Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo persuaded a judge to give Paris Hilton 45 days in jail for driving with a suspended license.

At the time Delgadillo's wife Michelle was wanted on a 1998 arrest warrant for driving without insurance on a suspended license in an unregistered car. In 2004, while driving without a license, she wrecked her husband's city-owned vehicle.

After this was publicized, Michelle Delgadillo was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and received 12 months probation and a $431 fine.

At about the same time, thousands of miles away in Iowa, former Sheriff Brian Gilbert, convicted of stealing $120,000, received five years' probation. The judge set aside the prescribed penalty of ten years in prison.

As economist Dr. William L. Anderson observes, ?there truly are Two Americas, the one of government employees and politicians who are protected even while engaging in the worst kind of lawbreaking, and the other being the America in which the rest of us live.?

Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.