"Sovereign individuality"  explained to Chinese shills.





Common law and custom are features of most enduring legal orders. In English law the concepts have taken on special and interrelated significance, since English law is said to be grounded in common law and that in turn is said to derive from custom. According to classical common law theory, which crystallized in the seventeenth century, common law grew from the customs of the English people. It was not made by legal officials, as statutes are. Change was accommodated in this theory, on the basis not of identity of elements of law over time but of continuity, a continuity of authority and reception of legal customs, and of the traditional legal order which declared them to be law. The role of legal officials – particularly judges – was to interpret and declare legal custom; their judgments provided evidence of it. They did not make it or invent it. This mode of development through continual interpretation and reinterpretation of the significance and bearing of the legal inheritance was, according to common lawyers, better adapted to social complexity, change and variety, and also to human epistemological and practical limitations, than attempts to cover any field with legislation.

This theory was largely eclipsed in nineteenth-century England by the theory of legal positivism, and with it were eclipsed for a time some useful insights into social complexity and institutional limitations. Also lost was a sense of the complex dialectic between continuity and change in legal and institutionalized traditions. In its best moments, common law theory had such a sense.
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/common-law/v-1/sections/judges-a...

Terrific.

John Anderson is a gem of a host.

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 6:14pm:

In China, the legal system is constructed to protect any CCP official who enjoys the protection of the CCP including the rape of children.

With no free media to expose criminal CCP officials, the Chinese victim has no choice but to accept their fate.

Of course, as CCP corruption is a state secret, exposing it in China is a serious crime.

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 9:22pm:

In China they erase poverty by murdering the poor. 50 million of the poor were 'lifted out of poverty' and life when the Chinese commies were most rampant under Mao, the sexual predator with rotting teeth.

Xi is the Mao of our time with a Western trained dentist.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2022 at 9:47pm:


The CCP, being one party following the lofty ideals of collective well-being, is infinitely open to elimination of corruption.

Unlike two party rabbles among whom those least able to consider collective well-being are permitted to vote.

Result: entrenched poverty.   

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Xi is one who initiated the anti-corruption drive, after all.

Meanwhile: 

"And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, but not notice the beam in your own eye"?

Matthew 7, 3.

How's the ICAC progressing?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Mar 4^th, 2022 at 8:02am:


Nonsense. Communism was a reaction to the entrenched poverty and ongoing wars of Western imperialism.

China is doing fine.

I suggest you look to your own corrupt and decaying system. 

MeisterEckhart wrote on Mar 4^th, 2022 at 2:30pm:


History is catching up with you. The Capitol riots indicate the state of the democracies now, in the present time; China has been stable and growing for 4 decades.

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Its a pity they had the opportunity to flee to the island, to enable the clash of ideologies to continue.

Let's have another look at the situation in a decade when China's economy is bigger than the US.

At that point, the US's sneaky  "One China" policy will indeed become reality, without being sneaky.....

MeisterEckhart wrote on Mar 4^th, 2022 at 3:34pm:


History doesn't change in an instant, but one event can certainly be indicative of a trend....

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Like I said -  4 decades ago: the CCP is continuously changing and adapting, whereas the democracies (really plutocracies) are ossifying. 

And whereas when the US National Guard murdered 6 students during the Vietnam War protests, they were enforcing the government's foreign policy, but in Jan 6th 2021 they were required to defend the Capitol against internal domestic hyper-partisanship ...while the CCP enjoys >90% support at home.

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"Among the eight questions that NPC spokesperson Zhang took at the press conference, two were about the whole-process people's democracy in China" (as opposed to the grid-locked 'veto-cracy' in the US).

"Zhang said it is a key concept that the leadership of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping at its core has developed and is underpinned by a well-established set of institutional procedures, as well as full participation and practice".

"Zhu Lijia, a professor of public management at the Chinese Academy of Governance, told the Global Times on Friday that "the most important characteristic of socialist democracy is the democracy of participation and of consultation. People take part in formulating, consulting and supervising this process, which has much significance."



"There are no identical democratic systems in the world, nor is there a one-size-fits-all mode of democracy. When it comes to democracy, there is always room for improvement," Zhang said. "On the basis of mutual respect, we are willing to engage exchanges and mutual learning with other countries to continuously enrich and better the fruits of human political civilization," he said.

And are you willing to learn? (silly question, I know...).