Henan Ding Yonghui
Introduction
100 years ago, Mr. Sun Yat-sen as the representative of the forerunner of the democratic revolution initiated the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and put an end to the Chinese civil war. The Xinhai Revolution, represented by Mr. Sun Yat-sen, overthrew the Qing Dynasty and put an end to the monarchical dictatorship that had lasted for more than 2,000 years in China, and for the first time put forward the concepts of "democracy", "civil rights" and "people's livelihood". "People's livelihood" and other political ideas were loudly put forward for the first time. Since then, the concept of democracy has taken root in people's hearts and become an irreversible historical trend.
On Nov. 1, 2011, dozens of professors and graduate students from Cheung Kong University (CKU) went to Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, to kneel in front of the district and municipal governments, demanding that the municipal government ban the small, highly polluting steel mill near CKU's west campus. Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that "there is gold in a man's knees". It has been a century since the Xinhai Revolution, why do professors still have to kneel down to fight for their rights? And what is the reason for these professors to leave behind the pride and dignity of the readers and choose to kneel down?
Focus - tracking
Cheung Kong University West Campus in the north of the campus about 500 meters away from the place, the original abandoned brick factory, in 2007, some people in the construction of a small steel factory, called "Jingzhou Chuhang special steel products Co. The steel plant mainly uses backward equipment medium frequency furnace, recycling waste steel production of construction steel.
Small steel plant production emissions of toxic and harmful gases, dust and the noise generated by the campus, the health of more than 10,000 students and teachers on the West Campus, many teachers and students headaches, laryngitis and other chronic diseases, the normal order of teaching schools affected.
Because the enterprise uses backward technology to produce "strip steel", and does not get the production license of the relevant departments, has long been using the production license of "Qunli Metal Co. Over the past four years, teachers and students of CKU have reflected to the local government and higher authorities that the company is suspected of illegal production, and asked to ban it, but it has been to no avail. Since the plant was built in 2007, the scale of production has been expanded, and the distance from the campus has been shortened from 500 meters to 100 meters. By 2011, the steel plant has quietly changed its name to "Jingzhou Qunli Metal Products Co.
On Nov. 1, 2011, dozens of professors and graduate students from Cheung Kong University came to the Jingzhou district government at 9:30 a.m. to "kneel down" and demand that the government ban the seriously polluting enterprise, while also displaying a banner stating. "Safeguarding the lives and health of teachers and students is a constitutional right."
The teachers and students did not receive a positive response to their petition in front of the district government, with one deputy district governor going so far as to say, "Africa is not polluted, you move to Africa." Later, they went to the Jingzhou municipal government to continue their petition, and in the afternoon of Nov. 3, 2011, the company announced that it was shutting down production due to pressure from all sides.
Focus - point of view
Since ancient times, China has had "men's knees have gold, only kneeling heaven and mother" said, why, exactly, these professors throw down the pride and dignity of the readers chose to bend the knee to kneel? Because before kneeling, professors have exhausted all the ways to protect their rights. For example, there have been eight petitions, such as the school three CPPCC members in the CPPCC meeting to submit proposals, such as to the State Administration of Quality Supervision, State Administration for Industry and Commerce to reflect the situation. Kneeling professor said, teachers and students have gone to all the legal ways they can think of to reflect the pollution, the search have looked for, just no use. Several years, in the polluted environment, many teachers have been sick, "in order to life and health, kneeling is really no way out of the way".
Opinion one: this kneeling, kneeling folded the bones of the literati and social conscience. Professors should not kneel, kneeling professors, how can they train students with civic consciousness? Miscellaneous writers Mr. Wu Fei in the "not kneeling to teach" there is a sentence deafening, "want students to become a person standing straight, the teacher can not kneel to teach. If a teacher does not have the spirit of independent thinking, what kind of people will his students be?" To produce independent students, teachers should neither teach on their knees nor kneel to power.
Opinion 2: This kneeling brings out the determination and helplessness of the weak. "Kneeling to admonish" has always been the last road chosen by the magistrates, because kneeling expresses the determination of the person who advises. But in essence, this is actually the weak to the strong protest, professors with self-inflicted injuries to the dignity of the way to the power of protest, if not out of helplessness, how would choose this road?
Perspective three: this shocking "a kneeling", bending is the body and knee, lost is dignity. Kneeling is a shame, not easily kneel.
