[Flynn’s comments: While lurking online to help my small mind drift off into another slumber for the night, I came across a news article of a teenage boy in China. He had killed a Communisit official in a local town. It’s too bad someone had to die for the misdeeds done on many people: I guess it is justice served. There are many more people at the bottom than at the top. Imagine if the people took back their power from the oppressive controls of their government and military.]
China teen seen as hero for killing local official
By GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press Writer Gillian Wong, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jan 20, 7:21 pm ET
BEIJING – When Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years.
Instead, villagers in the northern town of Xiashuixi have made Li’s teenage killer something of a local hero. More than 20,000 people from the coal-mining area petitioned a court for a lenient sentence.
[…] “I wanted to kill Li myself, but I was too weak.”
The murder trial has again cast a harsh light on abuses of power by communist cadres and the frustration many ordinary Chinese feel with a one-party system that sometimes allows officials to run their districts like personal fiefdoms.
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