A major problem in Egypt is that the average Egyptian has an unfailing sense that official authorities have no better business but to lie in wait for any successful project or effort that the average Egyptian has achieved, ready to pounce and stamp it out at the first viable opportunity. It takes no genius to guess that the official abortion of the average Egyptian’s efforts and works is always absolutely legal. Laws and regulations are public information and are available for all to know; yet the common complaint is that no matter how much one struggles to abide by these laws and regulations, one ends up discovering that some minute or special detail—the existence of which one was typically unaware of—has been overlooked in the final work. More often than not such a detail is some new ministerial or administrative decision published after the law was issued, to fill some gap in the law. So instead of blocking the road before law breakers by closing all the loopholes in the law, officials make it more difficult for the decent citizen to carry on decent work. In my opinion, executive or administrative authorities should not be indiscriminately insistent upon the literal application of regulations to the point of rendering them stumbling blocks before projects that serve the community, but should recognize when decent projects ought to be encouraged. This would definitely be a step towards ending the perennial distrust between Egyptians and the State.