Composition material: The professor's kneeling is actually the "kneeling" of civil rights.

Composition material: The professor's kneeling is actually the "kneeling" of civil rights.

He' nan ding yonghui

introduce

100 years ago, the pioneer of the democratic revolution, represented by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, launched the Revolution of 1911, overthrew the Qing Dynasty, put an end to China's autocratic monarchy that lasted for more than 2,000 years, and put forward political ideas such as "democracy", "civil rights" and "people's livelihood" for the first time. Since then, the concept of democracy has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and has become an irreversible historical trend.

On 201111day, dozens of professors and graduate students from Yangtze University went to the municipal governments in Jingzhou, Hubei Province to kneel down and petition, demanding that the municipal government ban small steel mills near the west campus of Yangtze University. Since ancient times, there has been a proverb in China that "there is gold under one's knees". It has been one hundred years since the Revolution of 1911. Why does the professor still have to kneel down to defend his rights? What makes these professors abandon the pride and dignity of scholars and choose to kneel?

Focus tracking

There used to be an abandoned brick and tile factory about 500 meters north of the west campus of Yangtze University. In 2007, someone built a small steel plant here, named Jingzhou Chu Hang Special Steel Products Co., Ltd. ... The steel plant mainly used the backward intermediate frequency furnace to recycle scrap steel to produce building steel bars.

The campus is filled with toxic and harmful gases, dust and noise emitted by small steel mills, which is harmful to the health of more than 10,000 teachers and students in the West Campus/KLOC-0. Many teachers and students suffer from chronic diseases such as headache and pharyngitis, and the normal teaching order of the school is affected.

Because the enterprise uses backward technology to produce "strip steel" and has not obtained the production license of relevant departments, it has used the production license of "Liqun Metal Co., Ltd." for a long time. In the past four years, the teachers and students of Yangtze University have reported the company's suspected illegal production to the local government and higher authorities eight times, and demanded that it be banned, but it has been fruitless. Since the establishment of the factory in 2007, the production scale of the steel plant has been continuously expanded, and the distance from the factory to the park has been shortened from 500 meters when the factory was established to 100 meters. By 20 1 1, the steel plant had been quietly renamed as "Jingzhou Liqun Metal Products Co., Ltd. Chu Hang Company".

201111110 Because the demands of teachers and students of the school to ban steel mills were not met, dozens of professors and graduate students from Yangtze University came to the Jingzhou District Government at 9:30 am to "kneel down" and demanded.

The petition of teachers and students in front of the district government did not receive a positive response. A deputy district head even said, "There is no pollution in Africa, so move to Africa." Later, they collectively moved to the front of the Jingzhou Municipal Government to continue their petition. 2011165438+1on the afternoon of October 3, the company announced that it would stop production due to pressure from all sides.

Focus and viewpoint

Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that "a man has gold on his knees and only kneels to the world". Why on earth did these professors abandon the pride and dignity of scholars and choose to kneel down? Because before kneeling down, the professors have exhausted all ways of safeguarding rights. For example, there have been eight petitions, for example, three members of the school submitted proposals at the CPPCC meeting, and then reported the situation to the State Bureau of Quality Supervision and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. The kneeling professor said that teachers and students have gone through all legal channels they can think of to reflect the pollution problem, and they have looked for everything they should look for, but it is useless. In the past few years, many teachers have fallen ill in a polluted environment. "For the sake of life and health, there is really no way to kneel down."

Viewpoint 1: This kneeling has damaged the character of literati and the conscience of society. Professors should not kneel. How does a kneeling professor cultivate students with civic awareness? The essayist Mr. Wu Fei has an inspiring sentence in "Don't Kneel to Teach": "If students want to stand up straight, teachers can't kneel to teach. If a teacher does not have the spirit of independent thinking, what kind of person is his student union? " In order to cultivate independent students, teachers can neither teach nor take power on their knees.

Viewpoint 2: This kneeling shows the determination and helplessness of the weak. "Kneeling to remonstrate" has always been the last way for remonstrators to choose, because kneeling expresses their determination. But in essence, this is actually a protest by the weak against the strong. Professors protested against power by hurting their dignity. If it wasn't for helplessness, how could they choose this road?

