Thursday, June 07, 2007
Paris out of jail?!?
If you haven't growled it yet, let me do it for you. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!!!
The news that Paris Hilton was let out of jail after only three days first came in on my BlackBerry as I was heading into the office. And to my surprise, it triggered a BlackBerry-generated message on-screen that read: ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!!! OK. Maybe not. But those words did come out of MY mouth. Loud. Instinctive. Visceral. Primal. Guttural. Matter of fact, I am still shaking my head so hard in disbelief I have a kink in my neck that will require a massage, for which I will send the bill to Paris for collateral damage. So why was Paris sprung from the pokey after spending just three days of her expected 23 days in the L.A. jail? The sheriff's department cited a "medical condition," didn't say what it was, but took pains to point out that she would now serve out her original 45-day sentence in her house and will wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. Oh. Hold on just a second. Let's take this one at a time. Medical condition? Do they not have doctors in the jail? When other inmates get sick, are they also let go? Did some sleuth sneak into the L.A. Sheriff's Department overnight and remove the computer chip that regulates reason? Do they not realize the outrage this will provoke, the claims of special treatment? So Paris will be under house arrest. Her house. The mansion she lives in. Her reward for getting arrested for DUI, then violating probation by not once -- not twice -- but three times driving with a suspended license. On "The View," Joy Behar observed "This girl can get out of more things than David Copperfield." Great analogy. Because like a master magician, it would appear that Paris has, indeed, pulled a rabbit out of her hat. And I'll bet you that even the rabbit is pissed. (Update: As of 3p ET, we've received more than 1,200 messages. We can't publish them all, but thanks for the input. (10p: 3,000 messages! If this were one of those old telegrams-to-Congress situations, the place would be overflowing.) 230 Comments
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Absolutely ridiculous! The original judge brought down a sentence which was by far more fair than it should have been. She goes on a hunger strike and gets out? What type of example does that set?
Lesson Learned: Justice for Sale. The only option for the majortity:
BOYCOTT THE HILTON !!!!!
all is well in the USA, one law for the poor and one for the rich
This is so wrong, that words can't be found. Skinny thing had no fat reserves to feed off of once she stopped eating prison food.
Every other person in jail for the same reason should be given home sentences . . . in a mansion, with servants, and massage therapists, and cable, and alcohol, and a pool, and OMG. This is so freakin' wrong . . .
Give me a break. This is like when Junior Sopprano got out of jail for "medical reasons"... Maybe they got the idea from the show. Regardless, this just shows that a sentence can be lowered and lowered to the point of is it even punishment?
I'm done with Paris!
Give me a break--what a joke. Too bad the news keeps making the news with this idiot.
Poor baby! I'll bet if she got hungry enough she'd eat the food!
I'm done with Paris!
I believe that somewhere during the trial her parents/lawyer or someone said they felt that she was being sentenced unfairly because she is a celebrity and they wanted it to be fair. WELL HELLO! John Q Public without a huge bank account does not get an out of jail card because they feel jail food is beneath them. Letting her out clearly shows that money can buy anything. So what has she learned? Only how to be a little more manipulative. Poor little rich girl!
This is a true miscarriage of justice. I hope all the other inmates at the same jail will go on a hunger strike in order to get out of their sentences. This is ridiculous. Does the L.A. County Sheriff's Department realize what kind of precedent they've set for this spoiled, rich, self-obsessed clown?
well if i ever kill someone,or rob a bank i hope i have a "medical condition" so i can go home.
Amen. All this does is underscore how 1) easy the rich have it, and 2) how crooked and preferential law enforcement is.
This is ridiculous. The rest of us have to go to jail and Paris doesnt because she is rich? There MUST be an ivestigation. We have to write Gov. Swartzenegger.
No one was forcing her to eat the jail food. She could have gone on a hunger strike. After a few weeks when she was getting too weak, she could have been force fed to save her life
Is it truly a surprise that the legal system in the US no longer serves its purpose, catering to select people or companies and imposing entirely different set of rules for regular citizens?
