The fact that the phones of political prisoners, especially Alexander Arzumanyan, have been bugged by the national security services does not mean yet that their activities had been targeted at instability in the country to take the power through anti-constitutional means. In this case the danger is not in the possibility of taking the power through anti-constitutional means but the fact that the details of private conversations have been published and opened to everyone. In the same manner as some TV companies could make people get used to stupid soap operas they can make people get used to this one too. The genre of phone conversations has become a very interesting topic for TV companies, and even a reporter of Yerkir Media TV said that they would discover such facts in the future as well. People may wait till tomorrow impatiently hoping that they can hear the private phone conversation of Arzumanyan and his wife as well. This is another fact that our society has been pressed down to fall.
The accusations brought against the arrested people connected with the events of March 1 are so universal that can be instituted against any citizen of Armenia. One can find out how many people are ready to make a revolution or take guns in their hands to go and give a payback to cynical officials or oligarchs without bugging any phone conversations. One can find it out by analyzing the chronicle of crimes and finding out the real number of crimes committed by officials and other people connected with them and how many of those crimes have been left without punishment and compare that number and information with the court proceedings of our countrymen who have been arrested due to political reasons. A judge refuses the petition of a lawyer to question witnesses who have seen that when Smbat Ayvazyan was being arrested he didn’t show any signs of disobedience against the representatives of the government, or people who were beaten up in police cars only for being witnesses and than the policemen cynically said that they were lucky because they had been more cruel to Gagik Jhangiryan. Furthermore, political detainees are not the only ones that are subject to violence.
For example, in our publication on October 11-13 there was an article entitled “It’s the same, Armen will die in cells” there was a concrete name, Tigran Tamamyan, who beat up citizen Armen Ghambaryan arrested as a citizen suspected in using and selling drugs that even his wife could not recognize him. This is what happened to Levon Gulyan too. In 2007 a young man was tortured and thrown down of a high window, as a result of which he died. Ask any single citizen what they will do if they are given an opportunity to judge the high rank policemen who killed Levon Gulyan by beating him up and throwing down the window or the judges who judged the political detainees and see what they will say. It is natural that during phone conversations one or two of them would say that they would kill them. Can anyone bring a court case against those people for being potential killers?
The president of the republic says that he does not understand how one can take on the responsibilities of the state. On the other hand the state has narrowed the responsibilities of the state so much that it serves as umbrella for a killer oligarch, bribed judge or people like that.
As for the bugged phone conversations of the opposition activists, it is hardly possible that they may use phone conversations to undermine the state structure because they are not stupid and they know that their phones are bugged. Besides that from the very beginning of the struggle the opposition announced that they would act exclusively within the law. In other words they should not look for people who are trying to undermine the state structure within the ones who are disappointed of this state system. It is natural that people are disappointed about the state system and officials who are sponsoring criminals and hiding their awful crimes from the society and one day may say during their phone conversations that they are so angry that would break someone’s head or say that they would do anything to change the situation because it has gone too far. Maybe this is the reason why the National Security Services are using their limited resources not to do their main job but to bug phones and find justifications.