{"id":952,"date":"2007-09-29T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2007-09-29T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T19:27:00","slug":"police-and-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Police and Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">When I was in China in 1992, there was quite a lot of discussion in the English Language press about the lack of a judiciary. In China the police were responsible for arresting you and then prosecuting you and sentencing you. As you can imagine it is a quite unsatisfactory state of affairs that will not only lessen the rule of law, it is subject to endless corruption and abuse of power worries. I suppose for a one party state, abusing power is part and parcel of the ruling system so it suits them to be this way. However, China at the time was looking at a way out. In my subsequent travels I did not come across any information as to what changes had been made, if any in this system.<\/p>\n<p>It is with dismay that I note that there is great disdain in the police force, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shock_jock\">media<\/a> and some major <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_howard\">political<\/a> elements here in Australia for the Judiciary and rule of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Law\">law<\/a>. These people are leading us down a path that will allow one party rule as exists in China.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in China in 1992, there was quite a lot of discussion in the English Language press about[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}