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Not if we can all see them go in.

If some people are "above the law", not that they can afford good lawyers, but that the laws are simply not applied, rather than applied and failed, then that presents a crisis for democracy.

If it is visible that these laws are not applied (and presumably will be as everyone gets caught automatically) then society can either stop being democratic, or enforce those laws.



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