One can not have his cake and it as well. The calculated methodology implemented by the opposition to discredit the Ethiopian government since its inception has not and will never bear fruit. The occasional hiccups and obstacles they have managed to setup have all been overrun with ferocious might and skilful adroit political maneuvering.

The election 2005 and its aftermath were supposed to sink the final nail on the “Woyane “coffin”. The Doctors, PhD’s and great economist had a master plan to discredit PM Meles in the international diplomatic and media platforms. This was done by creating relationships with editors of newspapers, Congressmen and Parliamentarians throughout the world. Over the years they painstakingly harped on every real and false incident which occurred within the Ethiopian political landscape. They updated these people via phone calls, emails, and political events. They formed strategies and formulated plans which would act as engines of misinformation and confusion. The above mentioned foreign elements became wholly dependent on these groups to feed them information on Ethiopia. The naïve Ethiopian Government personnel failed to understand the importance of countering the misinformation with facts. Absent of any counter information these congressmen, editors and Parliamentarians were forced to accept the biased and malicious version handed to them in the form of the hatemonger objectives. Furthermore, these groups donated to the campaign funds of the said politicians. Some hired Ethiopian and Eritrean pro CUD and Shabia people as aides in their offices. Therefore, one should not be surprised at the brazen confidence exhibited by the same CUD supporters’ pre 2005 election. We all recall the guarantees of change in government via violent methods after the 2005 elections. These sentiments did not come out of thin air. They came from a presupposition that the fruits of their labor would harbor a bountiful harvest. They assumed that all their hard work and efforts cultivating relationships and brain washing editors, congressmen and Parliamentarians would pay off. They assumed that the monies they doled out would pay back returns like an investment in the US Stock Market. They were confident that they covered all their bases, crossed all their T’s and dotted all there I’s. Confident that their well planned strategies would be executed without flaw, enabled them to express their confidence in a manner of bravado and guarantees. Little did they know that their dreams would be full of bugs (Bugs a computer programming terminology for a software that does not perform as planned due to flaws in the code and poor testing plans) and that everything they planned for and assumed would come crashing down like a deck of cards.

Today they act as if all they did, guarantee and promised never happened. Instead they try like chameleons to blend into a new set of realties which ignores all their failures. Unable to learn from their past mistake, they repeat them over and over producing the bugs described above. True to their failed natures the latest ploy is to convince the world that the conviction of the defendants was a travesty of justice. They are working in overdrive getting certain congressmen and parliamentarians from New Jersey and Portugal to issue statements of condemnation. These efforts like everything they have done will not bear any fruit. It will excite for a short minute folks who think anything written in a PDF format is earth shaking and revolutionary. However like everything they have done before this effort will end up in a dust bin of history. In truth the CUD’ites and a certain ineffective congressman from New Jersey tried to have their cake and eat it to. On the one hand they argued that Justice delayed was not Justice served. They complained that the CUD defendants were denied a quick trial which deprived them of their rights to have a quick resolution. All the while the CUD defendants were doing all they could do to delay a quick resolution. They waffled, wobbled and failed to provide a defense. The Court awaiting their response was simultaneously accused by the same defendants and their supporters of unduly extending the trial further denying them of a quick resolution. At the end the Court exercised its only option when the defendants refused to put up a defense. Now one can interpret why they refused to have a trial. Maybe the evidence was so overwhelming and incriminating that had a trial been conducted, the whole world would have seen how guilty they were in forming and directing an attempted insurrection. Such a scenario would no doubt destroy them beyond repair. In the USA a defendant faced with overwhelming evidence pointing to his guilt will often accept a plea deal with the prosecution in order to receive a less harsh sentence. Just maybe the CUD defendants chose to not mount a defense because their guilt was so overwhelming. Finding themselves in a, lose-lose scenario, they just may have decided to defy the constitution so that a guilty plea would be entered and their guilt not exposed. At the same time the engine that drives the buggy CUD formula quickly shouted that Justice was denied because the Court acted in haste making a decision. Folks they can not have it both ways. They can not scream at the top of their lungs that Justice delayed is Justice denied and then flip flop and shout Justice is not Justice because it was done in haste.