Let me deal with the apparent idiocy of Ms. Paris Hilton. This grown woman has claimed that she is about as responsible and attentive as a 5 year old, and that she should not be held to the same standards as ever other adult in the nation. Are you kidding me?
If you have not heard, and that would be hard to miss if you watch or read any news, Ms. Hilton was arrested for drunk driving on a suspended license. Since she broke probation, and was violating a law, the judge sentenced her to 45 days in prison. Going one step better the judge made sure that Ms. Hilton could not buy her way into a ‘club fed’ prison (which is something many celebrities are able to do when convicted) and will be confining her with regular inmates. It’s about time.
First of all, Ms. Paris Hilton was driving drunk. That alone can get you in jail. Second, she was driving with a suspended license, again potential jail time. Her claims that she was unaware her license was invalid are not credible because she had a ticket stating this fact in her glove compartment, and second ignorance of the law is not an excuse from being held accountable to the law. It’s just that simple.
What is happening is that Ms. Hilton is trying to have her money buy her out of a punishment she deserves. I feel she is a spoiled brat with too much money and far to little education or discipline. To claim that her publicist didn’t make her aware of her legal status is absurd. If she is enough of an adult to drive she is responsible for her ability to drive legally and sober. If she can’t be accountable without adult supervision she shouldn’t be able to drive.
If this were an average skinny White girl, there would be no uproar. If this were a Black woman again no questions. If it were a Black man, jail for a year or two and he may well have been beat down at the arrest by police officers. I don’t say the last part because I don’t like police (I’ve had many that I call my friend, including several L.A. detectives) but because there is a history of these kinds of cases leading to abuse. [I include my own experiences in this – like my being held at gunpoint by the police for the near crime of being a Black man in the passenger seat of a car driven by an Asian male, with 2 White men in the back seats, on Hollywood Blvd. on a Friday night after work while we were going to go have a drink.]
Yet there have been some 12,000 individuals that have signed a petition asking Gov. Arnold Schwartzenegger to give Ms. Hilton clemency. How stupid are these people. What makes Ms. Hilton worthy of such an act? What talent or action has she ever done that deserves such an honor? The fact that she is the poster child for tabloids, that she keeps multiple paparazzi employed, and that she has enough power from her family’s business that record companies and movie studios won’t tell her she has no talent, are not even worth her missing 1 day of her sentence.
Thankfully there is a petition that is asking to ensure that Ms. Paris Hilton goes to jail. This petition is some 42,000 signatures strong. Obviously I am not alone in thinking that this woman needs to grow up, and that her wealth does not preclude her from the law. Now if there were only a way to keep her mother from speaking to Gov. Schwartzenegger, which the family business ensures will happen.[By the way, if your mom was at a trial you were on and insulted the judge there is no question she’d get slapped with contempt of court and have a fine in the least against her. Paris Hilton’s mom should be thankful she won’t spend time in a cell next to her daughter.]
I have to say, I hope that Ms. Hilton gets a cell with ‘Shanequa’ and ‘Betty Jean Sue’. Let her think that her name will get her out of cleaning a toilet, and a couple of those rough-neck girls will straighten her out on the real facts of life. Perhaps that will help her get her act right. Or at least let us all have less chances of being forced to see and hear about her antics. Either one would be good for me.
This is what I think, what do you think?
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