"Fact" daily writes:
Consider the following an open letter, a brotherly admonition, or a friendly word. It is addressed to you, law enforcement officers, police officers, prosecutors, investigators, judges. If you have a child, parent, relative, godchild, relative, friend working in the mentioned systems, read it for them, pass it on to them. It is difficult for the author of these lines to accept that there are people who, in order to justify any act against their conscience, say: "we keep a house", "we keep a child".
Nevertheless, with great difficulty, but somewhere one can understand work, money, position, "keeping a house" (although, I repeat, it is difficult). We do not justify it, but it is possible to understand. In any case, there are those who understand and get into the situation. By and large, everyone can't be Danko indiscriminately. Dankos are rare. BUT... Ladies and gentlemen, law enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors and investigators, nothing is worth losing shame, all the characteristics that characterize a person as a person. Crossing the possible and impossible "red lines" is not worth a penny. Moreover, even servitude, servility and complacency can have limits. Do you understand? Don't throw yourself into the abyss. Don't cross the point of no return to remain human. Detach a little, think a little. With yourself. Stand in front of a mirror and look at your reflection if it is still reflected. Have a chat... with your conscience. Wake up (your consciences) and talk a little. Nothing that is agitated, even better than agitated, is a sign of your human and spiritual vitality. Don't cut that thin cord. Do not try in vain to convince yourself that you are doing the right thing or that you are doing something important. Do not convince yourself that you are doing the right thing by initiating criminal proceedings against the Armenian clergy. Do not try to deceive yourself that the clergy you are prosecuting have actually done something illegal. Self-deception is the worst of all deceptions. Well, at least share your legal knowledge. Well, you know very well that the Church is separate from the state.
Even better, you are aware that it is clearly written and fixed in the Constitution. You know very well that the Catholicos' intra-church decisions, decrees, decisions related to the autonomous life of the Church cannot be the subject of a court dispute, these decisions cannot be regulated by secular courts. The church, in the person of its Pastor, its church structures, autonomously decides the issues of assigning or releasing priests, bishops, clergymen to spiritual service, and defining the place of service.
Well, this is not even a question at the level of a legal applicant, it is so obvious and simple. And you definitely can't not know that. And, what's more, you can't initiate a criminal case only on the basis that the Church did not implement some absurd decision of some judge, which crushes legality, constitutionality and basic morality...
Remember the words of our elders. "Be a little human..." And, moreover, it is obvious that Nikol Pashinyan has failed in the war against the Church. It is predictable and, most likely, he will fail in the elections tomorrow, the next day. But even that is not the point. What is important is what will be left of human and Armenian characteristics in you after all this, do you understand? It is important that tomorrow, the next day, you don't take your eyes off your child, grandson, granddaughter, when they ask, papi (father), what were you doing when the Pashinyans wanted to destroy the Armenian Church?
This is not the number 37 that killed Bakunts and Charents, strangled Catholicos, shot hundreds of innocent people and sent thousands into exile... You are not one of the "Enkavedians" of that time either. No, right? And if you are not, then you will admit that you cannot go down that much.
One should not be so self-willed. Whatever government wants to be. We are sure that there are decent people in the investigative, court, police, prosecutor's office, National Security Service (and they are not few) who respect their human and national dignity and their professional dignity.
And no material encouragement, no position, no "keeping a house" is worth anything compared to what those others are doing against their own country, their own nation, their own people, their own Church just at Pashinyan's whim. You also understand very well that what is happening and what is being encouraged by the Pashinyan government is not even a fight against the Church. This is a fight against Armenia and the Armenian people. Moreover, the war started by Pashinyan against the Church is directed with its tentacles against the future of Armenians, the very children you are "keeping".
With flimsy excuses you try to justify actions that are nothing to do. Everything passes. This government will also pass. Those who threaten you today will also pass. And what will be left after? In this case, the most important thing. What will remain of you, as a person, as an Armenian, as a Christian, as a law enforcement officer? Think about this. Don't talk, at least think.
ARMEN HAKOBYAN
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