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Post by magnoliabread on Jun 7, 2007 13:55:50 GMT -5
Yeah, when you're an adult, you're an adult. You learn to make your own decisions. The implication I fear most from this shitstorm is the impact on millions of ignorant young people who may likely get the message of social acceptance of and decriminalization of drunk-driving. If I was in LA, I'd be rioting in the screets. But I'm not, so I sent an email instead.
i had to sweep the driveway and pluck the weeds that grew between the cement. That learned me pretty good. Weeding the flower beds was also a common punishment.
I don't think that it should all be physical punishment either. But I've not seen many 3 year olds respond well to "time outs". Those kids have been the most manipulative and tricksies that I've seen, because they don't have any concept of mom and dad's punishment. A three year old sitting in a corner is able to entertain themselves. However when I spent a whole day in time out when I was 10, it sunk in pretty well that time outs were lame.
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and They both tell me that we're better than this
I hate celebrity talk and gossip and all that shite. But this goes deeper than that. I mean there are African-Americans and Hispanics that get pulled over, drug out of their car, hand-cuffed, and whatnot, just because they have an open container or were driving to fast. Paris subverts the law, complains a little and gets to go back to her house for mansion arrest. It's a joke. She's gonna need an insane amount of security around her now at all times, cause someone's gonna go after her at some point.
Post by The Killer Bee Relay Team on Jun 8, 2007 13:29:54 GMT -5
danbird said:
I hate celebrity talk and gossip and all that shite. But this goes deeper than that. I mean there are African-Americans and Hispanics that get pulled over, drug out of their car, hand-cuffed, and whatnot, just because they have an open container or were driving to fast. Paris subverts the law, complains a little and gets to go back to her house for mansion arrest. It's a joke. She's gonna need an insane amount of security around her now at all times, cause someone's gonna go after her at some point.
It's not a matter of race, though...That same stuff happens to white folk.
It is a matter of money. It is almost like we have a new caste system or something.
Post by shotglass75 on Jun 8, 2007 14:23:49 GMT -5
Judge Orders Paris Hilton Back to Jail Jun 8 03:10 PM US/Eastern By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - 0607xhiltonwrap A judge has ordered Paris Hilton returned to jail and she was taken from court screaming.
She had been brought to court in sheriff's custody today for a court hearing on her early release from jail after back-and-forth decisions on whether she could participate by telephone from her home.
Hilton, appearing to be in handcuffs, cried after she was placed into a black-and-white patrol car, which sped away from her home with lights flashing as news helicopters pursued, broadcasting live TV coverage.
The car carrying her disappeared into the courthouse's underground parking lot, avoiding a swarm of news media, and her parents then arrived.
In the hearing, which began at late morning, a judge was to listen to the city attorney's complaint that the county sheriff did not have the right to reassign her to electronically monitored home detention after only three days in jail for violating probation in a reckless driving case.
On Thursday, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ordered that Hilton be brought to Friday's hearing. But early Friday a court spokesman announced that she would be allowed to participate by telephone, which is common in misdemeanor cases. Then, in a reversal, the spokesman said the judge had ordered the Sheriff's Department to pick her up and bring her to court.
The frenzy began early Thursday when sheriff's officials released Hilton because of an undisclosed medical condition and sent her home under house arrest. She had been in jail for three days.
Hilton was fitted with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet and was expected to finish her 45-day sentence for a reckless driving probation violation at her four-bedroom, three-bath home.
The decision by Sheriff Lee Baca to move Hilton chafed prosecutors and Sauer, who spelled out during sentencing that Hilton was not allowed to serve house detention.
Late Thursday, Sauer issued the order for Hilton to return to court after the city attorney filed a petition demanding that Hilton be returned to jail and to show cause why Baca shouldn't be held in contempt of court.
Baca does not have to be in court, and it was unclear who would represent the Sheriff's Department.
The move also was met with outrage from the sheriff's deputies union, members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, civil rights leaders, defense attorneys and others.
"What transpired here is outrageous," county Supervisor Don Knabe told The Associated Press, adding he received more than 400 angry e-mails and hundreds more phone calls from around the country.
Hilton's return home "gives the impression of ... celebrity justice being handed out," he said.
Baca dismissed the criticism, saying the decision was made based on medical advice.
"It isn't wise to keep a person in jail with her problem over an extended period of time and let the problem get worse," Baca told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.
"My message to those who don't like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice," Baca said.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown criticized the Sheriff's Department for letting Hilton out of jail, saying he believed she should serve out her sentence.
