I don’t want to get into a fight with you. I think you are doing a halfway decent job of covering Armenia, and when I am faced with the prospect of doing damage to someone who is playing a positive role, I become disheartened.

There does seem to be a strain of old-world imperialism in your coverage, and that strain runs through many other diasporan blogs (and state department bureaucrats-in-training blogs, too, lets not forget). My intention is to draw your attention to it. You can face it or not; it’s up to you. Ultimately, historically, it will be a matter of whether the archive you leave behind is considered an archive belonging to a zombie, a predictable mouthpiece, or a conscious human.

You’ll leave behind what you’ll leave behind. I hope you go in the direction of the conscious human.

http://oneworld.blogsome.com/2007/11/05/the-numbers-game-reprise/

As for taking your attacks on others “out of context,” quite simply, there is no “out of context” and no justification for your style of writing comments which invariably means attacking and insulting people without provocation.

Anyway, I once again ask you to write a reasoned comment proving me wrong with ample links, quotes and evidence to prove your case. However, you can’t because once again, you don’t know what you’re talking about which is why you nearly always have to revert to personal attacks.

Basically, I doubt you ever wrote anything of note to respond to this post at all. That’s the reason why there is nothing here and I doubt there was anything to post at all. So, prove me wrong. Now go ahead and post a substantiated comment. If you can, of course.

I would expend the effort of re-writing it, but the kind of kindergarden schoolteacher way you have gone about countering me in the interim, namely by cherry picking incendiary things that I have said without mentioning the context, rather bores me.

So, you see, my last post, like most of my posts, was not an outburst at all. They are, rather, carefully considered positions based on facts interpreted in a theoretically informed way.

Ok, so explain your “carefully considered positions based on facts interpreted in a theoretically informed way” when you wrote this:

Did you get an impression of me as politically correct person when I said that you think Iranian truckers in yours village are there to fuck your sister? Or was it when I said that you have pea brain? I don’t think anything that I said about you is “politically correct.” I think I made quite clear that I think that you’re a dumb fucking hick.

Let me tell you something, Patrik [sic]. I’m a diasporan but I can carry gun. You understand that?

[...]

Let me be politically correct and ask you: What are you talking about, you racist Armo, sister-fucking paranoid?

Also, please explain your “carefully considered positions based on facts interpreted in a theoretically informed way” when you accused me of not being at a rally that I was. As there are photos on this post which prove I was there, I think this says a lot about you.

Again, my opinion is that unless you can make comments without attempting to disrupt, without attacking other people commenting, and without making personal attacks, you should be banned from Global Voices.

You waste my time with your rants and you scare off other people with something to say and you usually do so by personally insulting them.

There was nothing and the past speaks for itself. I have always let your comments through although I have often had to delete offensive and personal attacks and remarks from my blog. However, I will NOT LET you destroy and disrupt this one as well.

As I have pointed out, put your opinion forwards, but if you continue to make personal attacks on me or others you will be permanently banned because to be quite honest, I have enough to get your ISP to block you access for offensive remarks.

Make your points, argue your case, but DO NOT EVER make attacks ESPECIALLY when you are nearly always wrong. Your history shows you usually swear and insult people while also not being able to distinguish fact from fiction or reality from your own imagination.

And to repeat, there was no “comprehensive explanatory message” because you are lying. Sorry, that’s it and GV can quite easily check their server records to determine that.

But, because I know you are unable to write such a “comprehensive explanatory message” because let’s face it, you’re not here and everyone who lives in or knows this country would consider you so uneducated as to the reality here they’d be in stitches, I urge you to post it here AND send it to Global Voices to avoid you being able to make such claims on this blog again.

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/contact/

I’ve already suggested to them that you should be kept under tight control because of your inability to remain civil or discuss. Personally, I think you should be banned because you’re not interested in discussion, you’re interested in destroying any attempts at reasoned debate.

PS: by the way – the Observer who has commented above is not me, and the positions s/he has stated have nothing to do with my standpoints whatsoever.

* Comments on Global Voices are moderated.
* If your comment does not appear immediately, there is no need to submit it again.
* Please treat others with respect.
* Comments containing hate speech, obscenity, and personal attacks will not be approved.

