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Hobbs, Lock and Oligarchs
JAMES HAKOBYAN
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28013
Comments - Saturday, 10 November 2012, 12:51
The ex-foreign minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian's recent post on
his Facebook page was in favor of the parliamentary government,
referring to the theories of Thomas Hobbs and John Lock.
Everything is interesting and attractive in this post, Thomas Hobbs
and John Lock is very good but Armenia is facing the problem of
oligarchs, generals, feudal lords, businessmen members of parliament
of the PAP parliamentary group to which Oskanian also belongs and
other odious Republican and Prosperous Armenia figures who have
usurped power and economy of Armenia, shared and set quotas, grab,
merge, share, transfer it abroad, and so on.
Instead of speaking about Hobbs and Lock it is worthwhile to speak
about these people, understand what they do in the government and
parliament, what relations they have with high-ranking government
officials, key legal officials, the head of state, the speaker of the
parliament, the prosecutor general, the chief of police, other
officials.
They all might be heroes who keep the state going with the help of
their business and posts in government. In this case they should speak
to the general public and explain to them that these people are the
creators of the country.
If these people nevertheless hinder the country, Hobbs and Lock will
not help because they have sent to hell everyone, including Hobbs and
Lock to hell and they are practically busy protecting their interests
in government and in business.
Vartan Oskanian stated, for example, that he held a press conference
on 1 March 2008 to prevent the bloodshed. Meanwhile, these people,
according to the Armenian National Congress, were arming their squads
of bodyguards to reproduce business and government.
If threat is again posed to their business and power, these people
will not get armed with the theory of Hobbs and Lock but their own
experience and will keep their businesses at the cost of the life of
citizens because it is not based on laws and the constitution. When
this is the basis, any agreement on any rule of the game will
legitimize the basis and eternalize the existing system.
Armenia has a shortage of political figures who will lead a political
debate within the framework of economics, political science, ideas,
programs, values. In Armenia there are political figures who have this
potential. Vartan Oskanian is one of them.
But apparently these figures are not aware of their values, their real
mission. Their mission is not to cover the oligarchy with the names of
the theorists of political science but to uncover the oligarchy to
show the society the mechanism of infringement of rights and
mismanagement of wealth of the public and disclose the scope of crime
committed against the state and people.
It is necessary not only for the psychological satisfaction or comfort
but also objective results which is possible to achieve through an
x-ray picture of the system. In this case the citizen will choose
which side to take to - crime or rule of law, the criminal or the
state. When this choice is clear for the citizen, the majority will
take to the side of the law and the state. Evidence to this is the
history of Armenia and the world in general.
When the mechanism is not clear and the choice of the citizen is not
clear, he already sees no differences inside the mosaic which is a
total lie.
When the actors of the new political culture try to play on the mosaic
rather than explain the picture to the citizens and offer them options
to choose, they automatically serve the ruling system where the only
difference is persons. They waste their potential from which the
society had other expectations.
JAMES HAKOBYAN
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28013
Comments - Saturday, 10 November 2012, 12:51
The ex-foreign minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian's recent post on
his Facebook page was in favor of the parliamentary government,
referring to the theories of Thomas Hobbs and John Lock.
Everything is interesting and attractive in this post, Thomas Hobbs
and John Lock is very good but Armenia is facing the problem of
oligarchs, generals, feudal lords, businessmen members of parliament
of the PAP parliamentary group to which Oskanian also belongs and
other odious Republican and Prosperous Armenia figures who have
usurped power and economy of Armenia, shared and set quotas, grab,
merge, share, transfer it abroad, and so on.
Instead of speaking about Hobbs and Lock it is worthwhile to speak
about these people, understand what they do in the government and
parliament, what relations they have with high-ranking government
officials, key legal officials, the head of state, the speaker of the
parliament, the prosecutor general, the chief of police, other
officials.
They all might be heroes who keep the state going with the help of
their business and posts in government. In this case they should speak
to the general public and explain to them that these people are the
creators of the country.
If these people nevertheless hinder the country, Hobbs and Lock will
not help because they have sent to hell everyone, including Hobbs and
Lock to hell and they are practically busy protecting their interests
in government and in business.
Vartan Oskanian stated, for example, that he held a press conference
on 1 March 2008 to prevent the bloodshed. Meanwhile, these people,
according to the Armenian National Congress, were arming their squads
of bodyguards to reproduce business and government.
If threat is again posed to their business and power, these people
will not get armed with the theory of Hobbs and Lock but their own
experience and will keep their businesses at the cost of the life of
citizens because it is not based on laws and the constitution. When
this is the basis, any agreement on any rule of the game will
legitimize the basis and eternalize the existing system.
Armenia has a shortage of political figures who will lead a political
debate within the framework of economics, political science, ideas,
programs, values. In Armenia there are political figures who have this
potential. Vartan Oskanian is one of them.
But apparently these figures are not aware of their values, their real
mission. Their mission is not to cover the oligarchy with the names of
the theorists of political science but to uncover the oligarchy to
show the society the mechanism of infringement of rights and
mismanagement of wealth of the public and disclose the scope of crime
committed against the state and people.
It is necessary not only for the psychological satisfaction or comfort
but also objective results which is possible to achieve through an
x-ray picture of the system. In this case the citizen will choose
which side to take to - crime or rule of law, the criminal or the
state. When this choice is clear for the citizen, the majority will
take to the side of the law and the state. Evidence to this is the
history of Armenia and the world in general.
When the mechanism is not clear and the choice of the citizen is not
clear, he already sees no differences inside the mosaic which is a
total lie.
When the actors of the new political culture try to play on the mosaic
rather than explain the picture to the citizens and offer them options
to choose, they automatically serve the ruling system where the only
difference is persons. They waste their potential from which the
society had other expectations.