Addis Ababa is not endangering of Hurricane but there is one common factor that we should learn from Katrina. Our Hurricane is come in from of public disobedience and the break down of law and order… Many CUD supporters claim there will not be looter and riot in Addis Ababa but only a peaceful protest… but who going to take the risk of lawless and break down of law and wild spread looting and rioting… who is going to help us when people start dying because of this unrest... I will wish my hand from this so called public protest... even in America law and order break down because of flooding... right in the face of police officer people looting... the police officer can't do anything because they are overwhelmed by the magnitude of rioting and looting

NOW READ ON WHAT HAPPENED IN USA WHEN LAW AND ORDER BREAK DOWN...2005
Looting broke out in some New Orleans neighbourhoods, ripping open store gates and taking guns from a Wal-Mart. One police officer shot in the head by looter but expected to recover.

Looters picked through casino slot machines for coins and ransacked other businesses.

In Louisiana, Blanco said preliminary reports indicate that Hurricane Katrina "devastated" parts of at least six parishes.
Both states experienced looting.
A crowd of about 50 to 75 people swarmed through a supermarket in New Orleans, taking out shopping carts full of goods before police arrived.
Looting was reported by police in Gulfport, Mississippi, where the storm surge left downtown streets under 10 feet of water.
RAMBERG: The floodwaters have leveled off in New Orleans. Army engineers are trying to repair breaches in two levees. While Coast Guard helicopters pluck stranded residents from roofs, the Pentagon has ordered 10,000 more national guard troops to Mississippi and Louisiana. The states' governors had asked for help in restoring order and stopping pervasive looting

New Orleans Looting
LLOYD: Part of the reason for that: rampant looting -- or stealing goods during a crisis -- took place in some areas that were hammered by Katrina. Here were some of the scenes from New Orleans yesterday, where food and water supplies were dwindling. Some onlookers described the looting as widespread and out in the open. But the city's mayor said more than three-thousand additional national guardsmen were headed there, to help curb the crime. Following a catastrophic hurricane in 1900, Galveston, Texas also reported looting like this.

I know you guys doesn't want to hear this kind of story.... for that only I want ETV to show all the looting going on in USA... this way the poor people will understand what will happen when the law and order break down in Addis Ababa... because of CUD CALLING FOR LOOTER AND RIOTER TO COME OUT AND LOOT AND RIOT.. only CUD can be stopped by power of information therefore ETV should show what is gooing in USA flood affected region. This way the people will not take a risk on lawless and break down of law... imagine the poor business owner lose everything for looter there is no Insurance money therefore everyone will lose... Specially business owner should not take risk on public protest... in fact everyone how are living in America should phone Ethiopia and Warning your business family not to take risk on public protest...this way you guys will safe a lot of life and keep the law and order intact.

Tulu,
You don't know Ethiopian people and you don't have any respect for them. Get lost.

TUTU/Meles/Bereket,

You said "addis ababa is not endangering of hurricane" what in gods name are you mumbling on about. If you are trying to make a good point please use correct english, this is very insulting to those americans affected by this. If nothing els have a litle bite of respect.

You don't have to go across the atlantic to use such an example, why don't you use the 17 million people who are currently starving in ETHIOPIA.

City: AA

I am mumbling on about to safe life... you care about my English that is very low.

Mina, you know what I am trying to do American super power 10,000 army on the ground can not keep the peace and order... American with all they might they could not stop the looting and the riot... I am mumbling to show my people how people in the riches country on earth become looter and rioter as soon as the law and the order break down... I am mumbling to show my people how fast law and order can be break down in just few hours and the looting and rioting will star no amount of police will stop it once the law and order break down look what happend when food and water become in short supply hoogian beome the law...they will take over busness and loot even kill in 100,000 million people life might be lost if the Hurrican named "Public Protest" come to Addis Ababa... In Hurrican you can go to higher ground but where can you hide from "Public Protest"?

Even I safe one life that is good by me... I want evey one in America to call their family who own business not to be involve in Public protest they only hurt themselves at the end... Mina and most of you doesn't family business back home so you guys don't care. But mumbling away to safe life I hope you are not making joke about my trying to safe life.

Tulu,
I believe the Addis people won't go out to loot while they are going to demonstrate for their rights.It will be self defeating. Hence the leadership will make sure such a thing won't happen.After all,was that not what happened during the demonstrations in the build up to the May election? In lieu of that, I have confidence all will go well unless the government wiil hire mercenaries to start up looting to discredit the opposition.That was what some mayors did in the US during Black Americans struggle for voting rights in the 1960's.
I admire you for your cocorn for the safety of Ethiopians as a whole.That is very sensible compared to some of your outlandish assertions.

Email: zghiwet@yahoo.ca

City: York

I meant 'concern' where I wrote 'concorn' above.

Email: zghiwet@yahoo.ca

City: York

Dar Zewdae,

Thanks for understanding now what you try to tell me is you want to take risk on peacful march... Are you going to tell me 100,000 people will come out and march peacfully and go home without looting and rioting... If that the case that is good but what do that make any change? Mels will not give up powe even million people march peacfully... then what are you going to do about it... this is a million dollars question once the people are out CUD know they will not get them next time therefoer you will push for riot and looting in order to bring down Meles rule by force...that is why they call it people power... this is where I have a problem if you remove Meles by force then you can't stop the next guy from removing the leader by force... removing a leader by force should be a thing of past...

Anyhow I will not take any kind of risk on this kind of public protest because it is to risk and I will not take risk... if law and order break down it will take 20 years to repair.... Meles only last five years it is better to wait five years

Dear moderator,

You need to ban this S.O.B immediately. He keeps talking trash and irrelevant things. More over, he is calling our people potential looters. This moron is degrading our fight for democracy and freedom. He is such numbskull he don't need to be around us. I feel meles is using to insult the hell out of us.

