence is not
tolerated thus vertical collectivism meaning hierarchical form of
structure is deemed to be the norm. With the old Soviet and China using
it as a buffer for their own interest N. Korea has managed to survive
for over fifty years as a pitiful example of man’s inhumanity to man.
The demise of the Soviet Union and the slow pace of China’s crawl
towards freedom is what is unnerving the N. Korean dictatorship.
The Ethiopian situation is a little different. Our old tradition
steeled in isolation is a fertile ground for any and all usurpers’ that
want to use our good nature for ulterior means. The fall of the
benevolent Imperial regime opened the flood gates to all sorts of
undesirable and unhinged individuals to come to power. The Mengistu
regime was a perfect example of an experiment gone wrong. The little
Colonel was obviously out of his depth as a leader of a nation when he
was not even experienced or competent enough to lead a unit. His motto
was kill’em all before they kill you and it worked.
Meles Zenawi and his rag tag TPLF army was served our country on a
silver platter and inherited a demoralized and confused nation on the
verge of total melt down. The coward Mengistu’s only interest was to
save his criminal behind and left our country in the middle of the night
with the door wide open. That is what we have been dealing with the
last twenty years or so, another experiment gone totally wrong.
Meles Zenawi was a street smart, definitely a mentally deranged
individual with enough intelligence to hide his antisocial behavior.
Here is a definition of psychopathic type in Cleckley’s book the ‘Mask
of sanity’
‘Primary symptoms of the antisocial personality are amorality
(lack of ethical standards and consistent moral judgment) and
impulsiveness. They typically have a hunger for stimulation and a lack
of responsiveness to social controls. The sociopath will commit the same
crimes or antisocial behavior repeatedly, even if caught and punished.
When caught red-handed, a sociopath makes charming apologies and talks
of how life will be different from now on. But he or she is likely to
slide back into the same bad patterns. There is little effort to conceal
wrongdoing; if caught, the sociopath freely confesses and tries to make
everything all right with personal charm. But a sociopath has no real
regrets over hurting people or breaking rules; the apologies come almost
too readily because they are totally insincere, a means of minimizing
the consequences of being caught rather than expressing true regrets.’
What do you think? Doesn’t this personality trait describe our
recently departed bully? This was the person that was left in charge
upon the other sociopath’s departure. This is what our poor nation has
been dealing with the last forty years. The next question is what is it
about us that attracts such abusers and mentally disturbed individuals
to positions of power and authority? To answer that question we have to
look at our rankings in such fields as education, health, technology and
general quality of life of our homeland. How we interact with each
other, how we interact with our leaders and how we view life in general
is based on how much knowledge and sophistication we have achieved in
our everyday life. It is not based on wish but on existing reality that
is definable, measurable and real. Here is a general description of
where we stand as a nation and people on important qualities that makes
us who we are.
|
Item
|
Percent
|
Comparison to world
|
|
Urbanization
|
17%
|
|
|
Life expectancy
|
56 yrs.
|
196
|
|
Drinking water source unimproved
|
56%
|
|
|
Sanitation unimproved
|
79%
|
|
|
Children under 5 under weight
|
29%
|
|
|
Literacy (can read and write)
|
42.7%
|
|
|
Unemployment 15-24 age
|
24.9%
|
33
|
|
Education expense
|
4.7% GDP
|
89
|
|
Health expenditure
|
4.9% GDP
|
143
|
|
Population below poverty line
|
29.2%
|
|
|
Debt external
|
9.6 Billion US
|
94
|
What this chart shows us is that we are mostly rural, we have a very
low life expectancy, we don’t have clean water to drink, we lack basic
sanitation facility, our children are semi starved a condition that will
affect them thru their adult life, more than half of our population is
illiterate, we spend minuscule amount on education and health care and
we owe our creditors more money that our grandchildren are left with to
pay. We are a failed state. When we discuss changing our country, when
we talk about bringing freedom and democracy to our ancient land, when
we contemplate what we should do tomorrow it is always good to know what
exactly we have on the table so we can make smart and real plans based
on reality.
Thus when we despair about what the TPLF mafia is doing to our people
and country it is always good to understand why they are succeeding
with such bizarre acts and behavior when we look at it from afar. What
is it that we in the Diaspora have that the Ethiopian people lack? It is
true the diaspora in general is a little bit educated than those at
home, we are a more exposed to newer ways of doing things and most of us
have managed to conquer fear. All true but the most important factor in
this equation is that we have more information to work with that our
brethren at home. Information is power. Information gives the individual
choice. Information opens the eye and creates that eureka moment we all
dream about.
The power of TPLF comes from denying information to our people. That
is why they work over time; spend millions of Bir to deny information
from reaching our people. That is why in most library’s’ what is written
prominently in bold is ‘ýe shall know the truth and the truth can make ye free.’ The truth is what our government is most afraid of. That
is why my tile says whipped nation. They keep our people in the dark
and whip them psychologically with falsehood, make believe stories and
fairy tales that no one can contest. I will give you some examples from
news that took place the last few days all beyond logic but told on Eth
TV and media as rational and true.
