Chinese self-confidence and inferiority

Chapter 2 Where did the credibility go?

Knowing the truth is a crime
Some time ago, there was a news that was eye-catching.It is reported that Article No. 80 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection's "Environmental Monitoring Management Regulations" (Draft for Solicitation of Comments) stipulates: "Without approval, no unit or individual may disclose environmental monitoring information related to environmental quality in any form." The results were checked. Next, the so-called draft of this unlucky clause began to solicit so-called opinions in April 2009, but it has not yet been issued.

Not only that, but the following items are also quite shocking: "Imported special equipment for environmental monitoring must be sold and used only after passing the applicability test by a testing agency recognized by the competent department of environmental protection under the State Council", "Environmental monitoring information involves national If it is secret, the provisions of the national secrecy laws and administrative regulations shall apply", "Where violations of these regulations constitute violations of public security management, public security management penalties shall be imposed according to law; if crimes are constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law."

That is to say, not only the equipment must be licensed, but if you buy the right equipment, measure the environmental indicators around you, and then publish it again, you are already on the road to illegal and criminal activities. Zhuangda Road.

As for why environmental information is a state secret, or where environmental information is a state secret, the secret itself is a secret.In fact, I can also understand this matter. If your location happens to be near our country's military restricted area, this information is likely to be used as auxiliary material for some intelligence.But if the scope of this secret cannot be defined, according to the impulse of state agencies to keep secrets, the land of China is estimated to be full of state secrets.

This is actually not surprising, because all social control is information control in the end.What is the greatest inequality?It is the inequality of access to information.In ancient times, it was called "foolish people", which means that you are ignorant and ignorant as a screw of society, producing various things for the enjoyment of those who control society.Modern society is first of all a process of constant equalization of information. Why is there a Renaissance in Europe?Its basis is to publish to the public in some way the information and knowledge that were originally controlled only by the priests and the powerful.Why did the Internet change society?It is because the dissemination of the Internet reduces the cost of information release. Although there are various rumors, the truth of the facts cannot be sealed.

Going back to the problem of the environment, we will find that in fact this kind of official monopoly just does not intend to let you get close to the truth.The environmental figures released by non-governmental organizations may be inaccurate, but in our case, there may be more suspicions that official organizations have intentionally falsified.In a normal society, there is a competitive relationship between the data provided by non-governmental organizations and the data provided by official organizations. In the current situation, the data released by official organizations are often questioned, and their credibility is really low.

Seeing that there was too much controversy, an official from the Ministry of Environmental Protection said that this clause had been revised and reported to the State Council.He said: "We advocate that units and individuals can conduct environmental testing, and the results can be used as a reference for the testers, but if they are released through public platforms, such as the Internet, it may cause the public to misunderstand environmental quality, so this should be prohibited. behavior."

We can see this logic in any public event, and it has been refuted many times.These people always treat the public as a child who must be led to believe what they are supposed to believe.The problem is that the public is not stupid, and we're walking down the street in disgrace when you announce the weather is fine.In comparison, the most harmful to society is not the private release of environmental information, but the liars who concoct world peace.

So, it’s better not to show this kind of logic in the present world. You just say that you don’t want the public to know your real appearance, and you can only go out on the street after PS. Everyone can understand.

Official Property and Social Stability

Several mayors in Guangdong have recently stood up and said that they are willing to announce the status of their private properties as soon as their superiors are notified.Of course, this statement immediately won a lot of praise.After all, the system of official property disclosure is a common practice in civilized countries, and it is also the focus of public concern at present.

There are also some people who are not happy with this matter. These people seem not to be classified as ordinary people in our usual social class classification. For example, a famous entrepreneur in a place said that officials should not be forced too much What's the matter, later I saw that this is the leader of a state-owned enterprise, someone with administrative level.In addition, some officials have expressed their concerns. Yang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Cixi Commission for Discipline Inspection, said that the implementation of thorough publicity of officials' property must also consider the issue of social acceptance. He admits that the current income gap is large, but he must worry about officials' property being completely disclosed online. After the announcement, it will cause social backlash and bring instability.

It is unusual for a member of the Standing Committee of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of a locality to say such a thing.We know that the Commission for Discipline Inspection is an anti-corruption agency. Although it also has responsibilities such as malfeasance investigation and party discipline investigation, the most important responsibility at present is anti-corruption.Theoretically speaking, the police often have the real situation of the crime rate in society. Similarly, the Commission for Discipline Inspection often also knows how rich the officials are. .

This also just shows that, as an official of the Disciplinary Committee of a locality, Mr. Yang must be the kind of person who has information in his hands, and the information must be shocking, so much so that he even risked the disapproval of the world by saying such a thing. .

What Mr. Yang said really makes sense.Judging from the salary tables of various officials, the income of this group is not as good as that of the elite in society.Generally speaking, the income of the elite class in today's society is at least 30 yuan per year. The normal income of many officials plus benefits, the gold content of their income is far beyond this category.

You see, when we discuss income, in addition to the absolute value, there is also the gold content of the income.If you earn 30 yuan a year, you not only need to pay taxes and pay various social insurances, but also pay for food, clothing, housing and transportation at market prices. The gold content of your 30 yuan is probably 18K at most.And if an official has the same income, his expenditure in this area will be much less. If the income converted from various benefits is added, it may be much higher than your income. As the official position rises, the gold content of his income will also decrease The higher it is, until it reaches the level of a thousand pure gold.The two of you receive this level of cash compensation at the same time. After a few years, even if this official is not corrupt, his family wealth accumulation will exceed yours by a lot.

This is not a state of corruption. If corruption is included, I have nothing to say about it. This is completely incomparable, and it can only make people sigh.My brother can be regarded as a person in the business world, and he can be considered well-off in terms of income, but the meager profits I made from pennies and pennies can only be seen as trivial.

But doesn't the announcement of official assets definitely cause social instability?It should be said that this possibility is indeed possible, but this instability is controllable. After all, this is a voluntary announcement, and there is a possibility of improving this situation.It's like a physical examination. Knowing what's wrong can prescribe the right medicine. Even if it's hopeless, at least you can say "you can eat whatever you want."Besides, who is this unstable?Is it society or interest groups and officialdom?Is it their interests and official positions that need to be stabilized?
The truly uncontrollable risk is precisely uncertainty.There is a state in our society now, that is, everyone is quite dissatisfied, but many people can't tell where they are dissatisfied.If you think about it carefully, you can basically find the root cause in the uncontrolled power.This kind of social state is really sitting on the crater, not knowing when and how to erupt.

Stability has always been the result of transparency. I have never seen an era or a region where filth can be kept in peace for a long time.

