Welcome to the whipped nation – FDRE

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?