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Garry:
Fuelled and Realised are both acceptable spellings for those words, so no need to insult people over it.
Okay, back on topic:
What a farce this all is. I live in the area and was thus subject to the drone of helicopters beginning at an ungodly early hour. I have sympathy for Ms. Hilton insofar as I have sympathy for anyone who goes to jail. I think the judge is being an ass but a lot of judges are asses and a lot of folks in questionable mental and physical health go to jail and do their time without mercy from the likes of Sheriff Baca.
Ms. Hilton has grown up in such rarified air that she hasn't been required to grow the same outer "skin" nor inner strength to muster in uncomfortable (let alone horrible) situations. It's a sad situation. I'd love to send her some books to read while she's in there (longer than is really fair considering what normally happens). I hope during her hour out of solitary she is able to meet some other folks in there who are just as freaked or surprised or just depressed as hell to find themselves in there - good people she can talk to. She might learn a thing or two about the rest of the world.
This woman doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. She's a "christian" and the jail is the lion. And we're the decadent spectators who can't tear our eyes away. Scary.