This has, and is still, happening right before our eyes, in all the legislations quietly passed in House and Senate sessions that fail to generate media coverage. Given the scale of the problem, one person's ability to benefit from their status and wealth is hardly worth as much news coverage as it is generated.
Let out on house arrest because she refused to eat....please!!What message are we sending our youth now a days. She was so brave...wanting to get treated like everyone else she insisted. There are hundreds even thousands of inmates who don't eat and are distressed because they go to jail and we have a "celebrity" who complains and wants to go home and poof the jail doors open. This is humiliating for the justice system as well as for the young minds who watch and adore this girl. I believed strongly that she needed jail time and thought that maybe this would change her, but in reality it has changed nothing. One of these days, these little girls who are parading around drinking and driving is going to cause an accident that can't easily be fixed. Good job system, you have once again let us all down.
I hope somebody riots over this, its the most completely and utterly pathetic thing happening outside of the white house. I'm ashamed to be part of this system... And yes, boycott the hilton! What other message can we send?
More then the rabbit is pissed. I can"t understand why Paris is more important for air time them the two young women (Kelsey Smith) the MURDER VICTIM. (Danielle Cramer) who have been missing for a year,found in a crawl space. What is wrong with this picture?
I had hopes for her but now I never want to hear her name or see her face anywhere as all I feel is disgust for her and anger at the failure of our system of law.
The legal system is a joke. It's a damn shame that people who get wrongly convicted serves time while the convicted doesn't. House arrest? Give me a break!
Let me tell you what steams me the most:
How in the world do we teach our children right from wrong when injustices like what happened today occurred with Paris Hilton?! This is a travesty and wrong on so many levels. The girl is a worthless bum, does NOT contribute to society (at least none that I know of)and for some reason some kids still look up to her. THIS IS UNFORGIVEABLE. Yuk.
My thoughts EXACTLY! I'd like to know how much the Hilton family paid for this deal.
Clearly the L.A. police department is on "the take". I can't imagine that anyone else would get this preferential treatment for refusing to eat the prison food. I'm never staying in a Hilton Hotel ever again (and I do a great deal of business travel). I encourage anyone else that is equally as outraged to join me in a boycott to not put another penny into the Hilton trust fund.
Paris,
Is this what you meant when you were quoted as saying "I'm going to do my time right"?
Refusing to eat! Whatever happened to force feeding that other inmates have been forced to endure?
Sabra
Damn you Americans are embarrising... You always do this... If she where black and poor she would have sit in for 10 years... Look at Lil Kim ... She where behind bars for a long time... Im white and a dane and we danes only find the American Politicians dumb and irresponseble.
who's the spineless individual(s) who enabled this to happen. what happened to the judges decree. I guess the law doesn't matter anymore...only money does. remember the fall of the roman empire !!!
In California, celebrities can use drugs, drive drunk, rape, rob, and even kill you without fear of law enforcement. They laugh at the legal system. They even laugh in the face of judges while standing in the middle of the courtroom.
There are special laws for these very special people. Paris Hilton is way more important than a doctor, teacher, or scientist -- she's a hotel heiress famous for her acts in hotel rooms.
Why are you surprised? Since when have the rich ever faced the same consequences for their actions? This is real life Monopoly and the rich always have get-out-of-jail-free cards in their pockets.
So she doesn't want to each jail food? Me neither, but that wouldn't get me out of jail. They'd let me starve to death. They'd let you starve to death, too. If anyone in this country still believes in our system of justice, there's this swamp land I want to show you . . .
What a disappointment! I was promised 45 days of Paris Hilton debasement and humiliation! A month and a half to vent at her and forget about the war, global warming, $4 gas and corruption in D.C. It was going to be so refreshing to finally see a celebrity get her just rewards. Ah well, at least the movie version will be short.
