This is where justice is not served

Christopher 2022-04-23 07:01:15

At 10:44 a.m. on March 25, 2017, the Southern Weekly official account posted an article "Stabbed to Death and Humiliated Mother". This article caused an instant sensation, and now the number of readings has exceeded 100,000+, and the number of likes in the comments has reached tens of thousands. The Southern Weekend, which has been silent for a long time, has returned to our sight in such a sudden way.

The Southern Zhou Dynasty more than ten years ago was the embodiment of freedom of the press and conscience. It hated evil and dared to expose all evils. However, with the passage of time, the journalism industry has been subject to more and more supervision and restrictions, and the giants of the past have also been restrained. brilliant. Fortunately, this dying monster can still cry out in despair, so that those of us who are intoxicated in Anle Township can occasionally see how dark it is around us.

It is no longer necessary to describe what kind of sensation "Mother to Death" has caused. In my personal name, I would like to pay tribute to the reporter Wang Ruifeng (as well as the trainee reporter Li Qian) who wrote this article.

After some people on the Internet questioned the publication of this article, the public opinion was too biased towards one side, and the judicial department was not given a chance to speak out, which was a little less objective and fair.

Yes, it's really not objective and fair. But——not being arrested for loan sharks, illegally restricting personal freedom, not being arrested for insulting and molesting, and being forced to stab someone is life imprisonment. This must not be in the prosperous, strong, civilized, democratic and harmonious world we live in. It must be magical realism, so magical, what to do objectively.

After understanding the whole thing, the author deeply felt the powerlessness of the word "despair" to smash a big hole in my heart. It turned out that in the slogan of ruling the country by law, in the brilliance of socialism, and under the clear sky, there are still some "evil" gangs. They have been lying on the backs of the people of Lebanon and sucking blood since ancient times. They are like a mass The exposed asphalt allows those who step on it to fall silently and then be buried.

However, there has never been black and white, justice and evil. People only have interests in their eyes. Some people go to get gutter oil for profit, some people lend usury for profit, and some people do nothing for profit, but let others do everything. This case in Liaocheng, Shandong is nothing but an intricate network of interests. The partnership caused a down-and-out female entrepreneur to be humiliated and her son behind bars.

An article by Nan Zhou shocked us to learn that such evil still exists in the world, but I believe this is by no means an isolated case. There are too many conspiracies and crimes, and we will never know unless...

Unless it kills us one day, or kills our loved ones.


The great director Roman Polanski told us such a story in his film "Chinatown" (released in 1974, which has nothing to do with Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown"), in Los Angeles in the 1940s, police officer Jack (Jack • Nicholson Jack Nicholson) Dissatisfied with the darkness here, he resigned and became a private detective. One day, a woman who claimed to be Mrs. Morale asked Jack to investigate her husband's affair. Jack discovered that Morale was the chief engineer of the local water conservancy and was missing for the construction of the dam. Jack gets a photo that proves Morale's affair, but the real Mrs. Morale comes to the door the next morning and asks Jack to stop investigating Morale.

Jack is caught up in a scandal, trying to figure out what the misunderstanding happened, but then Mr. Morale accidentally drowns, and in the process of collecting evidence, he finds himself involved in a huge maelstrom of deception and politics. In the end he knew the truth, but he couldn't get justice and change everything. The beloved was killed, the police, bandits, officials and businessmen continued to collude, leaving only the people in Los Angeles who were kept in the dark.

When Jake faced the harsh reality, his assistant and friend said to him: "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown! (Forget it, Jake. This is Chinatown!)"

What is "Chinatown"? It's a place of filth, chaos, violence, and a place where justice is not served.

If a gang rape happened in China, the media would definitely report it; but if it was in India, what would happen, people would probably say, "Come on, this is India" or "It happened a little bit in India. It's not unusual."

When we are in this country and face issues such as food safety, news censorship, conflicts between doctors and patients, collusion between officials and businessmen, etc., if someone tells us that this is a national condition and tells us "this is in China", we are actually like being The mother who insulted Su Yinxia, ​​perhaps Lu Xun would pick up his pen to pierce the darkness in the past, but now Yu Huan, who picked up the sharp knife and stabbed the wicked to death, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

(Written on March 26, 2017)

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Chinatown quotes

  • Jake Gittes: Look, I do matrimonial work, It's my metiay. When a wife tells me that she's happy her husband is cheating on her, it runs contrary to my experience.

    Evelyn Mulwray: Unless what?

    Jake Gittes: She was cheating on him.

  • Jake Gittes: Does my talking about your father upset you?

    Evelyn Mulwray: Why, no! Yes, a little. You see Hollis and my fa - my father had a falling out - finally.

    Jake Gittes: Over you or over the water department?

    Evelyn Mulwray: Not over me. Why should it - be over me?