Viewpoint 3: This shocking "kneeling" makes the body and knees bend, but it loses its dignity. Kneeling is a shame, you can't kneel easily.

We can't sell ourselves short, we must safeguard our dignity and rights. Only in this way can we "stand"!

Viewpoint 4: This kneeling has disintegrated the popular feeling and image of the local government. It is doubtful whether "kneeling" can solve the problem. It is not excluded that this is a helpless move to pursue justice in desperation. However, kneeling out is more like begging for "justice." This may promote the solution of the problem, but it cannot be regarded as an important means to solve the problem. It's more like drinking poison to quench thirst. When kneeling becomes the normal state of public opinion expression, when begging becomes the right path of public opinion appeal, the image of local government collapses. In the face of the most basic demands of citizens, the local government chose to refuse, which also made the professors kneel even more sad.

Focus, links and famous sayings

1. Let people live a happier and more dignified life.

-Wen Jiabao

You shouldn't disrespect others just to please them.

-Rousseau

3. Renew people's thoughts with laws, eliminate feudal remnants, safeguard human dignity and promote economic prosperity.

-Napoleon

Democracy is healthy blood circulating in veins and arteries. The normal function of the body depends on it, but it should never be derailed, just as blood can't flow out of blood vessels.

Coleridge

5. Democracy is the only power in the world.

-He Qing Qi

6. Democracy is the axiom of the world.

Yiqing Liang Qichao

Focus, Links and Examples Wu Xu's "Existential Spirit" questioned the public's sense of security.

43-year-old Xu Wuben is a staff member of the Security Section of the Ironmaking Plant of WISCO Group. Since 2003, Wu Xu has taken the company to court for dissatisfaction with the problem of "unequal pay for equal work". The first trial lost, and the second trial was rejected. Since then, he did not accept mediation, but only "just judgment" and began his career of constantly petitioning.

According to Southern Metropolis Daily, on February 30th, 2006, Wu Xu's parents finally signed the document "Send their son to a mental hospital for treatment" under great pressure from the staff of WISCO Public Security Bureau and the petition department. Since then, Wu Xu has been sent to a special ward in the psychiatric department of the Second Staff Hospital of WISCO, and started a "treatment" career for more than four years.

Wu Xu successfully escaped on April 65438. After that, he did not contact his family, but went all the way down to Guangzhou to seek media help. Wu Xu complained to the main media in Guangzhou that he had been petitioning for many years and was "persecuted" by his former boss and former unit. He was illegally sent to a mental hospital for four years.

On April 27th, Xu Wuhe's father, Xu Guibin, and another friend surnamed Jiang were interviewed by Southern TV. When he left, Wu Xu was "kidnapped" by seven men with Wuhan accent in the compound of Southern TV Station.

According to the surveillance video, two men will drag out the taxi and pull it into another taxi, while several other men control Xu's father and take away his friend's mobile phone. A reporter from China Southern Television then arrived. In this dispute, a man was detained and sent to the local police station in Guangzhou. Later, it was confirmed that the man was Quan Wei, the director of the security department of WISCO Ironmaking Plant, who was repeatedly reported by Wu Xu. Later, Wu Xu continued to go back to the hospital for "psychotherapy".

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Wu Xu was forcibly taken away in broad daylight. Who are they? What right do you have to deprive citizens of their personal freedom and make a compulsory admission decision? The Wu Xu incident has shaken the public's sense of security!

Sun Ming-a cold-blooded mayor who kneels to thousands of people.

201April 13, more than 1000 villagers from two villages in zhuanghe city, Liaoning Province went to the municipal government to reflect the corruption of their village cadres and asked the mayor to receive them, but they were rejected. The villagers had to kneel before the government, but the mayor didn't come out to receive them until the end.