BS She is a spoiled brat that buys her way out of everthing. Do you think they would let anyone in the general public go like she did. BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, let's tell all the other inmates to go on a hunger strike so they can also acquire a medical condition and go to their homes.
I AM MOVING TO CA. I want house arrest in a mansion for punishment. What will this teach anyone to include Paris $$$$$$$$ Dollars talk the rest of us Do The Time!
I definitely think she "planned" this early exit. Not eating the food will certainly do it. Way to go Paris - what a role model you are. NOT
Yeah, I knew something like this was going to happen. People with money and status NEVER do the time for the crime. Maybe if she kills someone on her next bout of reckless freedom, they will take her offense seriously instead of making the justice system look frail and weak. Must be nice to be above the law.
Another case of: America has the best justice that money can buy!
What will happen when she drinks and drives then kills someone? Maybe they will give her a week in jail. Did she buy the law?
Absolutely unbelievable. I can only image what they would have done if she would have hit someone with her vehicle while she was intoxicated. Maybe she would have served an additional day or two. Every defense attorney should cite this case when defending someone with similar charges.
Wow. I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. First from 45 days to 23 days, and now confinement to her home? I wonder if any of us 'poor people' would have that opportunity. Must be nice. She gets arrested and violates probation numerous times, and gets only a slap on the wrist. I've never been to jail and could not imagine, but if I acted like she did I'm fairly certain I'd be serving all 23 days. If I refused to eat something tells me that I'd be force-fed.
i'm thinking i will rob a bank and then 3 days later i will say that i'm sick, then i will go home and spend the next 10 years at home , a hell of a deal
First of all I'm disgusted that this keeps making headline news. There are far more important things going on than rich people continuing to skirt the law. Since when is this news? This has been happening in this country for hundreds of years back to when rich people bought thier way out of military service. She's just another spoiled girl whose parents do whatever they can for her no matter what cost to others or the integrity of the justice system. She recieved a far shorter and much more lenient sentence than any middle or lower middle class person would have got in the same circumstance. She was all talk about serving her time properly before she went in but she couldn't take it because no one served her gourmet, five star meals. Give me a break! Turn off the news and read a book pertaining to the long standing bout of inequality in this country. I'll even recommend one to make it easier: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress by Howard Zinn. Learn something.
There is a reason jail is a punishment. If Paris doesn't want to eat the prison food, hook her up to an I.V. bottle.
Why does this country even have laws for society to live by ? Or did I miss the re-issue of the laws
that "entitle" the rich and famous to do whatever they please and then the laws that apply to the "common" rest of society ? I am sickened by the conduct of these classless so called rich and famous. Where would you really be if you weren't living off your granfather's legacy Paris ? You are no better than the parasites I hope you contracted in jail ! I will not ever stay at another HILTON -- ever.
Some years ago I was a guest at the "Greybar Hotel." I did not like the food. Does that mean they should have sent me home where I could relax around the house? Have people over? Get drunk?
If so, they just took the sting out of county lockups. Must be nice to be rich and celebrity-in-her-own-mind.
Not sure what the law is in CA, but most states allow a person on house arrest a certain number of hours per day to leave their homes, ie Martha Stewart. So, Miss Paris can continue her shopping/eating out, etc. during her away from home hours. What kind of sentence is that? Nice what Daddy's money can buy. Has she learned anything valuable? Doubtful. We will see her name listed for another DUI, then what?
Welcome to the America we all helped create... and continue to tolerate.
Not eating??? 3 days??? So, what's the problem?
Oh wait! I get it. Paris didn't like it where she was so she whined and got to go home. Good example for others - hey?
It is good to see the "Justice System" in America work the way it is intended. Rich, superior people are able to commit crimes and skate. ( deservedly so).If you are poor or a minority, and you spit on the sidewalk, you get a friend named "Big Bubba" to help you through your trying times in jail (for a small back-door fee of course). What do want? equal justice for all? Wealthy people make the laws, go figure.
This is a complete outrage. I've lost all hope in our justice system.
