Even though each gained so-called administrative privileges to alter the systems they infected, none used its privileges to cause mayhem.
The Haitian elite owes its privileges to exclusion, exploitation and violence, and only quasi-monopoly control of violent power allows it to retain them.
Kevin DiLorenzo, president at Olson, said: "Certainly I understand that membership should have its privileges, to borrow an ad slogan, and you should belong to play.
Investors have plenty of reason to be suspicious of the dollar (will there be a third round of QE? will the US use its exorbitant privilege to inflate its way out of its debt burden? and the euro (will the currrency break up? how many nations will default?), so they look for alternatives.
A more cynical explanation might be that the incestuous political media world is too full of its own privilege to be that shocked.
Boehner argued that the vote became necessary only after the White House invoked its executive privilege to keep documents secret -- a step the administration took the same day Issa's committee voted for contempt.
Usada has dropped its claim of privilege to one document and has released it to the defense lawyers.
And while that goes on, that tiny minority that controls everything continues to horde its power and its privilege, and it continues to dictate to the rest of us what we can and cannot do, who we can and cannot be.
