It’s the Paris Show
I would like to pose a hypothetical question. If you received a ticket for speeding and when you got to court you saw ten thousand other people who received the same ticket paying a fine at the clerks window, then when it was your turn you were told you had to go to jail for three months, would you think this was fair? No, not one of you would think that was too fair, Well, that is exactly the case in California with Paris Hilton. Okay, I know, she is a rich party animal with no concern for anyone but herself, Oh, I agree with that statement just as much as everyone else does, but does that mean she should receive a harsher penalty for driving with a suspended driver's license? Because, that is all that she did, a minor traffic offense, not murder, robbery, buggery on the high seas, driving with a suspended driver's license. Look at it this way: Mary Winkler was sentenced Friday to serving 210 days in prison. This is the minimum time she must serve out of a total three years, 1,095 day sentence, her offense was murder; she killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay sleeping in bed. Paris Hilton was sentenced to 45 days, without home release or electronic monitoring; her offense was driving under a suspended driver's license In Mary Winkler's case, the people of the state of Tennessee were happy that justice was served and went about their normal day. In the case of Paris Hilton, every news service, reporter, paparazzi, news photographer, anyone with news credentials were camped outside of her West Hollywood home, while four helicopters continuously circled the estate. When Paris was ordered to court, the entire circus moved to the new location. The major news services were live from the courthouse and home for over five hours. Once in awhile they would break away to something else in the news, war, the pentagon, what have you, then quickly return to the Paris show. On Fox News when a spokesperson came out and informed everyone that Paris Hilton was taken back to jail to serve her remaining 45 day sentence, the anchor of Studio B, Shepard Smith was almost giddy with excitement and openly mocking Paris crying because she was crying in the courtroom and telling her Mother and Father that she loved them. Edward R. Murrow would have turned over in his grave. I am not a Paris Hilton fan, nor do I really care what she is doing on a daily basis. What I am is disgusted over the feeding frenzy that has been going on over her. I do feel that in this specific instance, the conviction for driving under a suspended driver's license, the judge went overboard, totally overboard in handing down the sentence that he did for a minor traffic offense. The penalty should be the same for all citizens and in this case it was so far out of the ballpark that it is unconstitutional, yes, and a direct violation of her constructional rights. Not many individuals are sentenced to that harsh of an incarceration for a traffic offense, not many indeed. The judge did not sentence the crime, but the lifestyle and that is wrong. I am sickened over this and even more so with a legal system that throws all caution to the wind and all of its resources behind prosecuting a celebrity over a traffic offense. It says it all when a murderer gets 210 days in prison and a celebrity 45 days for driving on a suspended driver's license.
3 comments:
This is the only balanced in-depth comment that I've see since this whole farrago began.You write well and with insight. I enjoyed reading...
And this attention-grabbin judge threatened to thro the Sheriff in jail for comtempt too !!
The Sheriff, not the Judge, is the sole person responsible for the welfare of their prisoners and the Sheriff found that it was in the best interest of himself, the County, and the prisoner for her to be sent packin home..
I dont know bout the situation in Cali. , but here in Texas the Sheriff is also responsible for the disposition and location of office space in the Courthouse.. We had a situation that was famous for many years, of a Judge that got snotty with a Sheriff and the Sheriff had the Judges office moved to the toilet !!
Just as the Judge in the Scooter Libby SET-UP, this Judge has done a great dis-service to his profession.. Had this been a case against a poor and minority person, I have no doubts that the sentence would have been totaly different.. This Judge seems to have let BIAS at best, and discrimination at worst, be a factor here.. Nowhere in this does FAIR and IMPARTIAL appear to have been applied..
Just like you, Ranter, I have no lost love for Paris, but I have no ill-will or hopes for mistreatment in mind either.. The equal application of JUSTICE is what we all should hope for whether its for ourselves or for another.. There are elements of our society and certain repeat offenders that I thank should have "special" treatment, and it involves a rope, and I thank that the celebrity status or net worth should never be a factor in determinin the punishment..
Just to refresh your memory a little, the Liberals consider Paris' treatment as TORTURE when applied to terrorists !! And you can bet your ass that Paris aint gettin Catered Cuisine like the dirtbags at Gitmo either..
What just tickles the ever-lovin-shit outta me tho, is that the feminazis and N.A.G.S are raisin all kinds of sand about Paris doin major damage to their mooovement..
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That is exactly how I feel. It is evident that California legal system is taking out all the frustrtion over lost high-profile cases, OJ, Robert Blake and punishing Paris.
This is a traffic offense, not robbery. I find the whole thing distasteful.
Ranter
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