Chinese farmer 'studies law for 16 years' to defeat dumping of hazardous waste

Re:Chinese farmer 'studies law for 16 years' to defeat dumpi... by yorwba on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:55PM (#21175796)

Reading the linked report by the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims [1], it's clear that the problem was not with the law being so complex it took 16 years to understand, but that the agencies tasked with enforcing the law were trying very hard to shirk their duty and stalling him at every opportunity. The People's Daily article [2] recounts a nice anecdote about getting rebuffed when requesting land use maps from the responsible agency, which he countered by quoting the law granting him access from memory, which apparently scared the agency employee enough to hand him the maps.

[1] http://www.clapv.org/english_lvshi/ZhiChiAnJian_Content.asp?...

[2] http://jx.people.com.cn/n2/2017/0203/c355185-29659118.html

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Re:Chinese farmer 'studies law for 16 years' to defeat dumpi... by icsllaf on Monday October 07, 2019 @12:27AM (#21177477)

Honestly, a good amount of law and politics is knowing what you can or cannot do. It's not that law is complex it's that dealing with people who know law, or people that know that you don't know about law is complex.

You can see it when people with the basic understanding of police interactions can avoid so much illegal stuff happening if they just know when to say no.

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