As expected, the objective of the Seattle meeting is to confuse and blackmail Eritreans with families and business interests in Eritrea. This PFDJ organized congregation should therefore be denounced by all freedom loving forces. No PFDJ meeting should be tolerated or allowed on American soil if it does not address the suffering of innocent Eritrean mothers, children and countless prisoners of conscience languishing in Eritrea's prisons and metal containers. PFDJayism is an empty but cruel ideology which must be exposed and defeated.

The Seattle gathering is masterminded by the Eritrean Embassy in Wash. D.C and it is a response to the instructions President Isayas gave in his televised interview late last month. Mr. Isayas called on his paid and unpaid spies and agents in the US to enlist some US senators to oppose the US government's threat to designate Eritrea as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The PFDJ operatives are nervous over US intentions to neutralize Isayas's bellicose and warmongering designs. These loyal PFDJ spies and agents have, doubtless, received direct instructions from their tyrant/terrorist commander-in-chief in Asmara to try to intimidate and blackmail our hardworking and successful Eritrean businessmen and women in Seattle and elsewhere. The aim is to remove any obstacles from hampering the flow of Eritrean tax money and other remittances from reaching the coffers of Isayas to continue with his tyrannical/terrorist schemes in the Horn region.

The subtle PFDJ message is: "WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE HAVE A DOSSIE ON EACH ONE OF YOU. SO WATCH OUT; YOU STILL HAVE BENEFITS AND FAVORS TO ENJOY IN ERITREA. WE ALSO KNOW ALL THE MEMBERS OF YOUR EXTENDED FAMILY THERE. DON'T YOU CARE FOR THEIR SAFEY!!..." 

Another objective of the Seattle meeting is to instill fear in Eritreans falsely alleging that they would be mistreated by US Law Enforcers if and when the designation and the accompanying sanctions materialize. Nothing could be far from the truth. The US plan is to end tyranny and terrorism in Eritrea. The PFDJ operatives - whether they are naturalized citizens or Green Card holders - should be advised not to stand on the way. They should never try to abuse and misuse the American system of freedom and justice in order to defend fascism in Eritrea.

There have never been any complaints by nationals whose countries of origin have been listed as terrorists (Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, Iran or Syria) stating that they have been harassed, mistreated or denied any of their constitutional rights as American citizens or legal residents.

Moreover, the US Government, through its Dept. of Homeland Security, offers special, indeed favorable considerations in offering Refugee, Asylee or Protected Statuses for individuals fleeing torture or death under the designated terrorist states. For example, under US Immigration Laws, no Cuban national has ever been denied refugee/asylee or permanent resident status if that is what he/she wanted. These statuses are granted just for the asking. The US message is that tyranny/terrorism whether in Cuba or Eritrea should be completely demonized and liquidated by all means possible.

Of course, there are strict background checks (under Section 306 of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Reform Act of 2002) as it pertains to the issuance of visas (immigrant or non-immigrant) to aliens from state sponsors of terrorism. The aim of the law is to ensure that such aliens are not coming into the US to undermine national security on behalf of terrorist dictatorships.

Once a state is blacklisted, it receives, inter alia, no development or financial aid from the US government. But the US does not deny humanitarian assistance. In fact, the US leads the world in providing food and medical aid to war/famine ridden nations like the Sudan or North Korea, no matter how rogue they may be.

The main objective of labeling Eritrea as a state sponsor of terrorism is to isolate and put political pressure on the Eritrean regime to change its behavior. And change is what all Eritrean Americans want in their country of origin where there will be an end to torture, intimidation, disappearances, and an end to the use of mass starvation as a political weapon against an entire population.

The threat to blacklist the Eritrean regime is beginning to have an impact on PFDJ operatives in the US. The call for a public meeting in Seattle is an illustration of that new development. In the end, these PFDJ ring leaders will have to be seen as collaborators of Isayas's tyranny and terrorism and their activities have to be monitored by the Department of Homeland Security to determine if their activities constitute a threat to national security.

The PFDJ organizers of the forthcoming Seattle gathering should stop the dissemination of false information on US policy on Eritrea. The US authorities cannot harm or mistreat Eritreans residing in the US because of Isaya's terrorist policies.

The best way PFDJ representatives could help our fellow men and women in Eritrea would be by putting enough pressure on President Isayas to fulfill two things without delay: first, stop terrorizing our people through torture, killings, imprisonment without trial and disappearances; and two, restrain from harboring foreign terrorists and put an end to exporting terrorism to neighboring countries.