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Saturday, August 30, 2003

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No matter how rotten the status quo,

it will have its supporters and defenders.

From Nero and Caligula to Idid Amin Dada and Saddam:

they all had their supporters and beneficiaries.

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A regime does not need majority support to survive.

All it needs is a ruthless elite,

a minority of supporters (or priviligentsia),

and an apathetic or intimidated majority.

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Consider our present situation,

or the regime in Yerevan and

the garbage dump of the Diaspora.

Who profits?

The mafias in the Homeland

and the academics in the Diaspora.

The academics can always count

on the political and financial support of our elites

provided they concentrate on the Middles Ages

and the Massacres and ignore our present problems

by pretending we have none

or if we have any, time will solve them

if not in two than in three generations.

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Why are you so tough on your fellow Armenians?

I am asked once in a while by concerned readers.

I am not tough on Armenians.

I am tough on deceivers, dividers, and bloodsuckers

regardless of nationality.

I am tough on all victimizers.

Now then, identify yourself please.

Are you a victimizer or a victim?

If you are a victim, why do you object

to my speaking up against your tormentors?

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Why is it that some very smart and learned Armenians

confuse anti-charlatanism with anti-Armenianism?

Why is it that some very cunning Armenians

in their defense of their own selfish, narrow interest

will voice reasons worthy of an inbred moron?

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