Misguided opposition - ER goes Mad!

Posted on May 2, 2007 by FilwehaPundit
http://filwehapundit.com/2007/05/02/misguided-opposition-er-goes-mad/

I thought there was a difference between opposing a government and trying to destroy a whole nation. There are a number of opposition websites and blogs struggling for a political change in Ethiopia - so that the law prevails and democracy functions in a meaningful way in Ethiopia - and that is a healthy thing. But asking for violence and bloodshed in the country (while you are sitting in Virginia or anywhere else) and telling insurgents to come and attack the nation, justifying killings of foreigners, professionals and citizens who have done nothing but do their jobs, is I think a misguided and blind opposition. You may oppose the war in Somalia, you may oppose the way the 2005 election was conducted, you may ask to put the people responsible for the Addis Ababa killings and mass detention on trial, you may ask and struggle for the freedom of CUDP members and leaders and other political prisoners, you may struggle for the free press, you may struggle, all in all, for the betterment of the country in an actionably meaningful way.
But to work like those people who in the first place want to destroy the country or even to encourage and justify killings of innocent people is way out of the line and is in fact a disservice to the meaningful struggle. Let me put it in my friend’s words,” ... that shows the road we are to traverse soon - disorganized and aimless opposition.”
But the words of Ethiopian Review that encourages Somali insurgents to attack inside Ethiopia and that most Ethiopians are with them, is I think tantamount to committing suicide ! Well, ER, let me break it down to you - we all want freedom and democracy in Ethiopia but we do not want to ally with those who work with people who want to destroy our very nation in the first place!
Governments come and go ! Leaders rise and fail! But the people and the country remain!
We might fight each other, it is not an unusual episode in the course of Ethiopian history but at the end of the day, we all need the nation!
Ethiopian Review has turned itself into more of a disservice in the struggle for freedom and democracy in Ethiopia