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Paradigm Shift: TPLF Intimidation No More

The time has come for an Adwa Spring, what started with a joke of a soccer tournament come cultural sham has transformed into something bigger::

by Teddy Fikre  dated: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2012

Do you feel that? Feel what you ask. That shaking, the tremble below your feet as the upper crust of society suddenly shifts under the sea bed and a new ground pops up overnight to replace the staid landscape. That feeling you feel in your toes and gyrating through your bones is not an earthquake, it is the transformation of the Ethiopian vanguard as the Habesha scene is being mangled and renewed in the most violent way yet in the most serene sense of quietude. The old is giving way to the new, this is a new day and an Addis Moment–what you are witnessing is a Paradigm Shift.

For too long, good and decent everyday folk have been too intimidated by brute force and implied threats to keep quiet or else face eternal banishment. Too often, these words of bluster and hubris have been accompanied by violence as hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians since 1974 have perished overnight and were later buried in unmarked graves. First the ruthless Derg government led by Mengistu Hailemariam ravaged Ethiopians and left us whispering in cold corners and afraid of our own shadows. The unending sense of foreboding and fear can be traced back directly to the Derg regime where everyone suspected their own neighbors—hell, some were even afraid of their own children. Dictatorships are fomented and made permanent by tyrants that cripple leaders and leave the populace in an unending sense of terror.

Where the Derg left off the TPLF junta has perfected. I don’t understand it and I never will, how is it that a people who felt the touch of injustice turn to the very same tactics that brutalized their children to pass on a legacy of horror to the children of their own countrymen? How is it a group that felt oppressed now can oppress the group that they felt oppressed by while knowing full well that all  Ethiopians—without regard to ethnicity—suffered immensely under the Derg. This is the way of humanity though, no people on this earth–putting aside Native Americans and African-Americans–suffered a collective injustice like the Jews. Alas, now they have their own country, which parenthetically robbed Palestinians of their homeland, and the Jews in the name of “Homeland Defense” turn to some of the most horrific tactics to oppress and put down the Palestinians people.

But all things done in the name of injustice eventually give way to equity. Eventually the paradigm changes as people, leery of stifling oppression, revolt and say enough. That moment happened in Tunisia, Egypt, and throughout the Middle East. Look closely, and you might find in the least likely place a seed of a revolt taking place in between a kick and a testa.  A test case is being implemented by a group of outgoing Ethiopians, most based in the DC metro area, to change the paradigm and introduce a new form of non-violent tactics to oust tyranny in Ethiopia. Egsyaber willing, this seed will sprout, Inshalla the community will water the seed planted by these young people and let a new movement develop that will be our version of the Arab Spring. We might call this paradigm shift the Adwa Spring.

If you think that this article is a self-adulation missive, let me first state a disclaimer to dissuade you from that thinking. I promise you that this is not a self-love note. I might be the most visible of those “younger Ethiopians—I say “Younger” because I am 37 and I feel like I am 87 right at this moment—but rest assured that there are hundreds behind the efforts that I am a part of. We communicate and strategize on Facebook, Twitter and text messages. There is an army of Ethiopians behind me; some have family back in Ethiopia so they are leery of coming out in public for fear of putting their relatives in danger. Others are still a bit hesitant to be too public with their “resistance campaign” for fear of being targeted for persecution and intimidation. However, as each day passes, their spines are turning to steel as they slowly come around to realizing that fear is the only thing to fear.

I don’t blame them for their reticence. I myself prayed for days before I decided to wage war on AESA One. I thought of my family and how their lives would be disturbed. To be honest, I built in a 20% chance of bodily harm or death before I decided to leverage all my abilities to bringing down a nefarious and a duplicitous organization by the name of AESA One. And just as I predicted, the threats and harassment followed suit as soon as I started sending out press releases accusing AESA One of being a sham and tying them in to blood money from back home.

On Saturday, as I was going around passing out flyers for the “Free Ethiopia Celebration” where we were planning to feed our people for free and entertain them for free, a coward called my sister with a blocked number, cited where she lived, and made an implicit threat that my life was in danger if I did not back away and leave the AESA One event on Wednesday alone. Then on Sunday, when I arrived to set up the “Free Ethiopia Celebration”, two cowards–one in a blue shirt and a cast on his hand–came towards the African-American Civil War Memorial with a menacing look and called out my name as if though they were itching for a fight. As God would have it, my friend Mastewal and another compatriot showed up at that exact moment and convinced these two TPLF goons to tuck tail and run.

