It’s time to support Medrek

By Teodros Kiros (Ph.D.) | March 5, 2010

For years many Ethiopians and I have been asking the perennial question, Which Way
Ethiopia? This question has engaged the Ethiopian imagination, ever since EPRDF
betrayed its revolutionary genealogy and became relentlessly tyrannical, unwilling to
listen to the pulse of the Ethiopian people, arrogantly dismissive of its intellectuals, and
incarcentrating the voices of dissidents, most notably the hero of justice, Birtukan
Mideksa.

MEDEREK has now provided the definitive answer. Medrek’s respect for
dialogue, the feature of genuine democracy free of domination provides the
Ethiopian people, for the first time an opportunity to exercise their
inalienable right to preserve the historic territorial integrity of Ethiopia, the origin of
human civilization and the symbol of African pride by any means necessary.

Medrek also vows to replace Ethnocentricity with Ethiopianity, divisiveness
with unity, war with peace and prosperity.

Only Medrek can lead the Ethiopian people towards the establishment of the
people’s party with a new vision of a modern Ethiopian personality ground on
Classical Ethiopian personality propelled by a vision of an original Moral
Economy, providing a middle way, systematically articulated as an avoidance
of the tyranny of democratic centralism and the excesses of the free market.

MEDREK is well positioned to provide the middle way, the way of reason
and moral action, an ethical balance that the deprived Ethiopian people
deserve.

The time is now ripe for the Ethiopian people to be guided by a Moral
Economy found on a democratic political form which encourages the practice
of the inalienable rights of free expression, unhindered dissent, the right to
vote and the right to recall by democratic means incompetent leaders at all levels
of government.

I appeal to all thinking Ethiopians to engage their thinking hearts and support
MEDREK with the brightest future that the resilient and patient Ethiopian
people have been waiting for.

The time is now. Now is the right time for change.

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