Covered by China’s politically omnipotent one-party system, Party officials are notorious for using their power to commit all variety of wrongdoing. The following quotes, gathered by Chinese netizens, reflect the officials’ attitude towards the people they supposedly serve.
#7— ‘When you threaten me, you threaten the Party.’
A Chinese couple in Sichuan Province, southwest China, had invested 700,000 yuan to build a treatment plant to recycle rock waste. Last year, when they met with district official Luo Song to discuss complications regarding the plant’s functioning, Luo said “if you threaten me, you are threatening the Party.”
His words were recorded on video and he was suspended from his job and put under investigation the next day, the state-run Xinhua reported.
#6— ‘Do you know what crime is? It is a crime to oppose the government.’
In 2010, Wang Yinfeng, district party secretary in the province-level municipality of Chongqing, was displeased by a construction project underway near a government office and demanded it be suspended despite there being no legal basis to do so.
Citing the principles of feng shui, an ancient Chinese philosophy used for the auspicious and harmonious arrangement of plants, buildings, and other objects, Wang had started a shouting match with the developer, the state-run People’s Daily reported that October.
