It's like if bank robbers were fined if caught, but got to keep the rest of the money. Soon enough, everyone gets the implicit message that ONLY crime pays. The law-abiding are suckers, or worse, fair game for the unscrupulous. Our 'protectors' have sought out that negotiated role only to sell us out, reveling in their inverted and double standards. Sadly, pathetically, we collectively seem to be knuckling under to this brazen usurpation, a demoralizing humiliation for a people flattered as 'free'.