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October 28,2011 12:18

There are phenomena that we don’t understand and in that case making judgments is forgivable. One gets the appropriate information and if he is not stubborn he fixes the mistake. However, it is a great pity when people realize what is at issue, but play the fool. For example, the Prime Minister, in response to the question in regard to granting tax privileges to the Holy See, said that the church must be an owner. Is anybody against it? The question is whether it is possible to include the Holy See, the bishops of which drive “Bentleys”, in the list of poor and insolvent companies that should be freed of paying taxes

Or when one asks a high-ranking police officer, why do you impede not only the opposition’s freedom of movement, but also of everyone’s on the day of a rally, they state with an innocent expression that the traffic police is organizing routine actions. This is like the juggler’s case when he takes your own watch out of his sleeve and gives it to you.

The political and social activists also keep in step in this regard. It seems that cursing publicly (orally or in written) is not good from both moral and legal perspectives. However, if one is an activist, let alone an oppositionist, his curse goes beyond an ordinary hooliganism and becomes an inalienable part of the struggle for democracy and constitutionality. Well, if your curse is directed against a police officer, it soars up and becomes a manifestation of the global “logos”.

I am certainly all for the people to express their protest near the government building (near and not “in close vicinity”), to raise the issues they are concerned about in different squares and halls. The problem is not what is said, but how it is said. If it is carried out without beating up Hrant Voskanyan or Babken Ararktsyan, the protests become more compelling and influential. In such cases, the opposition leaders justify themselves, “the developments take place spontaneous and are not controlled by us – don’t drive people to such a condition and they will not protest.” It is also one of the ways of playing the fool.

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