Greg Galler
Guest Columnist
It’s the day of the big game. Your team is playing its biggest rival for the championship. You’re confident and excited. But before the game starts, the officials announce that they will favor the other team to guarantee that it wins. Could you even imagine such a thing happening? Does that sound fair? How much would that upset you?broadstreet.zone(48036);
You may be surprised to learn that in some parts of the world, judicial systems openly behave in that very way.
Last week, one of the metro papers ran a short article quoting the head of China’s Supreme People’s Court stating that the idea of an independent judiciary is an “erroneous Western ideal.” He further instructed China’s judges to “draw your swords” against words or actions that run counter to the dictates of China’s Communist Party. In our analogy, that is functionally the same as sports officials saying that they will
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