We can not be inferior, we must maintain the dignity and rights, and only in this way, can "stand" to live!
Opinion four: this kneeling, kneeling collapse of the local government ` people's hearts and image. "Kneeling" can solve the problem, it is questionable. Do not rule out that this is the desperation of a helpless demand for justice, but kneeling out, more like begging for "justice". This may be able to promote the solution of the problem, but it can't be regarded as an important means of solving the problem in a dignified manner. This is more like drinking hemlock to quench thirst, when kneeling down to become a public opinion expression of the norm, when begging to become a public opinion of the right way, the image of the local government collapsed. In the face of the most basic demands of citizens, the local government chose to reject, and this, too, makes the professors kneeling more a point of sadness and desolation.
Focus-Links-Quotes
1. To make people's lives happier and more dignified.
--Wen Jiabao
2. One simply should not dishonor oneself to please others.
--Rousseau
3. Renewing people's minds with the law eliminates the remnants of feudalism, ensures human dignity and promotes economic prosperity.
--Napoleon
4. Democracy is healthy blood circulating in the veins and arteries, on which the normal functioning of the muscle depends, but which should never be derailed, just as blood cannot flow out of the veins.
-- Coleridge
5. Democracy is the only power in the world.
--Qing He Qi
6. The democratic system, the justice of the world.
Qing - Liang Qichao
Focus - Links - Example of Xu Wu "was the spirit", questioning the public's sense of security
The 43-year-old Xu Wu was originally a staff member of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Group under the Ironworks Security Section, began in 2003, due to dissatisfaction with the" different pay for equal work" problem. Different pay for the same work" problem, Xu Wu will work unit to the court. The first trial lost, the second trial was dismissed. Since then, he did not accept mediation, as long as the "fair judgment", began a career of constant petition.
According to a report in the Southern Metropolis Daily, on December 30, 2006, Xu Wu's parents, who were under immense pressure from the WISCO Public Security Bureau and the petition department's staff to "sign or be sentenced to prison" and "keep their jobs," ended up in a "psychiatric hospital" in the city. "The parents finally signed a document saying that their son should be sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. Since then, Xu Wu was admitted to the special ward of the psychiatric department of the second hospital of Wugang staff, began more than four years of "treatment" career.
Xu Wu managed to escape on April 19, 2011, after which he did not contact his family. Afterward, he did not contact his family, but traveled south to Guangzhou to seek help from the media. Xu Wu complained to Guangzhou's major media outlets that he had been illegally admitted to a psychiatric hospital for four years after years of persistent petitioning and being "persecuted" by his former bosses and his former organization.
On April 27, Xu Wu and his father Xu Guibin, who later arrived in Guangzhou, and another friend surnamed Jiang were interviewed by Southern TV. When they left, Xu Wu was "kidnapped" by seven men with Wuhan accents in the Southern TV compound.
According to surveillance video, two men dragged Xu Wu from a cab and pulled him into another cab, while several other men took control of Xu's father and took away his friend's cell phone. Nanfang TV reporter then arrived in the dispute, detained a man sent to the local police station in Guangzhou. After confirming that the man was Xu Wu reported several times by the WISCO ironworks security section chief Quan Ting, then Xu Wu continued to return to the hospital to receive "mental treatment.
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Xu Wu was taken away by force in broad daylight, who are they? What right do they have to deprive a citizen of his personal freedom and make the decision to force him to be admitted to the hospital? The incident has shaken the public's sense of security!
Sun Ming, the cold-blooded mayor who knelt before thousands of people
On April 13, 2010, more than 1,000 villagers from two villages in Zhuanghe City, Liaoning Province, went to the municipal government to reflect on the corruption of village cadres in their villages, and demanded that the mayor receive them, which was refused. The villagers had to kneel down facing the government, but the mayor did not come out to receive them until the end.
April 24, Dalian Municipal Party Committee, the municipal government made a decision, in view of the Zhuanghe Municipal Party Committee, deputy secretary of the mayor of Sun Ming on April 13 villagers to the Zhuanghe municipal government of the collective petition mishandling of the incident, ( ) resulting in a bad impact, should be responsible for the main leadership responsibility. According to the "Interim Provisions on the Implementation of Accountability of Party and Government Leading Cadres", he was ordered to resign from his position as Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Zhuanghe City and Mayor of the People's Government of Zhuanghe City in China***.
