You stated: “As you know very well, they do not have any legality.”

I think they have been fulfilling whatever Meles tells them to do, and they can continue to live in peace as far as they are not discovered by Meles agents, preaching democracy to the Ethiopian people. They have legality to be quiet, and if that is the way they want to do so, then they are friends of the Woyanne regime and enemies of the Ethiopian people. To avoid persecution or imprisonment in the name of democracy, or to lead an organization without being persecuted or imprisoned, is not the spirit of good leadership. I don’t want them to stay like the Zikuala Abo volcano – dormant. They have to get out and spread democracy throughout the regions of Ethiopia, come persecution or imprisonment.

Jesus, a veteran teacher, gave this answer to a man who wanted to follow him, but first the man had to go home and bury his father; then he could follow Jesus. The man’s father was not yet dead, but he was very old, ready to die, so the man was telling Jesus that he would like to follow him, but he had to stay home for a while with his old father, and when his old father died, he would follow Jesus.

I suppose the ER editor is telling his followers who want to stay with Lady Liberty for few weeks or years until lady Liberty dies or survives to follow him with all their hearts and thoughts. He is saying: “Let the dead bury their own dead” – “let the Woyanne bury Lady Liberty, but you should follow me.” Of course, the Woyanne and the Lady Liberty are not yet dead, but, sooner or later, the editor thinks, they both will die.

When Jesus said: “Let the dead bury their own dead,” he was saying those who were alive and those who were very old were considered dead even though they were not literally dead yet.

To my understanding of the editor’s article, Lady Liberty, like the other 80 million Ethiopians, is in the hands of Meles Zenawi, and everything under his hand should be considered dead or living under oppression. Ginbot 7 may be the only hope to liberate Lady Liberty and the other millions of Ethiopians from the bondage of Meles Zenawi.

Now you changed your tactic to disgrace fellow Ethiopians. This time, you preferred to history leaving your unfounded and poor argument with IQ. I witnessed that you are unethical.

At this point I would like to ask you as to how you related the issue at hand with the historic hero, Tewodros II (r. 1855-1868). The context for this king would not be compared with the current situation. Neither the political landscape nor the actors of the process resemble at all. I can't see your point of comparison. I think you merely tried to manifest the extent you could claim foolishly and unethically ( just to throw your bad words).

Now, not for your language but for you line of reasoning, I should label you as less IQ idiot.

How do you dare to present your ignorance to the public? You may answer it or not!!

Finally, Elias and his cliques like you would not help anything but enemies of Ethiopia. For us, there is no one best way to free Ethiopia from the wolfish teeth of TPLF and we shall give time and support to let the peaceful struggle too function.

Gulit

I suggest we have the right to know who Elias is. where he comes from. who are his parents? where he lived before?where he got his educations? and all. May be he should tell us himself. Or one of the true forums should start some thing like "who is Elias?" and let's get information from people who really knows about him.

In the contrary we perfectly know who Birtukan is.
We are fade up with people talking in place of us specially in the matter of Our country.
And I am really sad to see people with 'I know every thing' attitude. This guy sometimes seemed above all in giving directions. let's please see his capabilty..his education or expreince.
Peace….I love you Enat Hagere.

Most Ethiopians at that time were always against innovative leadership. His measure to create a standing army paid by the state rather than a rag-tag army assembled in time of disaster was opposed by many in church, noblemen and the entire people. The commenters who are angry on this critical article are the brain children of those backward noble men who opposed theodros when he tried to create a standing army that can fight with mortars and machine guns. They were too traditional and loved to continue the use of the 5 thousand years old warfare of using spears. So they hated him and didn’t want him as their leader.

Typical of those who hated changes in those days, the present Ethiopians are against changes. They will settle down and go on business as usual once their leaders (UDJ) become part of the rubber stamp parliament which wouldn't bring change to the poor millions of Ethiopians who are living under sub-human conditions.

If Theodros was in our time, he would have cut the limbs of lady liberty Bertukan for choosing to be part of the Meles decoy – teletafi parties. He would have cut the fingers of all these commenters here who wanted to give TPLF more years to abuse our people, give land to neighbors and kill children on the day light with trained agazi marksmen. If some one come to me and say I hate being Ethiopian, I wouldn't be surprised as this was due to many dumb and ignorant born in that country who always want to be servants for Meles Zenawi.

አንድ ገበሬ ብዙ ጋሻ መሬት እያለማ በአገርቤት
አገር ሲቀልብ እንግሊዘኛ ያለመጻፉ ደደብ ካሰኘው እስከዛሬ ኢትዮጵያን ጠብቆ ባልኖረም ነበር::አይኩ አይኩ የሚሉን አስተያየት ሰጪ
የዛን የገበሬ ፈተና ማለፍ ይችላሉ? ያን የእርሻ
መሳሪያ በወጉ ይገጣጥሙታል?እንግሊዘኛ መጻፉ በገበሬው ቦታ ተተክቶ አሁንም በሞትና
በሽረት ላይ ያለች ኢትዮጵያን ይጥብቃል??

