Is it fair to support lawless lawyers?
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E-mail Xinhua, July 14, 2015
Without recourse to anything as useful and obvious as details or facts, the western media simply equates "lawyers" with "justice", and "Chinese police" with "oppression".
How easy it is for journalists to use provocative words to catch attention. How reluctant they are to bear responsibility for misleading the public!
China's Ministry of Public Security suspect a group of using Beijing's Fengrui Law Firm to disrupt public order, seek illegal profits, illegally hiring protesters and attempting to unfairly influence the courts. Since July 2012, the group has allegedly organized more than 40 such controversial incidents.
China is doing all it reasonably can to advance the rule of law. New rules will regulate interactions between judges, lawyers and other interested parties. Lawyers' rights will be better protected. Lawmakers, judges and prosecutors are being recruited from the ranks of qualified lawyers and jurists.
Lawyers, surely, should take the lead in obeying the law. It is a universal requirement in all the countries that seek to supplant the rule of men by the rule of law.
Lawyers should safeguard justice in the courtroom with the application of their knowledge, morality and skill, not undermine the law by rabble-rousing in the streets. Rule of law is not mob rule.
Western media who support of human rights and justice should take better care to ensure they stand on the right side of the line.
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