Use small power to the extreme
Two days ago, Weibo broke the news that some medical staff from the Haidian Branch of the Beijing Emergency Center, after driving an ambulance to a restaurant for dinner, went back to the parking lot of the emergency center with the alarm on and the ceiling lights flashing when there were no patients. There is actually a section of the road that is still going backwards.The manager of the center said: "If the medical staff suddenly received a task order and performed the task after eating, it is allowed to turn on the overhead light and go retrograde. If it is during the return process, they did not receive the task order, and they just tried to be lazy and go retrograde. It is absolutely not allowed to turn on the overhead light... Ambulances are not privileged vehicles, and whether they are used for private use in violation of regulations will be investigated and dealt with."

Here I make a bold prediction: The manager said that he would give the public a statement on Monday. This statement is likely to be done after receiving a task order. Anyway, you can't check which task order it is.This is not to speculate our angels in white with the greatest malice, but to feel that if the angels don't plan to flap their wings or condescend to walk for a few minutes to eat, but have to drive an ambulance, private use of the bus will always be inevitable. .The buses have been used privately. If it is said that this should be a common phenomenon in the emergency center, even the manager did not deny it.It would be strange to take this kind of thing for granted, and it would be strange if they could really be held accountable.

The only consolation in this matter is the quality of the people.Reminiscent of what happened in Chongqing some time ago when patients were not treated in time because they did not give way to ambulances, it shows that the people have been educated.According to the whistleblower, social vehicles on the road took evasive measures one after another to allow the ambulance to pass smoothly.

Speaking of the two consecutive ambulance incidents in Chongqing and Beijing that resulted in the death of a patient because they could not pass through the traffic flow, the reason was nothing more than the fact that they couldn’t pass and everyone didn’t want to.The reason why I don't want to let it go is basically that the phenomenon of turning on the alarm after dinner has been known for a long time.There are too many privileged cars in our place. Regardless of whether they are serious or not, they always pull the alarm to show off, which makes people feel rebellious.The indifference of society is often caused by too many privileges, or we can say that this is not a kind of indifference, but a kind of cold resistance to privileges.

But privileges are also exercised by people, and some people are originally just the kind of people in the social class who do not hold real power.For example, these medical workers are far from rich and powerful in the social class. All they own is an ambulance equipped with sirens, and even the property rights of this car have nothing to do with them.But we will discover the true state of the other side of this society, that is, they will use this power that cannot be smaller to the extreme.

To put it bluntly, this is a society corrupted by power as a whole. It is likely that at other times, the medical workers on these ambulances are definitely angels in white. They also tried their best to save a critically ill patient. When privileged vehicles run rampant, they will also call them animals.It's just that there is another side in their lives: if they seek convenience, they will also become people who they look down on and cannot get used to.

Some people say that we scold corruption here because we don't get any benefits. This can be verified by the long queue of scolding civil servants while taking civil service examinations.This is not entirely true.Many people do not seek the protection of power in a power-corrupted society not because of interests, but when they get used to this state, the vigilance of the power they own disappears, and they often know the difference between right and wrong in their hearts. I use the limited power unconsciously in my life, and sometimes I can use it to the extreme.

A society corrupted by power is terrible. It can numb many people's demands on their own conscience, so that those who call for the rules also become those who break the rules.

What exactly do police trainees learn?

"Flood washed away the Dragon King Temple" is an adjective we use to describe the phenomenon of "a family does not recognize the family". Some time ago, a policewoman from Shangqiu, Henan, and her daughter lived in a hotel in Zhengzhou, Henan. He was arrested for prostitution, not only arrested but also beaten.Probably this is a form of attack by the flood on the Dragon King Temple, and the local water rushed to the nearby temple, anyway, it did not run out of the border of Henan.

In the past two days, it seems that this matter has come to an end. The squadron leader who led the team was dismissed, and the team leader in charge was recorded by the administration. However, this matter was not communicated within the system, but was carried out within the local police station. Notified, and the female police officer also forgave the squadron leader.Interestingly, the reporter got the news that it was an intern of the police academy who beat the person at that time.

Some commented that this matter is similar to "temporary workers" who always rush to the front line and are always used as scapegoats. This analogy is also correct and incorrect.What is right is that both of them can be regarded as people who cannot take full responsibility for performing official duties. What is wrong is that there is a big difference in professionalism and enthusiasm between interns and temporary workers.

Presumably many people have had the experience of being an intern. This is a stage in our life. Through this stage, when we first entered the society, we got some workplace experience that may affect our life, although it is pitiful.I have also worked as an intern in a factory for a long time, and I am quite impressed by this.

When a newcomer in the workplace who has just left school is doing an internship, he probably has very little urge to take the initiative to rush to do things. This is mainly because there are still many things that he does not understand about the rules or unspoken rules of the workplace.During the factory internship, if the master does not speak, the interns dare not make rash claims. This is not only out of safety considerations, but also a kind of respect for the rules.

If we use this common sense to look at this matter, you will find that there is a lot behind the intern beating.

The job of the police can be regarded as one of the legal and violent institutions of the country. Some people in the police circle once said that this job is faced with villains, and if you want to do this job well, you must be more "vicious" than the villains.This is not a bad policeman. The "vicious" he said is specific, mainly to understand the way of thinking of villains and other things, not to say that they are really vicious.Moreover, the work of the police is an important factor for a good social order. If they do not have some "means", it may be difficult for them to work.There is probably no country in the world where the police are innocent in this regard. After facing the dark side of society every day for a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not have the urge to do something.

But if interns can do it casually, we can imagine the reason.As I said earlier, the average person basically keeps their tails between their tails during internships and will not do things that are not approved by the unit. Although there are many interns who are willing to show their abilities, they are within the scope of the rules.If an intern can hit someone whenever he comes up, one can imagine the general atmosphere in this place. This kind of behavior must be approved by his master or the entire police station, at least it is also acquiesced by them.

Another possibility is that the official police officers at the local police station are not willing to do this "dirty work" themselves, but entrust this kind of work to these interns, so that they develop the habit of itching their hands all the time.No matter which of the above situations occurs, it can only show that this matter is definitely not as simple as flooding the Dragon King Temple, but a habitual practice.

We can't help but ask, is the unchecked impulse of public power to commit violence related to this kind of consistency and orderly inheritance?It is impossible to completely eradicate this phenomenon in any country, but any country is looking for a suitable way to curb the spread of this phenomenon, why we can only dismiss this kind of thing, and even do not report as a whole?If it wasn't the police who were beaten this time, I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to deal with this.

Sometimes the violence of public power comes from their self-confidence with impunity.

Fruit knife and police power
There was an honest man who bought a fruit knife in a regular supermarket and hung it on a key chain as it looked convenient. Then he was stopped by plainclothes police on the street and detained for three days.The police said that this thing is a controlled knife, and hanging it like this is a violation of Article 30 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China". If the offender is detained for less than one day, he may be fined not more than [-] yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be given a warning or be fined not more than [-] yuan.Anyone who illegally carries guns, ammunition, or crossbows, daggers, and other state-regulated instruments into public places or means of public transportation shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than [-] yuan.

