A drunk man was walking on the road, saw someone had fallen and died. He searched his pockets and found a bottle of alcohol and some pickled cucumbers, and said with surprise: “You had everything, why did you die?”
The reason I am reminded of this parable is our deputies. Yesterday they introduced many fines into the Administrative Code. For example, begging will result in a 200 manat fine. However, how the government will collect this, I do not understand, because logically if a person has 200 manats, he should not be begging. (Or maybe the National Assembly is implying that having 200 manats in Azerbaijan is currently an alternative way of living like a beggar. Oh you sinners... Then they say, we do not interfere in politics, we support the government, and so on. Here you go. The enemy was right under our noses, on the green hilltop.)
Perhaps there was already a fine for begging before, and now they have increased the amount. There are many reasons that necessitate this: the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, elections in Hungary, the melting of the A23 iceberg... All begging activities in our country are rooted in foreign factors, we have no internal problems, thank God, may none encounter envy.
At the same time, time is an important factor for the implementation of the decision. Probably when they catch a beggar, they will check his hand and palm, and if the collected funds are small, they will allow him to continue his activity for a while. Until he reaches 200 manats. Otherwise, implementing the decision is impossible, it creates a legal vacuum.
Such things happen often in our statehood, for example, if you see some incriminating, chilling, disgusting, eye-popping, eardrum-breaking, arm-breaking, stomach-ache-inducing (if I go down any further, the trash of this conversation might come out, let's stop) material published on a website about some official. Everyone immediately bites their finger, says “May God rest his soul” to the official. Even our elders in the boulevard who play dominoes, usually never crossing beyond Turkey’s Adiyaman province, who hate politics, start talking about the official afterwards. But suddenly, you see the official is revived and even holds a meeting with the public. Everyone is left stunned, as if they saw a ghoul. So what is the secret behind this?
Oh, thank you: it’s a matter of time. The site rushes, ripens at the right time, as the saying goes. If a person’s thread has not been cut from above, nothing can happen to them. There is also a hadith about this, I just forgot now.
Also, it is very possible they still allow him to work, advise him to increase his property a bit more. It must become a flesh-and-blood matter. Otherwise, what will be fixed with 3-4 restaurants and 5-6 buildings?
Time is a serious argument. The late gentleman always used to say that everything needs time, people didn’t understand.
For example, the metro was stopped, the administration said it would open in 1 hour, and in the end it was opened at that time. So everything is under control now, people can fill up again, those filming clips can film their clips, those hugging can hug, those who want to have children can have children. The underground in our country is as free as the surface.
Thanks to the press freedom given to me, I want to return to the topic of begging. One question arises: if in our laws gifts over 55 manats are considered bribery, won’t a 200 manat fine for begging create a legal collapse (showing my eloquence, don’t mind)? Tomorrow, officials caught taking bribes over the limit will excuse themselves by saying they were begging and escape with a 200 manat fine!
But one change in the Administrative Code is very important, I applaud it, I don’t intend to complain at all. A person unlawfully wearing a special enforcement officer’s uniform will be fined up to 700 manats. Truly, it is best if everyone wears their own clothes. If a uniform for beggars is also adopted, the law will be even better enforced.
Zamin HACI