OF COURSE YOU, LIKE ALL ARMENIANS, HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS YOUR VIEWS

KarabakhOpen
30-11-2007 09-32-59

Dear Madame Odette Bazil,

The TV news report you referred to has NOT reported what you claim it
has. The news report is on their website () and you can
check it out. It clearly states that the candidate will be chosen at
the party’s Supreme Assembly of Armenia. It also mentions that those
taking part in this exercise in Yerevan like it and even suggest that
other parties should adopt similar practices too. Is it possible that
this positive assessment about something the Dashnaktsutyun is doing is
what you did not like and it prompted you to write your first letter?

Allow me to doubt the veracity of your statement that you "had also
received calls from Yerevan where it was said that already people, in
the streets, were electing their new President." Had your statment been
true, I am certain you would have referred to those "calls" in your
initial letter, whereas you had written "It might even be confusing
to some". The party members conducting this exercise, before asking
"the ordinary man/woman in the street" their opinion on either of
the two possible candidates, in addition to verbal expalanations,
are giving out flyers which explain the whole process.

Dear Madame,

Of course you, like all Armenians, have the right to express your
views on what the political parties, in this case the Dashnaktsutyun,
are doing in Armenia. But when you criticize a party for exactly
doing that, i.e. asking the public for their opinion, any member of
that party, or anyone for that matter, also has the right to ask you,
a non-member, to mind your own business, because in this case your
real concern is not for the citizens of Armenia. Because, in this
case, it is obvious that you do have an ax to grind; how else would
you qualify a call to party members to "promptly withdraw support
and allegiance to that party," namely the Dashnaktsutyun?

Sincerely yours, Giro Manoyan Yerevan