Zheng Xiaoyu, the former executive in China responsible for Food/Drug quality, has been executed for corruption, with an estimated value of bribes accepted approx €630,ooo.
This rather extreme measure should, however, cause us in this country to see how casually we have accepted corporate and political corruption over many years.
Some mature journalists and others here seem to be arguing that a senior politician who accepts bribes in thousands should be excused because he wasn't as corrupt as the senior politician who took bribes (?) in millions....
Some of these established journalists are now beginning to lampoon the tribunals with the obvious intention of having them closed down....but the people who will benefit most from closure are the corrupt ones...
Also, considering what happened to ZX above, should our brand new (junior) Minister for Food Quality, Trevor Sargent, be on the look out??
1 comment:
surely we don't want to bring the death penalty back to Ireland?
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