People are unreasonable, illogical and self centered.
Love them anyway

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway

If you successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succed anyway

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway

People really need help but my attack you if you help them.
Help people anyway

Give the world the best you've got and it may never be enough..
Give the world the best you've got ANYWAY

(Anonymous)

Gebre,

Now when you can't convince us, you decided to be philosophical.

Nestanet

Gebremenamen Zemeles,

At the end of your posting, you have quoted "... Give the world the best you've got ANYWAY." You have said it all! You are saying “I am meat head enough to copy and paste what others say and write.” Is this all/the best you got? Where is your own idea? What do you give to your country? Your postings for the most part are insensitive and blinded essays written by some self-centered, anti-truth, anti-Ethiopian Weyane cadres. You think Meles' government is reasonable, good, successful, frank, constructive, helping.... Well I have news for you. Go out on the streets and ask the angry and faded-up Ethiopians from all walks of life. They will tell you what they really feel about your boss and his government, they will tell you that this government of yours is lifeless, the worst in the Ethiopian history, shroud, manipulative, and most of all hated. Life is getting worse by the day. People don't trust each other because of the ethnic divide and rule policy of this cruel government. The Ethiopian nationalism spirit is thinning because of the growing ethnic conflicts. Ask yourself why you are opposed by many of the forum members. It is your democratic right to support your political party. But know where you stand and what you are doing to the Ethiopian people. Listen to the heart beat of the people and act accordingly. Tell to your bosses that they need to respect the peoples’ vote, it is time for a change! A change for the better. Looooooooooooong over-due that is!.

God bless Ethiopia!

Email: lehagerandenet@yahoo.com

People can be woyane; love them anyway!
People can be Woyane supporters; love them anyway!
People can be members of the Opposition parties; love them anyway!
People can be Opposition parties' supporters;; love them anyway!!

But the bottom line again is::::RESPECTING THE PEOPLE'S VOICE!!! HEARING THE PEOPLE'S VOICE!!

GebreMeles, Finally, you have produced a great piece of writing. I know you drive a cab in Denver, in case you are not appointed as Weyanes spokesman in the U.S, which university did you go to...anyway?

If you can't Rose Revolutionize Addis Ababans, 'Rose Unionize' EPDRF

By Mulugeta Aserate Kassa

London 5th August 2005


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In a yet another sign of shifting the goal post, if not a departure from its previous stand, the politically verdant CUD, has now come up with the novel proposition of joining with the very EPDRF it continues to accuse of rigging the May 2005 Election in a Government of National Unity. This, indeed, constitutes a fine example of - to paraphrase a popular cliché – if you can't 'rose beat' them 'rose join' them. Sadly, however, in democratic elections world-wide the sharing of power can only be contemplated in the event of a hung parliament i.e. a parliament in which no political party has more elected representatives than the others added together. Judging from official figures released thus far by the NEBE- whose conduct of the investigations of alleged fraud was praised by none other than the EU Head of Mission- there indeed has emerged a clear winner of the May 2005 Ethiopian Election. EPDRF's seat in the new parliament would be greater by a long chalk from the combined seats of CUD and UDEF, thus rendering the idea of power sharing not only superfluous but down-right untenable. CUD's proposition was contained in an Amharic consultative paper under the rubric "The May Election and Ethiopia on the horns of a dilemma" ( my own rendition) and presented this week to a gathering of what looked like CUD's think tank at the Ibex Hotel – the crème de la crème of academia and Addis Ababa's socialites. The report indicated that the consultative group was summoned to advise CUD's leadership on the sort of response CUD must give to the no nonsense stand taken by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at last week's EU brokered meeting between the ruling EPDRF, CUD and UDEF. It was at that meeting that a seemingly sick and tired with the Opposition's yo yoing and moaning Prime Minister, is reputed to have read the riot act to the Opposition with an ultimatum that the Opposition makes it known to the Government within 10-15 days whether it is in or out of the electoral process.

Whatever conclusion one tends to arrive at after reading the consultative paper, one factor remains undisputed. CUD will not exercise its statutory right of challenging NEBE's official result in a court of law. This must be a prudent decision as the judicial process is bound to be time consuming thereby purveying unwelcome news to millions of Ethiopians who have reached the end of their endurance with election fever. Besides, allegations that failed to produce a leg to stand on at CIPs are less likely to succeed in a court of law.

One thing one is bound to find puzzling is whether or not CUD has formally abjured its flirtation with the so-called Rose Revolution - a stealth task, in the Ethiopian context, of mugging the vote of the countryside. Page 3 of the consultative paper attempts to distance CUD from all forms of association with those who took to the streets of Addis. This I-have-nothing-to-do-with-them attitude is bound to be viewed by many Homeland and Diaspora Ethiopians as an insult to the memory of those who had sacrificed their precious lives after having participated in the Opposition nudged, not to say goaded, civil unrest. What did CUD expect its followers to do when its leadership proudly proclaimed that votes had been stolen? Weep or ululate? The last page of the same paper, on the other hand, talks about the possibility of an unknown terrorising people's movement emerging that could place the democratic process in jeopardy. Such analysis, unfortunately, has all the hallmarks of a veiled threat as well as providing spurious justification for the need to have CUD on board at the helm of government.

The consultative paper is right, however, in concluding that there must be an end to hate politics which had reached fever pitch during the Election. But to suggest that the panacea for hate politics, as well as the means of bridge-building between societies rests with the formation of a Government of National Unity is neither here or there. Hate politics, by nature, is the preoccupation of those with a paranoid obsession with a belief that they, and there likes, are the epitome of an Ethiopian, the rest are what you might regard as hyphenated Ethiopians. Under the prevalence of such a psyche, therefore, precious little can be achieved by taking a detour of the election process. The people of Ethiopia have spoken, and their voice should be respected without ifs and buts by all contending parties. The answer to hate politics, on the other hand, resides inside each and every one of us. Without sounding too paternalistic, therefore, if only we armed ourselves with a sense of humility and engage in a thrilling exercise of introspection, what a freedom of thought and action we would reap. Let us, therefore, prune ourselves from Amharophobia, Tigranophobia, Afarophobia, etc.

Last but not least, CUD must garner the courage and realise the flaws inherent in its now-or-never approach to politics and opt for taking up its seat in the new parliament as a proud and loyal Opposition of the Ethiopian People. It owes it to the millions who voted CUD. Its proposition of 'rose uniting' with the EPDRF, on the other hand, is destined to be laughed at by a government that would not tolerate any hesitation or deviation from the Constitution and the electoral process. CUD ought to realise that sometimes a loss is a win.

GOOGLE

YOU PROVED TO ME YOU ARE NOT USING YOUR MIND.