My collection of antiques is "East Asian Antique Weapons". Whichever one is brought out is within the scope of the definition of controlled knives. They are all actual combat weapons. There are all pointed, bladed, and hooked weapons. Relevant regulations are more concerned.After seeing this news, I searched for pictures and found that this man may have never known the definition of controlled knives, so he bought a small knife with a self-locking device.The self-locking device refers to the kind of clip. If you don't press a certain place, the blade cannot be recovered, and it can always be in the open state.In fact, from the pictures I found, it is what is called a tactical folding knife in the industry.

There are many other regulations on controlling knives, such as how much the tip angle cannot be smaller, how much the length of the blade cannot be longer, and so on.Let's put it this way, you go to the kitchen at your home and have a look. If you buy a set of kitchen knives, some of them must belong to the category of controlled knives, and many fruit knives also belong to controlled knives.In a sense, if they really want to trouble you, the police can find "evidence" at any time when they come to your home, even if you are using this evidence at the time.Of course, there is no such case so far, and this man who suffered an indiscriminate disaster may have happened to hit the muzzle of a gun by chance.

There are two key points in this matter.

First of all, as an ordinary person, very few people have enough knowledge of knives. In our impression, as long as they are bought in regular supermarkets or shopping malls, they are all legal items. Shopping malls should only sell daily necessities, and professional knives should be bought in professional stores. No one would think that they would buy contraband in ordinary shopping malls.

However, judging from the results of this matter, the merchant who sold the knife did not see any punishment, and the uninformed buyer was detained for three days.Of course, we have doubts about this. After all, as a consumer, it is impossible to know everything. We can only infer that this should not be a contraband according to common sense.The seller is fine and the buyer breaks the law. I don't know what the reason is.

In fact, if a person is really planning to do something with a controlled knife, he probably won’t hang it on the key chain in such a grandiose manner, and as a person who has a little understanding of street fighting, he can tell you a story: one day at the dinner table I met a beautiful woman on the Internet, took out a metal rod with a beveled surface from her bag, and said it was my self-defense weapon, and it was fine at the airport security check.When I saw it, it was clearly the so-called "broken bamboo" in Jianghu, which was extremely lethal, but no one would think it was a weapon at first glance, unless he was an expert.

Another point worthy of attention is that although this punishment is within the framework allowed by the law, is it suspected of being too heavy?We know that it is not necessary to be detained for such a trivial matter. Since this person has no criminal record and has also produced a legitimately purchased bill, if he violated the corresponding regulations without his knowledge and did not cause any visible consequences, he should have Educate and release, the effect is no different from detention.

Therefore, the spirit of our law enforcement should be to correct mistakes and prevent crimes, instead of jumping excitedly when we see someone make an unintentional mistake that has no consequences.

Looking at government services from self-built buses

Recently, villagers in a place in Xi'an raised their own funds to buy two medium-sized buses with 18 seats, and set up their own bus lines between their village and surrounding villages.This is not to say that they want to grab the business of the local bus company, but that the village has not been able to get on the bus, and the villagers have felt that they can't bear it anymore, so they simply organized a do-it-yourself activity to get enough food and clothing.

But we can probably imagine how the government department expressed its position on this kind of thing.The director of the village committee repeatedly emphasized to the reporter that it is really impossible for the villagers to raise funds to buy their own cars and use public transport, mainly for the convenience of the villagers, and what he is most worried about is that the operation procedures cannot be completed, and if there are no procedures, they will face suspension at any time danger.The reporter interviewed the Transportation Management Office of the Xi’an Municipal Transportation Bureau. The management office said it was inconvenient to accept the interview, but it clearly told the reporter that the village committee does not have the qualifications to operate buses, and the bus franchise must be approved by the government. Operation, in addition, the bus line also needs to be approved, not anyone can open it if they want to, this kind of behavior in Dongyezhai Village is illegal operation and should be banned according to regulations.

Of course, banning according to the regulations does not mean that it will really be banned. There are too many things that we turn a blind eye to, and they may not all be implemented in accordance with the regulations.This situation can be regarded as a gray area, mainly depending on the mood and actual situation of the competent department. If the problem is really unsolvable, it is usually selective blindness. After something happens, the closed eye will suddenly open Kai: "That's not right, you are operating illegally. It is not legal in the first place. If something goes wrong, there is no responsibility for our competent department, and you will be punished."

Some scholars have said that certain regulations in China are simply traps.For example, regarding the regulations on buses, it is not allowed for you to set up bus lines privately. This is a government-approved and exclusive project. From a logical point of view, buses involve public interests and public safety, and this cannot be said to be wrong.But in fact, the bus system is part of social welfare, and almost no bus system is profitable. The government needs to subsidize bus companies heavily, which has caused a shortage of bus transport capacity.On the one hand, laws and regulations stipulate that this kind of public service can only be provided by the government, on the other hand, they cannot provide it in full. The gap between the two is a gray area.But when you intend to fill this gray area, you fall into the embarrassing situation of saying that you are right to break the law, it is right to have no accidents, and it is even more right not to want to arrest you, but as long as you are arrested, there are laws to follow.

Almighty governments often fall into this situation, and it may not be intentional to turn all policies and regulations into traps, but as long as they have this kind of thinking of comprehensive social control, the rules formulated will have such consequences.In fact, many people understand that the government is not omnipotent. Avalokitesvara cannot save the suffering in the world. No government can manage everything well. A healthy society must work together with the government and the people to get the best results.Speaking of which, our lessons in this regard are not far behind. It was only more than 30 years ago that the planned economy and comprehensive control almost caused social collapse.

What broke this kind of comprehensive control back then was the individual contracting of land by the villagers of Xiaogang Village, for which they also pressed more than a dozen bloody handprints.Now it seems that the actions at that time seemed ridiculously solemn, but under the circumstances at that time, it was indeed a risk of being imprisoned and beheaded.

Some people always say that those of us who write comments are just criticizing and lack of construction. In order to express that we also understand how to construct, we might as well offer suggestions for this kind of regulation here.

The best way to solve this problem is to allow the villagers to spontaneously organize this kind of behavior similar to mutual aid and internal shuttle bus, and then the government's traffic control department and bus company will come to the door for special training, so that they have basic technical conditions in terms of operation and safety.In this way, the government can reduce some financial expenditures, and the villagers can also benefit in time.

This is one of the ways to transform from an omnipotent government to a service-oriented government, providing self-organized supervision and training for the people to meet the standards, rather than taking all social responsibilities in a sweeping manner.Not only this matter can be done in this way, but all public welfare undertakings, public services and other fields can follow this line of thinking.We are all adults, and the government should not always treat us like children and define itself as childcare workers.

Dross officials do not go to court

The mood after seeing some news is probably like what the Internet says is "powerless to complain". For example, this one: After verification on the official website of Shanxi Xinzhou Environmental Protection Bureau, the reason why his daughter was dismissed in January last year because of 1 yuan in empty pay for five years Yang Cunhu, secretary of the Jingle County Party Committee, became the deputy secretary and deputy director of the bureau in charge of overall work two months after his dismissal.

