Apparently, Paris Hilton was upset by being in prison so she will serve the rest of her sentence at home. Al Sharpton states the obvious.
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Not so fast, O bearded one.
I just saw that on the morning news…I think they said the judge who sentenced her was very specific about no alternative way of serving her time, particularly house arrest. And isn’t the whole point of sending her to jail to upset her enough that she stops driving through town while she’s 3 sheets to the wind?
have been running high against letting this sleaze queen go off into the sunset. Those are voters, yall.
My guess is she can’t face herself after been given such a free rein all her short, useless life, hence the visit by her shrink in solitary. Judge ain’t gonna take it either; this move was breaking his rules.
There’s only so much daddy’s money can do for her.
Drag her ass back in solitary, and don’t pad the walls. She needs some reality clubbing some sense into her.
There should be boycotts of Hilton hotels, agencies and properties if she doesn’t serve her sentence.
One of my siblings was arrested for a DUI. Thankfully, they didn’t bust his head open, but he had to be restrained. This was just after Rodney King, so even Northern Calfornia cops were watching their Ps and Qs. My mom witnessed his screaming and cursing while in jail. Blew her away–her youngest baby. His ass stayed there until he dried out, and more. When he got out, he’d learned.
That will be good news if it’s true. Waaa, waaa poor little rich girl can’t stand the consequences of her actions. Geeze, if I ever get arrested I want to use the Paris Hilton defense. . .
Letting her out now would be the worst message the court could possibly send. How could they ever justify putting anyone else in jail? Geeze, they let diabetics go into coma and could hardly care what “medical” issues anyone else has. How would it possibly hold up under a challenge.
Not that I’m following this intentionally, but Dan Abrams was just on saying he thinks she’s going back to jail, the sheriff may be charged with contempt of court for etting her out, and that they have medical services there in the jail that she can use like all the other lawbreakers.
Maybe she can get together with Winona Ryder and Martha Stewart to compare stories.
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There are TVs where I work, so I can walk by the silliness often broadcast on CNN and MSNBC and have a good guffaw. So why did I walk past them about a couple of hours ago and see this mess? I only stopped because I thought they were showing the coverage from the slow-speed, white bronco “chase” from the OJ Simpson saga. I was baffled until I read the damned crawl. WTH?
Of course, if she was Latina or Black, she’d have served her sentence, fully.(And I’ll let you finish laughing because not only would they “throw the book” at you, they’d hit you in the head with it.)
But that’s obvious. We all know there’s unequal justice in this land of “equal justice under the law. There’s a difference, however, between those with celebrity and those with power.
Someone commented that Daddy’s money couldn’t buy her out of punishment. I don’t know if I buy that fully. Maybe Daddy’s money wasn’t long enough. Daddy’s money has always gotten Junior out of trouble, and he’s never been punished. We pay. We bitch and moan and wish it would go away, but we pay. It’s easier than DOING something about him.
And so now I wonder–is this hullabaloo a proxy for the frustrated desire to give long and well-deserved comeuppance to that more dangerous spoiled brat? We get so huffy about celebrities. Not so much about the powerful in our democracy.
Prolly ‘cuz it’s easier. The powerful? They have more money, operate in the shadows and can actually impact your life.
“We” justify this all the time:I don’t like the government eavesdropping on me, but they’re just doing it so I can be safe. I don’t want to give Busch Gardens my fingerprint for the nifty Touch-n-Go system but I will to ride roller coasters. Besides, I can enjoy myself, secure in the knowledge that no one can steal my season pass. (Right. I’d love to see the data on rampant season pass stealing.)
“We” will put up with anything. But not Paris. The foot comes down on that one. Oh yeah, we’re really striking a blow for justice here.
It’s not that she doesn’t deserve punishment, because she does. But this breathless media coverage? It’s insane.
The only purpose this media spectacle serves is to show us who we are, in all our ugliness. It shows what we value and what is important to us. If we truly didn’t care, this would disappear. Period. I don’t see any breathless coverage of the politicization of DoJ (which goes to the heart of democracy–the right to vote without being fucked with), corrupt politicians, or the death and destruction in Iraq–and that’s just for starters.
Those things can really take your breath away.
For me, the stunning thing is her apparent sense of entitlement. She really didn’t believe that she had to follow the laws, that they were written for someone else. She does remind me of the chimp-in-charge that way.
And the medical condition crap…you did the crime, you do the time, and accept the crappy medical care that comes with it while you’re there.
And I agree with you: Where is the breathless outrage and non-stop coverage of what BushCo has done to the Justice Department. That would be more appropriate than giving endless airtime to this half-witted hotel-moneyed twit who has never done anything more significant than get drunk and make amateur pornos.
Did I see somewhere that she was screaming or shouting about unfair something was? I thought I saw that written somewhere.
That is truly astounding.
But we can do something about her. Not about our government. Because nothing stunned me quite like the rogues gallery of letters for Scooter. I felt like I was living in Bizarro world. If it was you or me, I’d hear from the “law and order” and responsibility crowd. The shit was truly revolting.
Given how bad it was, I guess I’m not surprised about Hilton. But this is the type of society we have, and it infects everything.
I was in a hotel while most of this was going on, so I had access to cable (I don’t at home). I mostly watched MS-NBC about this. I found two things noteworthy.
Drunk driving is a rather good indicator of alcohol dependence, to the best of my knowledge. A Google search revealed:
When the argument was made that there are medical staff available in jails that could handle any problems that Paris has, I think that this was what was meant. The way to deal with Paris’s alcohol withdrawal isn’t to let her back home, so that she can have free access to booze, but keep her in jail, and medicate her with benzos instead.
I am not an expert, but this National Institute of Health Web site holds open the possibility that one might have alcohol dependency without being an alcoholic. Thus, I am not suggesting that Paris Hilton is an alcoholic. All I am suggesting is that it is hard to imagine her going through a day without having several stiff drinks. She cannot have those drinks if she is in jail.
Given how prevalent alcohol abuse is, and given that her trouble with the law is the result of alcohol abuse, I am somewhat mystified as to why the mainstream media has been unable to put two and two together.
In reporting on the crimes of the Bush administration, it is reasonable to assume that the reason that the corporate media doesn’t make connections—put two and two together—is because the corporations that own the media want to protect the Bush administration from the wrath of public opinion. But now I am thinking that that instinct has metastasized to the corporate media seeing the making of obvious connections on any kind of subject as potentially dangerous.