Posted on 05/29/2007 5:53:30 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
BEIJING (Reuters) - China sentenced the former head of its food and drugs agency to death for corruption on Tuesday in a surprise judgment as the government sought to contain a wave of scandals over health safety.
Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, was convicted on charges of taking bribes and dereliction of duty, Xinhua news agency reported, citing the Beijing Municipal No. 1 Intermediate People's Court.
The sentence, which was unusually harsh, could still be reduced on appeal. But it reflects the weight China's top leaders are giving to the issues of corruption and food safety as they grapple with the fallout overseas after a series of safety breaches involving toxins in food and other products
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
In reality this is just a classic case of scapegoating by the ChiCom government.
String ‘em up Ping!
Wow! This is really getting interesting.
His crime: Getting caught.
It's also a good way to shut him up.
OASIS Refusals by Country for April 2007
China Mainland - 257
http://www.fda.gov/ora/oasis/4/ora_oasis_c_cn.html
No more crime scene!
Note to the PRC: Ain’t gonna help.....
He’s a scapegoat.
The entire Chinese industry is incapable of meeting even minimal Western standards for produce safety, product quality and pollution controls.
Zheng Xiaoyu will die, but the problem won’t go away.
Neither will other factors that allow the Chinese to produce goods at dirt cheap prices, including theft of intellectual property and use of prison labor.
This has been going on for years. A loss of American jobs didn’t cause any alarm, but when people’s pets start to die...then things get noticed.
Duncan Hunter is about 10 years ahead of everyone else on this. He’s called a “protectionist”. Since pets have started dying maybe the term takes on a new meaning.
He’s a fall guy - unfortunately for him, the fall will come while a rope is around his neck.
Even if it weren’t scapegoating, what did they expect? The government has absolute power, and in such a situation the temptation for those in the government to abuse their positions skyrockets. Yet another argument for a government of limited power (I’ve heard that concept before, where was that?).
No, no, you idiot! They were supposed to die slowly and mysteriously!
All true. If this one guy doesn’t appease the news cycle, they will have a troop of “safety officials” shot. Then, business as usual.
The full brunt of this won’t be felt for years.
YOu have had some human deaths in some nations from tainted imports, but there will be long term health effects for years, as people who were exposed to crap for lord knows how long have long term health problems down the road from them.
This is EXACTLY what happens when you have these idiotic “free trade” agreements with 3rd world nations with no oversight and no direct binational treaty, but large 3rd party run multi-national oversight organizations. Its predictable and mathmatically provable, this was the only result one couls expect from granting free trade status to largely corrupt and totalitarian nations.
The ChiComs forgot to give the man a fair trial??
Rueters are frickin morons. The standard punishment for taking bribes as a government official in China is death. This is normal there and is not viewed as harsh. Reuters forgets they are a communist regime.
GOOD!!! They killed my dog .
I can't help but think that if we did that to our corrupt government officials, we would either have a more honest government, or smarter thieves.
Aaagh! You beat me to it.
They gorked this guy pretty quick, before names could fall from his trembling lips.
China publicly executes prisoners, with a sign arond their neck and a bullet in the back of the head. They then send a bill for the bullet (about 8 cents) to the family of the executed.
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