FROM THE EDITOR

Dr. Emzar Djgerenaia

Any government tries to take laws that are suitable to it: democratic government passes democratic laws, tyrannical one -tyrannical laws, etc.

Laws that are acceptable for the government are considered fair. At the same time, justice is viewed identically by different governments – it is something that is acceptable to the present government. “State” Plato
Night and day we hear one and the same phrase from a certain TV channel – Europe is resentful. I love Europe. Wonderful world, rich houses, great traditions, untold wealth and fashionable palaces. I wondered why this all-loved old Europe was worried about, what might her stormbeaten eyes, body, heart and pocket have seen what they have not seen before? Yet, it is a real wonder – Europe is worried by the Georgian Election Law as it thinks that we might be lost in case elections are held in accordance with this law. The resentment of Europe is, certainly, synchronised by our “star boys” – politicians. Could we ever understand their language? Yet, these “star boys” were elected to the Parliament in accordance with this very law. Where was old Europe then? If there was nothing bad in Georgia with the old law, why should anything happen now? They are now fighting for fair elections, fair code, fair elective committee. But were they unfair before? Did they conceal this from Europe?!
We are fed up to the teeth! We want to have the chance to work, to have competent government rather than the Parliament that deals with demagogue and populism. We need recovering economy and country that wishes to unify. But as we know, life is not all cakes and ale!
Let us leave Europe alone. The young should not bother the old.
I have recently been in the West and I have heard somebody speak behind the fence: “Oh, I look at Georgia and my heart bleeds. It used to be paradise on the earth, now it has turned into a chaos of groans.
I wail for people who used to be unconquerable and brave and who now serve the devil. I wail for the land where once lambs browsed grass, the land that once was the land of promise where people followed Christ’s Covenant, the land where now only thorns and weeds grow. I wail for the country whose population has once enlightened the world and that now has turned into the refuge for ignorance and stupidity. I wail for the country that has given birth to antique Greek wisdom and has now turned into a source of ignorance. People fell into the abyss because of their blindness, It is the country where all gods are forgotten”.
I did not understand whether this was wail or pre-election meeting of “worldly”, pushing, well-groomed, but still irreconcilable opposition. I looked out – it turned out to be neither one nor another. It was small boy who read Christoforo de Castella’s “Records and albums about Georgia” with a detached, indifferent air and who did not at all understand what made Europe worry and why things created by the government are fair and why the fair suddenly becomes unfair eight years later.
Only Plato and Parliament, to be more exact, the former Parliament can know this.
Yet, how many varieties of justices are there in the world? For people it is well being, but for the Parliament this depends.