The reason why I can't complain is because this matter is beyond normal thinking, and this kind of thing beyond normal thinking is too common.It is normal for an official to be dismissed or demoted for a period of time if there is a problem with his work. After all, it is not easy to train a qualified official, and retraining is a waste of public money. However, we are always confused about the criteria for an official's return .

If an official is dismissed due to some mistakes in work, we can understand this kind of comeback. Who can guarantee that he has never peed on the kang, we have all been fools in our lives.But you put your daughter in a certain place to eat for nothing. This is not an unintentional mistake, but a deliberate evil.To put it seriously, this kind of behavior has violated the law, and the crime of abusing power is inevitable.

We can think about it, if a department manager in your company did this kind of thing, would you suspend him for two months and transfer him to another department, or would you just fire him?If your answer is the latter, you are running a normal company. If your answer is likely to be the former, you are probably in a state-owned enterprise.Because a normal company may allow someone to lose 100 million yuan in projects, but will not tolerate using power to seek 10 yuan for personal gain. Tolerate such people in the company.

Presumably this reason is not difficult to understand, and such abuse of power is a felony in any country ruled by law, and has since cut off his official career. Only in a few special places can he be resurrected with full blood and not be held accountable.In the past, if you said that you could not be a doctor, you should at least be equivalent to the deputy ministerial level. Now the scope has been expanded a bit, and even a division level can enjoy this kind of treatment.

There must be two reasons behind this.First, the ecology of the local officialdom has become so unbearable that it can basically be described as a nest of snakes and rats.We know that this kind of thing wouldn't happen without a tangled network.An official who has an accident will first face the investigation of the discipline inspection agency, and then the handling opinions of the higher-level department. If he wants to come back, he must also need the approval of the organization department, the consent of the higher-level organization, and a series of links.Lightly removing the charge of abusing power is already opening up multiple paths, not to mention returning as an official.There is no interest chain and overall corruption, and it is completely impossible to do this.

Second, on a larger scale, the values ​​of the entire officialdom have been completely out of balance.Speaking of which, I rather doubt that no one here takes this seriously.It took only 5 yuan for 10 years, and the average annual quota is only 2 yuan. In our current era where corruption amounts to tens of millions or billions, it can basically be regarded as clean—if it is just this matter.And even in the field of public opinion among the people, what this number aroused was not all indignation, but more ridicule.

Both the official and private standards have reached an extremely low level, not to mention the inability to distinguish the difference between duty negligence and illegal crimes, and even the most basic requirements of integrity no longer exist.Of course, this folk value is a forced mode of thinking, which is basically equivalent to the bitter ridicule that you have a mace and I have a sky cap.

Chongqing Yanzhaomen: Corruption cannot be concealed by extortion

The indecent video incident of Chongqing Yanzhaomen has become more and more interesting.In the beginning, everyone really didn't take this stuff seriously. Isn't it just an official's sex video, which is nothing to us here.It was later discovered that this was not accidentally becoming famous, but that this person was designed by someone.Later, I heard that at least 12 officials had indecent videos in the hands of a citizen reporter. I don’t know how it happened, but before the working people could enjoy it, 11 officials were dropped from Chongqing.

At this point, the matter developed in depth. The person who broke the news said that he still had a video of a higher-ranking official in his hand. As a result, the Chongqing police visited the door two days ago at night.The strange thing about this matter is that without any formalities, they wanted to enter the door and find the whistleblower to "assist in the investigation". People can only wait for the person who broke the news to go to the police station in Beijing to assist in the investigation the next day.Of course, the police are still quite stubborn in this regard, and killing them with one bite is to understand the situation.However, judging from the fact that Chongqing quickly captured so many officials and businessmen, other video clips that we ordinary people have not watched, presumably some people in Chongqing have already enjoyed it.

But what is most strange at present is not that the Chongqing side took down officials so quickly and sent people to Beijing, but the official angle of the overall incident.

We learned from the news that the Chongqing Yanzhaomen incident was actually a local businessman who used sexual bribes to get officials hooked in order to take over projects or other purposes, and then used these videos as a means of blackmail.

The reason for doing this is to take Lei Zhengfu, the "12-second brother" who was first exposed as an example. During his administration, he used his power to keep the money from outsiders, and contracted all kinds of lucrative projects to related households or Close relatives, others can't imagine, can only use this method to get a place.That is to say, these people are corrupt in the first place, and the immortals are in the back. The causality of the matter must be clarified.

Is this behavior suspected of extortion?Even if I am not a legal expert, I know that I am afraid that I have been involved in this crime.But at present, apart from taking down those people's official positions, the Chongqing police or the government are all pointing their fingers at a certain "extortion" gang.As a former media person, I am really worried about this situation.In the field of communication, this is one of the methods of diverting attention: to blur the main appeal and use other information to make up for it.

We know that once this incident really breaks out, the official circles in Chongqing will not be able to quell the questioning of public opinion just by paying such a small price. If they were all shaken out, everyone would probably be able to pick up a bunch of grasshoppers.One of the best ways to deal with such a situation is to divert the attention of the media and public opinion as soon as possible, and downplay the main appeal from anti-corruption to extortion by unscrupulous businessmen and weak-willed officials. Slowly censor official corruption, and finally wait until the public forgets about these things and seeks other hot spots, and the big and small things are peacefully turned into small things. Maybe these people will be appointed again in a few months.

In my opinion, no matter where this matter is led, the essence of the problem is why the road from sexual bribery to extortion is so smooth, and what is the background behind these temporarily dismissed officials and what have they done.As for things like extortion, it's not something we should be concerned about at all.It is said that when a corrupt official’s home is stolen, we don’t care about how the thief opened the safe, but what was lost in the safe and how these things came from.And any attempt to cover up official corruption with extortion can only show the extent of corruption in the local officialdom.

The Perverted Desires of People in Power

There were two pieces of news that were very popular before. One was that Li Xingong, the former deputy director of the Yongcheng City Party Committee Office, had been criminally detained by the Yongcheng City Public Security Bureau on suspicion of criminal offenses.After interrogation, Li Xingong was suspected of raping more than ten underage women.One is the prostitution case introduced by Zhejiang Yongkang. The victim is a school girl. Six people including the criminal suspect Chen have been arrested according to the law. Another three people are applying to the procuratorate for approval of arrest. One person is chasing and fleeing online. Among these people are Private owners, deputies to the National People's Congress, social idlers.

The reason for the fiery spread is mainly caused by several factors.The first is that there are officials and deputies to the National People's Congress among the people involved, and the second is that there are young girls and students among the victims.Although the former always appears in a glorious appearance, many people are actually not good people—at least from the perspective of social cognition, everyone thinks that many of them are not good people; the latter is an object that a civilized society must protect, and It is an object that needs to be protected.When a group of people who are supposed to be protectors take off their human skin and directly show a grim smile and rush at the object that should be protected, even if everyone has basic psychological preparations for this, but this too big psychological gap is not enough. Enough to be infuriating.

