China teen seen as hero for killing local official

[WileEcoyote]

Some of these punks really deserve it. This one from China,

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.

China's leaders have identified corruption as a threat to the country's progress, but an opaque political system dominated by the ruling Communist Party — which brooks no dissent — and the lack of an independent judiciary contribute to the problem.

In the case of party secretary Li, the young man who confessed to the stabbing — 19-year-old Zhang Xuping — has been sentenced to death for the September 2008 killing, his mother and lawyer said Wednesday. The sentence was quietly handed down last week and an appeal was filed this week, they said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_killer_hero>China teen seen as hero for killing local official - Yahoo! News


Revenge killing is a natural course of action when a legal system fails or gives undue power to corrupt power wielders. It is not to be discouraged. Hopefully the young man accused of "murder" sent a strong signal to Chinese officials. Maybe things will improve and we'll hear of even more and more hits on these a-holes. Capping these thugs is a real boost not only to the People's morale but the economy itself.

The boy is a hero.

[Rebubula]

1. Hero?

One person's hero is another person's murderer.

Scott Roeder (murdered George Tiller) is a hero to many as is Paul Hill and Eric Rudolph


Depends on which side you take. Revenge killing may seem natural to you, but not to me.


That said...if I had to live under the Chinese regime - I may think differently