MONEY AS THE END AND MEANS
Aram Abrahamian

Aravot.am
08 sept 06

Armenian politicized circles discuss two themes today" the growth
of violence and the coming parliamentary elections. It seems, nobody
denies the ties between those two themes. The parliament itself has no
authority in Armenia: it isn’t a legislative body and is nothing as a
state institution. In that case you’ll ask why the whole criminal world
directly or indirectly participate in the electoral processes. Just
for the above-mentioned reason: legislative activities and state
institutions are as far from them as Schubert’s symphonies. The only
sacred thing for the representatives of our criminal is the MONEY;
they make great efforts to have it more.

As money is the end in this Â"pre-electoral fightÂ", so money and
power must be the means, and now money and power are accumulated
and assigned before " decisive battles". As it is known money is
used to give electoral bribes, as for power, it is necessary for
administrative levers and own interests. Is it possible for different
"power centers" not to have discrepancies, the part of which can be
solved by shoots and blasts? Is it possible for media, which detects
all those mechanisms not to be oppressed?

In time, when Â"October 27Â" happened, there were people who were
saying that Karen Demirchian and Vazgen Sargsian wanted to fight
against corruption, but terrorism prevented that fight. I consider
such explanation as a Â"black humor" . The services of those state
men towards the Homeland are enormous but why should we ascribe
their intentions, which they have never had to them. Now the official
explanation of Shahen Hovasapian’s murder is that he wanted to collect
taxes fairly but the taxpayers persisted by terrorism. Mr. Hovasapian
also had great merits but that version will lead the investigation
by a wrong direction.

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