Monday, October 20, 2008

But What About the Milk?

Welcome to life in China.

A former Beijing official who oversaw citywide construction projects for this year’s Olympic Games has been given a suspended death sentence for corruption in a case that involved bribery and lavish living, state news outlets reported on Sunday.

Xinhua, the state news agency, reported that the sentence, suspended for two years, meant that if the defendant “shows good behavior, his sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment.”

In other words, he’s the patsy.  I bet there wasn’t one person on the BJOC who wasn’t on the take to the degree this guys was.  That’s how shit gets done here.  But, they had a scandal and they needed to show to the world that they were “serious about solving corruption.” So they find one guy, blame everything on him, and threaten him with a death sentence.  If he spends the next two years taking the blame for the corruption of everyone else involved he gets to go spend the rest of his life in prison?

A Chinese prison?  Christ, a bullet in the back of the head sounds more appealing.