Strict and stern laws are necessary in troubled times.
The charge of making drainage oil is now announced a serious crime. The principal criminals and the recidivists of it will be sentenced to death from now on. It is wonderful news as the enormous threat to the food safety will be therefore diminished. We hope that the lawmakers waste no time making more and more strict laws cracking down on the law-offenders.
Although Chinas economy has been growing for many years, it is not a peaceful society but troubled times as the rich intend to make more money in any way and the poor are hellbent on grasping at wealth in an climate where there is lack of superintending. The result is that we may see the corrupted officials burgeoning like bamboo shoots after a spring rain and famous manufacturers become shameless ignoring their product quality and small mills dare to produce bogus things and some capitalists welch on paying the migrant workers wage, etc, etc.
Anyhow, this society is full of confrontations, such as the fatuous officials and the law-abiding citizens, the voracious capitalists and the exploited workers, the tyrannical employers and the bullied employees, the greedy doctors and the slaughtered outpatients or inpatients, the outrageous urban administrators and the helpless vendors or peddlers, the guileful or scheming shopkeepers and the innocent shoppers, the irresponsible property servants and the overbilled property owners, the violent husbands and the hapless wives, the proud teachers and the humble parents of students, etc, etc.
The main contradiction exists between the rich and the poor.
The rich bribe civil servants to get more opportunities of making a fortune. After that the rich show off their wealth through exploiting workers more cruelly, living in deluxe villas, driving limousines rampaging in the streets, taking their wealth our of China for emigration, gobbling up more and more houses and forcing up the house price, etc, etc.
This agitates a few poor peoples malign nerves and makes them beget malevolent intentions. They lust for wealth but refuse to trudge on the odyssey of accumulating money. They fantasize about being showered with material comfort overnight. They are tired of travails and have illusions of the-pie-in-the-sky. Lack of opportunities, they have no values and morals to consider and commit crimes in a devil-may-care way.
We urge the government not to be soft on coddling the corrupted officials and to punish relentlessly the ruffians who make ill-gotten wealth.
