Eritrea is calling!

By: Abeba Isahac

Jesus said:-

Where two or three are gathered in my name, there will I be also.

Jesus also said:-

With faith as little as a mustered seed, you will be able to move mountains.

Although pretending to preach and spread democracy everywhere, America has always been against the wishes of the majority of the people, and this has never been more pronounced than since George W. Bush came to office. In 2003 when millions and millions around the world, including in America, went out into the streets to demonstrate against the invasion of Iraq, the USA president, without even giving it a consideration, just went ahead and did what he, and not what the people, wanted. When the Palestinians, in a fair election which was even monitored and observed by the west, chose Hammas to lead them, the west and especially Israel and America got so angry that until today they are trying to starve the Palestinians to death while having given Israel cart blanche to go out and indiscriminately kill as many of them as is possible.

Hugo Chavez of Venezuela too, was not mad at Bush without good reason. After the majority of the people of Venezuela had chosen him as their president, in a fair and square democratically run election in 2000, the CIA had something to do with forcibly bringing him down and putting him in prison until the Venezuelan people came out again, in full force, to demand for his release. To the dismay of the state department, Hugo Chavez has recently been re-elected by a landslide for another six years!

So now they have decided to fight with some people of their own size (or a people weak enough to beat) – the Somali people, who had chosen to be governed by the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) despite their strict laws, rather than again go through another16 years of lawless and ruthless warlords’ rule, whom the UN, USA, Woyane and others had chosen for them, outside their country, without giving them a say in the matter. And now, after having advanced the woyane from Ethiopia, who themselves are illegally in power, against the will of the Ethiopian people, the USA, under the pretext of having smelled an Al-Qaeda at that part of the world, have started their usual long range missile destruction.

Is election of leaders by the majority of the people not one of the basic components of democracy where the will of the people is king? If not, what then is democracy, pray tell?

Eritrea too might have unknowingly rocked the boat and shocked the western world when in 1991, after thirty years of determined fighting, she came out victorious over the Ethiopians. And to add insult to injury, in 1993, the Eritrean people in a referendum had almost unanimously (98%) chosen independence from Ethiopia, thus eliminating any other hopes that the west might have had in mind - or so Eritreans thought at the time.

With what has been going on for the past ten years, since Eritrea suffered an illegal, but nevertheless internationally acquiesced invasion by the woyane from the south, and the constant barrage of groundless accusations and inhumane threats of sanctions, which she has been receiving from the part of powerful western nations and their so-called media, for no other reason than to unjustly appease and support the lawless, intransigent, belligerent, disdainful, shameless and dishonest woyane terrorist puppets of the USA., there has never been a time where, in the short life of our young independent nation, Eritrea, that help from her children was ever needed more than at the present time.

From what we have been witnessing lately, be it in the case of Iraq, Lebanon , Palestine and very recently Somalia, world law and order seems to be disintegrating and coming loose at the seams, as blind, dangerous and destructive strength and power seems to have taken over. And most importantly the search for pretexts for whatever reason by accusing and blaming Eritrea for the troubles imposed in Somalia, should be something that all Eritreans should worry about, especially in the absence of world law and order.

Based on all the above and more, I would like to ask for the cooperation of every fellow Eritrean from around the world, and in Eritrea proper, who cares for the safety of our nation, to join me in a simple mission to try and defuse this evil that is hovering in our part of the world – the Horn of Africa - by taking a few minutes, even one minute, every day, just to concentrate, meditate, or pray if you like – for the protection and safety of our people and our nation. Just to sit down and imagine the map of Eritrea in your mind and try to think positively. The idea is to unleash a storm of positive thoughts and good vibes to surround our country for protection.

It would have been nice if we could synchronize these powerful good vibes, but since we all live in different time zones, we will have to make do with different convenient times of the day, evening or night. For those of us who might be able to follow a certain time every day, the Greenwich mean time (GMT) of 5:00:PM should be observed. I will leave it to the readers and to those who are experts in conversions as to the time we should all agree upon. But in the meantime, in order to get us started immediately in synchronized thoughts let me give a few examples.

Just to get us started immediately, until a ‘convenient for all’ time gets established, here are a few time zones we can get started on. For starters 5:00PM Greenwich time in the USA would be 12:00 noon in the east (EST) - 11:00 am central (CST)- 10:00 am mountain(MST) and 9:00AM in the west (PST). In Alaska it would be 8:00 am and in Hawaii 7:00 am.

Australia and Tokyo are 16hours and 14 hours forward respectively. Canada too has different time zones but Europe should be the closest to the GMT) hour of the basic 5:00 pm from where we all start counting either forward or backwards. Of course in Eritrea and its surrounding it should be 8:00pm etc..etc..etc.. I hope each and everyone will make the effort to find out their time zone in GMT.

This is one way we will be able to defend our nation without spending a cent or a penny, but as always, we can in unison, with a few powerful minutes of our time, move mountains or defuse all the evil thoughts that our enemies are hatching up. Let us try it. We have nothing to lose, but everything to gain.

,With truth, courage, justice and the dedication and determination of her children on her side, no harm will befall Eritrea, no matter how powerful her foes.

January 12, 2007