Where does Gada depart from Democracy ?

Part VI © 09/052018

Only Truth have a sit under the Shadow of Odaa Tree

Final part of the preceding series of articles entitled Juxtaposing Democracy with the Gada System of the Oromo People.

7) Limitation of Office to Single Term

In most of the European countries, there are no direct limits of terms of services of the head of the states like in the UK, France, etc., late only in the third-hand copies of the so-called “Democracy” in the African quasi-states. That indicates the law legitimizes the unlimited terms of serves of the winner political party leaders to rule redundantly.

In other words what is performed under the mask of democracy is the authorization and the control of the winner’s group, in most cases a single political party and its program and its establishment’s continuity without limit. Some examples may shed more light.

For instance, Mr. Kohl ruled Germany as a chancellor for 16 years, and the current chancellor Angela Merkel rules since 2005 just to note some among many others alike. In the USA it is limited to two terms for an individual candidate to serve if his or her political party legitimize him or her to run for re-election.

Focusing in the post-quasi-flag anthem independent African states that have some of the world’s longest-serving heads of states that turned to one of the chronic diseases since the anti-colonialism movements and struggles throughout the African continents and beyond.

Some of the first generations of popular sons of Africa’s freedom fighter like Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah lived short, and the rest like K.Kaunda (27 years J. Nyerere (21 years ), J.Kenyata (14 years) Milton Obote (23) years. They turned from freedom fighters or rebels to one man rule, once they catapulted to political power through a bullet or ballot box analog to the absolute “despotic monarchy style” rule.

By justifying that they brought liberation to their corresponding quasi-states territory and legitimized to rule till their last birth, camouflaged with “democratically elected or re-elected” with the exceptions of some finger counted leaders like the first people’s president of South African, Nelson Mandela’s who served single term.

The post-cold war as it was called second generations followed the footsteps of the first generations who did inherit and did not capable to learn from the past. They even turned to the worse, most of them even enforces deploy all repressive tools to change the institutionalized limits of terms of serves some months before their time elapses to rule until their last birth.

The paranoia of the African leaders that politics in most cases turned into an addiction of stealing money, corruptions and bigotry. They redundantly beat the old dramas. They propagate from their individual grandiosity and bravery as they were in the bush or in deserts as rebels, “freedom fighters” to justify their unlimited terms of rules.

They shamelessly construct an enemy-image and scapegoats them brushing them with coal tar, either from within the “quasi-state”, or their neighboring countries as a foe to their sovereignty and territorial integrity.

They become arrogant autocrats, and technocrats, irresponsible and chauvinist tyrants in most case that suffer from malignant megalomaniac confrontation of denials that destroy the very system that brought them into power.

They pontificate them self’s as if they are the only one, unique and in-replaceable person, who can protect and keep the status quo of the quasi-state in the continent, otherwise the land will sink to anarchy, or turn up-down with head etc. They even forget that they are human and mortal one day and some even dream to rule from their grave-yard.

Most of them the patent holders of whole political jingoism, relentless diabolic liars and fabrications just to fulfill their addictions of thirsty of power holding through politics and its all profits and in stealing the money of the people even given under the entitlements of “AIDS-HIV, AIDS- against hunger and famine, AIDS-for development, etc., provided by foreigner states, NGOs, W, IMF, etc. under their control.

Whereas, the majority of the African people are suffering from it from one corner to the other must fly out of the continent die in the Sahara desert, drawn in Mediterranean sea, suffer in concentration camps in Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, etc. built by the EU fund (the re-colonialists) on the African soil where the subhuman acts are committed, human beings are sold as a slave in the 21st century, let the video and audio footage speaks for itself.

In contrast in the Gada system, the term of services is limited to a single term of eight years by law and there is no re-election of the same person. The time and place of transition and handover ceremony (Baallii Dabarsuu) of the outgoing and the incoming Gada class and corresponding Abba Gada (the President in the western parlance) are fixed by law

Thus Abba Gada cannot even dream about re-election, let alone to stand again, free from Addiction of power (the default of as it was called western democracy which is against the law and the will of the Oromo people.

8) Distribution of Power across Generation and Age Groups

The Greco–Roman mutant what we know as western democracy today what the Athenian critical thinkers and writers of that period nicknamed as “the Lazy Horses” who lived by predating on the others and do not know what work legitimizes the rule of the gerontocratic part of the society.

