By Ghirmai Zemichael
A quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln TPLFites should take note of:
“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.”
Baseless propaganda; deceit and outright lies; defamation, demonization and elimination of opponents; preaching doom-and-gloom thereby depicting oneself as one and only savior of the people; using war as a weapon to stay in power have been TPLF’s modus operandi for half a century. And no doubt this has served the party and its higher political and military echelons well during their 27-year rule in Addis Ababa and a longer reign in the Tigrai region.
Sure enough, their unquenchable thirst for power as well as insatiable greed for wealth and prestige have exposed TPLF leaders to a sense of entitlement, and have blinded them not to see when to bow out gracefully. That’s why they were unceremoniously kicked out of federal power, and subsequently compelled to flee to Mekelle.
To that end, the exit from Addis ought to have served as an important lesson that they should not be an impediment to change, but rather embrace it. Yet, as TPLFites have a long history of contempt for their fellow Tegaru, they still are under the illusion that they can still manipulate the people with same old propaganda, defamation and demonization or – failing that – by continuing to apply the use of force to endlessly subjugate them.
Nonetheless, learning from past and recent history of tyrannical rule, including their own Addis experience, TPLF leaders and their supporters will sooner than later learn the hard way that “you cannot fool all the people all of the time” and that there is an end to everything even in Tigrai.
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I personally was puzzled as to why our Tegaru brothers & sisters are failing to realize the deceits of TPLFiets since long.
As the saying goes ‘fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me thrice, shame on both of us’; and this piece is a sign of call for wakeup!
Thank you bro!
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