TO FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
James Hakobyan

Lragir.am
04 Sept 06

The retreat of the Republican Party in Ajapniak appears to be a
tactical step, or a claim for a "great sailing". In other words, "we
do not need communities, we’ll take the whole country." Good voyage,
we would tell the Republican Party, but it is not by our word that
their voyage is going to be good or bad. The Republican Party, which
kick-started its assembly with the bishop’s blessing and repeating
the name of God twice in their program, should have known better that
the word of God was before our and generally any word. And since God
utters a word only once but for the rest of the life, it can be broken
or forgiven only once, and what is more, forgiven not for all the rest
of the life. And the Republican Party has already broken the word
of the lord once – it gave false testimony against Serge Sargsyan,
demanding his resignation in 2000, accusing him of hampering the
fair investigation into October 27. Six years ago the Republican
Party also did not do unto others as it would have others do unto
it. Andranik Margaryan would hardly like Tigran Torosyan considered
to be his friend to come to a separate arrangement with the president
and take his post of prime minister like Andranik Margaryan had done
unto Aram Zaven Sargsyan.

It is becoming apparent that the Republican Party broke the work
of God at least twice, therefore it is pointless to consider once
again what kind of voyage is awaiting the Republican Party. But
since they have already launched the ship, they cannot turn it
back to land because they are unable to conduct a ship, and have
always relied on a "legionary" captain since Ashot Navasardyan, the
"builder" of the ship died. First Vazgen Sargsyan blew the sails of
the Republican Party’s sail, then Serge Sargsyan. And since they rely
on the captain, the decision on moving the ship forward or backward
depends on him. However, they can demand not to endanger their life,
of course, and the ship will nevertheless land, since life is sweeter
than death, especially that capital punishment in Armenia has been
replaced by life imprisonment.

It appears, however, that there will be no need to make Serge Sargsyan
lead the ship to the land. He seems to have decided so. The defense
minister probably feels that the idea to seize the office of president
is not supported publicly. Perhaps he realized more that the idea of
office of the president is not supported publicly either.

And this was apparently the reason why several days ago the minister
was offended by people who had envied his "happiness" and wanted
to get to the "top" of power. Serge Sargsyan was even on the verge
of performing a public scene of self-criticism when he announced
that he gets sardonic smiles from those who want to become leaders,
then he remembered that he wants the same and announced that there
is nothing bad about it, and the problem is the methods.

In fact, the methods are highly important in politics, especially in
public politics. In this case, the question occurs what methods the
minister of defense may use to get to the "top" of power.

Unfortunately, the chess Olympiad ended soon, and the next will be
too late. Fortunately, the other types of sport are not in a good
state, otherwise Tsarukyan might become a serious opponent. However,
methods do not multiply from the lack of an opponent. Consequently,
the search for methods should go on.

The customs officer Vereschagin from the film "The White Sun of the
Desert" sang, "If you’re unlucky in battle, you will be lucky in
love". They only need to carry on the search, for we already have the
"Sun of the Desert". Tata Simonyan had charity concerts in Armenia
and Karabakh and thanked personally Serge Sargsyan for sponsoring
the concert, and in the end there was a thunder of applause in the
Republican Stadium, in front of thousands of audience and hundreds
of thousands of viewers who watched the live concert on TV. I do
not know whether it occurred to them that it was not a concert but
a musical method. If it did not occur to them, it means the method
failed. "And the bell sounded for the last time".

The public did not get it. Because in public perception Serge Sargsyan
is a defense minister and the maximum he can do is to sponsor concerts
in military units on some holidays. If Serge Sargsyan has nothing to
do in the post of the defense minister, he may quit office and sponsor
arts. None of the six posts he occupies is related to concerts. And it
is interesting to know on what money the defense minister sponsors the
concert, which was, by the way, organized rather professionally. At any
rate, it is interesting to know how the defense minister sponsored the
concert, on the money or assets of the army, Yerevan State University,
the Federation of Chess, the Armenian-Russian Government Commission,
the Council of National Security or the Council of the Republican
Party. How? On what money was the method searched for, which, by the
way, was not found and will not be found? For as the poet said, the
person does not look for a method, the method finds the person. And
the later it is found, the more suitable it is.