I disagree with your emphasis to a certain extent. Except as it has resulted in the embarrassment and diminished chances of a Liberal politician - always a good thing - the more significant emphasis for me should have been the embarrassment and hopefully diminished chances for such questionable laws in the first place, laws which foster, indeed, almost demand, these sorts of shenanigans.
If the nation and its institutions enact and retain unnecessary laws which are easy targets for violation, and which result in huge payouts and payoffs, the more appropriate focus of the media and of citizens ought to be on the laws themselves. That people will manipulate and violate a law such as this is inevitable, and not likely to change. That we continue to maintain such laws is not inevitable, and can be changed. That this incident (and the predictable media circus we have now been offered for entertainment) has not raised that issue to a major focus, even among conservatives, is disappointing to me.
I concur yet Hoakumhuntas is still a thief.