[The Electrician]

Then I don't understand what you are saying, because you are both supporting equal protection and against equal protection by suggesting that it ought to be denied to some people (based on some arbitrary distinction of whether or not a person is "prominent").

[goldstategop]

Every one is equal in the eyes of the law. The reality is every one is treated differently on account of their circumstances. Theory and reality don't always mesh and as much as we'd like it to be different it wasn't, it isn't and it will never be.