Anchorage Road Case: Villages Destroyed, Road Guards Arrested, Who Should Pay for Public Interest?

In the depths of the Tea Mountain in Fujian Anchorage, a rural road rebuilt in 1998 was almost destroyed.

It was the life line of more than three hundred villagers: more than four hundred meters long, more than three meters wide, together with the tea garden, together with the father's house, together with Xiao Xiao and the four villages to joint hydropower stations, went for a whole twenty-six years.

The destruction of it is not a mountain flood, not a collapse, but two steel concrete bases built in the heart of the road.

Absurdly, the six villagers who tried to stop the occupation were called “violators” by the public security, the government and the court – Wang Moui and Wang Moui Li were both sentenced to administrative detention for nine days by the Anchor County Public Security Bureau, while the people who destroyed the village and occupied the building of roads became “victims.”

This seemingly simple public security case, hidden behind the grassroots ethnic interests collusion, selective law enforcement, self-remediation judicial trouble, and the public interest in the responsibility vacuum embarrassing situation, more exposed to the grassroots law enforcement, administrative review, first-instance judicial level maintenance of lower level performance errors, deviating from the general problem of the rule of law.

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The Crucified Village: From Collective Road to “Private House Base”

In 1998, the villagers of the two natural villages of Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao Xiao

For twenty-five years, it carried the production transportation of tea farmers, the daily travel of villagers, no one has questioned its public properties. Until July 2022, Wang Yong Feng hired excavators to dig most of the road, and in the latter period, engineering machinery was used to dig two deep steel concrete foundation holes in the center of the road. The public information showed that Wang Yong Feng was not an ordinary villager, he was trained in a local high school in Yangtze, had a legal sense and land management awareness, was clearly aware that the occupation of public road building was a violation, but still intentionally committed invasion.

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Deep-growing behind the cultured connections: Wang some peak's cousin, then Xiao Chun Village Party Branch Secretary, village committee director, served as the village and two committees chief, for Wang some peak's husband and wife's building location, drawing design, occupying the village, the whole process of two about 2x2 square meters square meters of pits, accurately interrupted the entire road in the middle of the 5 meters passage area, how was the village first-level audit signed?

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Many villagers have repeatedly filed cases, complained, demanded to stop the illegal construction of Wang Mou Feng's house, but from the village committee to the town government, and then to the station, only delayed and postponed.

Wang Mou Feng gradually completed the excavation of the pile, the nail of the template, the steel pile of the base is laid, the frame pile of steel is rooted, until the mid-May 2023 completed the concrete irrigation of the pile base, the eyes look for a few days to wait for concrete to solidify and stabilize, and from then on the collective road is permanently cut off to become his home base.

On May 19, 2023, six villagers, including Wang Yan, Wang Yan and Wang Yan, in order to protect the collective road, spontaneously acted to dismantle the two steel pans located in the center of the road and have been poured on the concrete foundation.

In the opinion of the villagers, this was a forced patrol operation, but after Wang Yong Feng called the police, the nature of this spontaneous defence operation was completely reversed by the Anchor County Public Security Bureau.

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In the police's punishment book, the 26 year-old village route was distorted as "the house base in which Wang Yong Feng was built"; villagers stopped taking over the construction of the house, and was identified as "intentionally damaging public and private property."

Ironically, in the internal "work instructions" issued by the Anchorage County Public Security Bureau, the white paper black letter reads: "After a visit, the two basements of Wang Lin Feng were destroyed were indeed built on the road to the village corner."

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In addition, the villagers submitted a complaint on February 3, 2024 via the hotline for government services in Spring Town 12345 (claim number QZ24020300740), complained about the administrative failure of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the State Department of the

Even more disturbing is the construction approval of Wang某峰 itself. The villagers discovered that the house base applied in the name of Wang某峰 wife Wu某忠, voluntarily divided the land of Wang某忠三 brothers enjoying the right to use into the approval scope, and after the approval privately turned the house to 90 degrees

• the original parallel to the road square layout changed to vertical crossroads, and the public road circle entered the building scope.

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This suspected false declaration approval material, the case agency for more than two years has never actively picked up, until the villagers through the Town Discipline Commission to investigate the information, clearly informed the police, supplementary evidence.

