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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Not tragedy. The only tragic consequence of any consequence is this: we're spending an unbelievable amount of time worrried about the emotional life of an annoying, unattractive multimillionaire heiress.
The tragedy is our society, hooked on the trashy musings of unscrupulous press giants about how hot celebrities are, but how evil they become, and how we have to treat them as the Greek gods treated humanity.
I hope she can come to emotional maturity and find something useful to do with her life. And she does have to find her sobriety. Other than that, get lost.
Salon.com -- So sophisticatedly above it all, so philosophical and perceptive....and yet so very, very on top of whatever gossipy crap is going on.
She is so blessed with beauty and wealth and youth and can do so much to make a difference. But all she does is dress up in fancy cloths and go out with her pals to parties and get drunk and fucked up.
That is the example she has set for the youth of America. She is the symbol of greed and materialistic trash of America. She is telling young girls by her appearance and behavior that you dont have to be educated or smart to get ahead in the world. You only need to be sexy and chic and fuckable like me!!!!
I am not saying she is to blame, but only God knows how many young girls are driven into prostitution and porn because of her example. It is time for her and her kind to go the fuck away!!!!!!!!!
Televisionary (talia_leo), Take it easy, dude!!! I think you are just jealous of the picture of victoria Beckham being in that article. It has nothing to do with Enzo your stupid comment. Sorry, pal. You are what you are and she is what she is. Live with it!!! Maybe u can find another ugly pakistani or indian like yourself and stop being so desperate!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the first time, when I saw Paris Hilton crying in the back of the police car, I felt compassion for her. Not because I believe she doesn't deserve her sentence - I think she does - but because I finally saw the naked emperor for who he is:
At the bottom of all the hype - the facade that Paris and her publicity machine have built up over the past few years - lies a naive girl who has no sense of herself outside the image she has had reflected back to her by her countless yes-men, the media, and the public.
She's built her identity on a foundation of sand, and when she invited real, gritty life into her experience by breaking the law, nothing that she had relied on in the past could help her.
I also realised that my own outrage about Paris's antics has been fuelled by that part of me that is also attention-seeking, frivolous, lacking responsibility, lacking a sense of self. I think for many of us, Paris has simply been a very effective mirror for all of our own shadow traits that we have conveniently projected on to her. In that way, she's done me a great service; and as a result, much of my anger has given way to something akin to a neutral sympathy for her. Perhaps this experience will help her rebuild her sense of self on more solid ground. Perhaps not.
Cocaine withdrawal.
Gotta disagree sorry. Paris is not the symbol for the youth of America nor did she preofess to be. It is YOUR job as parents to be a role model and direct your children. If you don't fullfill your responsibility, don't blame another youth.
thank you for stating reality in the midst of a marshmallow-covered-pile of cocaine-laced ecstasy; the media is in love with Paris, and she whores herself willingly.
Had she not been so famous (without talent or reason, except she came out of a rich vagina), she might have skirted by this jailbreak unnoticed; it's rich irony that her beloved paparazzi are the ones who reported on her escape, only to have her thrown back in! hee hee!
I would love to see Paris Hilton leave this experience transformed into a prison abolitionist. Everyone locked up in cages in L.A. is suffering from inhumane conditions. It doesn't have to be that way. What's most disappointing to me about the Paris saga is not that she is in the news again or even that she's getting preferential treatment at the hands of the justice system. What's new about that? It's the way her trip to jail is allowing the rest of 'us' (whoever we are; I'm apparently too humorless to be among us) to snicker and laugh at prison conditions in the U.S., conditions that include scratchy sheets and bad food but also epidemic rates of rape, staph infections, TB, etc. None of this is funny at all.
A probation violation for driving on a suspended license is one thing. And it's pretty common because most people who have trouble following the law to drive their cars not drunk, not speeding etc in the first place generally have trouble following the law not to drive also.
That's just reality. But it's equally true that even with a probation violation the offender is not very likely to serve out their original sentence either. More likely the probation department, the DA and the judge will agree that perhaps sending that person to a few weekends in jail is a compromise. It's the defendant's attorney and family to convince them of something else. And that's usually an increase in your probation time.
The thing you REALLY don't want to do is piss off your P.O. Really. Those people have an awful lot of power over you. If you violate your probation the first thing you have to do is call your P.O. and beg for mercy.
In practice though it's unlikely that the original sentence will be enforced UNLESS what you do to violate probation is a worse crime than what got you on probation in the first place. Say you get a DUI, get 1 year probation and lose your license for a year. If you reoffend before that it would take some worse crime, e.g. a DUI with an accident, or evasion or some other unrelated thing like theft or gun possession for the original sentence to kick in.
The fact that Ms. Hilton was originally convicted of a DUI is almost besides the point, legally. Reoffending by a simple driving on a suspended license is not really sufficient to kick in that original suspended sentence. Typically that would result in a longer license suspension - say 3 - 5 years.
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