Let me try to put it another way.
There is a certain amount of latitude we ought to grant to civil authorities so they can go about their business, because they occupy offices that are for the benefit of a wider population. Dad makes the rule: “Don’t run in the house.” But Dad may break his own rule to serve his household. Since I am not privy to the conditions under which Rahm’s motorcade had to get somewhere, I have no idea how to assess things. But I do know this: in the scheme of things it simply does not frost my bagel to see an official motorcade run red lights.
I totally understand there are abuses, and Emanuel can easily be made a case in point. I also count you both as fierce defenders of liberty and do not fault you for pointing out the air of hypocrisy that attends to any and every unnecessary flouting of law. It is unfortunate that our mutual tones have led to some acrimony.
My entire point is to place a check on the tendency to reject legitimate authority and the privileges that attend to it, and to stress the fact that there really are occasions when running a red light may be the better course of action.
Lastly, as you probably have sensed by now, this is relatively low on my list of abuses we suffer together under the current administration.
God bless you both. We really are on the same side, yet, as another has put it, we may agree to disagree on this point.
No. Lacking some retraction on your part, I'm not willing to just "let you put it another way" when that includes assumption of privilege which is then abused. Small-time corruption, almost negligible, but it was enough for Rahm's office to apologize over, which rather undoes your own excuses for the creep.
Not interested in your further opinions or excuses.
You don't know me in the least. You have guessed wrong, about what you don't know about.
If Dad makes the rule:”don’t run in the house” but Dad routinely breaks the rule ,everyone else will resent the rule and be inclined to break it despite good reasons for it being a rule.