For instance, the average age of the German cabinet is seven years older than the median of the German populations, and the chancellor is 64 years old. The current American president who is 72 years old who picked up the older cabinet than his predecessors nearly of his own ages and whereas, the national median of the American populations according to 2017
censuses is 38 years old. As Prof. Asmarom said:

In comparisons with Western democracies where the young and the elderly were historically, pushed aside and deprived of a role in political life, the autonomous self-governing age and generations groups of the Oromo are extremely effective in keeping people actively involved in the affairs of their groups during a major parts of their childhood, adulthood and old age Power is distributed systematically across three genealogical generations and ten or more Gada classes. Sometimes other age and generations based societies are, indeed gerontocratic. But the Oromo’s are not.”

Ageing cause change in all living organisms that are the universal law of nature for the purpose. In other words, these changes occur at all level of the organism from molecular to a physical level. That indicates human beings chronologically alter biologically.

Research on human brain universality found out that as we age our brain shrinks in volume, our memory declines, our reactions to stimulus to the environs and our level attention, the speed of processing information’s slows and brain circuitry start to burn out with age.

As a result, the perceptibility of the facts on the ground within the society deters and leads to false strategies, dissatisfaction to the majority of the members of the society from all walks of life and that is exactly what we are destined to witness at global scale currently.

Most importantly, the core of the society, the adults, and the youth, who have virtually pushed aside, undermined or even discriminated and, absent in the cabinet of the conglomerates of gerontocratic parts of the society that holds power and make decisions and cling into it to rule to their last birth.

To note some example may shine more light on the subject. Among many others, just think about Robert Mugabe, age of 94, of Zimbabwe, Yoweri Museveni age of 74 of Uganda, who ruled half of his life with iron fist and planned to rule till his last birth.

At the mean time the semi-illiterates core of the TPLF gangs fascistic rules of one of the barbaric predatory empire traded with her stolen name of “Ethiopia” for the last 28 years in Africa, where their corresponding “Quasi states” socio-political and economic turmoil’s we have destined to witness are the facts on their corresponding soil.

From the so-called Western democracy, the current kleptocratic President of the USA waged global soft war, like trade, based on bigotry, and chauvinism under the mantra of “America First.” The Columnist Max Boot described that “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud” published on 22 of August 2018 in Washington post.

9) Inter generational Equity

The Greco–Roman world order mutated to what was called today as a western democracy which was based on the top-down commanding system there is no a semblance of inter-generational equity, rather a winner versus losers game. To the winners belong the political elites who hold the power and finger counted corporate enterprises and shareholders. The rest, vast majority of the populations including the adults and the youth must dance to their music. As Prof. Asmarom prophetically stated :

Western liberal democracies failed quite miserably to achieve any semblance of inter-generational equity. The youth movements and the movements of the elderly that swept across the United States and Europe in the late1960’s and the 1970’s were attempted to correct the generational injustices that were and still are present in the Western political system.

Summing up the series of articles explored under the topic entitled as JUXTAPOSING DEMOCRACY WITH THE GADA SYSTEM OF THE OROMO PEOPLE. The first part thoroughly explored the amorphousness of the term democracy utilized as baits to legitimacy to rule by the tyrannical regimes who come to power by a bullet or through ballot box focused on series of Abyssinia bandits entitled as DEMOCRACY: A PRESCRIPTION OF CYANIDE PILLS TO THE ABYSSINIAN EMPIRE & CONT. TPLF TYRANNY.

It is the a tangible fact proved again and again that the Habesha or Abyssinia Empire, the poorest, barbaric, dependent and predatory empire that preyed on the whole south since her establishment that turned to the burden of the Oromo’s, the Sidama’s, the Ogadenian’s and the other over 80 Ethno-nationals, as a whole incarcerated in of the most backward of Empire chieftains as we know her now.

Most profoundly since the mid-19th-century analog to the European colonizers of the African continent.The Habeshas also known as Abyssinian’s by foreigners.

Blanc reminded us for more than one and half centuries ago if we have ale to learn facts:.

Abyssinian presents much analogy to European nations the offspring of divers invaders at preset day who settled and lived isolated for centuries between the burning shores of the red sea in the east and the high mountain ranges in the horn of Africa that is often impassable. In the contrary to the indigenous people of the region who can trace their linage to the ancient Britons who fought against the victorious legions of Caesar.

Supported with massive Europeans rifles and ammunition, military experts and intelligence e.t.c., the cruelest of all chieftains the dependent Abyssinian empire was established to serve as a marionette for the resource-less and greedy European colonizers in African continent.

