In what is a historical blunder the first Black President has allowed
his State Department to cancel a public meeting scheduled to be held
in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, October 2, 2016 with members of the
Eritrean government delegation. For a few decades now
Eritrean-Americans living in the USA even before independence in 1991
never had an issue to be able to assemble and even demonstrate loudly
in this country for their just cause. Based on records the diaspora
Eritreans have always been peaceful and intelligent and worked well in
expressing their goals collectively. They are the cream of the crop in
CIVILIZED demonstrations or holding public meetings and have proven it
many times over. Even authorities from the federal police as well as
many other local law enforcement have spoken very highly of the “THE
ERITREAN” diaspora.
May he rest in peace it was during the late 1990’s that even civil
rights leader Julian Bond spoke of the prowess and the united efforts
to fight for justice of the Eritrean community in the USA during a
gathering of the NAACP in Northern Virginia. In Seattle, Minnesota,
Atlanta, Dallas, The San Francisco Bay area and many other places
throughout North America including Canada, the Eritrean people have
proven that they are always peaceful and stood for peace. In the late
nineties at a Stanford University graduation ceremony in the Bay area
Eritreans were able to force former UN chief Kofi Annan to respond
back to their request about the illegal war created by the TPLF
minority regime against Eritrea by voicing their opinions loud and
clear. Meanwhile, the minority government that has been brutal and a
nightmare in neighboring Ethiopia today gets a free pass despite the
oppression of its own citizens. It is the close friends and allies of
these “BUTCHERS OF ETHIOPIA” like Susan Rice now National Security
advisor that have ruined America’s foreign policies towards Africa.
Thank god they only have a couple of months left. The Dictator
Kenyan-American president Barak Obama will go down in history for
dismantling African nations rather than making any difference at all.
He is a sham and a shameful leader that will go down in history as a
fraud. A fraud to Africans and a Fraud to African-Americans. He has
let down a lot of people.
Town Hall Meetings with delegations from Eritrea or without, the
behavior and the unity of the people is one that should be emulated by
every community. May be if Barak Obama continues to be a community
activist, he can learn a thing or two from the Eritrean community.
Even when the President of Eritrea comes to the USA, meetings with the
public is a tradition. A great tradition at that. So much so the
secret service are amused at the connection between the people and
their leaders.
On Saturday evening October 1st, 2016 at the ECCC in the heart of
Washington D.C. many showed up to receive an Eritrean Hero and
delegate His Excellency Yemane Gebreab who recently participated at
the United Nations where everyone saw his eloquent communications
skills. The Presidential advisor and a man of great integrity who left
his University studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA
during the struggle years for Eritrea’s independence was accorded a
beautiful and inspiring welcome by the large majority of
ERITREAN-AMERICANS in the metro DC area. So despite, the unjustifiable
hostility against the people of Eritrea and violation of our
fundamental rights as Eritrean Americans and citizens of the United
States, we are aware of our right to assemble and can teach anyone
that we are the best at gathering as we have done it for decades. The
cheap attempt at destabilizing and creating gaps between our people in
the diaspora will not work.
FACT: The Supreme Court of the United States has held that the First
Amendment protects the right to conduct a peaceful public assembly.
The United States Constitution explicitly provides for 'the right of
the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a
redress of grievances' in the First Amendment. Common constraints on
the right to assemble are a class of time, place and manner
regulations. A second type of constraint is the requirement to obtain
a permit, where coordination may be needed to ensure public safety.
We the Eritrean-American community openly told the time, place, the
guests and were ready to emancipate ourselves by learning new things
as has been for decades but this occasion will go down in history as a
“SABOTAGE” by the first black president and his cronies like Susan
Rice as a big blunder. Never has this administration wished peaceful
gestures towards Eritrea and Eritreans, not even during the
independence days. But going to Ethiopia to stand up for a BRUTAL
dictatorship clearly shows that “It takes one to know one”
Eritrean-American
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