On April 24th, the Dalian Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government made a decision that Sun Ming, deputy secretary of Zhuanghe Municipal Party Committee and mayor, should bear the main leadership responsibility for the improper handling of the collective petition of villagers in zhuanghe city on April 13. According to the Interim Provisions on Accountability of Party and Government Leading Cadres, he was ordered to resign as Deputy Secretary of CPC Zhuanghe Municipal Committee and Mayor of zhuanghe city Municipal People's Government.

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Kneeling to officials is essentially that citizens automatically give up their rights. This extreme weakness and even loss of personal dignity is to turn the original civil rights into a plea for power. Mayor Sun Ming was ordered to resign, which is very popular, but beyond that, reflection should continue.

depth of focus

The professor knelt on his soft knees,

Or hard power?

Mayishan

Dozens of professors from Yangtze University built factories outside the campus wall to produce fake and shoddy steel products, which polluted the environment and endangered the health of teachers and students. They wrote to the government and relevant departments eight times, but no one asked. In desperation, on June 5438+065438+1 October1day, the professors knelt at the gate of the district government to petition, but the deputy head of the district actually said, "There is no pollution in Africa, so I moved to Africa."

The professor knelt down, which triggered another "polite sweeping" event since Dr. Wang Jinwen from Tsinghua University wrote to the mayor of Weifang to stop the demolition. A well-known columnist called it "not only useless, but also unconstitutional" and "unable to spread this feudal signal". Of course, professors are suspected of belittling themselves, but is there a better way to defend their rights? I went to Jingzhou City, the district government, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of Hubei Province and other relevant departments eight times, but "no one asked". Should teachers and students of Yangtze University let polluting enterprises continue to pollute the environment? Should the bad situation of "campus trees being smoked to death and some teachers and students suffering from strange diseases" continue? This is not "it's easy to stand and talk", what is it?

Although the development thinking of "GDP first" has been abandoned by everyone, and the Central Committee and the State Council have repeatedly reiterated that they should pay attention to scientific development and sustainable development, rather than pollution and bloody GDP, local governments' quick success and hunger for food are still guiding environmental events that ignore people's health and sacrifice people's well-being. On the other hand, the officials involved remain silent, have nothing to do with themselves or pass the buck. For many officials, eight letters may be commonplace, and at most it can only be regarded as a "hot potato"; But here at Yangtze University, it means that the right to life and health is stripped naked. It is hard to understand why this vague and well-founded petition was ignored, forcing professors to kneel under the sky and in front of the city government to get attention.

Simply looking down at the knees of professors, thinking that they are "knee-soft" is superficial, and even inadvertently becomes an accomplice to the autocratic power of refusing to give advice. It is still necessary to start from the details of "eight times no one cares", trace back step by step, torture the shortcomings of the system, and pursue the responsibility at all levels to prevent similar cases from "rushing headlong into action". At present, the Jingzhou District Government has taken power outage measures against Chu Hang Metal Products Company, which has stopped production. This is a welcome signal and a refutation of the "uselessness" of kneeling. It's a little late and sad, but it's good to see the dawn.

(selected from "Golden Sheep Network")

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Most government officials are taught by university professors, and it is a social sorrow that professors who have studied all their lives should kneel down to them. If local government officials have a little respect for university professors or knowledge, they will take the initiative to solve problems; If the public has the power to frighten officials, it is impossible to build a "small steel factory" with serious pollution next to the university campus. Unfortunately, there are no ifs in life!

Concluding remarks

It is debatable and controversial for professors to kneel down to protect their rights. However, "who wants to do dysentery with their hair?" Who doesn't know that kneeling is a shame and bring disgrace to oneself? Who would kneel if they were not forced to? What is worth pondering is, why do you take the normal channels to protect rights but no one cares? Where are the deputies to the National People's Congress who can best represent the interests of the people? The government does not close polluting enterprises, regardless of the harm to the health of teachers and students. The fundamental reason is that GDP is paramount and political achievements are paramount. In this reality, it is particularly extravagant to ask and reprimand professors to kneel. If China has a perfect litigation system, professors may be free from such self-harm and dignity, and "civil rights" will be lost. What about "democracy"? Without it, how can there be "people's livelihood"? The professor's kneeling is actually the "kneeling" of civil rights!