Comments on: ….and you want to run the country? http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/ A blog about Armenia: business, politics, the future and good lavash Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:01:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: nazarian http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/#comment-261089 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:38:41 -0800 http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/#comment-261089 Harmick, you are not from the US, are you? Here the drunk guy probably would have been shot dead, especially if he was not light skinned. Even the white drunk guys sometimes get killed by the police. Harmick, you are not from the US, are you? Here the drunk guy probably would have been shot dead, especially if he was not light skinned. Even the white drunk guys sometimes get killed by the police.

]]> by: Observer http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/#comment-261672 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:03:24 -0800 http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/#comment-261672 Let's leave the police at peace for now, shall we? The police in this country are a mere reflection of the Government and the political situation in the country. In a setting, where you have a legitimate govermnent and a LEGITIMATE OPPOSITION!!! you don't need special police forces to enforce laws, rules and government decisions (including the ones dealing with racial hatred). Let us not forget, that the police is only a law enforcement mechanism, nothing more. And you only need special police, when the ordinary law enforcement is not working - which is usually a consequence of having non-legitimate political structures: position or opposition. The scandals around SIM keep wrining this fake-ring in me... they've never been proper opposition, and they will never be the voice of the people. They are there to only discredit the idea of being "opposition" which they have done quite successfully, as we can see from Harmic's post :) Harmic, I know that wasn't your intention, but you have just become the tool of the RA Authorities ;) Let’s leave the police at peace for now, shall we? The police in this country are a mere reflection of the Government and the political situation in the country. In a setting, where you have a legitimate govermnent and a LEGITIMATE OPPOSITION!!! you don’t need special police forces to enforce laws, rules and government decisions (including the ones dealing with racial hatred).

Let us not forget, that the police is only a law enforcement mechanism, nothing more. And you only need special police, when the ordinary law enforcement is not working - which is usually a consequence of having non-legitimate political structures: position or opposition.

The scandals around SIM keep wrining this fake-ring in me… they’ve never been proper opposition, and they will never be the voice of the people. They are there to only discredit the idea of being “opposition” which they have done quite successfully, as we can see from Harmic’s post :)

Harmic, I know that wasn’t your intention, but you have just become the tool of the RA Authorities ;)

]]> by: Observer http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/#comment-261674 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:06:55 -0800 http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/#comment-261674 And I effectively multiplied the effect by reposting your ideas at the <a href="http://ditord.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/blogrel-to-opposition-and-you-want-to-run-the-country/" rel="nofollow">Armenian Blog Review</a> :D And I effectively multiplied the effect by reposting your ideas at the Armenian Blog Review :D

]]> by: Onnik Krikorian http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/#comment-263262 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:37:18 -0800 http://www.blogrel.com/2007/02/09/and-you-want-to-run-the-country/#comment-263262 I agree with Harmick and Observer when it comes to the Red Berets. I recently saw them bundle a guy into the back of their van and beat the crap out of him (they didn't slide the side door shut) by the Opera one night in the summer or autumn. Anyway, there needs to be respect for the rule of law and also a police force that has the respect -- and NOT FEAR -- of the population. In Georgia they've managed to do that with the Patrol Police so it's not just a matter of mentality. It's also whether there's the political will. Anyway, glad you posted about the infighting in the Constitutional Rights Union as I managed to quote it in a <a href="http://blog.transparency.am/?p=6" rel="nofollow">review of some of the latest developments</a> in the 2007 parliamentary election at the new <a href="http://blog.transparency.am/" rel="nofollow">CRD/TI Election Monitor</a> blog. Pity trackbacks no longer seem to be available on Blogrel. I agree with Harmick and Observer when it comes to the Red Berets. I recently saw them bundle a guy into the back of their van and beat the crap out of him (they didn’t slide the side door shut) by the Opera one night in the summer or autumn.

Anyway, there needs to be respect for the rule of law and also a police force that has the respect — and NOT FEAR — of the population. In Georgia they’ve managed to do that with the Patrol Police so it’s not just a matter of mentality.

It’s also whether there’s the political will.

Anyway, glad you posted about the infighting in the Constitutional Rights Union as I managed to quote it in a review of some of the latest developments in the 2007 parliamentary election at the new CRD/TI Election Monitor blog.

Pity trackbacks no longer seem to be available on Blogrel.

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