Speaking of which, these people have one thing in common: powerful people in our society.It's no wonder that ordinary people probably don't have the ability to implement it even if they have such a perverted desire, and what we have seen is that the beast official in Yongcheng city did it not once or twice, but the only ones found out so far More than a dozen times, with the help of others, honors rained down on him while he did them.

Of course, it would be wrong to say that this is a common phenomenon that occurs in officialdom or shopping malls. After all, even in a place like ours, there are only a few perverts, and those who dare to implement it are even a few of the few perverts.Just like the official who is diligent in collecting the body hair of the women he has sex with, and another official who likes to keep a diary of his sex life, it cannot represent the majority of powerful people.

But we must also admit that among these powerful people, the proportion of such perverted desires and implementation capabilities seems to be higher, and their behaviors are indeed worse. There must be some reasons for this.

The most likely reason for this is the emergence of some dross in our great culture.Anyone who is familiar with ancient Chinese health preservation techniques knows that virgins or underage girls are the furnaces for some heretics to seek longevity. It is said that having a relationship with them can prolong life, nourish yin and strengthen yang.This kind of absurd thing still has some fans.However, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, who believed in these evil alchemy techniques, almost reached a climax. He even used virgin blood to dye something similar to a mosquito net. This thing is called a "peach blossom net". Achieve higher orgasms, and avoid the risk of becoming obsessed.Of course, you can also see that this in itself has gone mad.

This is just a superficial reason, and the deeper reason is that these people don't really worship religion or practice, and they don't have any belief and awe at all.After years of atheist education, these people have not really become atheists, but have embarked on a path of seeking various crooked ways without legitimate beliefs.

There is another reason, probably because they feel that satisfying their desires is no longer enough for ordinary prostitutes.We don't discuss whether sex workers should be decriminalized, but we also know that social outlets in this regard can provide some opportunities for catharsis.But those with power will not satisfy such low-level needs, and what they need often exceeds this kind of service.When they have the opportunity and ability to obtain other forms of satisfaction, naturally there is nothing to stop them.

Abnormal behavior has existed since ancient times, and there is probably no place in the world that can avoid this phenomenon, but a normal society does not want to forcefully eliminate such people, but to ensure that they cannot really do this kind of thing.Although this behavior cannot be completely stopped, at least it can be controlled within a tolerable range.

The reason why this incident is frightening and angry is that people with so many social resources do this kind of thing, and in the social logic we can understand, these people are just a group without many constraints , Originally, the anger that should only be aimed at the individual must be vented to the entire group.

overtax
The economic situation is not good, and all kinds of weird things happen one after another.During a recent investigation in Zhejiang, some media found that with the gradual loss of land financial capacity in some places, taxation and fines on enterprises have been intensified, and the phenomenon of "excessive taxation" has also begun to appear.According to data from the Ministry of Finance, "non-tax revenue" in many places has experienced high growth against the trend. Some analysts believe that this indicates that the phenomenon of "arbitrary fees" and "repeated fees" is on the rise.

What is "overtax"?In fact, next year's tax will be collected this year.Older people still remember a story like this: After a warlord in a certain place collected taxes for decades, this joke was later used in the movie "Let the Bullets Fly".Paying taxes on a business you haven't done is probably beyond the imagination of any modern country.If this year is really the end of the world, it would be unfair to pay this tax.If not the end of the world, such a tax would spell doom for many businesses.

Presumably we all know the harm of doing so.The economic environment is sluggish, and enterprises, especially private enterprises, are struggling. If this method of tax collection becomes popular, the life of enterprises may be a candle in the wind.There is an idiom called "draining the pond and fishing", which refers to this approach.

It stands to reason that the tax agency is not an idiot, and they will not understand the truth that everyone understands. Why do they still do this?It's very simple, they are in different positions. What they are concerned about is the current political achievements, tasks, and the growing financial appetite of the local government. , I understand these things, but I can't take care of them.

Over the years, the abnormal development of our fiscal revenue has made many regions heavily dependent on land finance.Years of continuous high growth have enabled the government to absorb a large amount of private wealth through land finance.If this wealth is used in the right place, it may generate a lot of benefits, but we have also seen that most of these extracted people's fat and people's anointing are used for various political achievements, inflated civil servants, corruption, etc. Not really generating much social benefit.After the land finance began to show signs of decline, the government could not use the money accumulated over the years to support itself and the enterprises to tide over the difficulties, but to collect "overtaxes" on the enterprises to tide them over.

In fact, in this case, it is not without the correct choice, such as reducing public consumption, reducing the number of civil servants, reducing government spending, reducing taxes, and even opening up areas monopolized by the state to activate private capital and stimulate economic recovery as soon as possible.Among them, the reduction of government expenditure and taxation is the most important and the most immediate.

But these means must be realized only under one condition, that is, if the government is willing to carry it out.As far as the present is concerned, there is no binding power, only the desire to collect money, no determination to improve, and the greed of its appetite is almost unparalleled. In our place, many things are not a question of can, but It's a question of whether you want to or not.If you don't want to change, it's useless to say anything.

The Arrogance of Power Seen from the Apology of the Victim

Some time ago, a video was uploaded on the Internet. In the video, an urban management officer from Yan’an jumped up and stepped on someone’s face. Then the urban management officer became a “temporary worker” when he was dealt with.I wrote a column about this and published it here, demonstrating how "temporary" we are living.

There are several recent developments in this matter this week: the mighty and towering "city management building" in the local area was exposed, and then overnight, the four large characters disappeared from the building.Considering its high efficiency in beating people, this kind of efficiency is not particularly peculiar.In addition, there are a few pictures of the urban management chief bowing and apologizing in front of the hospital bed of the beaten, but no one seems to be satisfied with this.

Those who expressed dissatisfaction with this were naturally netizens, and the person involved made a statement, which seemed to be quite satisfactory.In his statement, he mentioned that he had also been rude to urban management, and at the same time emphasized, "There are some unrealistic rumors on the Internet, which have caused some social unrest. blackened".

The reason why the famous host Mr. Meng Fei questioned this statement was that the tone was too familiar, and it was basically in the format of an official document.After I read it, I also felt that the writing was smooth and full of official style, and it didn't look like the handwriting of an outsider.It is speculated from common sense that such a smooth sample of official documents was probably written by veteran officials.But when this kind of thing is thrown out, there must be the meaning of the person involved, and it will not be written casually without the approval of the person concerned, because this matter has received too much attention, and the falsification is not worth the loss.Therefore, most netizens questioned whether the person's head was really trampled.

The client's head was not trampled, it should be said that it was trampled through.

I believe that when this conflict occurred, the person concerned also acted impulsively. This is because he did not have a correct understanding of this society before his head was stomped on.When he was stepped on, I believe he understood the truth of the real operation of this society: you are a product that may be stepped on at any time.

