Should the people be protected from the "protectors" themselves?

Of course, when the President calls the governors "my representatives," he is appointing them to govern the people within the law, protect their rights, and establish justice on the ground. Not to oppress the people, drink their water, or drive bulldozers over them.

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These actions are not for reforms, but against them. When the people have no other choice, when they cannot legally confront the rulers, situations like those in Yakkabog arise. Such violence eventually leads to social crises.

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President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has repeatedly said: "Governors are my representatives in the field. I will protect them myself." However, at the same time, as we remember, Shavkat Mirziyoyev has also repeatedly said: "Entrepreneurs are under my protection," "Our people demand justice from us," "They have endured violence for a long time, we should thank them for their patience," and "I am on the side of our people, the government is the servant of the people."

Alexander Pushkin, the flower of the royal court festivities and revered by the emperor, said: "The protection of the law is better than the protection of the emperor." Because the emperor may like it today and dislike it tomorrow. The law must work in the country.

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Undoubtedly, the words "jackal" and "disease" are insults, and the word "hezalak" is a doubt about a person's masculinity and an insult to his honor. This is a crime provided for in Article 139 of the Criminal Code, which leads to deprivation of liberty. Seeing this, the leaders of the organization charged with law enforcement sitting at that meeting sat silently as if nothing was happening, which is not appropriate for a constitutional state. On the one hand, while the insults of representatives of the authorities to any person they want as "disease", "jackal" or "hezalak" remain without consequences, we have not forgotten that another official - the Minister of Public Education - sued a seventy-year-old journalist for insulting him for simply saying that he "did not read newspapers and books," and the courts accepted this claim as a fact.

It is also amazing how easily the governors say in meetings, "I will arrest you," "Here, take this and put it in your mouth, so that he can open his eyes." Hey, brothers, the world is seeing all of this today. Can't the prosecutor or police chief sitting in this meeting say, "Excuse me, you don't have the authority to sentence someone to arrest"?!

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The root of the words "governor", "government", "government" comes from the word "hukm", and the hukm is law. The government was established to implement the law, to govern legally, the prosecutor's office is supposed to monitor the implementation of the law, and the internal affairs agencies should confront lawbreakers. That is, all of this is essentially and essentially for the protection and realization of the rights and freedoms of the people.

When a governor insults his subordinates by calling them "disease" and "scumbags," when a prosecutor does not arrest those whom the governor says "take them away and put them in jail" according to the law, when a police chief locks farmers in a bus without air conditioning for three hours with a temperature of seventy to eighty degrees Celsius, the question arises: Hasn't the need to protect the people from their "protectors" arisen?!

Karim Bahriev