This is what happens when you let Los Angeles cops run any portion of the justice system! I think the rap group N.W.A. summed up the opinions of many people about Los Angeles cops in their song "F____ Tha Police!"
Who did she pay off? She isn't any better than anyone else.
I don't want to deal in hyperbole here, but Paris Hilton and all her fans in general, and this situation specifically, serve as a metaphore for a lot of the problems this country is facing. Do money, beauty, and fame solve every single problem?
This is a joke. A complete Travesty of Justice.
I cannot believe LA. First OJ, now Paris.
Did you really think she would spend the whole time in jail?!? No way! I can't believe people are still suprised when a rich, beautiful woman uses her money/charm to get out of a sticky situation. It's been happening for years. It's the same thing as a pretty girl talking her way out of a speeding ticket. We'd all like to think that laws are enforced fairly, but we should know that is not the case. Personally, I think this is great!!
When I came to USA I did so because I thought this was the most law abainding country on the face of earth, now with the immigration reform and the Hilton saga I'm convinced that this country in no better than my native country, the only difference is that here everthing is politically correct, over there all is crude and in your face, but the result is the same.
Another example of the rich having a different legal system!!!
And I agree with the boycott of Hilton calls!
This is absolutly unbelievable. This rich BXXXH has given the American judical system the finger. Her medical condition is one of having her head up her gold plated AXX. I only hope she has learned something other than rich people can do as they like in America. However, I'm sure we will see her in another similiar situation in the near future. She is a loser and a spoiled brat with parents who should be ashamed of what they have created. I just hope she doesn't hurt someone with her disregard for right and wrong.
Why is this any surprise? Our government has been this way for at least 3 decades. There ARE no laws for the rich and complete laws for all others. Watch for Scooter's pardon soon!
Seems to me that this just proves that money can buy anything....as someone else stated "Justice for sale!!" They stated that a medical condition was only part of the reason for their letting her out. What was the rest of the reason??? (like we don't already know!!!) And to think she's famous!! I guess you don't really have to be good at anything at all to be famous. And all this has done in the end is make her more money with her book deals and so on......so much for punishment. Thought punishment was supposed to be a detterent!!!
Seems justice in CA is still up for sale to the highest bidder. What a horrible shame. We live in a world created by lawyers and people devoid of reason.
Give me a break. When other prisoners refuse to eat, they stick a tube down their throat.
Ms Hilton's blatant disregard for her health in general with excessive alcohol consumption should have been enough of a reason to keep her behind bars regardless of these "medical issues" that now play a part in her release from prison. The US legal system and those making such a decision to release Ms. Hilton clearly can be swayed by those who can pay to alter minds. This is an absolute disgrace and show injustice to those who cannot affort to get a free ticket out of jail. Perhaps we should all use our medical problems to lessen our sentences. Don't get your hopes up because without money no one is listening. Try a class action law suit if you feel exceptions were made for those more fortunate than for others. What a disgrace...
This action reflects what everyone is beginning to know. That is we no longer have a three tier society. We have two and it is the rich and the rest of us. You have a front row seat to see how the rich work things. This person will be thumbing her nose at society many more times in the future. Why not...
I'll tell you what her "medical conditions" is.....what every other Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears, Nicole Richie are familar with
Withdraw from drugs and booze..... Why a jail for Paris....We all knew it was going to fail and a waste of tax payers money!!!!!!!!!!! Geeze, if I had my choice, I would put her in a mental hospital. She would never get behind the wheel drunk ever again after living there for 40 days. Once again, it's obvious money can buy you everything......... Stupid celebs......
She's not to "sick" to party and drink heavily all night every night, but she can't sit down in a cell for three weeks? this is a travesty and someone's head should roll for it.
This makes me sick. Paris should be hanging her head in shame.
An alcohol-free diet is evidently harmful to her health. If others in the jail have the same problem (or just don't want to eat either), they should received exactly the same sentence; they should be locked up WITH Paris in her mansion for the next 40 days.