Think about it, as a small businessman doing business in Yan'an, how can this matter be pursued?The attention of the news and the public is short-lived. After a few days, everyone stopped paying attention. After they started to pay attention to another incident, this person still lives and does business in Yan’an. As long as he opens his door to do business on the street, the urban management will still Come here to make trouble for him at any time, it's completely useless to make a big fuss.Once he makes such a statement on this matter, no matter whether he writes it or not, it can be regarded as an explanation to public opinion: Even the parties feel that they can reconcile, so what are you guys who are thousands of miles away?

After this confession, the party may obtain some compensation, as well as lenient policy benefits for his future business.In the eyes of a reasonable person, this is a good solution.It should be said that after this, the head of the person involved was not trampled, but trampled through.He understands that he has no choice, so he should pay the price and get benefits.

In fact, if we ask ourselves the other way around, what will we do when we encounter this situation?I am also a businessman. When the incident happened, I may have the idea of ​​fighting it out, but as long as I calm down, I will tell myself that I can’t stop the loss if I pursue it to the end. I can only plant mines for my future, unless I have the hatred of killing my father and taking my wife. It is also possible to compromise.

It should be said that our attitude and the lack of a reasonable appeal and check and balance mechanism in the system have led to such arrogance of power.As individuals, we are all innocent, but as a society as a whole, we are afraid that we are not so innocent.

Where did the credibility go?

The game "Let's find the fault" was once popular on the Internet. The target was the public security department in Shenzhen. The reason for the fault was a traffic accident that sounded very strange.

On May 26, a serious car accident occurred in Shenzhen. A Nissan sports car was driven by a drunk man into two taxis, resulting in the death of several people.Then the driver abandoned the car and left, went to the hospital for treatment and went to a famous club to rest, and did not turn himself in until 7 hours later.As a result, everyone found out that the driver was just a guy like Ma Zi, not the owner of a luxury car.As a result, all kinds of "top packs" were introduced. The Shenzhen police responded a little later, some monitoring equipment did not work, and the pixel of the equipment that worked also had problems. They were all released to prove that there was no injury on the body, but all kinds of doubts still did not disappear.

In fact, I was also a victim in this incident.At that time, I saw someone questioning how the boss's horse boy could drive the boss's car to pick up girls in bars and sleep in the boss's clubhouse, so I casually explained on Weibo: "A boss' bodyguard and driver, driving It is actually not uncommon for the owner’s car to enjoy the same treatment as the owner of a certain club. Many people don’t understand this kind of thing, but this is a common situation. Many people may not know that the owner’s villa is often enjoyed by the housekeeper, the luxury car The user is the driver. As for a friend who thinks that a sports car does not need a driver, but those who own a sports car of that level will not have only one car."

This passage made me receive countless criticisms, and some people even said that they took money from the other party to launder it.Of course, I can understand that many people don’t know how rich people live. In fact, I don’t know very well, because I don’t have much money, but because of work, I know a few rich people and know some aspects of their lives.And this statement is just to provide another perspective, not to whitewash someone.

So far, if you want me to tell the truth about this matter, I guess I can’t say it. Of course, it’s only natural to question public power. Let alone such a drag racing case, Americans still have people questioning it. The "911" incident was a conspiracy by the U.S. government, and the moon landing was actually a posing in a studio. Of course, people with a little brain would not believe this conspiracy theory, but there are still some people who question the U.S. government.It is estimated that the US government is also quite helpless, but there is no way.

Here the situation is somewhat different.Generally speaking, Americans will not question the actions of government agencies in such ordinary cases, at least not to the point where the whole people find fault.But in our case, it is useless for the government agency to say anything. Take out the video and say you are PS, take out the inspection report and say it is a fake, take out the photo of the car owner and say they don’t believe it was taken during the accident. Anyway, anything may be. Fake, it sounds like this is a well-designed, all-encompassing conspiracy.

When things got to this point, it was no longer a simple drag racing case, but an exam to test the credibility of the government.To be honest, the grades are really bad.Moreover, apart from the government, the antagonism between the wealthy class and the civilian class is also deepening, and the mutual malice between the two is becoming more and more obvious.

As for why the government’s credibility is so poor, it’s not a problem in Shenzhen alone. Netizens across the country are actually projecting their own or other channels’ impressions of the government on Shenzhen. This cumulative effect can be shifted. To any government agency, anywhere, at any level.There is no trust of any kind when so many events fill our lives.

Government credibility is like a credit card, which can be accumulated at ordinary times and used at critical moments, but there is also a certain amount. In addition to the accumulated funds, the overdraft limit is actually very limited.

A few words about the Chen Baocheng incident: the left has no conscience, the right has no path

Let's say something that neither of you likes.

I don’t pay much attention to the Chen Baocheng incident. I probably haven’t met Baocheng in person (sorry, there are too many banquets and dinners, and it’s impossible to remember them all). The Chen family was detained collectively before I really watched the whole incident. I roughly describe it as follows. If there are any mistakes or omissions, it should be a problem of my own data collection and has nothing to do with the person who provided the data.

The Pingdu government intends to attract investment and demolish the village including Chen Baocheng's family. The demolition has already begun before the project was approved, and illegal means were used to carry out the demolition.Chen Baocheng and his whole family had objections to this kind of demolition, and persisted in the seven-year-long struggle. The local government could not give in to it with various methods. The final plan (should still be in the illegal process without approval) gave way and did not demolish the old buildings. Bao Cheng's house.However, the families that had been forcibly demolished before were centered on Chen Baocheng's family. After disintegration and disintegration, there are still a few families that have protected their homes that have become ruins.When the so-called excavator for cleaning up garbage came, Chen Baocheng and others detained the driver of the excavator, and after several failed reports, they were arrested on suspicion of illegal detention.

The thing is such a thing, I am sure there are some simplifications in my description, and there should be no big mistakes in the overall context.The title states that "the left has no conscience" is a specific reference. It does not refer to the real people in the leftist camp, but some specific people who seize certain details and make a big fuss, such as machetes, gasoline, and six houses. The most fundamental problem is avoided: not to mention other forced demolitions, as far as this forced demolition is concerned, the project has not been legally approved.

Anyone who defends the government or developers should not evade this major premise. Discussing whether a machete is a murder weapon or whether there is gasoline without this major premise can only be a bastard without a conscience, or a bastard who lacks IQ, nothing else.When citizens protect their private property and resist illegal acts, they have the right to use any means to protect their personal rights and property rights when illegal infringement occurs. Now, make him pork buns with human meat" - here it can be sung.

It is not worth talking about some of the government's echoers, and it can be described as having no conscience.By the way, it is chilling that this group of people still has the title of leftists.And the real leftists should naturally stand on the side of the people. This group of people is fine. When something happens, they kick their hooves apart, turn their hooves and shine their palms, and run to the toilet in the government compound, squatting in a row and waiting to be licked.How can this be a leftist? Generally, we call this "licking faction".However, because the tongue of this beast often has barbs, the situation of licking and tearing occurs from time to time.This is off topic.