In America, if someone is spreading lies and untruths, there is this thing called defamation and libel and issues are settled in the court. Only in TPLF oppressed Ethiopia are citizens harassed and intimidated with death threats in order to keep quiet. Listen here AESA One, your brutal tactics might work in Ethiopia but this is America. I will NOT be silenced by your tirades and your threats. If what I say is untrue, sue me and I will see you in court. But just know this, I am in talks with the media and contacting the American Journal Association, I am begging you to sue me so that I can turn you into the face of African tyranny and in the process expose what Meles Zenawi did in locking up our brave Ethiopian jegna journalists.

The minute that the paperwork is filed, I will drive immediately to Philadelphia and hold a press conference in front of Liberty Bell with a ts-hirt that has the picture of Eskinder Nega. Moreover, there is this thing called discovery; I will request for 10 years worth of financial records of not only AESA One but each and every one of the AESA Executive Board.  Ask your expensive lawyers about discovery and they will most likey advise you not to sue me or else you will pay a lot more than the PIPER.  I will turn the whole of AESA One, Al Amoudi, and Abinet Gebremeskel and alike into the personification of all that ails Africa. I have 4,000 press releases ready to be sent the second you sue me.

Alas, you know not to sue me, you are smarter than that. So like cowards you turn to intimidation tactics like calling my sister and terrorizing her to death. You turn to calling my phone endlessly with blocked numbers. You turn to sending goons out on Sunday to intimidate me. In the process, you seek to make me go quietly into the night and aim to keep the hundreds who are behind me to never follow the same tactics. But here is what you don’t understand, my grandmother was a hero who fought the Italians during World War II and was given a medal of honor by Haile Selassie. My grandfather was a war hero as well; he was the pride of Gonder for his bravery and courage in the line of fire. I do not scare easily, hell, I don’t scare at all. Keep your mafia tactics up, you do nothing but encourage me to keep pushing because you only verify what I accuse you off each time my sister gets a death threat from a blocked number.  Moreover, the death threat I received gave my press releases extra weight, two lawmakers and one major media outlet that were ignoring my press releases are now seriously looking into my allegations.  I guess I should thank you and that coward who called my sister on Saturday for the Hebret.

But, rest assured that I am not a meek individual. I have read the Art of War over 200 times. So you want to get thuggish with it, here is my warning to you. Stop making death threats at my family, or else. Or else what you say? Well in the past 24 hours, people have sent me the pictures, addresses, names, school addresses, and work places of EVERY AESA One affiliated member’s family from Al Amoudi, Abinet Gebremeskel on down. This information I will guard with my life and will take to my grave, unlike you I have honor and choose not to involve the names and pictures of family members even as you make implicit threats against my nieces and nephews. But I warn you, back away, I have now written an articles that publicizes the names and pictures of EVERY single member of the AESA One family, including the addresses of your homes, your work and on down.

This information was forwarded to me by over 16 individuals who you must have wronged in the past. As my family goes so does your family, as I go so you go. If you want to fight me, fight me in court, but if you turn to the ways of gangsters, I will… CONTINUED

ACCOUNTABILITY Circle

Audit of “Free Ethiopia Celebration”

A  detailed audit will be published within 48 hours on www.browncondor.com  of all monies raised for this weekend’s “Free Ethiopia Celebration”.  We will provide line by line accounting of each expense and where the money went.  AESA One and all other non-profits affiliated with Ethiopia, please follow our lead, it is time to open up your books or be known forever as leboch. If you have ANY questions about the expenses affiliated with “Free Ethiopia Celebration” contact us at [email protected]

9 thoughts on “Paradigm Shift: TPLF Intimidation No More

  1. My brother
    I do not know you but, I and others are grudgingly determined to holed neck to neck with weyane cadres. We die or they are wiped out.
    I know for sure now that, Most weyane cadres are trembling becasue many peiople are rising up. All we need is to cordinate ourselves, communicate and work together. Never mind about the Two little lousy weyanes. Soon, theyr grave is around.

    We are ready to sacrifice our lives too. Weyane and cadres are very fearful and they are playing intimidation games but 80, millions people are there for you. By the way, All over Ethiopia, people are ready to eat the flesh of weyanes. All they need is coordination… It is coming up.

    My brother… Let us now build up our teams and let us come together and share ideas… Never ever think Weyane is smarter. They are colelctions of dull. If we want we smash them in dayts.

    We are smarter, wiser and genuine. These thugs must be wipted off our beloved Country Ethiopia.

    As I said, We slaughter and eat Weyane’s flesh; suck their blood. This is what is going to come soon.

    Get comforted

    Let us all be together for one goal… To get rid of Weyane who sucks the ass of the west…
    Freedom is inevitable.

