Nika Gvaramia: Kartvelishvili says he is ready for jail, but this kind of momentum lands people in the morgue

“What that pathetic fool is “announcing” is not a morality police, but an inspiration for mass violence and score-settling carried out in the name of pseudo-morality,” one of the leaders of the Opposition Alliance, Nika Gvaramia, said in a social media post.

Gvaramia is responding to a statement made by Giorgi Kartvelishvili on “founding a popular movement to protect Georgian values, principles and traditions.”

“I read the ramblings of that dim-witted boy. He said something telling: that he’s prepared to go to prison if need be.

If he has anyone looking after him, anyone who cares about him, someone should tell him that this kind of ‘showing off,’ as a rule, lands you in the mortuary, not in prison.

What that pathetic fool is ‘announcing’ is not a morality police, but an inspiration for mass violence and score-settling carried out in the name of pseudo-morality. And that has never led anywhere, anywhen, and never will. Neither muscle, nor the backing of the authorities, nor hiding behind traditions and ancestors will help: such is the unforgiving dialectic of the spiral of violence.

At some point, some even more brazen “good girl’s brother” or “good boy’s son” will recall the darkest formula that circulated back in the 1990s: “a spoke through the liver.”

If you’re trying to uncork the fiercest genie of the dark ’90s from the bottle, your memory has failed you: everyone who tried that in the end is lying in the ground. Nor does it seem you’re familiar with the central foundation of your ancestors’ traditions, the Bible: “All who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.”

So go home, lad, wash, and go to sleep,” Nika Gvaramia writes.