Truly an injustice as I know there are many people who were locked up much longer for just a single offense.
Wow. So if all of the inmates now refuse food, they'll all get to home now, too? Of course not. As with all special treatment, this is completely unreasonable. She had a light sentence to being with! She committed a crime, and no amount of money or fame (or infamy) should be able to get her out of her sentence. Absolutely ridiculous.
Nice. I'm so fed up with these spoiled "celebutantes" setting such a high moral example that us strong parenting types have to then exorcise from our kids' minds. Eating disorders, repeated legal offenses, rehab, rehab, rehab. Where does it stop? I'll tell you what, let Paris serve house arrest but ONLY at the home of a military serviceman who's wife is raising 3 kids alone while he's been stationed in Iraq for over a year. Better yet, take Lindsey, Paris, Nicole and Britney and ship them to Iraq. I hear the rehabs & prisons are a killer.
I agree with everyone that this is ridiculous I had a feeling something was up when she showed up to jail early.The justice system proves over and over that money talks and B@#****t walks. I don't understand how this woman/ child even has fans. What has she done other than party like a rock star?
Something is wrong w/ this country and this system, unquestionably wrong.
Refusing to eat prison food is not a "medical condition". It's an "attitude condition". One which I suspect spending a week hungry would correct.
Well now....isn't that nice...I was in jail for the first time 2 years ago in Canada. While there, I was mistaken for someone else bringing in stuff and was beaten up by 3 inmates. I ended up with what Drs now are saying a BLACK MASS where the injury to my head occurred. I was put in Protective Custody, otherwise known as the HOLE..which I am sure this is where Paris was too.
Yes, there are Drs in jail..they are not there all the time..there are duty nurses. I never received any medical attention in jail and have suffered ever since. I was kept in PC or the Hole or 40 days. Until I was released....now why, just because she is famous or has money, can she get such special treatment. I can not even get a lawyer to press charges against the Instituation for Neglegence on my part...and I have to suffer for the rest of my life because of it.
What a terrible injustice for the families of all the victims of a drunk driver! What are we saying to all those who get on the road after having too much to drink.....if you just stop eating while you're in jail, you'll be home in no time! How disrespectful to all those whose lives have been cut short by drunk drivers. To those who allowed Paris to go home......shame on all of you!
The only justice now will be if the media boycotts her. I am not going to watch any show that gives her any more publicity. This is disgusting. If you have a rich Daddy and pout enough you get to be exempt form the laws that everyone follows. I am not staying in any Hilton Hotels either. This exemplifies that the USA has become a home of the have and have-nots.
We are letting real criminals out of jail because of overcrowding. These freaks will cause more damage to property and persons due to the fact that the jails are overcrowded and they know they will get out early . Let's save the jail space for the real criminals.
word just cant say what I feel, all I know is that I did my full days for driving with suspended license, and I didnt get out, maybe cause I didnt have money like her. Really sad!
This is just too much.
May be we should take a closer look at LA County sheriff's department. Are the people involved in this mess elected ? There is one vote here against any incumbent in that office.
This is an absurd gesture by any means. Unfornately, she is watched and copied by so many younger people. What is this showing and teaching them? That if you have money you dont do time for your crime?
How many instances will people try to get out of doing time now because of similar health reasons? Paris did it... why cant I? She is treated better then royalty...and she has no reason to be. She is nothing more then an anorexic rich spoiled kid.... where are her parents? Would even they be given such easy time? i think not. why? they have even more money then her, but apparently better class and upbringing.... where did they go wrong in raising this little spoiled brat? her siblings arent like this? why should she get away with it all? who exactly was n the panel who mad this ridiculous decision.... are they getting something out of this too? i wouldnt be surprised. so what if shes under house arrest.... nothing stoping people from going there... and party to the hilt(on)there... she just cant drive.... big deal. i guess that is really teaching her a lesson.... NOT! party at the Hiltons tonight... free booze for all....
