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| Printingman | Posted – 7/10/2007 9:53:55 AM | show profile | email poster China executed food and drug minister for accepting cash and approving fake medicines. What do you think of the punishment? |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 7/10/2007 10:02:20 AM | show profile can they execute him twice - maybe covering the poisoning of dogs? |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 7/10/2007 10:16:43 AM | show profile If people died from the fake medicines, he's complicit in their deaths. People have been executed for less. |
| mailbag | Posted – 7/10/2007 10:19:07 AM | show profile | email poster Is that the full story? Don't know about accepting cash over there as normal practice. I hear journalists are given little envelopes with cash when covering business stories. Is it the same for officials? |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 7/10/2007 10:20:57 AM | show profile Well it seems China is learning capitalism from the master, mailbag. Though in the US the bribes are usually a little more finessed. |
| JCB | Posted – 7/10/2007 8:19:08 PM | show profile What if the U.S. were to EXECUTE the head of the FDA for accepting bribes that later led to accidental poisoning deaths? Would we be so blase then? I am absolutely horrified at what happens in China regarding business and commerce affairs. Has anyone read up on the imprisoning and torture of American businesspeople due solely to business disputes? Forbes ran a piece on it last year, I think, and I was horrified. There are American businesspeople (and countless others, I'm sure) rotting in Chinese jails because of BUSINESS issues, as in, disputes arising from contract fulfillment or such. You couldn't pay me enough to do business in China. Execution for taking bribes? We would lose half of America's business elites that way. |
| Iron Eagle | Posted – 7/10/2007 9:57:30 PM | show profile China's off the map. Just think they are going to build cars for this market. Wait for the first one that asphyxiates the driver. |
| JCB | Posted – 7/10/2007 10:56:30 PM | show profile They made an example of this guy, to prove to the world that they're serious about safety, because the future of their economy depends on it. If their products lose credibility, they're trhough. But to EXECUTE him?? Tragic. |
| foto | Posted – 7/11/2007 12:00:49 AM | show profile No lethal injection there. They do it the old fashioned way...a bullet in the back of the head. BANG! |
| seeattleme | Posted – 7/11/2007 4:12:34 AM | show profile Maybe he knew something the gov't didn't want getting out. Maybe the gov't knew all along shit was tainted and did nothing about it, and he knew it. Maybe that's why he was executed. Gives a whole new meaning to the term, "he got the axe" doesn't it? I kind of wish they'd do that in this country. over the deaths in Iraq. Where's Rummy these days? |
| mailbag | Posted – 7/11/2007 6:33:58 AM | show profile | email poster Did you change your name doglady? Yes... how ironic if that guy did know something the gov't of China didn't want leaked - whereas here, the secret criminal is allowed to walk free to be with his family. Aside from that though, who are we to tell another culture how to run their justice system? Especially when ours is less than perfect. |
| catlondon | Posted – 7/11/2007 11:42:32 AM | show profile I had two reactions to the execution--on the one hand, I found it chilling and on the other hand, I could certainly see the black humor and what it would mean if we executed officials here for screwing up their jobs. I imagine agencies would have a harder time recruiting and there would be lots of sudden job openings. I'm not a fan of moral relativism, so I feel that I can condemn China for this action even knowing that our own justice system needs work. What is interesting is the unexpected bite-back of the Walmart -led push to cheaper overseas manufacturing. Nobody stopped to consider that maybe, yes indeed, you get what you pay for. I've already seen backlash against buying Chinese products, which if it grows, could really reverberate through the economy, especially since it crossed so many lines of daily need--bad tires, tainted toothpaste and pet food, lead paint on toys. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 7/11/2007 5:26:06 PM | show profile Mailbag: yeah, if you look up the post on the woman who was trying to change her post name so she could post anonymously, I was explaining to her how to do it. (Below: Click here to change your screen name: Thusly:) is what I wrote. I was going to change it back but got tired of my dogs being insulted -- and the tired ways people were insulting my screen name. It'll be fun to see what posters come up with for this one. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 7/11/2007 5:28:32 PM | show profile To begin with, I was kidding. But frankly, I have very little to do with the justice system or the way it is run. I didn't vote for this president either time, I didn't vote for the Supreme Court Justices or the man who put them in there, I didn't vote for more than half the people in the Senate orthe Congress. THe justice system in my home runs just fine, so I feel I can criticize any justice system I want. If you don't criticize, nothing ever changes. |
| LotusBlossom | Posted – 7/13/2007 9:39:06 AM | show profile Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You Hari-kiri is superior to execution: It puts the onus where it belongs. I felt very strongly that Ralph Nader should have killed himself in 2000. And I can think of several administration officials that really ought to do it right now. |
