Being a Chicago alderman means never having to follow the same laws as everyone else

See Chicago.

Chicago has a law against using cellphones while driving.

Chicago confiscates one's driver's license if one is caught doing so.

See the alderman use a cellphone while driving.

Unbiased, service-oriented cop does his job correctly and takes away alderman's driver's license.

See the alderman throw a fit and get his license hand-delivered back to his office.

"Motorists generally get licenses back only after they go to court or pay their fines."

See the alderman and the police commander who authorized the return that was against policy escape any punishment whatsoever. In fact, the officer was promoted to commander of a detective division for his trouble.

King Emperor Mayor-for-Life Richard Daley now wants to modify the law specifically because of what happened to the alderman, which is the exact same thing, no more and no less, that happened to thousands of Chicago peasants guilty of the same infraction. We didn't see Daley agitating for changes in the law when Joe Truck-Driver got nailed, now did we?

"At Wednesday's City Council meeting, Mayor Daley introduced an ordinance that would allow motorists pulled over for violating the cell phone ban -- or the newly approved ban on text-messaging and surfing the Internet while driving -- to hang on to their licenses and contest their tickets by mail or at an administrative hearing."

This action sounds just like the gun registration "amnesty" he proposed a while back that would have benefited just one person - an alderman who forgot to renew his yearly firearm registrations (the very ones that he helped to put into place) and who faced the confiscation of his weapons, again an event that has happened to thousands of peasants in the city of Chicago without one word of protest from His Excellency - until one of his cronies got busted, that is.