Paris out if jail in 3 days because of some phantom medical condition. To make her punishment even more severe, their going to issue her an ugly, dull black, bulky, PLASTIC ankle bracelet lacking jewels or trendy charms. She will be forced to suffer in her posh mansion with all it's amenities for the full, original 45 day sentence. Poor Paris, she'll definitely learn her lesson after this. Thank goodness justice is blind, if she wasn't she'd need to stab her eyes out be completely oblivious to this travesty.
IS ANYONE suprised that this happened. I am not. Like someone else said...there is one law for the poor, and one for the rich (the "rich" law is simple...you got cash, there are no laws). How much do ANY of you want to bet that she won't even have to do 40 days of house arrest. They will find SOMEWAY to get her out of even that. By the end of this they will somehow even get the judge to apologize to her for sentencing her.
Paris Hilton does not serve sentences. She serves syllables.
Hmmm.....as a proud member of the Armed Forces I am outraged. I am risking my life for a country that has a legal system that shows favoritism towards the upper class. I realize this has been done on numerous other occassions, however, this one really is insulting. I am very disappointed in our country.
Un-frickin'-believable.
If anybody deserved to spend 45 days in jail its this bimbo from another planet that thinks she is above the law. Jail sucks. If it was living in the lap of luxury, it wouldn't serve much of a purpose. Nevermind social injustice, what the hell is happening to rule of law in this country?
This is just another example that if you have money and get caught doing something against the law then you have nothing to worry about. People like OJ Simpson and Paris make me sick!
You must be kidding me, Poor little Paris did not like to food, so she was let home early, what a bunch of BULL S*&^!!!, Paris is such a spoilled little BRAT, and SHE is a DISGRACE to the HILTON name. May she ROT
"I'm done with Paris...?"
What in the world did you ever "have" with Paris? Nicole Richie was on Letterman last night. WHY? What has she ever done? This is the new era of post modern Hollywood nihilism! Clearly the P.H. phenomena has more to say about the pathetic state of young girls today than anything else. If she's in the news it's because people want to hear about her. News flash: Beverly Hills 90210 is OFF the air! Live your OWN life ladies.
That judge and other decision makers who has made a mockery of this system should be thrown in jail to finish her time.
Now that's what I call reciprocity.
Paris was mistreated by the system from the beginning.
It is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE to do no time at all in L.A. County, even when the judge has handed down a 45-day sentence. The Sheriff suspends the sentence. It happens all the time. They were just making an example of her. My guess is that someone wised up to the fact that, in the end, Paris was going to look good and L.A. County look stupid. Good going, Paris. Stephen Smith
This says something about LAPD.
Is it the same department... whose cops manhandled a poor black kid at a gas station last year, shot a black man to death in 90's? I doubt a hardworking lower or middle class American will get such a treatment from LAPD --- let alone get a cell without a mate. (And how come that happened? Doesn't California have more prisoners than they had cells for?) Paris Hilton's fans should be ashamed of themselves if they still follow her.
This just goes to show that our justice system is just as corrupt as our government. Must be nice to have Daddy pay your way out of jail. But knowing Paris, she won't learn from this and do something really stupid that Daddy's money won't be able to get her out of.
Like Defense Attorney's don't have enough B.S. reasons to get their clients off, lets add one more.
I'm a Deputy Sheriff and I lock up pregnant women, people who have full blown AIDS, people dying of cancer, the very poor and the very rich.
When an inmate gets sick (as in a disease, not because they miss their closet full of shoes that cost more than a house) we transport them to the hospital where they are under gaurd until they are brought back to the jail. If their mother dies while they are serving their sentence, they stay put and miss the wake and funeral. So my advice to Paris Hilton and other Hollywood types is to stay off my roads and buy your drugs somewhere else. You won't find any Left-Coast "justice" out here.
