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• Saturday, June 9, 2007 04:57 PM

  Paris and the mob

  Everyone doesn’t hate you Paris. Some people understand. These people are not your fans, they are people who have observed and wondered if anything in life would help you grow-up. Popularity is not a measure of the type of person you are, it is only something to capitalize on while it lasts, and hopefully you’ll know when it’s over, before being over lets you know.

  What is startling to me is the mass reaction to the non-incarceration to incarceration changes. The underlying desire for vengeance, to ridicule, to harm you is just a perverse reaction to your money and lifestyle. After all, these are the same people who are willing to stand by and do nothing about the killing of Iraqi children, for which there is no justification, legal, moral or otherwise.

  Don’t let petty desires, the need to see others punished, and phony self-righteousness put you in a corner of self-loathing, your critics have done enough of their own human failings, which should have brought a little more sympathy. Realize that your critics are like the mobs running through the streets with torches to burn down the house of the witch. Know that these are the people who would delight in public executions. Finally realize that these people accept the torture of unarmed restrained human beings as a pragmatic matter, not the sick and twisted thing that it is.

  I don’t know what is happening to our nation, but I do know that influential and powerful people are driving this train wreck over a cliff in their attempt to cover their own backsides, while hoarding resources at any and all opportunities. Understand that these people have a much greater impact on the negative direction our nation is heading than you could ever have.

  A lack of compassion and forgiveness is not the result of intellect; it is the inability to walk a mile in another person’s shoes. There is no talent in the mob’s criticisms, because it does not stop to look in the mirror at its fallibilities and vulnerabilities, but appears to be more than willing to lower itself to the roles of judge and executioner.

  You’ll be alright honey. Whatever you do, don’t let them get you down.

  —gc_wall Read gc_wall's other letters
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