The so called PR China in the year 2008 immediately associates with the global event known as the Olympic Games. But at that time of world obsession with the sports ritual, a much more significant event went completely unnoticed - and that is the mission of Yang Jia, a young man of 28 years who repeated the feat of his British counterpart Harry Roberts and with twice the effectiveness.
A man with dubious socialization skills, on the margins of the competitive megalopolis of the Olympic Beijing - Shanghai, tormented by the demons of poverty and the brutality of bureaucracy, experienced the peak of misery in the form of arrest and severe beating accompanied by humiliation and suffering in a police station. And the reason for the arrest is incredibly dystopian - that he was riding an unregistered bicycle. I use the word bicycle because its standard equivalent - bicycle sounds nonsense. Or was it irrelevant. In a country where the tax rate is so high that even bicycles have to be registered (probably due to their mass and thus a phenomenally large tax base) - there was no room for characters like our Yang.
But Yang was not one to stifle his suffering in silence. As the spiritual child of the cult Harry - he decided to take revenge. First he tried through regular channels, with a lawsuit, but the regular channels were clogged with the garbage of the cop's legal untouchability. After exhausting the ``legal'' options, he decided on a drastic step. There are differences in the facts here, there are several versions about the DIY Damocles Sword that was supposed to be a tool of righteous anger... according to some, it was a cheap replica of a samurai sword (Katana), according to others, a somewhat longer kitchen knife, and still others - a crudely made homemade blade by Yang Jia himself.
Anyway, Young, armed with the aforementioned blade, hammer, gas mask and a whole crate of Molotov cocktails, headed to the police station where he was tortured. At least twenty cops stood in the way of Justice, but Young, carried away by a vengeful trance, butchered six, seriously wounded three and slightly wounded several more of the guards. One can only imagine the tension of that situation in all its bloody drama and beauty...The Olympics brought Young a few months of life because the trial was postponed to some `different` times, when the cameras of the world media would not be so present. The legal upheavals were unusually short and unlike Yang's lawsuit when he was tortured - this time state `justice' came down with all its weight on the defendant - in the form of a lethal injection in November 2008.
The similarities with Harry's case are striking (although Yang had twice the score) - a song about Hero Yang began to be sung among the people, various dissidents and enemies of the regime began to use him as a symbol of class division, and a certain Chinese Punk-rock band named Pang Gu recorded a song about Yang Jia with the (loosely interpreted) title Knife at Home ... for which they later had to go into exile...The legend of Yang Jia as a Far Eastern variant of the legend of Harry, flourishes in the Far East and besides it, Comrade Yang also partly flourishes, not as a ghost or zombie but in a completely different context.
One truth makes me happy, no one returns from beyond the veil? The cops certainly won't return, albeit neither will Yang.
Yang's organs are now living a second life, transplanted into wealthy Chinese citizens whose lives were saved through involuntary organ donations from people sentenced to death in the hyper-capitalist oasis enabled by the Chinese Communist Party...
(Roger Mortis, 055)
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