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> “This is in fact a metaphor for today’s China, where the state is seizing property everywhere through a variety of means,” Mr. Li wrote. “Businessmen lose th
by ferdo 13y ago
> “This is in fact a metaphor for today’s China, where the state is seizing property everywhere through a variety of means,” Mr. Li wrote. “Businessmen lose their enterprises and are thrown into prison; an anonymous vendor loses his watermelons. Sometimes it’s the urban management officers that seize the property. Sometimes it’s the court, or the bank, or the unpredictable policies.”
Not much different from the US, iow.
- kiba 13y agoFairly sure that the US have fairly low level of low level corruption and high level of political corruptions. If you offer a bribe to a police officer in the US, I am sure that 90% of the time, they would just haul you to jail. The fact that insane prosecutions against people is occuring is probably a result of our democratic institution's perverse incentives("TOUGH ON CRIME", "3 STRIKES LAW", "THINK OF THE CHILDREN") and lack of forethought and rationality on the part of the electorate.
- aptwebapps 13y agoI will grant that you could apply the statement, with a little stretching, to the US because the offenses are not quantified. But I don't think the actual situations are that similar.