Selective enforcement: the path of enlarged destruction of property and neglected occupation

After Wang Yong Feng's alert, the police's action was not so fast: on May 24, the case was filed, then the price assessment began. The Antai County Price Assessment Center finally came to the conclusion that the damage to the steel pipe was estimated to be a total of 4665 yuan – this number, the distance from the criminal filing standard of 5000 yuan for the crime of intentional destruction of property, was only 335 yuan. Wang Yong Feng did not recognize this conclusion, the application for review, the intention to raise the amount of losses to promote the criminal filing, but was always unable to submit any effective basis to support its claims, and eventually the Wang Yong Feng Development and Reform Commission issued a price assessment not accepted notice, rejected its revocation application. Combined with Wang Y

On the one hand, it is the prosecution of villagers' "destruction of property" lawsuit, but on the other hand, it is the collective discourse of Wang Ming to damage the village's collective roads and build houses.

In the review opinion of the police, there is a classic expression: "When Wang some mountain violated the construction, it does not affect the fact that Wang some good, Wang some loy intentionally damaged the property of others."

In other words, in the logic of the case agency: even if you occupy the public road, even if you build illegal buildings, I don't care; if you dare to demolish, I dare to punish you.

In conjunction with the core law of Wang Mung's appeal, there is a logical paradox in the public security enforcement law in this case: in the earlier period, villagers Wang Mung's destruction of the road to the building of the building, and the Siddhartha department twice appeared to the police and refused to file the case with "land disputes do not belong to the public security jurisdiction"; in the later period, Wang Mung's appeal to the police, sent the case immediately to be punished. The two must be wrong: either the former belongs to the administrative failure, or the latter belongs to the law enforcement.

The law enforcement logic of this "only looking at the outcome, not asking for the cause" is fully reflected in the suspected murder of Wang's mother. After the incident, Wang's mother Wu claimed to have been beaten by Wang's broken ribs, and intended to directly investigate its criminal responsibility. But the police investigation showed that the scene, except Wu's mother Wang's own unilateral indication, including his son Wang's broken ribs, the other presence did not see the beating, and there was no other objective evidence to prove: the certification document issued by the Anchor County Public Security Bureau's material evidence examination room showed that Wu's only left side was the third rib fracture, the fourth and fifth ribs were agonizing fractures, the degree of injur

In addition, the authorities of the two authorities have not accepted the conclusion of minor injuries, and have subsequently entrusted the judicial assessment scientific research institute and the judicial assessment center of the University of Suzhou with the application for re-assessment, attempting to raise the injuries to the level of minor injuries.But the two authorities are not accepted by the "assessment of difficulty complexity, beyond the scope of technical capabilities."A evidence chain deficiency, injury conclusion clear dispute, is repeatedly dragged, several times entrusted examination, enough to prove its core purpose is to trap the villagers, let them bear the bottom of the criminal case.

A clearly inadequate indictment, the police ultimately failed, neither to pursue the legal responsibility of the suspected accused victims, nor to publicly investigate the conclusion of Wang Yan, Wang Yan clarify the reputation.

According to the "Public Security Administration Penalty Law", the public security case filing period is not longer than sixty days, and the deduction of the examination time should not be delayed to two years.The administrative review decision of the Anchor County government also clearly determined that the police case exceeded the legal deadline and was a violation of the procedure.

But it is in this way that a procedure violates the law and the unilateral punishment decision, but the reconsideration body on the basis of "facts are clear, (procedure defects) have no practical impact on the applicant's rights", only confirm the violation of the law, not revoke the penalty.

The procedure violates the law without paying, the entity qualitative neglect the pre-cause. such a punishment decision, the signal transmitted is clearer: the grassroots law enforcement scale, never two different length.

More interesting is the judgment process of punishment: The police initially intended to impose administrative detention on six villagers on the 13th day, and after the villagers submitted defamation materials, suddenly exempted four people from the punishment, reducing the period of detention of Wang and Wang to 9 days. This "discounted punishment" without legal basis is more like a compromise to avoid obvious law enforcement errors, rather than based on facts and fair judgment of the law. In conjunction with the family relationship of Wang and Wang, the traces of grassroots ethnic interference in law enforcement are obvious.

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The right to self-help: When public power is absent, can citizens only sit and watch violations of the law?

The most central dispute in this case lies in the fact that the actions of Wang, Wang, Wang, etc. were intentionally destroying public and private property, or legally preventing illegal violations?

The Anchorage Prefecture Public Security Bureau, the Anchorage Prefecture People's Government and even the Yongchun County Court of First Instance gave the same negative answer: it does not constitute self-help, on the grounds that it is "not urgent".

