Let anyone say what they will—I am against talk of “shooting” anyone. Of course, the context in which such expressions are made matters. And naturally, simply using the word “shoot” is not grounds to accuse someone of terrorism. Otherwise, half the population of Armenia would be imprisoned, since people—sometimes over the most minor provocation—say things like, “Even killing him wouldn’t be enough.” I repeat: it is preferable that we not even think such things.
The fact that Civil Contract members and their propagandists have seized on that one word like it’s a legal smoking gun shows how few real arguments they have. When the trial has not even begun, when people are merely detained, and those people are already being called “terrorists,” that speaks volumes about the legal illiteracy of the CP representatives and those “adjacent” to them. Launching large-scale repressions against opponents without legal grounds hardly aligns with the image of a self-proclaimed “bastion of democracy.”
And if anyone should be prosecuted for organizing provocations and inciting clashes, then first in line should be the Prime Minister of Armenia. It is he who is consistently escalating tensions, destabilizing the situation, and trying to provoke a direct confrontation—between citizens who, alongside him and disguised security forces, are prepared to march on the Holy See, and those citizens who oppose it. Who decided that the citizens he leads are better Christians, know the Bible more deeply, or pray more sincerely than the rest? Is Pashinyan personally going to hand out certificates of “Good Christians” to the attackers of the Mother See?
If, by some miracle, the Republic of Armenia survives, then regardless of what happens today or tomorrow, the courts will eventually evaluate the Prime Minister’s clearly unlawful actions. And we are talking about our earthly courts.
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