She was enabled, and maintained her status quo of predatory settler-colonial relations against the whole south from Habesha-proper to the contemporary fascistic regime of TPLFs clad and with garb of so called “The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) traded for the last solid 28 years to the very date.

Independent of time and place of their origin, the Habesha settler colonialists moved with the premise of wipe out the entire indigenous people from their ancestral soil, and overtook their land, declared as Terra nullius, justified the ownership, exploited their resources limitlessness, and shipped back to their birthplace and enriched themselves.

The second part thoroughly explored the premise in which the settler-colonists, moved with the premise of wipe out the entire indigenous people from their ancestral soil, and overtook their land committed Democides. The obligate dependent predatory settler colonial Habesha Empire,the aliens in the Horn of Africa could not be otherwise.

They chopped Men’s arms and legs and Women’s burst, killed by a hanging, forced proselytizing, eviction of indigenous people from their ancestor soil; repudiated the indigenous history and culture, attempted to erase the memories and the knowledge of the indigenous people’s identity, and come to the point to consider them as the people without history and culture.

They institutionalized long-term policies of enslavement, incarcerations, forced assimilation of Habeshaizations or Amharaizations through barbaric acts. By crossing the red lines, cursing the physical appearances of the entire southern people, renaming and shaming, segregating the cultural values of the colonized and occupied people.

By deviling the native language, ethics, morals, norms, taboos, religious, spiritual, imaginational, emotional desires, worldview etc, of the indigenous people they committed cultural genocides on the Gadaa-Siiqqee System, mentally and spiritually: the backbones of Oroommuumma (Oromoness) that holds true to the very date.

The third part of the article began with where the homegrown, nurtured, developed and evolved into full-fledged services of the Gada system of the Oromo people that depart from the so-called Western democracy. It explored the inclusiveness of the Gada system for all citizen from all walks of life, from birth to death providing corresponding activities and responsibilities according to their nature and biological age groups of classes.

In contrast, what was called democracy of the west and its fake copies in the Africa continent such as the so-called Quasi-Ethiopian-State is a System of Exclusion of at least half its populations.

The article underscored that Gada has been and is sterile from conceiving, birth, growth, development and nurturing of tyranny since time immemorial. Tyranny is a dead-born child in the Gada system, whereas the so-called western democracy is an open door for nurturing, an incubation box for tyranny as history teaches us repeatedly.

It is indeed a legalized and institutionalized system, an opened door and even a license of tyrants, dictatorship, power abuser; liars and most painstaking racists political despots know for granted in human history once sat tall in the saddle of political power and control the whole in one hand, and deploy all tools and committed crimes against humanity.

The fourth part of the article is thoroughly explored in the Gada system of the Oromo’s the law stands above all men in theory and practices while the opposite is true in the Western democracy. No human as a group or an individual is above the law.

All men are subject to it equally, independent of entitlements. The Abba Gadaa (The President in the western parlance) himself; or Haadhaa Siiqqee (the First Lady) is subject in case they violated it to the same law and the same punishments as all its citizens.

In a western democracy, one can find it written on papers, but in practice, the system empowers the President to have the power to sign an executive order singularly, controls the intelligence information’s, sole control over the defense apparatus.

The law explicitly assigned the president, the power to sign or veto legislation, mess-ups international laws, and affairs, stifling bureaucracy and mount the bully pulpit, singularly owes sufficient stature to dismiss ministers who could not suit him or her, etc.

In other words, the entitled person or groups in a so-called western democracy the constitution and his legislation by itself empowers dictatorship and power abuses that has been self-evident. Thus, no wonders they are even above the International law.

One of the most tragic comprehensive stupidity of the human species and those westerners who claim as Democrats treatment the culprits, tyrants who committed crimes against humanity as protections as their own client.

The profit-geared super-powers are in fact the major hurdles for the implementations of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) laws and justice through deploying the term they called it vetoing, a misnomer by itself, where injustice and dictatorships take hold.

They lack of accountability, confession, and the penalty is the practice. o the very date. The culprits, the genociderians like Omar al Bashir of Darfurian in Sudan, the TPLF-EPREDF fascists who committed democides in Oromia, Ogaden, Gambella, Benishangul, Gumuz among others since they gripped the political power in 1991 and ruled with an iron fist and military commands. The irony of it that they are all still running free.

Some still cling to power and protected by their regime in power and their collaborators like the AU. Others who found heaven on this planet and further protected by the regime outside in the country where they fled like the military junta signified as the father of the red-terror, Mengistu Haile Mariam in Harare, Zimbabwe.

