Mea culpa..
I apologize for my unfounded assumption...
Hey, we’re cool. No problem. I understand that many aren’t consistent on this issue. I try to be, which doesn’t fit the profile some have. In all this financial mess, I believe that the worst possible outcome we’re seeing is “one law for the little guy, another for Goldman Sachs.” That’s not a country in which I want to live.
There’s a classic quote from “A Man for All Seasons” on the issue of selective enforcement of the law that gets to the heart of this issue:
“Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”