Media outlets yet again had a field day today when everyone's favorite celebutante, Paris Hilton, was ordered back to jail--one day after being released by the L.A. Sheriff's Department, who had released Hilton to serve out the rest of her sentence at home for medical reasons.
"Mom, Mom, it's not right!" Paris was heard crying to her mother as she was being taken away from the courtroom. The hearing was called by L.A. City prosecutors, who demanded that she serve her sentence in jail. You know what, this whole thing is not right. Why are they jerking her around like that? I'm no Paris fan myself, and I fall in the camp of "she broke the law, it was serious, she should serve out her time."
But she doesn't deserve to have her feelings jerked around like that--sent to jail, then released, then sent back to jail. Of course she should serve out her time in jail. But at the very least, make a decision and stick with it, L.A. Sheriff's Department. The American world, unfortunately, is watching you.
My esteemed Idol Chatter blogger Ellen Leventry wrote yesterday that she was outraged like everyone else when Paris was released, but that outraged soon changed to a sort of sadness over how obsessed we are with this little story when there are things like the G8 Summit, Afghanistan, or stories of kidnapped children going on in the world. I so agree with her. And though I wish all major media outlets would drop this story and leave it to the entertainment tabloids, blogs, and magazines, it is our own water-cooler discussions of Paris that keep outlets like CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, and the like reporting on this "story."
So who's to blame, really, for this saga that just won't end? We all are. Paris is back in jail, and she should be. But I do feel bad for her today. It seems like the girl really does have bad karma.
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I'm sorry Paris, if a person does wrong, there is a consequence to pay, sooner with the law, if not caught, it tell us all the kind of portrayal of you or whoever, for the young people growing up as well as adults and citizens, veterans (who have fought for your freedom to do wrong). Please have more respect for the ones who have given their life for you as well as us all.
I have zero sympathy for you-Paris. You caused it yourself. These drugs and drinking is not the right way to go. SERVR THE ONE WHO PUT YOU HERE NOT THE ONE TRYING TO DESTROY YOU.
I believe Paris should serve her time and be quiet about it. She did the crime and now mustg do the time. She is not better than any one else in this world, just richer.Exactly what talent does she have that everyone is so interestd in her? Please she is not proving anything to anyone, except she is spoiled and a big baby.Paris might have the clothes, the pcoketbooks, and the money but she does not have a license to drive or her freedom. Enough already!!
HELLO! So you think Paris has "bad Karma". Well duh! Of course she does. BAD KARMA IS EARNED.
In the same Jail where Paris is, there's a young lady who served in Iraq and had 1 leg amputated and the other 1 to the knee when their Jeep was hit by a Rocket. She is serving a 3 month sentence for DUI.
When she was initally booked, her prostheses were taken away from her, the Jail consider's them to be 'dangerous'. They gave her a wheelchair instead to get around in. The problem is, the Jail isn't 100% wheelchair accesible. She cannot take a shower, her chair is larger than the door. When she complained, she was told to get out of her chair and 'scoot over on her behind to the showers'.
NO SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR THIS INJURED VET.wHY ISN'T SHE IN THE hOSPITAL PART OF THE jAIL, AS MS. HILTON IS?
If so many people are enthralled by you, Ms. Hilton, perhap's talking about the danger's of drinking and driving to young people would be a worth while effort on your part instead of all this bad role-modelling that you're doing.
I am somewhat taken aback by the vehemency against Paris. I haven't paid that much attention to her before this jail sentence, but it seems the green eyed monster has reared his ugly head!! Maybe we should remember that ENVY is one of the seven deadly sins...
Why hate someone just because they're rich? Any one of us, with all the privileges she has would probably be just as spoiled, just as wanting to avoid the penalties of DUI... You know how it goes: Judge not, lest ye be Judged!!
Out of all these posts, only 3 are truly sane and have some measure of compassion, and I don't mean "poor little rich girl", but rather a sensible "let's put things in the right perspective, and not subscribe to a mob mentality". If she's is an alcoholic, or a drug addict, she needs help like anyone else. And I've never heard Paris herself say that she deserves special treatment, or make some Leona Helmsley type statement about only "little people paying taxes". She's done some silly things, but haven't we all?? And so what if she cries for her mother? I would too in that situation. We're all creatures of habit, and hers just happens to be wealth and privilege, so this incarceration is a shock to her and a HUGE wake up call. Let her answer (in Peace), and in time she may grow from this experience.
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