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Monday, November 16, 2009 Some time has passed now since I jotted the above observations as my lay man’s view saw it. Since then we all have observed and have witnessed as thousands of innocent and not so innocent lives and lively hoods got decimated and the protagonists yet still going strong and with out accountability locally and internationally. The bull has no muscle and no weight yet to tie it down to the ground ,it might have had its horn cut off or bit, yet could heal and survive or grow new ones to fight with. For it, since it could not possibly loose what it didn’t have; the continuance of the statuesque matters the least, but for the other side the statuesque is not only untenable it had become deadly and expensive in terms of material and human coast. What was then limited to terrestrial and to a national territory have sprung up in to the international waters and beyond the national territorial confinements that have kept naval forces of the five continents busy guarding and fighting to keep the transcontinental shipping lines going in ways and norms never been mobilized for any categorized hurricane to date. I would not comment as to who lost and who gained by the rush to bite the bull’s horn for any one attuned to the daily news the answer is very much self evident that it needs no telling. When gorillas wage wars of the so called liberations, their accountability remains only to their gorilla organization, if they feed their gorilla army and arm it they pretty much had it, thus they remain agile and mobile, illusive and divisive, un repentant and adamant, uncompromising and rigid but as soon as they come to power and start governing they realize the interest of the country is much larger than the interest they espoused when they were in the jungle . They develop new and unforeseen interests, they settle down, they accumulate some muscle on their bones and some chunk of change In their pockets, they form families that will tie them down, they loose their agility and mobility along with it goes illusiveness and divisiveness, their need grows and comes the realization that no body is willing to give them any thing for nothing they soon start learning the art of compromise and the art of give and take. Now one can bet they are going to need him and from him and bet he can tell them “if you don’t do this, or that†or “if you do this or that, Then……. “ or in the language of them learned, one develops leverage on them. I have been pocked in the eye for referring to the policy vision last time I hope I will be spared of that this time around or if it happens again, it would only be a payment one has to endure for saying it out loud and unfortunate as it may, that is just the way it is. On a collision course with our past. Some 60 years back most of the 3rd world as it is referred was dripped with the wars of libration against colonialism and other perceived and real oppressions. Most or all of those liberation movements came to pass as guerilla wars that had thought the world of today and tomorrow some valuable lessons. I will not dare to attempt to draw attention to all the lessons learned and to be, but mention just two. The Economic burden of national governments fighting a guerilla war and the same burden guerillas face after they have won the war of liberation. It is one important question that ought to be asked and answered when the issue as to why many 3rd world countries suffered the dictatorship of military juntas or guerillas that turned out quasi military dictators that won the so called wars of liberation. In any nation anywhere where there is a war to be fought, it takes no genius to figure that the building equipping and financing and supplying the military and the security forces takes precedent. For nations that luck the resources these humongous military and security machine simply could not be satisfied in sharing the meager resources that it takes the political power and try to have it all by establishing a military dictatorship. Or if the military does not assume the power and establish its dictatorship, the civilian government simply will collapse under the weight calling on the military and the security forces to assume control of the state power. It is important to be reminded that often the rallying cry of any or all liberation movements particularly against national governments are corruption, ineptitude and rights violation. Often the buildup of the military and security forces with governments that are already being accused does exasperate the situation than ease along the resource shortage for the rest of the national priorities. The shortage of the resources for other national public and private interests by itself becomes the major breeder of discontent and revolt which will manifest itself in the forms of corruption moral and social decadences . The guerillas will build their guerilla army to the point of tipping the balance to their advantage, they could do that till they come to power because they don’t have to pay salary while they are in the jungle, but things change as soon as they come to power and start to pay salary to the whole state machinery and in addition to the humongous guerilla army and security forces turned regulars. They have no option, but to wear the boots their predecessors have left and continue in a vicious cycle. This has been the lessons of building up of the security and military forces of a corrupt resource stripped country had thought the world in the past. Have we learned any from history or are we doomed to repeat it again? Ayele Teklemariam 09/17/2009 If there is anything that comes in to being from nothing may be is nothingness itself Adding an entry or two to ones diary every day is not and should not be a habit, an addiction or anything of the ill thought labels as some self professed wise men and ladies tend to make them, to me it is rather a discipline and an obligation to myself and those who will have the chance to learn from an individual’s insights and encounters during his short tenure on this earth as insignificantly significant as they are. It is nonetheless; of paramount importance that time place and condition allow the revelation exposition and documentation as in any worldly processes , prematurity in these processes could often cause premature death. It have been a struggle to avert haste, to keep privacy private and concentration in tact to be able to stick to strict discipline and be duty bound for the modern day cyber proving eyes, ears and hands are such that one hardly keeps once composure to do a task at hand and not be distraught and be running after remedial prescribed tactics and ways. It is often the time that is spent in either preventing someone unauthorized from proving in to our lives or our life’s works or private interests and flaws that had surpassed our engagement in real productive work and it is having an unprecedented effect in our productivity, social interaction and mutual trust to do anything with confidence. This deficit of confidence in securing our privacy when made clear that the other party can and is able to intrude anywhere and everywhere we went by the proving eyes, ears, and hands of the modern cyber-gadgets makes us drop everything and work on ways and methods of countering it and I am sure, I am not alone in thinking and acting that way. After all it is our common human trait to treat a threat and it is more than likely a trait the will endure the test of time as it had. As I am side tracked with these note I would like to make it clear that it is not without incident and cause I brought this up, but because it have been for a long time now one of the hurdles I had struggled to overcome and still fight to maintain my sanity and sense of purpose despite the enormous time and energy it had robbed me off and continues. As the Ethiopian saying †Grind it anywhere bring the flour home†it is these without accounting what went in to and where in the process of what we consume have rather emboldened those who prey on others more than those who create ,produce and manufacture. We have come to a time when owners, makers and producer have to be ware for once it is on the market it is not who made it, manufactured it or produced it, but who delivered it. I am not by any chance minimizing the importance or the role played by delivery in anything of value, but I am only appalled by the sole endowment of the benefits to the one and singular party. That as it is and has thus far been, I would like to go back t o my normal and usual daily entry thinking that I have had a measure of protection and enforcing my provisions on what are my proprietary belongings. to be continued— |