I do not know what is in your mind these days.You
are too quick in forming your opinion about the new
party and condemn them the next minute.You called it fake, who are you to tell us whether the party is fake or not.There is an Ethiopian saying "Letekemach semay kirbu new yibalal).

Please leave us alone we can judge the new party by its deeds. We do not need your speculations in this regard.

Abei

Like an Ethiopian eagle (I do not know what other countries’ eagles do) that detects its pray from a long distance and knows what its pray is doing before it goes into a full and speedy action (diving from above in the sky down unto the earth without the awareness of its victims) and finally catches its pray and carries it far away to a comfortable location to consume it, the editor, unlike many of us his readers, descries some thing new in the Liberty Lady’s daily business and tries to make it known to all of us his readers and critiques before the Liberty Lady goes away with it undetected, undiscovered, and becomes the second Hailu Shawel, who has been our headaches for some time.

The editor’s eyes and ears are always at attention, and always ready to surprise us with fresh news, good or bad, and that is the editor’s duty; whether the news are supported by evidence or witness, it is up to us, the readers, to verify them, and when we find out the news are true, we will then praise the editor, and when they are not true, then we should not blame the editor, but we simply must express our views about the untruthfulness of the news and simply state our evidence, and this is where maturity comes in.

One should not stop writing because one should not prove what he is writing about; it may be a true or it may be just a fiction; in this case, it is up to us to identify opinion from fact or fact from opinion. How many of you believe that the Bible is a fiction, and how many of you believe it is the word of God? Those who think the Bible is a fiction still read it because of its beauty, its poetry, its story, and, above all, its great biblical characters such as Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Job, Samson, David, Solomon, Joseph, Daniel, Goliath, Jesus, Paul, Peter, and many others. So, those who believe the Bible is a fiction do not denounce those who wrote the Bible; they just don’t believe them but still enjoy reading the Scripture.

In the same way, if there are some Ethiopians who do not want to hear what the ER editor has been saying all these weeks about the Liberty lady, they have the right to disagree with the editor without using words better left to be used by low level, uneducated, and uncircumcised in their hearts, and still living in the stone age.

I was taught to laugh in my stomach, and I said, “Yeneta, I cannot control it; I just can’t,” and Yeneta said, “Yes, you can; just try it.” True, it is possible to suppress one’s laugh whenever there is something that forces us to laugh or cry.

As I have read most of the comments, most of them are against the editor; most of the commentators seem, to me, emotional; they just could not suppress their emotion; some have suggested that the editor see a doctor, for he is mentally sick. Such people have existed before, and they are still with us to day.

When Jesus surprised his audience by driving out the evil spirits from the evil-possessed people, some of his audience had said that Jesus was possessed by an evil spirit, so it is not strange to see some Ethiopians suggesting that ER editor is a sick person that he must see a physician.

Some say the editor is from Eritrea so that he has a hidden agenda or nothing good comes from him about Ethiopia; the Jews said the same thing about Jesus when they knew he was from Galilee by saying “Does any thing good comes out of Galilee?”

It seems to me when they say to the editor that he is from Eritrea, they are saying: “Is there anything good that comes from Eretria that would help Ethiopia become free from its bondage?”

With all my respect to the many participants in the ER forum, I think that the editor is preparing us for the future problems that may or may not arise as the result of Liberty lady’s caving in to the Woyanne demands to change the name Kinijit to something else. The editor thinks that Dale Lama, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. had never benn subservient to the unjust rulers of their times. Dale Lama is still alive, struggling for the freedom of his country, Tibet.

For example, the biblical Daniel had been living comfortably during Nebuchadnezzar’s and Darius’ times; however, when Darius, prompted by his advisors, issued an edict, telling his subjects to worship him as their god, Daniel refused to do so and was thrown into the lions’ dens, but the lions never touched him.

The editor’s point of views has some facts that Liberty Lady should have held its meeting at the Ethiopian Imperial Hotel and should have rejected the two police demand to leave the Hotel; of course, she would have been taken to jail, and that would have united us behind her and inspired us to believe in our Liberty Lady as one of our super heroes, and she could have been released within two or three days.

The editor is absolutely right a leader that could not sacrifice himself to the organization he is leading should not be a leader in the first place, and the editor, once again, fervently believes we do not have a real leader, and until we get one, we should not depend on Lady liberty as our true leader, for she has been tested many times this year and has failed from passing a simple test by just accepting Melee’s unjustified commands to get a new name for Kinijit and leaving the Imperial Hotel instead of ignoring the Dictator’s command.

selam