” When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.” – Dorothy Thompson

What the HELL makes a society of some 80 million people calling itself endlessely so much patriotic and repeatedely drumming empty barrels as to how much ptriotic battles in the past saved the nation from ruins while in practice exihibiting damn alarming unparalled cowardity?

Even PM. Odinga of Kenya might be laughing always whenever he hears about Ethiopian politics and endless Ethiopian misery at the endless dictatorial rule of a tiny minority. You may not even need to travel as far as Pakistan inorder to see yourself stright in to the mirror.

What you people certainly need is your traditional exclusionist medieval divisive self serving narrow political camps based on suspicions, gossips, counter gossips as well as unhealthy and unjust manouverings while keeping unity ritual lip services at the same time.

Take yourselves from the neck, form firm and innovative unity within diversity and from that strong and acceptable stand point to the local and internaltional communities engage the already weakened minority dictatorship politically, diplomatically and militarily to the end of the line. :)

“They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”

- Benjamin Franklin

No Ethiopian is foolish any more to go to the streets of Addis and die like a dog.

It’s unthinkable and no hope to entertain such egostic idea.
As for Woyane their machinegan has still been roaring waiting for another blood to shed.
There is a world of difference between Pakistan and the regime in Ethiopia.

So my point is what is wrong with people to die for their countries’ freedom. How can a country win its enemy if the people don’t fight in battle fields or in the streets of Addis.

How about the people who die from cholera, starvation, and poverty every day in Ethiopia. At least to die fighting Meles and gang is an honor.

Look how we the diaspora reacts to demonstration when called here. Only few hundres are participating. Why? if we couldn’t do this tiny thing, how we ask the people once again to die for nothing. Dictator Meles is still darling dog for Gordon Brown and the likes. Who is to blamed for that. We, the diaspora, couldn’t expose him well.

So lets do our homework first
thank you all

The problem for Ethiopia is a lack of strong leadership who can mobilize the 80mn people. Uprising, revolt, public disobedience, refuse to pay taxes, general stike and the last if all fails armstruggle.

Er thanks

Are you kidding? You mean to encourage the poor people of Addis Ababa to get out in the streets and get slaughtered like sheep again. Where were you in 2005?

This is the problem with the majority of the so called diaspora Ethiopians. You are never inside the country to lead that movement, you never will, because it is not an easy task. You see leading a popular movement requires first and foremost SELF SACRIFICE, not ask people to SACRIFICE THEMSELVES so you can vindicate your convoluted theories.

If you any kind of common sense you wouldn’t have compared the objective situation in Pakistan to that of Ethiopia. This shows how shallow and lazy you are. At least do an objective study of a situation before writing an article. As we all know Woyanne has the full backing of western nations who finance the regime, without them the Ethiopian people would have kicked Woyanne out of power a long time ago. In 2005 Woyanne slaughtered hundreds of innocent protesters and the westerners didn’t even say a peep.

The only language Woyanne understand is the language of the gun. There are plenty of Armed Opposition Movements in Ethiopia doing it, they are paying with their lives to rid Ethiopia of Woyanne, they are also killing every Woyanne mercenary. You see, Woyanne can’t kill armed men and women at will, because they will shoot back and kill Woyanne mercenaries. I urge Mr. Elias to comment on these types of articles at the top. You will have less and less of these idiotic articles presented, becuase they will think twice before presenting them for posting in ER.

By THE WAY Mr. Tedla Asfaw,

You said….”The next step is to come out and challenge the authorities like the Pakistanis did and face the consequence”

WOW!!!!
are you telling addis ababa people to sacrifice their life for you by protesting to be shot dead by woyane like before??

you are THE MOST SELFISH ETHIOPIAN IN HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SELFISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET US SEE YOU GO UP AGAINST THE WOYANE GANGSTERS!!!!!