Ah, the law in a corrupt crony capitalist, or more accurately fascist state is a strange sort of inverted net. All the little fish (you and I) get caught, while the big fish (politicians and bankers) swim right through with impunity. Which is telling, as just in the days of the kings, true power is the ability to get away with criminality. If you want to know who holds the power, just see who is above the law.