But the eating habits of the so-called rightists are also not good-looking.In a sense, some leading figures of the right and the media have an innate tendency to portray opponents of the government as perfect individuals.Let’s not talk about Tang Hui’s case. Chen Baocheng’s denial of the detention is completely unreasonable. The violent confrontation has been shown on the Internet for so many days. Is it interesting not to admit it?

We are accustomed to shaping a perfect image, and we often follow such a path for protest events: struggle, exposure, talk about one side, sublimate meaning, and shape the image of martyrs or righteous men, but we are not children, and everyone knows that in a seemingly simple but Among the non-clear events, they are often not so simple.I have been in the news industry for many years. Speaking of the so-called in-depth reporting, when I was doing this, many people who are currently engaged in this kind of reporting probably have not heard of this term.Years of experience have taught me that every complex problem has a simple answer, and that answer is often wrong.

If the rightists still follow this path, they will lose more and more audiences in this era of more convenient information dissemination and intertwined information sources.Speaking of this, let me say a few words about the case of Li Tianyi. Someone actually said that the girl in the nightclub was like a chaste and fierce girl. Do you think your head is just for wearing a hat?Just say that her stay at the nightclub will not change the nature of rape and gang rape, right?
After scolding the so-called left and right, I want to say something serious.

"Chinese-style demolition" has all the characteristics of "Chinese-style dilemma". It is not only the government's hunger for land finance and the confrontation of private interests. If we search carefully, we can find various meanings attached to it, such as Talking about what is going on with urbanization, the future livelihood arrangements of farmers, and whether the money they get can have better investment channels, etc., are almost the epitome of the Chinese-style dilemma.

But there are only two fundamental issues here. One is that the issue of property rights cannot be clarified, and the other is how to balance public decision-making and public interests with individual interests. Fundamentally speaking, these two issues overlap.

In China, no inch of land belongs to an individual. The building above may belong to someone in 70 or 50 years, but the land below is not yours. It may belong to the state or the collective—another kind of state power form of composition.This has set up inherently favorable conditions for the government in terms of forced demolitions.

At the same time, due to unclear and unclear definition of property rights, it is impossible to reach a balance between public interests and personal interests.Living in a modern society, we all understand that individual rights are the basis for protecting us from being robbed by anyone or any institution, but when personal rights and public interests conflict, how can we form a reasonable bargaining mechanism?

Theoretically speaking, we transfer part of the rights to form the government to manage the society, and the government itself has the right to expropriate personal property. The boundaries and constraints of this right should be discussed.But this constraint must be discussed with the government by someone or an organization, and we don’t have such a mechanism or institution here, not even a non-governmental organization.

For example, if the village where Chen Baocheng lives is a qualified self-government, in addition to transferring part of their rights to the big government, they can use the same form to form a collective bargaining organization within the community to fight for the benefits that each household deserves. , After the price has been cut and signed, everyone is happy.

Of course, this mechanism will not be very smooth at first, but no one can learn to swim by reading a book, only to experiment with this mechanism of establishing a consistent authorization among stakeholders to learn autonomy and bargaining.Private property rights cannot be deprived by collective voting or snatched by the government, but it can be authorized among stakeholders.

To put it bluntly, in order to minimize the occurrence of Chinese-style forced demolition, the fundamental solution is to change the status quo of property rights and then encourage the formation of citizen self-government.

No apology to the government

In many cases, if a civil lawsuit involves damage to reputation or goodwill, the suing party will demand an apology from the defendant. Specific programs include public, private, and newspaper publications. This can happen from individuals to individuals, from individuals to companies, and from companies to companies. However, if the court decides that an apology is required, the losing party generally still has to execute the judgment.Of course, sometimes the implementation is not so good. For example, a certain celebrity who cracked down on counterfeiting can lose the lawsuit but refuse to apologize, and also claims that "it is basically impossible for me to apologize and admit my mistake."The strange thing is that the enforcement of the courts in this area is always very poor, and it seems that it does not matter whether an apology is made or not.This may be related to the fact that we don't pay much attention to the right of reputation here.

But it's not that everyone pays attention to it. For example, some governments pay attention to it.According to newspaper reports, Zhejiang "Rui'an Daily" recently published an apology letter from a hotel. The letter of apology said: On the evening of June 6, relevant departments came to guide the hotel, and the hotel did not actively cooperate. "I hope you can understand."The letter of apology was posted online, sparking onlookers. The person in charge of "Rui'an Daily" said that the hotel did not cooperate with the law enforcement. After being criticized, it agreed to write an apology letter to express its position, but the vague words caused misunderstanding.

This misunderstanding is very interesting. Everyone thinks that the hotel probably did not treat the leaders well, so that it was closed for rectification, and then forced to apologize.But in fact, according to local media sources, the hotel was shut down because it disturbed the residents and did not cooperate with the joint law enforcement.There is indeed a problem with the wording of this apology, which has aroused inappropriate associations among the public—of course, this incident is also no wonder to the crowd, mainly because of life experience that makes everyone a little too sensitive.

I don’t want to discuss the issue of the government’s credibility here. Although this issue is worth discussing, it’s just that there are too many people discussing this issue. In fact, everyone knows why when such things happen, they directly put the shit pot on the government’s head. The main reason is that they are not very disciplined on weekdays.

The question that should be discussed in this matter is whether the government is qualified or has enough character to bear this kind of apology?Logically, this should not be possible.

You see, a government department is an institution, not an individual, and there are no issues such as reputation rights and goodwill. Disrespect to it does not constitute de facto damage.If we go deeper, the government itself is supported by everyone's taxes. Although they have the function of managing society, this function is also given by the public. If there is a problem with this function, everyone can supervise it at any time and let it be corrected. It is nothing wrong with supervision. It's a shoot and two, and we'll come back next time. Citizens are not obliged to apologize to the government when no specific government personnel are involved.To put it a bit more extreme, you deserve to do well, you should be scolded for not doing well, and it’s okay to scold you wrongly.

What should people do when they do something wrong?We all learned about politics when we were in school. All kinds of state organs and violent machines are powerful state institutions. If ordinary people violate the laws of the king, these institutions are not vegetarians.In other words, if you are punished and pay the price, you are done, and there is no issue of apologizing or not.

The government asking citizens to apologize, or citizens thinking that they should apologize to the government, is a kind of thought and practice that only existed in the age of emperors. In that era, the common people were subjects and the government was their parents. They had to bow their heads and confess their sins to reflect the majesty of the king’s law. If such a statement of guilt cannot be obtained at the same time as punishment, it is tantamount to despising the authority of such representative managers, and it is tantamount to indirectly shaking their legitimacy.Why was there a saying in the feudal era that "thunder and rain, could it be the grace of the emperor"?The reason for this is this.

Therefore, it doesn't matter who is right or who is wrong in this matter itself, what is important is the message conveyed by this apology to the government: Sir, I was wrong.

