Politics is a struggle for the power, those who have it want to preserve it and those who do not have it sought to conquer. There is nothing bad in it, but for some reason, our politicians display an unclear bashfulness, overlay this evident fact and beating their chests that they are fighting for the people, justice and the bright future.
It is acceptable for the politicians and party supporters in Armenia to say, “We do not need anything, just to let my people live well,” and, accordingly, the politics allegedly is a mean to establish justice and universal happiness in the world. I, frankly speaking, think differently, it seems to me that no one can make me happy or unhappy but me.
Now about the trite question. Is the recent days protest political or not? If representatives of the parties youth wings and their supporters are gathered in Baghramyan Avenue, and their goal is to achieve a regime change, then the protest is political. If people are gathered for the sole purpose not to allow the electricity price hike, to achieve “cancellation” (how? by whom?), then the protest is not political. How is it actually, it’s hard to say? Direct contact with the protesters does not leave the impression to be ‘political’. One can draw the opposite conclusion from the media, the Internet and the Facebook.
As a journalist, this oft-repeated question attracts my attention, and it is strongly desirable that the current leaders of Baghramyan are “disclosed” and give interviews to make the answer to this question more definite. But as a citizen, I am not concerned about this issue at all. In this respect, there is no difference whether the people demand the president’s resignation peacefully or the “cancellation” of the electricity price hike. In both cases, it is their business and their right regardless of how realistic these demands are, and to what extent I agree with those claims.
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Now, in my opinion, these protests do not threaten anyone, nor interfere, except for the residents living in the front part of Baghramyan Avenue, whom the “disco” at nights, I assume, bothers. But in this respect, perhaps, their situation is just as dire as the people living nearby the restaurants of the Hrazdan Gorge.
Certainly, both the authorities and the protesters have to be oriented. Sooner or later, the authorities will introduce their plan on solving the problem of the ENA because “audit” is a word still in the air. The participants should also think about what to offer in addition to folk song and dance. But all of this is not directly associated with “political and non-political”.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
Dear editor,
For your consideration:
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”
John Locke