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Kneeling to officials is essentially an automatic renunciation by citizens of their rights. This extreme show of weakness, even the loss of human dignity, is the original civil rights into the power of begging. Mayor Sun Ming has been ordered to resign, a move that is gratifying, but beyond that, reflection should continue.
Focus - depth
Professor kneeling is soft at the knees,
Or power hard
Mayangshan
Dozens of professors at Cheung Kong University for the local development of the GDP to attract investment, the production of shoddy steel factory built outside the walls of the campus to pollute the environment and jeopardize the health of students and teachers, had eight times to write to the government and the relevant departments, no one has done anything about it. In desperation, on November 1, professors knelt in front of the district government to petition, the deputy mayor even said, "Africa is not polluted, you move to Africa".
Professors kneeled down, creating since Dr. Wang Jinwen of Tsinghua University wrote a letter to the mayor of Weifang to prevent the demolition of another event that can be called "disgraceful". A well-known columnist called this "not only useless, and unconstitutional" "not to spread this kind of feudal signal". Professor kneeling, of course, there is a suspicion of self-disparagement, but there is a better way to protect the rights of this? 8 times to Jingzhou City, the district government and Hubei Province, the State General Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection and other relevant departments, "no one asked", could it be that teachers and students of the Yangtze River University should be allowed to continue to pollute the environment by polluting enterprises? Is it possible that the teachers and students of CKU should allow the polluting enterprises to continue to pollute the environment? Is it possible that they should allow the bad situation of "trees being smoked to death on the campus and teachers and students suffering from strange diseases" to continue? What is this if not "standing on one's own two feet"?
While the "GDP first" development thinking has been abandoned, the Central and State Council has repeatedly reiterated that do not want to pollute, with the blood of the GDP, and should focus on scientific development, sustainable development, but the local government's eagerness to make quick profits and hunger, still in the momentum of the momentum is not reduced to direct a reckless disregard for the health of the people, at the expense of the people's well-being. Environmental incidents at the expense of people's well-being. The officials involved, more silent, do not have anything to do with their own, or shirk. 8 times to the petition, in many officials, may be commonplace, at best, is considered a "hot potato" one; but in the Yangtze River University teachers and students here, it means that the right to life, the right to health has been nakedly deprived of. It is difficult to understand why this is clear, should be justified petition unattended, forcing the professors to fall on their knees under the dome, in front of the municipal government, in exchange for attention.
The mere fact of despising the professors kneeling, that they are "weak-kneed" is superficial, and may even accidentally become an accomplice of the strong power to refuse to admonish and criticize. Or to start from the details of the "8 times to write no one to ask", step by step backward, torture the system of ills, layers of accountability, to stop similar cases "before and after". At present, Jingzhou District Government of Chuhang metal products company has taken measures to suspend electricity, the enterprise has stopped production, which is a welcome signal, but also on the kneeling "no effect theory" rebuttal, although it is a little late and pathos, but now in the dawn.
(From "Jin Yang")
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Government officials are mostly university professors teach out, and do a lifetime of learning professors even to the officials kneel, which can not be said to be the sadness of society. If the local government officials have a little fear of university professors or knowledge, they will take the initiative to solve the problem; if the public has the power to make the officials fear, then, the serious pollution of the "small steel plant" can not be built next to the university campus. Unfortunately, there are no ifs in life!
Conclusion
Professor kneeling in defense of his rights, the way it is questionable, causing controversy is normal. However, "who wants to do scalp with hair"? Who does not know that kneeling is a shame, is self-corruption? If not forced to do so, who would kneel? It is worth pondering why no one is concerned about the defense of rights through normal channels. Where are the deputies to the National People's Congress who are supposed to represent the interests of the people? The government does not close the polluting enterprises, the health of teachers and students suffer from the hazards, the root cause is the GDP is the supremacy, the performance is the supremacy, in this reality, demanding, reprimanding professors kneeling in the heart of how can not bear to talk about the dignity of the particularly extravagant. If China has a sound litigation system, professors may be exempted from this self-inflicted dignity of a kneeling, "civil rights" loss, how to talk about "democracy", no "democracy", and where is the "people's livelihood"? Without "democracy", how can there be "people's livelihood"? Professor kneeling for civil rights "kneeling" also!