1) I will start with the dead PM’s wife Azeb Gola Mesfin’s
declaration that her husband used to make US $240 a month on government
payroll. It is said ‘nothing else shows lack of conscience better than
bold face lying.’ I guess the lady learnt from the best. We know that
Ato Meles never worked for wages before he became PM, never have a bank
account, never even paid rent, never paid bills of any kind and
according to her didn’t even know how to drive a car. On the other hand
the same Meles used to wear suit that cost close to ten thousand
dollars- now how did that happen? There is no such thing as national
medical insurance but Ato Meles used to travel to Brussels for regular
checkup and died there after a lengthy and expensive treatment in a
private room-do tell us how that was paid? Did we pay for that? Is that
part of his employment package? How much did it cost the Ethiopian tax
payer?
Furthermore a Spanish newspaper a while back reported that Weizero
Azeb spent 1.2 Million Euros shopping for cloth. Is that money she
earned all by herself or was it their combined money as husband and
wife? You know why this is not known to our people? It is because there
is no independent media to report is the reason. No one to call out her
bold lie.
2) It was declared by the current guy who claims to be the PM
that the regime has established Meles Zenawi Foundation (MZF) According
to Walta ‘The Foundation would serve as a living center of ideas and
programs to further advance the works and legacy of the great leader
Meles Zenawi.’ Only in Ethiopia could such farce take place. I am sure
you have heard of the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation or the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. What makes the MZF different from the
above? Those Foundations were established by the individuals so they
could share their good fortune with the rest of humanity instead of just
willing it to their family. They wanted to share the success they
earned by their hard work and use their wealth to good use.
On the other hand the MZF puts that concept on its head. The MZF is
established in a ‘proclamation passed by the House of Peoples
Representatives’ thus making the tax payer funder of the tyrant’s
legacy. To add insult to injury the dictator’s family is in charge of
the foundation with his wife and relatives assigned the majority of the
board seats. Dictator Meles has all of Ethiopian public media at his
beck and call since he assumed power to share his half-baked ideas and
infantile musings and now we gona get more of that even from afterlife.
Alive he was always quick to dismiss our green, yellow and red symbol
therefore it is odd to see his foundation symbol wrapped with our colors
minus his silly star in the middle. That is why I said whipped nation.
No one to call out their dishonest plans played on our people.
3) The ethnic cleansing against the Amhara people shows no sign
of slowing down. It was only last year that with the blessing of the
late dictator his agents such as Shiferaw Shigute felt free to drive our
people from their homes to faraway places. We protested a little but
forgot about it within a short time. It is déjà vu time again. This time
the TPLF appointed folks of BeneShangul region felt no shame when they
decided to deport the Amhars from their homes. As usual this bizarre
behavior of displacing people within their own country has become an
Ethiopian past time. Of course some of us show indignation but
unfortunately refuse to connect the dots that connect such behavior with
our practice. Let me ask you when you buy your beautiful condominium
how do you think Azeb Kuma, Arkebe and other TPLF folks acquired the
property? Where do you think the peasants of Sebeta and Akai went after
being uprooted from their family land and home? The acts of Gura fereda
and bena Sahngul is just the same immoral and ugly deed but in a bigger
scale.
All are clear signs of a regime gone rogue. How exactly are we
responding to this blatant abuse of power and unimaginable atrocity
against our people? What new ways have we devised to overcome this
debilitating sickness that is slowly but surely killing our country?
What exactly have we prescribed to ourselves so we can overcome this
disease that is destroying our country, people and the Ethiopia we know?
I am afraid we excel at talking, condemning and always waiting for
the next abuse so we could do more of our talking and condemning in a
new spirit. Nothing more, nothing less is what I have witnessed if asked
to testify. Why do you think that is so? In my humble opinion what we
lack is a leader to inspire us, to take us to new heights and gather our
people to believe. I am afraid that is not something one can buy from a
supermarket order on Amazon.com. What we lack is an organization that
will respond in kind to the actions and deeds of the TPLF mafia in
power. In our country Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion that states
‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction’ doesn’t
seem to work. Woyane kills we play dead. Woyane abuses we cry like a
baby. Woyane ‘ethnic cleanse’ we talk about it and move on. Where is the
equal and opposite reaction?
Fortunate for us I am happy to point out we have one area of
responding in kind covered. Of course I am talking about ESAT. It is the
first and glorious response we have devised to level the playing field.
ESAT is an empowerment tool we have at our disposal. ESAT is the
expression of our collective will born from amongst us, nurtured by us
and serving the ordinary Ethiopian in a new kind of way. ESAT is fair,
ESAT is balanced and ESAT don’t need to lie, tell tall stories and ESAT
self corrects when wrong. ESAT is the proto type of the new Ethiopia we
are capable of building when given the chance. It is the duty of all
patriotic Ethiopians to support ESAT, to protect ESAT, to promote ESAT
and safeguard ESAT from all and any naysayers that try to nick pick and
slander our baby.
I also propose we start a new equal and opposite reaction’ to the
current idiotic idea of white washing the legacy of the Woyane warlord.
We have to nip this farce in the bud. They have established the Meles
Zenawi Foundation and it is fitting we establish The Meles Zenawi
Criminal Enterprise Data Base. I call all Ethiopians educated in the
field of Library science, data base compilation, achieving, and media to
help us preserve the twenty years of atrocity by the architect and his
TPLF comrades. We have enough material to fill the library of Congress.
We don’t even need a government proclamation nor a handout from
dictators. Let us get to work!
So what did you think when you saw the title of my article. I am sure
you most of us know what being whipped means but where the hell is
FDRE? That is the official name of your country. Not only did TPLF folks
come up with a new flag and the Kilil system which they copied from
good old Mussolini but they changed our name too. I bet most of us don’t
even know our national anthem, do you?
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