The author asks this rather naive question:
The repeated exemptions of course beg the question: What's the point in setting limits on dispersant use—an acknowledgment that these chemicals themselves present serious environmental concerns—if they're going to be ignored almost every day?The democratic facade, behind which hides the real rulers of the world, require the latter to perform their democratic dance for the duped working people in the audience. Ruling class media participates in this deception by giving wide coverage to the restrictions of the Coast Guard and little coverage to the exemptions and lack of enforcement.