It wasn't quite Saul/Paul's blinding conversion on the road to Damascus, but when Paris Hilton emerged from the Lynwood Women's Correctional Facility last night sans blue contact lenses, I thought two things: 1) She's a really pretty girl without the faux blue blinkers, and 2) You go, girl!
Like many people, I openly derided Hilton's seeming shallowness and apparent vapid nature, and the press' need to follow her every move (and, yes, I know I'm contributing to the mess by covering it). And yet, I've always defended her as being something of a genius in her self-promotion and marketing--and even admired her chutzpah at times.
And now, now I hope Hilton the best. She's served her time; she's a tabloid-ready story of redemption if ever there was one, available for immediate consumption. TMZ.com reports (via US Weekly) that Paris wants to build a halfway house for newly released inmates, a place where they can learn "to stop the 'bad cycle' of in-and-out behavior."
Furthermore Paris has decided that in order to rectify her own bad cycle, she will no longer surround herself with "bad people." There's a delicious irony in the fact that Hilton would now prefer to hang with people whom society may label bad--other ex-cons?--as opposed to say, Britney Spears. Errr ... ummm ... bad example. How about Nicole Richie. Ok, maybe not the best example either. And do I even need to mention Lindsay Lohan? Thought not. Maybe Hillary Duff's available to go shopping? From what I've heard from those in the know, she's really nice and a pretty normal person.
If Paris does follow through with plans for a transitional home, and I really hope she does, it would be perfectly in keeping with Hilton Hospitality Inc.'s new slogan "Be hospitable." A side of Paris, much like her naturally brown eyes, rarely seen by the press and the public.
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Jesus must abide in prison as there area lot of people who have "found" HIM there. They didn't even know his name until the judge said GO TO JAIL-DO NOT PASS GO !!!! Just go.
I think everyone deserve a second chance. But I also fill that she needs to pay her own debt. The taxs payers shouldn't pay for her. I'm not upset that she's rich. Let face it, if it was us, we would have done the entire time. I don't think that's right. That's how the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. I do hope she has changed her ways. I wish her all the luck in the world. But remember don't do the crime if you are afraid of the jail.
WHY does this person deserve the attention she gets? She has done absolutly NOTHING noteworthy, politically, socially, or economically, except SPEND her FATHERS money. She has all the talent of a doorstop. If it were not for the fact that her father made something of himself, we would not even know that she exsists !
The problem that I have is that young ladies/gentlemen watch this stuff unfold. You can break the law, be sentenced and then play games with the system. You have several inmates who got sick when the door clinked behind them, they didn't get to go home. I am concerned about the impression this gives our young people about fairness in the "system."
In our community we have former police and judges who are arrested on DUI and they get suppended sentences (because of their past performance). When they kill someone then we'll realize that the past was the past and the future in the here and now.
This young lady could be an assest but instead she has selected a life full of entertainment. I commend Donald Trump. You don't hear about his children in jail, drinking, and roushing until the middle of the next day.
Then there is the media who has a camera in the face all the time. If they would stop covering every move maybe we wouldn't get sick of turning on the TV or reading the newspaper.
Paris is a young lady who has beauty, riches and fame. Any young person under these circumstances is under great temptation and gets persued by a lot of people that try to influence and use. I really think that a lot of people ressent other people because they're rich or famous or have more power than they do. If we stop and think that we should have any kind of compassion for other people, I'm sure we'd not be so judgmental. I don't understand why were people gloating on her problems and why they wanted to see her suffer. If the people that started judging Paris, thought of her as someone close to them, they would certainly be praying for her and crying for God to intervine. In God's eyes we're all his children and if we can't treat each other with compassion then how could we claim that we love God. I hope that Paris will be able to put all this behind her and cling to the one entity that never changes. I hope that she'll keep God as her personal friend and remember that he's ready to carry her when she's weary or hurt. Jesus died for our sins to be forgiven and also forgotten forever, but for our sins to be forgiven, we must forgive others.
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