The article also explored in Gada System of the Oromo people strict demarcation, duties, and responsibility between religious activities, administrative activities, and corresponding leadership. In spiritual, ritual, religious activities, the corresponding Qalluu, the most knowledgeable ones on the subject take the responsibility to lead all procedures and ceremonies, such as in occasion of celebrations of Muuda (Anointment), Eeba (Blessing) ceremonies, etc.

In cases of the Oromo political affair, the Gummi (the Counsel) assembly and its corresponding qualified Abba Gada (the president) takes the leading position and management of the tasks in concerns.

More importantly, they both works in concert, mutual respects, peace, love with each each other and responsibility according to the position they owed accomplishment its duties accordingly guided by the principle and the laws of the Gada in the Oromo society by fertilizing and harmonizing with each other for the general well-being of their society and their environs.

The challenging questions in western democracies are to ferret out the truth of the differences between what is called politics and what they call it a religion without their naming in real. At least, for the last two and half millennium since the mythology of Asia Minor, known as the Middle East, often disseminated by sword via Europe and beyond her immigrated families via seas and oceans.

Since then history teaches religion and politics have been two faces of the same coin even worse religion was used as means, the motif and justifications to commit one of the gruesome acts crime in the history of humanity turned the shareholder with politics that the world suffers from it to the very date.

Here is where it lost to play the authentic roles of the psycho-spiritual, moral, ethical and social norms of guides of human invention and civilizations what the Oromo’s call Amanttii “Religion.” As a result, we even find a few states and political parts operating by attesting religious names to themselves today.

Aristotle reminds as by saying that the worst form of inequality is to make unequal things equal. Currently, more than ever we destined to witness the African content is suffering from the implementations of the copies of the strange term “democracy” as a legacy of colonial inheritance and dependence that we did not get rid of it yet.

We the so-called educated unfortunately turned to the burden of our society. We consider ourselves “civilized” when we often redundantly say “democracy, democracy” as a silver bullet, because that is the recipe, what the Americans, or the Europeans etc., prescribed for us.

That is what we have heard, read and we further die hard to implant its copy and enforces on our society as a silver bullet to our solutions that is in fact, impossible without thinking about it for a minute.

We do not even think that the most inhuman acts, atrocities, mega killings, crime in this world were and still are committed and is committing under the masks of the term democracy and that holds true right now in global scale in its worse form.

Furthermore, we neglect, ignore the very basic foundations of humanity, systems of administrations like Gadaa–Siiqqee System of the Oromo people in our villages and our nation from time immemorial which is full-fledged and served for peace, tranquility, humanity and living in hormone with his neighbors and universe as a whole.

The Gada system of the Oromo people registered in the UNESCO world cultural heritage cannot be compared with the so-called the amorphous western democracy that possess contradictory behaviors of an anomaly culture of denials, hypocrisy, nepotism, fabrications used to erect false edifices proved and maintained since its birth in Athens at all costs till they caught red-handed or shot dead.

The Lazy Horses of Athens “The Democrats”

Today we do have voluminous of books research article written what is/was committed under the mask democracy of Athens –Greek origin and its Greco-Roman extensions what was is known as Western democracy today such By Michael Mana entitled: The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminatory Drive in Fascist Europe By Aristotle Kallis. The Age of genocide: conceptual and institutional implications by Petter J. Stoett. Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder and Death by Government by R. J. Rummel.

It turned out that the Athenians for themselves called Democracy, the rule of “the Lazy Horses” who lived by predating on the others, do not know what work means, and self-legitimized to live as a prey on the mass of the population of the state in concern which holds true today turned a “license to kill” independent of the path regimes come to grip the political power and consolidate in their own hand.

That being the historically recorded facts we known for granted at least in the last centuries, its continuations, and what is committed under the mask of “democracy” on the ground in various regions of the world.

Nevertheless, we still hear from some of us attesting the adjective, real to democracy and advocate: what we need is “real democracy” without naming one example or even be able to define it, if at all it has existed on this blue planet. We conclude and enforce our people perhaps to adopt “democracy” it fits us.

In fact we attest the adjective to it in an attempt to qualify the fourth hand imported system called “Democracy” from Athens to Rome, from Rome to Europe and her migrates and finally to Africa that was proved the rule of Kleptocrats, but not the mass of its citizen since its birth in human history in the last two and half millennium. It served the so-called finger counted political elites and their clients and cohesive circles that holds true to the very date.

