I read the article.
My takeaway is that is this world, some people are more important than other people. The rules apply to people like me, but other people are too important to pay attention to the rules. I mean: they know what the rules are; but they also know that they are so important that the rules will be bent for them.
I guess some people admire a two-tier banana republic type of existence. Lord knows this country goes in that direction more and more each day.
Of course some people are more important than other people. Fair or not, thats the way the world works. Ali had power, and in this instance used it to help someone out. You’re denying you would do the same if you could? You’d just sit there and meekly take what some bureaucrat was dishing out?
Some people follow the rules no matter what they are or how stupid they are, and some people push the envelope. The ones who push the envelope change the world.
If we followed your way of thinking we’d still be an English colony putting up with what the Queen was telling us to do.
You’re right. This is not a communist nation, we are not all 100% equal in the eyes of all things, some people get better treatment than others. That’s actually a good thing, because the ONLY way for it not to work that way is under pure Marxism.