Crackdown on lawless lawyers

Behind some recent sensitive social events are some groups of "petitioners" who manipulated public opinion using fake information, polluted cyberspace and disturbed the social order for their personal interests. They should be brought to justice for taking advantage of netizens' sympathy and trying to make a mockery of justice.

Some lawyers played a leading role for the petitioners' groups and thus violated the very same law they are supposed to uphold. Lawyers are socialist legal workers and major participants in and promoters of the rule of law. But some lawyers tend to "take a short cut" for personal interests and build their reputation. By doing so, they create trouble and provoke turbulence in the name of "safeguarding legal rights" or "public interests".

Such behaviors, which are deliberate violations of the law, are least expected from lawyers.