The Jungle

If you know anything about Chicago, it’ll come as no surprise that the writer has such a cavalier approach to the law. I’m not Armenian and, just as probably 99.9% of Armenians, I’ve never read the Armenian constitution (yes, there is one), but I suspect there’s nowhere in that document where it states that it’s OK for any individual Armenian to obey, respect, or interpret that constitution any way they wish.
From an historical perspective it seems Armenia has virtually always been ruled by other nations or has otherwise lost most of whatever land it once claimed. And, although the Armenian “haves” love to tool around in their Bentleys, Range Rovers, G-Wagons, and Porsches, the vast majority of Armenians are stuck in nowhere. To most people, those would be a pretty clear indication that something in society is not working. If you’ve spent any time anywhere in Armenia, including in any section of Yerevan, let alone Meghri, you know the “let us do what we’ve always done” attitude the writer desires for Meghri is also pretty much desired by Armenians everywhere, even those in the diaspora. Given the obvious lack of progress for most Armenians from doing “what we’ve always done,” now just might be the time you finally give the Rule of Law a try.
Representative democracy is not easy, especially if you’re used to blaming all of your problems on somebody else, but it only gets harder (or gets taken away) the longer you ignore it and “do what we’ve always done.” As I was told growing up, and as I told my sons when they were growing up, “if you don’t like the law, change the law, don’t break the law.” As worthless as your elected representatives and law enforcement may be, your job as a responsible, active, voting citizen is to make society better, not to assure that it stagnates (or regresses) just so you can “do what we’ve always done,” especially considering that that’s been such a disaster. Perhaps the reason there are no Meghri-centric laws and there is non-resident law enforcement in Meghri is because Meghri has never tried to uphold the law nor demanded or lobbied for those laws or for local control of their community or police.
Maybe, instead of whining about not permitting anyone with a dead animal and an axe from selling meat butchered on some filthy street, you should take a look at what’s actually being done in other parts of Armenia. See just one excellent example here: https://ccd.am/en/.
And about those poor unlicensed, unregulated teenage drivers? Have you ever seen how most people “drive” in Armenia, not even including typically reckless teenage drivers? Have you ever seen the vehicles? There’s a reason why virtually every vehicle in Armenia has some type of collision damage, including a high percentage of vehicles without one or both bumpers. Who do you blame that on?
As for the EU funding of the police vehicles (as well as for the millions in grants and special funding from the U.S. and other countries), it’s my understanding that the money is to help tackle the corruption (which is destroying Armenia) that Armenia itself has essentially done nothing about in – like – forever. If you’re objecting to this, my guess is that the taxpayers of all of those other countries would be more than happy to stop throwing money into that black hole.