My Turn
Tucker Carlson exposes Pashinyan’s assault on Armenian Church to millions of Americans
For seven years, the West has thoroughly indulged Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, allowing him to get away with all sorts of anti-democratic measures without a single complaint from the so-called “Free World.”
Pashinyan claims that the West supports his government because he has brought democracy to Armenia, even though he has established a one-man rule, bordering on a totalitarian regime.
Western countries express their uncritical support for Pashinyan not because he has done wonderfu
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Pashinyan is determined to destroy Armenia. He is a traitor. He has bribed everyone around him so strongly that makes it very hard to get rid of him.
Most of the Armenians in Armenia keep expressing their great regret that they were so wrong in electing him. And I don’t think he was elected democratically. He has become a dictator. No words could describe his lowest of the low character!!!!
As Mr. Sassounian is fond of recalling, Armenia has a constitution in which Article 18.2, regarding the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, says “The relations between the Republic of Armenia and Armenian Apostolic Holy Church may be regulated by law.”
Contrary to Mr. N. Karapetyan’s and Mr. T. Carlson’s hyperventilations, arresting a bishop or even the Catholicos is within the purview of the state when a law has been allegedly broken. We will see how the legal system deals with the allegations – it’s too early to condemn or exonerate any side at this point. We should keep in mind that priests and bishops are not immune from breaking the law, nor are they exempt from legal consequences.
We should also recall the following fact – one that could not easily be ignored, since it’s been all over the news: if Pashinyan and his government were truly “intent on destroying traditional Christianity or the Church,” as Mr. Carlson claims, then Pashinyan would probably not have attended the Divine Liturgy at Hovhanavank and in Talin. Instead, under that premise, he would promote another Church, or no Church at all. But this has not happened. While, indeed, those were services held by defrocked priests, the greater scandal there is why they (and a record number of other clergy) were defrocked by this Catholicos in the first place, and why other clergy deserving of being defrocked have not been.
It’s curious that Mr. Sassounian would rely so much on this interview between Mr. N. Karapetyan’s and Mr. T. Carlson. Carlson, who recently indulgingly promoted – I mean “interviewed” – the young Nazi-sympathizer Nick Fuentes, was clearly mal-informed about the goings-on in Armenia by the biased young nephew of oligarch and close friend of Mr. V. Putin, Mr. S. Karapetyan (the latter also under arrest and investigation by Armenia authorities).
At least Mr. Sassounian is consistent in his sources: the “unbiased and expert” account of Mr. Amsterdam, representing Mr. S. Karapetyan in court and likely under retainer (always a good sign of impartiality), is brought by Mr. Sassounian as further evidence of nefarious, anti-National, and anti-Church activity on the part of Mr. N. Pashinyan.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth could have been talking about this op-ed when he said “Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Luckily, this is only an Op-Ed piece and not News. In the end, the biased sources and baseless conclusions drawn here are of little consequence. “A walking shadow… heard no more.”