The first court ruled that the workplace had stopped at the time of the incident, and that there was no emergency situation, and the villagers should resolve it by legal means.

But this conclusion clearly departs from the most basic reality.

Is it urgent to wait until the concrete irrigation is completed, the house of a certain peak is completed, the collective road is completely sealed and the interests of the villagers suffer irreversible damage?

The villagers began to reflect to the village committee, the town government, the department level a few months before the incident, the village committee main officer was Wang Jianjiang brother, the whole process failed to fulfill the village-level contradiction mediation, violating the obligations of reporting; the town government, the department site inspection after no stop action; the subsequent 12345 municipal government control also flowed in the form.

Wait until the steel frame is well, the base is poured, it takes only half a day to permanently block the road, once the shape, and want to restore the road, to use engineering machinery to dismantle the ground, the cost to turn up dozens of times, it is also very likely to trigger group conflict fighting.

Article 117 Where the lawful rights and interests are infringed, the situation is urgent and it is not possible to obtain the protection of the state organs in a timely manner, and the failure to take immediate measures will cause the lawful rights and interests of the victim to suffer damages that are difficult to repair, the victim may take reasonable self-help measures within the necessary scope.

Collective roads are damaged and occupied, public authorities do not delay intervention, the damage is about to be irreversible, and six villagers spontaneously and moderately stop violations, fully in line with the legislative spirit of self-help acts.

More importantly, the new amendment of the Public Security Administration Penalty Law, which was officially implemented on January 1, 2026, also added to Article 19 the provisions on legitimate defense of public security: "Those who cause damage in order to prevent unlawful violations in progress, do not belong to violations of public security administrative acts and are not subject to punishment."

In accordance with the old and light principle of administrative punishment: the case-related punishment was made in October 2025 (at the time the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment has been amended and re-published), because the review, the litigation has not come into force, the administrative review, the first trial occurred after the implementation of the new law, the new law must be applied in accordance with the law. but the Anchorage County Government, the Yongzhou County Court both deliberately circumvent the application of the law, merely maintain the conclusion of the public security punishment at the lower level, completely disregard the unification of the rule of law and the general consideration of the contradiction, belongs to the deliberate misapplication of the law.

With the old law to judge new cases, in the form of justice to empty the entity rights. Such judicial logic, it is inevitable to make the public question: is the law is protecting the public interest, or is it binding the hands of the advocates?

(4) Individual case warning: grassroots governance cannot allow legal guardians to pay

This small security case has never been a trial of both Wang and Wang.

It reflects on the general difficulties of rural public interest protection: the boundaries of collective assets are blurred, village-level sectarian relationships interfere with the village affairs, the publicity links of the house base are missing or crossed, the grassroots law enforcement is selectively absent, the villagers' rights defense channels are closed, and the boundaries of self-help are unlimited by justice.

When public roads are occupied by private persons, village level informed not, town towns and towns overseas suspended, public security watch over construction; when villagers exhaust public rescue measures, call for modest self-help after no door, and bear legal responsibility. long ago, will only form "who dares who makes cheap, who cares for the law who loses" reversal elimination

• law enforcers blindly look at the public interests are harassed, have the knowledge of the law public officials relatives, the use of poor information, human relations violated profit but no responsibility.

This three-year defense of power, Wang some good, Wang some lonely. many close friends, villagers have persuaded them: not just nine days of detention, patience has passed; people do not fight with the officials, followed by the villagers of the village books relatives, the villagers are struggling, and finally can not eat good fruit. even feel that some people are too genuine, for a road to drag themselves into the endless courtroom, both expend energy and money, not worth it.

In their view, the nine-day detention is not a small thing, it is an incorrect boundary: If the collective interests of the escort are also illegal, then the public property in the village, who dares to stand up and defend? From submitting the defence materials to applying for administrative review, from one trial to insisting on appeals, the two step down, not asking for anything else, for a clear and clear justice. This resilience for the public interest, not to the unfair compromise, is precisely the most scarce and precious quality of the rule of law at the grassroots level

• when more people are willing to stand up for the collective rights and interests, to defend the power at the end, the power of the public will converge, and the fairness at the grassroots level will not become empty

We often say that the law is to safeguard social fairness and justice, but fairness is never to mechanically apply the law, not to look only at the outcome of behavior, not to look at the form logic of the preceding cause and consequences. It needs law enforcement, the judge back to common sense, back to reason, back to the original intention of the law to protect the legitimate rights and interests.