Red tape says Shide

As a turmoil, Dalian Shide Group, which is suspected to be one of many dominoes, besides the current whereabouts of the chairman Mr. Xu Ming and the seizure of his private jet, has been exposed by the media one after another. Unfavorable news such as "starting bankruptcy procedures" , even the amount of interest, loans, and private loans to be repaid each quarter is impressive. How to interpret this matter must be the ability of an expert who straddles the political and economic circles. The grassroots of what to eat for a meal, generally speaking, are just bystanders who watch the gods fight and have no choice.

But as a bystander, he also has the right to shout when the performer is too ugly.After these incidents, Shide Group finally issued another statement—the first statement that its chairman had an accident, but the company was fine—this statement said that the news media’s negative reports about Dalian Shide, especially the distorted “ Shide has initiated bankruptcy proceedings”, causing heavy losses to the company.In addition, the statement also accused "some media of stealing our company's confidential materials", and said that a lawyer's letter had been formally submitted to a certain media, "will pursue relevant legal or criminal responsibilities according to law."

Regarding the theft of confidential corporate materials, I would like to tell an American story.It was during the Vietnam War. The U.S. government made a report, but it was released by an employee who was dissatisfied with the Vietnam War. Many newspapers naturally published it like a treasure.The U.S. government used all means to try to block this series of reports halfway, but finally gave up this futile effort.This incident later left a famous saying: State secrets cannot be kept in a safe.

Of course, you can discuss who is right and who is wrong in this matter. After all, as a government, there are always some secret jobs. If you think that everything should be transparent, the secret agents will probably be miserable.However, as a commercial organization, although it also has its own confidentiality matters, such as the Coca-Cola formula, it is naturally a commercial secret, but many other matters may not be regarded as commercial secrets. If I remember correctly, this is a listed company, and disclosing such information is beneficial to the public and shareholders.

What is surprising, however, is not the notion of commercial confidentiality, but the wording in the statement.For example, the sentence "seriously threatens the fundamental interests and safety of the enterprise, and seriously threatens the stability and harmony of the society." Of course, the former sentence is still a human language, but the latter sentence is definitely not a human language, it is basically an official language.By the way, which onion are you?Any accident in your company can actually affect the stability and harmony of the society. If you are PetroChina and Sinopec, it will be fine. Just reading these few sentences is not as good as the others. It almost makes people feel that this is a government office.

Such words are filled in this statement, not only using social security as a gimmick everywhere, but also using "the party and the government" as a title. It seems that this document should definitely be popular. Why?
There are two reasons for this.Many people may know the reason for Dalian Shide's accident, so I won't repeat it here.However, if any enterprise in China wants to grow big, it is essential for officials and businessmen to walk on two legs. Almost no large enterprise has no official background and friendship.Another reason is to kidnap the government in this way: "See, we are your people, and it is related to the stability of the society. You can't do it if you don't support me."

Perhaps the person who wrote this statement did not expect that Dalian Shide's rise to the top is naturally the result of the joint efforts of officials and businessmen, and the turmoil in today's situation is also due to the turmoil in the officialdom. After one catastrophe, it is hard to say what will happen in the future.Although it is impossible not to raise the banner and act as a tiger's skin and bite the bullet, such an official statement is made by a commercial organization. Apart from being harsh and ineffective, we can only feel sad for it.

Judicial reform may wish to start with the system of letters and visits

When I saw a piece of news in the morning, I couldn’t help but burst into tears: Recently, Beijing Chaoyang Court ruled that 10 interviewers in Changge City, Henan Province were convicted of illegal detention. 10 interviewers were sentenced for illegal detention. , and the remaining nine were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from several months.Later, although it was reported that this information was not true and that the trial was just beginning, the trial was still progressing and it still made me very excited.

The reason why I am so excited is not entirely because I have heard too many dark cases of interception, and now finally someone may be sanctioned because of this, but mainly because the matter of petitioning has always been one of my knots.I have never petitioned, and I have been in contact with petitioners since 2003.It was extremely cold in Beijing that year. It was reported that the petitioner village located on the South Second Ring Road in Beijing carried out the bodies of seven petitioners who died of cold and starvation in one night.At that time, I was a bit of a fake name in a domestic forum, and I was a famous ID. Some netizens hoped that I could come forward to solicit some clothes and medicines for them.

In fact, I was quite hesitant when I released this solicitation letter. I didn’t understand the system of petitioning at that time. I just knew that many people were doing it. I didn’t know what the consequences would be if I did it at the time. It looks like there might be trouble.But then I did it anyway, and got responses from netizens all over the country. A total of two cars of clothes and medicine were collected, and the netizens in Beijing and I personally distributed them to the petitioners.Although it is a drop in the bucket, after all, it is worthy of my conscience.And nine years later, when I saw such a piece of news, I was naturally filled with emotion.

Nine years have passed, and I am no longer a netizen who is completely ignorant of the petition system, but have gained my own understanding of it during this period of time.In my opinion, this system itself is completely incompatible with a society ruled by law, and it actually opens a back door for administrative interference in the judiciary.

Why are there letters and visits?Quite simply, it is a remedial measure for judicial injustice caused by the imperfect legal system and excessive power interference in the judiciary. That is to say, if the law cannot provide relief, some cases can be recovered through the petition system.It should be said that the system of letters and visits is good from our traditional view of the legal system. Master Qingtian rehabilitated false and wrongly decided cases. These are often performed on the stage.

But the paradox here is that if the judiciary cannot be fair, it is often the result of the interference of administrative power and other powers, and expecting to use administrative power to interfere with the judiciary again is tantamount to entering a vicious circle. Our ancients called this "drinking poison to quench thirst". .There may be small improvements in the handling of some cases, but in the overall legal environment, more unjust, false and wrongly decided cases will inevitably occur.

Moreover, this system was implemented later, and it was linked to social stability.

Originally, it was just to add an appeal channel outside the judiciary, but it turned out that this thing hindered the overall situation of stability, but it could not be canceled due to the situation, so it could only nip the petition in the bud.Therefore, the number and frequency of petitioners has become one of the criteria for measuring the governance level of local officials, and intercepting visits in various places has become a legitimate job.Intercepting interviews was nothing more than a black industry and illegal detention.Engaging in this kind of interception work is entirely the will of the local government. Illegal detention is a crime committed by natural persons and cannot be traced to the person who ordered it. Therefore, this judgment is regrettable.

But now that this matter has turned around, judicial reform might as well start with the petition system.Some people may say, would it be worse without petitions?What other force can check and balance judicial corruption?We need to know that evil itself cannot check and balance evil. If it seems that it can be checked and balanced in individual cases, it is only a superficial phenomenon, and it is the common people who suffer in the end.

Abolishing or gradually abolishing the system of letters and visits is not simply to stop letters and visits, but to carry out judicial reform at the same time, making the judiciary more independent from administrative intervention, and at the same time, establishing a good supervision mechanism so that the judicial itself Corruption is minimized.This is a rather huge project, but only by starting construction now can the foundation be stabilized. The so-called "stability maintenance" and social development must be based on the legal system.

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