The fact that a political system was defined briefly, as the set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or a “state” a set of detailed methods, procedures and routines created to carry out a specific activity, perform a duty, or solve a problem in an organized form in order to achieve the goal of the system.

Here is where the wagon of the so-called democracy lost his chain where the goal system turned to serve a very limited group of “political elites or power holders.”

In fact, once it misses and missed its goal it must be discarded dropped out of the political arena and most importantly out of our mind, rather than attesting an adjective “real” to qualify the unqualified strange system for our society who has home born, grown and developed and served our society from time immemorial.

It is crucial for those of us who are /were exposed to those so-called “foreign education” and installed strange terms like the so-called “democracy” in our mind to be accepted by our alike, but forgets the very majority of our people to the term itself is strange let alone to copy and deploy it as system to implement and die-hard to impose it.

One of the biggest challenges of the Quasi flag anthem dependent Quasi Africa states and their political elites is/was an attempt to copy the strange ideas and minds out of Africa that has never ever suited to the African people and their soil and primordial cultures and values and an attempts to deploy it by all means necessary that urgently need to update our software and learn from the past. One may import technique

Just think for a minute about it. Where are today the founders of what was called democracy the Greeks today? And what is /was committed under the masks of democracy in human history since them? Once, we found out the answer I hope one may come to the point to stop advertising the fourth-hand imported strange term to our people.

We Africans owe a home born system like the unique Gadaa-Siiqqee system the severed its people with peace, tranquility, harmony with mother nature and neighbors of zero tolerance to tyranny, power abusers, diabolic liars and looters that has no comparison in the human civilizations.

In other words, there is a need of urgent paradigm shift most importantly those of us who consider ourselves the “intellectuals” and believe we are certain to lead our nations because we hold “certificates” from somewhere else, who can read and write in the foreign language and stead-fest and knowledgeable about the world.

There is nothing wrong to know what the others were or are. The danger is we fall into oblivion through training where the memory of our sourness, Oromooness, Sidamaness, Ogadeness et., is/was attempted to be erased from our mind.

Thus, the only way to rehabilitates, it is the preparedness to learn from our people, elders, Abbaa Gadaa’s, Haadha Siiqqee’s etc., from all knowledgeable people in our country, villages, etc., instead of trying to teach what we have read and heard about others during our academic training that has roots and stems and flower on our soil.

The whole purpose of training beginning from the so-called “School, colleges” in a sense a platform of assimilation, installed software in our brain. As a result, we come out as a certified loyal servant to that system and Terra we enrolled in without never hearing, reading late alone learning our own identity, cultural, society, worldview and political affairs born, grown, developed and full-fledged Systems such as the Gada System of the Oromo people.

The Gada system : one of the unique and remarkable innovations of our genius ancestors at home that served our nation for time immemorial before going through cultural genocides for over centuries by the alien of the north, the Habesha’s, who still dream, devil and try to continue to repress, to wipe out if they can as their father and grandfathers, who vilified committed cultural genocides on the the Gadaa-Siiqqee System.

Thanks to the heroes and heroines who sacrificed their life throughout centuries, reserved it in their mind and soul and inherited to their children from one to the next generations.

Today Gada has revived, rejuvenated, and arrived to the point to give its service as it was before going through extremely cultural genocides to our great nation in width and depth in Oromia entirely,and beyond, as Martial De Salviac said in his book: AN ANCIENT GREAT AFRICAN NATION: THE OROMO that won the French Academic prize in 1901 in Paris translated into English, courtesy to Ayalew Kanoo

Again Aristotle reminds us: “The worst form of inequality is to make unequal things equal.” We those who believe as an “intellect, Knowledgeable, hold degrees and certificates and must avoid confusing our people and the others, while we are self’s confused as a consequence of our training and come to translate Democracy means Gada or Gada means Democracy and turned to the burden of our people they have never dreamed of it as they set as the so called “school or colleges” where learned to unlearn “strangers injected in our mind.

In fact, it is not by any standard, late alone to calibrate it to equal and that is what history proves. Democracy the founders themselves designated it (the rule of lazy-horse or kleptocrats). While Gada is the rule of law and all-inclusive, sterile from tyranny, despotism, nihilism, power abuse, zero tolerance for discrimination of any sort.

“Self-care is how you take your power back.” Lalah Delia

Kan Hanqate Waaqni Itti Ya Guutu!!!

Naga’aa fi Fayaan kan keesan,

Galatnii kan Waaqaa ya ta’uu !!!

Injifatnoon kan Ummata Oromooti!!!!!!

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Michael Mana The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing.Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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