A village, which has been around for twenty-six years, should not be transformed into a private home base because of the illegal occupation of human circumstances; an unorganized, low-level public interest should not become the illegal mark of ordinary villagers because of the mechanical enforcement of the law.

At present, Wang and Wang have listed the Anchorage County Public Security Bureau and the Anchorage County Government as joint defendants and have appealed to the middle-level people's court in Zhuangzhou. This cut-off tea mountain road is still waiting for a truly fair answer.

Independent Investigative Handwriting

Thro the whole case of all the volumes, government work documents and through the field interview, the essence of the case is a zero difficulty grassroots civil rights contradiction, can be relied on the experience of Feng Shui on the ground to resolve, eventually evolved into the public security Bureau, the Anchorage county government both as the defendants of administrative lawsuits, all the roots are grassroots one-line failure to act, disorder, humanized performance, and administrative review, a whole process of bias to the lower administrative organs, avoid the entire chain of performance of mistakes, did not correct the general situation of the rule of law.

First, at the village level: the village officials and the offenders are directly affiliated with the ethnic group, knowingly occupy the village road for illegal construction of houses, deliberately hide the facts of violation, let the approval and public demonstration walk through the field, failed to fulfill the village level contradiction source investigation, violation of the construction reporting obligations, and buried the hidden danger of contradiction from the source;

Second, the city level: from the beginning of the conflict, the entire course of knowledge has also been on the scene, but the problem has not been solved. Two times received the municipal level 12345 inspector's work letter, the written promise to restore the road is not grounded for a long time, did not carry out substantial negotiations on the violation of the teacher status, the lack of administrative law enforcement, disregarding the public rights and interests of villagers;

Third, the level of public security: knowing that the case involves structures located in the village collective road, villagers have repeatedly called for help without results, still the mechanical application of property damage law, ignoring the facts of the failure of pre-public relief, there are selective law enforcement, overriding law enforcement, multiple violations of the law, double standards of law enforcement scale;

Fourth, reconsideration and first-trial level: the consequences before the mechanical crack, static judgment of the urgency of self-help remedies, deliberately avoid the new law from lightly applying the rules, safeguard the conclusions of law enforcement at the lower level of public security, abandon the responsibilities of level supervision and judicial review, and separate from the general situation of the rule of law to resolve contradictions at the grassroots level and safeguard social fairness.

In this case, as long as the village committee proactively refuses to perform its duties, the town government implements government supervision, dispatches to clarify the causes of the contradictions, any link to fulfill the duties in accordance with the law, will not produce a series of disputes for more than two years, and there will not be the result of the complaint of the two main officials at the county level, the public trust in the grassroots level is compromised.

The biggest vulnerability of grassroots governance is never the legal vacuum, but the performance of the job, the human condition crosses the boundaries, the process is empty. Public power withdrawal and paranoia, will only eventually force the masses to fall into the disadvantage of rights, consuming the grassroots justice and administrative credibility.As an independent investigator, this entire investigation based on the public volume, official government work bill, public security internal work explanation, is not biased to any party, the objective conclusion is: the breach of facts is clear, the grassroots fulfillment chain is absent, the villagers self-rescued and moderate restraint.

Manual Added: Second Trial and Social Ultimate Thinking

Hoping out of the case book, the two core issues of grassroots governance are thrown to the middle-level people's courts of the second-instance city of Springstone and the whole society:

For Wang and Wang, two villagers who have exhausted all legitimate ways and always reasonably restrained, even if the second trial ultimately upholds the judgment of the first instance and compels them to find the conduct of the two guards illegal, will they really be able to resolve neighborly contradictions, safeguard rural stability, and safeguard social simple justice?

2, the cause of this case is only a tiny village occupation trivial, ultimately upgrading to administrative detention, multi-level administrative litigation, long-term opposition of villagers, all secondary contradictions originate from the primary public power failure to act, post-period disorder, reconsideration and short-term bias. due to the failure of public power to perform the role of the cause of the worsening of the situation, stability and loss of credibility, if this cause the cause of more serious evil events, who will bear the cost? who will bear the responsibility?

Looking back in the past.

Old House (the means of the discipline committee)

Where is the rain, where is the rain, where is the rain?

Night party at the bottom of the building.

This is a time of fools and fools all over the world.