Basically, send as many test messages as you like, but they’re all moderated as is the case with anyone else.

However, given your past record and inability to treat anyone with respect, I will stick very firmly to the said rules when considering yours.

So, you have a choice. Make proper comments and polite reasoned arguments without insults or attacks, or not comment at all. I will not allow you to disrupt this section of the Global Voices site as you tried to do on my blog.

Regarding your accusation that I am attempting to silence you, to point out to readers that I never have.

However, I have placed Armen on moderation on my personal blog as he always reverts to personal attacks and I have to edit out his expletives.

An example of how his comments usually end up.

Armenian relations with the Muslim world, for you, are exclusively limited to that one Iranian trucker you saw walking through your village, on his way to rape your sister. That’s what keeps you up at night. That’s the only thing that exists in your pea brain. Hell, you can’t even tell the fucking difference between Arabs and Persians. You deserve to live in the paranoid, rape fantasy prison that is your Armenoid, London-Peabody-Museum-measured skull.

Another one which you used expletives in and which I had to edit out on my blog but which I post in full here now.

New comment on your post #1632 “Vernisage, Yerevan”
Author : Armen Filadelfiatsi (IP: 69.249.180.65 , c-69-249-180-65.hsd1.pa.comcast.net)

Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=69.249.180.65
Comment:
Patrik [sic] the Tiger wrote: “It’s always easier to be politically correct then having a real opinion.”

Did you get an impression of me as politically correct person when I said that you think Iranian truckers in yours village are there to fuck your sister? Or was it when I said that you have pea brain? I don’t think anything that I said about you is “politically correct.” I think I made quite clear that I think that you’re a dumb fucking hick.

Let me tell you something, Patrik [sic]. I’m a diasporan but I can carry gun. You understand that?

Moving on, let’s look at your points.

Patrik [sic] says “Countries like Lebanon, Egypt and Syria have a secular based political system, if they would for a second have a more Islamic regime the Christians in Lebanon and Syria would be extinct.”

Iran is a NON-SECULAR MUSLIM NATION, bu there are Armenians in Iran.

That pretty much blows your thesis to hell.

Let me be politically correct and ask you: What are you talking about, you racist Armo, sister-fucking paranoid?

A question for other bloggers out there. I edited out his insults and put him on moderation. What would you guys do? Does he breach the standard rules for commenting or not?

By Marianna Grigoryan
Published May 9, 2007

With just over a day left in Armenia’s parliamentary campaign, many voters say that it will take more than promises of a strong army or increased pensions to get them to the polls on May 12. Some sociologists put the disinterest down to political parties’ failure to use professional public relations techniques. Many parties, however, counter that they see no reason for experts to help them engage with voters.

Frustration with past elections, which many voters believe were rigged, appears to drive much of the apathy.

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International observers have already noted this mood. During an April 27 press conference, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Armenia Office Head Vladimir Pryakhin stated that OSCE surveys indicate that more than half of Armenian voters do not want to participate in the elections.

“It is difficult for me to say why it is so, but the latest surveys show that 90 percent of eligible voters do not connect their and their families’ future with the outcome of the upcoming elections,” Pryakhin told reporters. “It is not that they mistrust politicians, they simply do not feel dependent on them,” he noted about the elections. The fact that many Armenians rely on relatives abroad for financial support could explain the low interest in domestic politics, he added.

http://www.eurasianet.org/armenia/news/050907.html

European MPs Concerned About Armenian ‘Voter Apathy’
Friday 13, April 2007

By Ruzanna Khachatrian

Visiting parliamentarians from the Council of Europe expressed concern at what they see as a widespread voter apathy reigning in the run-up to Armenia’s parliamentary elections as they ended a three-day visit to Yerevan on Friday.

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“The delegation was concerned over its overall impression of a lack of popular interest in the election process by the electorate,” read the PACE statement. “Such attitudes of apathy, or even cynicism, are not conducive to the development of democracy in Armenia.”

http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniareport/report/en/2007/04/5D952C49-1EA5-462D-A186-963341E1C7A2.ASP