The Rule of Law

the caravan. The signs are that there are more senior-level departments getting involved. Wherever I went, the cars would surround me and a group of about twenty strong men would run up….

The person who stood as close as 1.8 meters away from my wife at the KFC restaurant and watched her dined was the hardest working of the whole lot, and also the most shameless. You can tell that he treated this dirty business as a sacred duty. Whenever I go, he followed me almost as if he was going to touch my body. Today when I went home, he was shameless to the point of obstructing me from entering my home.

Correspondingly, when my wife went to the market, the number of plainclothesmen has increased from two to four…

When I arrived at the office this morning, the landlord called to say that someone was causing him trouble for renting the office space to me. The level of tender loving care from the plainclothesmen to me is incredible. They can think about all the things that you can never imagine, and this is perhaps the unique attribute that they use to select plainclothesmen.

Recently, a lot of people want to offer me ‘love.’ The day before yesterday, a person with a Wuhan (Hubei) accent called me and wanted me to take on a big case involving several tens of millions of yuan, for which I can expect to make a few million yuan in legal fees. I told him: (1) my law office has been ordered to cease business by the authorities; (2) even if there was no stoppage, I have no interest presently in any case that involves only monetary interests as I would rather do something more meaningful. The other party passionately expressed his firm support for the value of my past activities and denounced the barbarity of the authorities. He said that despised the authorities and he could provide the several million yuan secretly to me without any receipt as long as I personally took care of the case. On one hand, this setup had no apparent flaws. On the other hand, I had never imagined that anyone would set up such a trap. Still, I turned it down, thank God! As I was hanging up the telephone, I heard someone laughing and saying: “Fuck! He did not fall for it!” in perfect putonghua intonation on the other side.