Inexperienced people or, quite the opposite, very experienced and cynical propagandists usually use the following trick in politics: “If this man or this group of people comes to (retains) power, Armageddon is assured.” By the way, the government usually explains the rigging of elections by that: “Can you imagine what will happen, if Paul or Paulians come to power? The country, the city, the village will be destroyed, rivers will flow the opposite way, the sun will be eclipsed. That is why we, as responsible people, will do everything necessary to prevent Paulians from coming to power.” And “they do everything.” We all know what they do. The same applies to the opposition, “If these people retain power, no one will be left in this country, everyone will flee or will die of hunger, rivers will dry out, volcanos will erupt.”
I also used to give way to that panic when I was young. However, now I have realized that nothing will change due to either staying or leaving, unless we change. Certainly, there are also subjective factors. For example, it seems to me that if Kocharyan comes back, the work of normal information agencies will become more difficult, and the work of crude glorifiers and “bashers” will become easier. However, it certainly is an individual case. “The people’s condition,” as people on the street like to say will either suffer or benefit from that. Because the problem, as you understand, is not the personalities of presidents, mayors or village chiefs, but citizens’ REAL – not stated, not made up by political forces – wishes.
Nonetheless, if there is a possibility not to allow too odious characters to assume certain offices, it will be better, if it doesn’t happen. Even the most “ill-wishing” people have noticed certain progress, for example, in the police’s work recently. April 9 is testimony to that, without serious clashes, without prisoners of conscience, without destroying party offices. And Ashot Karapetyan who most probably is an “old-fashioned” policeman is unexpectedly appointed the chief of police in Yerevan. At least, in the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, one A. K. is mentioned who, in particular, “entered the room and started to hit his testicles with a metal object. Then his hands were cuffed and policeman A. K. continued to hit below his [the petitioner’s] belt with his hands and feet, after which he lost consciousness.” The petitioner, Grisha Virabyan, claims that that policeman was Ashot Karapetyan himself. Some members of the Republic Party also recall that one of the police
officers who broke into the office of their party on the night of April 12-13, 2004, looked like Ashot Karapetyan.
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Admittedly, one should take into account that even oligarchs repent in our country, and the owners of bodyguards that beat people up will probably become bourgeois democrats soon. Therefore, the door to repentance is wide open for police officers who have sadistic inclinations.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
