ALL THOSE POOR MICE CAN GNAW IS GRANITE
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir
Oct 16 2007
Armenia
"Every country would be proud if its prosecutor general planted
trees," stated the honorary president of the Nig Aparan Union of
Compatriots Aghvan Hovsepyan during the conference of the Union, and
said he would continue to plant trees. Planting a tree is not bad,
of course. It is not bad that the prosecutor general plants trees.
Although it is not quite clear what to be proud of. But let us not go
into trifling details. It is important that besides planting trees the
prosecutor general perform his duties. And the duties of the prosecutor
general is to control the state of crime, and have street skirmishes
and murders occur once in three years instead of three months. It is a
fact that our office of prosecutor general fails its duties. Although
once a quarter might quite fit into the international practice. So
let us not demand too much from the prosecutor general, especially
that although the murders and skirmishes are not prevented, they are
nevertheless revealed very fast. So fast that the society often misses
the moment of revealing the case and keeps asking why one assassination
or another is not revealed. But it is the society’s problem, while
the office of prosecutor general quietly performs its functions.
In the meantime, some people are gnawing the rocks of the gorge
of Garni to use the granite as building materials on their way to
prosperity. Perhaps they wait while the office of prosecutor general
is busy, and put down the wedge and hammer, pick up the hose and
water the trees of the gorge, and when the office of prosecutor
general is planting trees after work, the rockeaters drop the hose,
pick up the wedge and the hammer and start lessening Garni and
filling their pocket. They say the granite from the gorge of Garni
is sold as building material for the houses built for noted people
in Armenia. So said the people who went on protest on October 15 in
front of the government and extended a letter to the government and
the prosecutor general demanding crackdown and punishment for the
wrongdoers and prevention of the destruction of environment.
No doubt, we will witness the crackdown. But in the end it will
become known that it was a crime committed by a poor doorkeeper,
or a farmer. It is also possible that after the crackdown it will
become known that the granitophile mouse has lived and prospered in the
Armenian highlands for so many years, and the mice destroyed the rocks
of Garni, not people. Naturally, it would be insane to bring charges
against mice. How can the poor animal be happy if all it can eat is
granite? God has already punished this mouse, to say nothing about
the prosecutor’s office which is also about to punish. In any case,
it is necessary to make efforts, especially at the metro stations
where the floors and walls are made of granite. If the granitophile
mouse lives and gnaws in Armenia, it is possible that after eating
out Garni the mice will come to Yerevan and get down to the metro
stations. Meanwhile, the metro is already a strategic system,
consequently even the mice will not avoid punishment for damaging it.