The park issued a very black humorous notice, saying that a real estate agent, Shao, posted a short video online:
“The park’s real estate transaction hall is packed on weekdays, it must be people they hired, 200 yuan a day.”
After investigation, it was found to be untrue, and Shao was criminally detained according to law.
Finally, I urge the general public not to believe rumors, not to spread rumors…
This matter is very difficult to hold back. The upper left corner clearly states “fictional interpretation, for entertainment only”, but the relevant departments still went online and arrested the person.
We should of course condemn the rumor-mongers’ behavior of disrupting the market, but when administrative detention can solve the problem, it has to be escalated to criminal offenses, when public security cases have to be framed with the pocket crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, this kind of dimensionality reduction strike-style law enforcement hides a more dangerous disease than rumors.
Acknowledging that rumors should be punished, this is the basic consensus of a society ruled by law.
The agent said that the real estate transaction hall was packed on weekdays, and they were all actors hired for 200 a day. This kind of behavior did indeed touch the edge of the “Public Security Administration Punishment Law”. If the public security organs imposed administrative detention and fines on them according to law, it could not only make the lawbreakers pay the price, but also give the market a reassurance.
But the reality is to directly use criminal means – this kind of skipping the administrative penalty ladder and directly taking out a gun to shoot mosquitoes, what is exposed is not the swift and decisive law enforcement officers, but the cognitive confusion of the legal toolbox.
According to Article 291 of the “Criminal Law”, the “crime of fabricating and intentionally spreading false information” has strict constituent elements, requiring that the behavior must reach the degree of “seriously disrupting social order”.
From the existing information disclosure, the rumor did not even cause local market fluctuations, and there were no group incidents, bank runs or systemic risks, but it was still criminally punished, it’s really awesome.
According to this logic, in the past few years, the housing prices have fallen, why aren’t those big Vs who always sing more and shout that housing prices will rise arrested?
In fact, it’s easy to understand why there are such double standards, it’s nothing more than touching some people’s sore spots.
Real estate, for so many years, has always been the local government’s money bag. Now that real estate is not doing well, land finance is also in jeopardy. Everyone’s life is not good. Only when real estate rises again, everyone may become generous again.
It’s like a healthy person, you make fun of him, he may just laugh it off, but if he is already terminally ill, knowing that he doesn’t have much time left, you still make fun of him, the more correct you say, the more he will jump up and down, and be furious.
Now the real estate industry is such a thing. I have written articles for so many years, and I have a deep feeling. In those days, Evergrande desperately deleted my articles, and it is still fresh in my memory.
If I could have lived a little longer when I wrote Evergrande’s articles, I might have been able to save more people.
History has repeatedly proved that the more effort you put into covering up the mouths of the market, the more destructive the truth will be when it breaks out.
Falsehoods are like duckweed in a pond, seemingly covering the water surface but not hurting the roots; the truth is the water hyacinth that grows wildly at the bottom of the water, the surface is calm, but in fact it is strangling the oxygen of the entire ecosystem.
Our regulation is always adding more layers of code on the level of “blocking”, but unwilling to promote development in the dimension of “dredging”. This kind of governance logic that avoids the important and neglects the trivial will eventually trap all participants in the cycle of soaring and plummeting.
The above is a bit far-fetched, back to the matter of the agent being criminally detained, I think the essence of a society ruled by law lies in the equivalence of crime and punishment, as Protagoras said, “The measure is the master of all things”.
The most terrifying thing about this case in Suzhou is not that the wrong person was arrested, but that the right crime was used but the wrong dosage was given – it’s like a doctor prescribing chemotherapy for a cold patient, which seems to be effective, but in fact destroys the entire immune system.
When we tacitly allow the use of criminal heavy penalties to deal with industry chaos at any time, this sliding effect is the fatal erosion of the foundation of the rule of law.
From a historical perspective, this case is just a microscopic footnote to the era of housing price anxiety.
What really needs to be vigilant is not the rumor of a certain agent, but the inertia of some places to arbitrarily knead the law like plasticine.
I hope the local government seriously considers whether the sentence is too heavy, because this is not a small matter. If the incitement to crime rises to such a height, I am afraid that it will play a very bad leading role for the local people.
Economic laws will not cease to exist because you do not accept them. Throughout history, almost every major country has experienced a real estate crisis. It is true that “the only lesson that mankind can learn from history is that mankind cannot learn any lessons from history”.
I do think that the real estate should be cleared as soon as possible, allowing houses to return to their residential attributes, squeezing out the original bubbles, which is the most correct choice at the moment.
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