"It does hold up the system to ridicule when the powerful and the famous get special treatment," Brown told The Associated Press in an interview before testifying at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C.
"I'm sure there's a lot of people who've seen their family members go to jail and have various ailments, physical and psychological, that didn't get them released," he said. "I'd say it's time for a course correction."
The Los Angeles County jail system is so overcrowded that attorneys and jail officials have said it is not unusual for nonviolent offenders like Hilton to be released after serving as little as 10 percent of their sentences.
In the hours after Hilton's release, it was a madcap scene outside her house in the hills above the Sunset Strip. As word spread that the 26- year-old poster child for bad celebrity behavior was back home, radio helicopter pilots who normally report on traffic conditions were dispatched to hover over her house and describe it to morning commuters. Paparazzi photographers on the ground quickly assembled outside its gates.
Shortly before noon, Hilton issued a statement through her attorney.
"I want to thank the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and staff of the Century Regional Detention Center for treating me fairly and professionally," she said. "I am going to serve the remaining 40 days of my sentence. I have learned a great deal from this ordeal and hope that others have learned from my mistakes."
Hilton's path to jail began Sept. 7, when she failed a sobriety test after police saw her weaving down a street in her Mercedes-Benz on what she said was a late-night run to a hamburger stand.
She pleaded no contest to reckless driving and was sentenced to 36 months' probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines.
In the months that followed she was stopped twice by officers who discovered her driving on a suspended license. The second stop landed her in Sauer's courtroom, where he sentenced her to jail.
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Associated Press Writer Erica Werner in Washington, D.C., contributed to the report.
We treat mishaps like sinking ships and I know that I don't want to be out to drift Well I can see it in your eyes like I taste your lips and They both tell me that we're better than this
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Jun 8, 2007 16:48:57 GMT -5
This is glorious. I want to buy that judge a beer.
Reports said she was crying "this isn't right" over and over after the verdict. It just goes to show how morally depraved and twisted this twat is. It's not right to serve your time like you told everone you would? It's not right to be punished if you're rich? I'm having a schadenfreude party tonight. As Al Franken said, there's fair mean and unfair mean. I think revelling in another's just desserts is "fair mean."
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
I couldn't give a shit. I was watching the helicopters follow her car today on T.V. like the O.J. Simpson "police chase."
All I could think of was what Executive Order is passing right now in Congress that they don't want us to know about. Or what is going on in Iraq. Celebrity scandals are too convenient.
However I have no sympathy for Paris. If I was filthy rich and liked to party I wouldn't get behind the wheel of my expensive BMW.
I'd hire some big dude to drive me around. "Hey I'm not quite drunk enough yet, get me to the Whiskey A Go-Go PRONTO!"
thank god..this article just brightened up my day. now I understand the whole non-violent offenders being let out with less than 10-percent of the sentence and all that jazz and if that was the reason given, dispite my dislike for her, I could have understood the relase. But when a person who doesnt have the authority to release you just goes and does it that puts up the BRIBE stamp on the whole situation and I think the judge acted fairly in this case.
Prsions hav ethe services to treat all ailments, metnal or physical, and I like what was said on the Today show about it from a psych dr. she was saying how 'nervous break' is such a blanket word and that anyone is unhappy with a situation and slightly depressed about being in a place they dont want to can be called a breakdown. If there was a chnage in her actual mental behavior and or damage to the way she lived her life (besdies throughing out money and sayin that's hot) then yes..but dont release her, treat her. If she did have a nervous break down then transfer her to a psych ward not her milion dollar house.
thank god she is back where she blwongs at least for another 20 days as far as I'm concerend (and thanks for listening to this rant)
We just watched "Bottoms Up" in celebration. The line where she tosses out something about how celebrities don't go to jail (or her crazy driving scenes) is worth it.
Post by LucyRoo & AdamToo on Jun 8, 2007 22:43:20 GMT -5
neobob187 said:
I couldn't give a nuts. I was watching the helicopters follow her car today on T.V. like the O.J. Simpson "police chase."
All I could think of was what Executive Order is passing right now in Congress that they don't want us to know about. Or what is going on in Iraq. Celebrity scandals are too convenient.
However I have no sympathy for Paris. If I was filthy rich and liked to party I wouldn't get behind the wheel of my expensive BMW.
I'd hire some big dude to drive me around. "Hey I'm not quite drunk enough yet, get me to the Whiskey A Go-Go PRONTO!"