"And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities."
President Bill Clinton, 3/22/94,
MTV's "Enough is Enough"
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..."
Bill Clinton
(USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)
The use of the word ordinary indicates what Mr. Clinton and his ilk think of you. You are not equal to them.
The Men and Women Who Ride to Work In the Back Seat don't want you ordinary folks to have the same rights as they. If you are not a member of The New American Aristocracy, then, you are an "ordinary American" and therefore not entitled to the same rights and freedom they have. This belief is held by both Republican and Democratic officials. Yet it seems to be more pervasive in the Democratic party.