Thomas Riggins
Well, we have an "Independent Judiciary" and what do the Chinese see. Our Judiciary run by political appointments from competing interest groups. An independent Supreme Court that gutted the cilvil rights act and set the stage for voter suppression and also turned the election process over to domination by billionaires and the 1%. The US, poster child for Western democracy, just turned the government over to a person who lost the popular election by almost 3 million votes. We Americans are the ones who should be denouncing the trap of Western ideology. It boils down to the class nature of your society. If your society is ruled by monopoly capitalists exploiting its own working people and engaged in imperialism abroad its legal system will be a reflection of that class power just as in Saudi Arabia, for example, the legal system works to reinforce the power of the fundamentalist monarchy and in Iran the power of the ayatollahs and in Israel it's stacked against the Palestinians. The Communist Party rules in China and that party developed out of the masses of exploited workers and peasants who overthrew the feudal landlord regime represented by the Kuomintang. The Chinese legal system, whatever you may think of it, is basically set up to represent the class interests of masses of the Chinese people. There is no such thing as an "Independent" Judiciary under class rule: our prison population is proof enough of that.
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These quotations are from the judge who opposed the rule of law in the PRC as bourgeois ideology. You are obligated to respond to these quotations. Without being able to use Chinese language texts, any observations of the PRC are devoid of full value just as in the case of Russian language materials in regard to Lenin, the USSR, the Russian Federation, and the Putin regime. A necessary condition for human survival is the "rule of law" and one should think of Andrei Sakharov's struggles with the dishonest Gorbachev in this regard. In any event, being able to use Chinese texts in Mandarin (even in the absurd simplified system instituted by the Mao Zedong period so destructive of Chinese civilization as to stagger the imagination). Here are the texts and please comment on them. Jack Clontz in Bangkok, Thailand
要坚决抵制西方“宪政民主”、“三权分立”、“司法独立”等错误思潮影响，旗帜鲜明，敢于亮剑，坚决同否定中国共产党领导、诋毁中国特色社会主义法治道路和司法制度的错误言行作斗争，决不能落入西方错误思想和司法独立的“陷阱”，坚定不移走中国特色社会主义法治道路。
据一些机构数据，中国可投资金融资产亿元以上的人约9万，千万以上大约134万，超过65%的人急于将资产配置国外，60%的选择是美国。最大担忧是制度不确定性风险。执政者应高度重视这个现象。现在公然否定宪政民主司法独立，法治国家成一句空话，没有独立的司法保障，生命财产安全得不到妥善保障，人们如何安居乐业？
这是一个骨骼精奇、卓而不群的国度：法官反对司法独立，媒体反对新闻自由，清官反对财产公示，人民反对一人一票。
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