    May God Bless us All
    let us keep in touch. [email protected]

    Afera replies:

    Came on friends, no Ethiopian men or women sack human blood, eat human flesh or use it to mobilize people. This is an ethical, which is why you people are not going to be successful in your freedom fighting; you need to have Ethiopian culture.
    If you mean it or if you have better idea to Ethiopia; Come to Ethiopia, face the problem, and fight for it. Not eating hamburger and waiting for others to do it for you.
    Cheers

  2. Nefsu,

    You’ve got to understand one thing about the instigation. Look, I grew up in Addis. I knew the psychology of the people. When you pass by you read “Tenakash Wusha Yitenkekoo”. Just, for fun, you start intimidating the dog, so you enjoy the bark, start a fight and enjoy the residual Arada. here in Potomac, The Pike and many other places, there are trained assassins who work at diifferent levels of jobs and trusts in America. They prey Eythiopian Americans, steal their ID, conspire with Indian, SA, and Chinese firms, including Japan, send their business plans and American qualifications, coupled with Clinton level recommendation to Abu Dabi, trade it back as an import-export with the USA. The effect killed everyone, and masters and bachelor’s holders were found homeless in Addis Ababa, because they were misunderstood as harassment and intimidation gangs. They were misused by dirty stupid prostitution ring, which was trading them from AAU, and 9th Street D.c> Critics argue that 56% are the new transition activists. If there was insight, inviting Mideekssaa to ESFNA, could be nothing b ut honor. Guess what? Blood was created. The instigators are the same dirty merciless stupid evil doers, who have to drive used BMW, at any rate, by any means and in Ethio Community America where they have a country and sleeping with maintenance guys and /or drug dealers, where they would not be spotted, prostitutes or easy girls. Esteem killed it by wrong empowerment, because they have no mercy to God. The dirty defrauders, born opportunists, what ever they find and recover, they took it for themselves by prey. All of us gave it up. God Bless China. God Bless Brazil. God Bless EU. God B;less America. Economic powers 1-4.

    Anonymous replies:

    Nefsu, what are you talking about. are you sure you are responding to the right article.

  3. The RFK stadium in Washington, D.C. looks like a ghost town this week except for the very few meles/alamoudin hooligan hodams. These belly lovers at RFK are trying to cover their humiliating loss by shameless photomontaging and other odious techniques. Whatever camera and editting tricks they tried to apply, they cannot hide the fact that the stadium has been empty since day 1. They tried to move the still images so that it looks like a filmed video footage but they failed miserably ending up cheating only themselves. The Ethiopian people are much smarter than these few bubbleheads who are swelling their bellies with the blood money looted from the Ethiopian people by meles/alamoudin mafia terrorist group. The hodam ridiculous group at RFK in D.C. will never get a penny from their terrorist paymasters meles/almoudin next year and beyond because they have nothing to show for the millions they have been given this year except an empty stadium. No more meles/alamoudin blood money for doubly disgracefull hodams.

  4. Great people. Now Weyane his cadres have very little time. By the way Meles Zenawi is in a very critical health conditionlabouring to die or live a little longer. His sickness has turned out to be very complicated.

    Ethiopians are boiling all over the country…. Becasue for us we show to this “ass sucking” weyanes…. who sale out our people and country… What ever killing guns and weapons they are armed with, they never never resist the upcoming battle.. All over they are losing… In Oromia, Afar, Ogaden, Gondar, Gojam and recently-South…
    We are now to work out the coordination to make it more efficient struggle and wind it up without much cost of life… But one thing we know is Ethiopian people have made stern decision to die, hold neck to neck to weyane….. This is happening..

    All Banda includling ALmoudi will see what is going to happen

    Love to Ethiopians

  5. Bravo Teddy, I think you have embarked on a cause that would put you in the limelight you desperately needed in the past. And you get to use your writing skills to a greater good than your earlier rantings on Facebook and elsewhere. I say this not this not in denigrating your efforts. Clearly you were all over the place and was not truly focused. This time, I sincerely believe you found your niche and should work on it. Once again, congratulation on finally finding a cause to focus on to use your gift of writing to a greater good.

  6. (Ye-Ayit meskir Dinbit), refer Ethiopian saying.
    You people seems like wasting your time, write the real problem of EPRDF, where are the point missed to better Ethiopia, have a clue of development in Africa, no. I am not sure if you know what EPRDF means but I hope you will find it more important if you Google. Please Europe, America or Asia. In addition, Recommend something to bring better administration in Ethiopia, do not talk shit.

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