I am sick and tired of the importance given in the news to such people and what they do. They are hardly what you might call role models. They are nothing but spoiled rich brats who need to be taught a lesson. It is unfortunate that youngsters follows such "role models" and this is one of the major reasons why we have the kind of problems we currently have in our schools. Yes, driving drunk is "cool."
One nation under the almighty dollar. Just shows how the justice system in the country is rotten to the core. Had this been a person of no money or influence, or even a minority, the guards would have likely kicked them in the head and sent them back to their cell for acting stupid and sent them back to their cell hungry. Must be nice to be rich and white...
Justice-Privilege-What happens when she kills some one driveing her cars stoned as she usually is. Is it not time for the public to de throne this useless human being and her cohorts.
Totally ridiculous. I studied law, believe in the legal system and I find this a tragedy. Sadly, it leads people to believe that the law for the rich, the privilege, for... should I dare say... caucasian is different then all others. What will any young person believe when they don’t get the same preferential treatment... Paris should have served her 45 days...
Paris's release from jail isn't that shocking to me actually. The rich and famous in this country abide by a different set of rules. What I find shocking is the attention paid to her when there are many rich people getting away with a lot worse.
I thought when they initially cut her sentence in half, that was going to be it. I wasn't even surprised. I am however, quite disturbed by this turn of events. It actually bothers me...alot. How many people are in jail right now, serving the whole sentence for the same crime, or some lesser charge. It's disgusting. All the people that played a part in this should be ashamed of themselves. Who am I kidding? Never mind.
I cannot believe the injustice in the world today!
Poor little rich girl is subjected to prison food (with no wine) and doesn't eat for FOUR days and has a "medical condition" alredy? There's not a single doubt in my mind that Paris was sprung from the slammer by Daddy paying off the L.A. police department. I for one will never put another penny in the Hilton trust fund by staying on one of their hotels. I encourage the entire world to do the same, if they feel equally as outraged by this slap of injustice. Do we really think this girl learned any lesson at all by all this other than money can truly buy everything?
As a Canadian, our laws concerning DUI and such reflect the USA's. Celebrity however is not held in such lofty regard. Personally, I have all the respect in the world for America, its people and values, as do many if not most Canadians. But it is no wonder the world mocks and ridicules America. Like you say, "God Bless America".
Shocked? Yes. Surprised? No. Did any of us really think that this was going to go the way it was handed down? What happened to "taking responsibility for my actions?". Why not send her to the "pay" jail instead of home? I agree; there really has to be some public outrage and if staying at the Marriott keeps any $$ out of her pocket, maybe next time (and there will be one) she won't have the change to buy her way out.
Who is Paris Hilton??? Is she from another planet. She certainly lives like an alien. Common earthlings have rules & laws. She is in a world of her own.
Everybody's knickers are tied up in knots because she might make money from this. Look what money got her so far. If you really want this girl to hurt, let her make the money, buckets of money. There's no ture love in her life, her parents don't care about her, or they would have intervened a long long time ago. She has not an ounce of worth whatsoever. Americans are obsessed with money. Obviously loads of money brings loads of trouble. Give her buckets and buckets of it, sit back and watch what happens. I'll keep earning my money the honest way, I'll keep my head down and keep my own counsel. I'll be happy, gratified and loved. Life is good. Money is poison.
So If I were to get arrested for driving multiple times on a suspended license after a DUI - A DUI! - do you think I could go on a starvation diet and not have to do my time but be sent to a Hilton to serve my sentence by the pool? This is about fame and $$$ and special treatment. Nothing else. What a mockery of the judicial system....
On the Red Carpet prior to the MTV Awards Show, Paris mentioned that she has received "thousands" of letters from fans who "support" her. I guess the same people who pay her bills and forget to mention to her that her license is suspended are the same people who censor her mail, because she is obviously not getting the "tens-of-thousands" of letters from the rest of us.
They already did her one favor by not putting her in the general population. Now she gets to go home because she doesn't like the food? Perfect example of the "Golden Rule" in effect. You know the one that says, "he who has the gold, makes the rules."
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