Thank you,
Yebret Kolo

Dear moderator,

You need to ban this S.O.B immediately. He keeps talking trash and irrelevant things. More over, he is calling our people potential looters. This moron is degrading our fight for democracy and freedom. He is such numbskull he don't need to be around us. I feel meles is using this forum to insult the hell out of us.

Thank you,
Yebret Kolo

Hi everyone,

Please allow me to say this:

I noticed something very common among MOST of us.
We need to cultivate a culture of tolerance and respect to one another. If one has an opinion, whatever it is, we start 'shooting' at him. Even we go far saying he belongs to Woyane or the oppostion.
Which ever camp a person is why not we challenge that person with non-provocative terms? How we could influence people if we're living with pre-conceived ideas that fits us? How could someone will learn from the forum? Different opinion/view is good for advancement. We do not need to think the same way. It is IMPOSSIBLE to do that! That is why we need one another.
That is why we need to respect one's opinion; and ask for clarification and discuss more and we might find out that we'll learn something out of it. That is this forum is all about. Let's accomodate each other.
Do you remember what Dr Birhanu Nega said on the occassion of his mayorship speech...? " ...tell us our mistake too...". That is the only way we'll admit that we don't have divine nature. It is only God who is perfect! We need someone to challenge us, to correct us. What is opposition means anyway? It does not mean an enemy!
Opposition means, in political term: is challenger, who has different view about a common issue for the same goal- to promote democracy so the citizens will benefit from it the most. It is only Woyane who interprete 'opposition' as enemy, because Woyane doesn't have the same goal as opposition. If Woyane is the enemy of democracy, then the opposition is his enemy. If Woyane is against democracy, then the people of Ethiopia is his enemy. But we do not have that enemity to one another as the citizens of the same land. Unless we tolerate someones opinion, how could we dare to say we tolerate other ethnic groups?
Our difference is like different colors when getting together that makes wonderful pattern. Look our flag. one color is boring,only one opinion is boring, only one ethnic group is boring. That is why we're proud being citizens of the same land but with different background or ethnic group, different opinion, view and ideas. What a colorful, beautiful Ethiopia we have guys!!!!!! Let's celebrate about this.
If we're dedicated to learn from each other and practice building of a culture of tolerance, then we've to act responsibly to one another's opinion or view. Please avoid provocative terms at all. Concentrate on the opinion,idea or view of the participant. Challenge it without attacking the person. Try it, we all will benefit. We'll attract many who have tons of knowledge to share but abstain themselves because our intolerance. Let's proove to our men/women of experience who're ready to share their experience, by allowing ourselves to tolerate,respect others opinion.

May God bless our land! Thanks

City: Canada

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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- A fearful Friday has arrived in lawless New Orleans, with police snipers stationed on the roof of their precinct, trying to protect it from the armed thugs roaming seemingly at will through the flood-ravaged city.
Earlier, police officers told CNN that some of their fellow officers had simply stopped showing up for duty, cutting manpower by 20 percent or more in some precincts. Before Thursday night fell, police were stopping anyone they saw on the street and warning them that they were not safe from armed bands of young men who were attacking people and attempting to rape women.
A fed-up Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco warned the lawbreakers that extra troops have already arrived in the city, and others are on the way -- and "they're locked and loaded."
She said Thursday night that 300 soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard had arrived -- "fresh back from Iraq."
"These are some of the 40,000 extra troops that I have demanded," Blanco said. "They have M-16s, and they're locked and loaded ... I have one message for these hoodlums: These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so if necessary, and I expect they will." (See video on the military response -- 2:40)
Sgt. Mark Mix of the Louisiana State Police told CNN late Thursday that a force of police officers would be arriving in New Orleans soon to beef up the law-and-order effort.
Mix said the officers would be coming from Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, and even Michigan to join with Louisiana law authorities in bringing order to the streets.
"The state of civil unrest is probably going to come to an abrupt end in the very near future," Mix said.
Trying to quell the violence and chaos, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday that 4,200 National Guard troops trained as military police will be deployed in New Orleans over the next three days, which he said would quadruple the law enforcement presence in the city.
The first contingent of 100 military police officers arrived at Louis Armstrong International Airport late Thursday -- combat-ready for immediate deployment in New Orleans

At these days we have another sick TPLF cadre in this forum (TULU). He is an Empty head and have a heart with out soul. He knows how many people he killed while he was in roky Tigry mountains hiding like a rat. He is one of them working an over time job 24/7 in this forum against the Ethiopian interest while his salary comes from the people.
Brave Ethiopians. He is not TULU. He is from the trouble part of the country (North). Ignore him. Don’t lose your time to teach him. He has no brain to learn something good and right but committing crime and lying as his banda TPLF cadres are.

Email: t@tiscali.com

Let's have a respect for a person... for God sake.
If you've different opinion, go ahead challenge it.
You're loosing it when start attacking a person. Why should a person must be Woyane cadre? ...because he did not suit you? ...he didn't say what what you are expecting him to say? or different view than yours. Everytime when someone is not crowd pleaser, he is Woyane cadre...come on! It is lack of understanding,patience and tolerance. There is no restriction for a free thought as far as it is to the point. We are preaching democracy, yet we do not want to hear different opinion than ours. How could you prove it to me you're not Woyane cadre which I do not care either you're Woyane or opposition as far you are respecting the the human part of others I'm fine.
Do not jump on someone because he has different than you. Our main problem is not being Woyane, but the policy of Woyane. Our main problem is not Tigray, but a narrow ethnically based thought and on. Let's concentrate on our main issue and stop attacking personality.

Thanks

City: Canada

With out a shadow of a doubt, Tulu is a WOYANE.