Happy now? Nothing like destroying people to make the heart grow fonder

Happy now? Rich girl brought in tears back to jail. Not like she released herself. The Sherrif's department did. She got a DUI. She drove without a suspended sentence. She got a sentence far harsher than an average offender. Welcome to the new America. Where people are so pissed off they'll lash out at anyone. Destruction is the key. They can't just be shamed. They have to be destroyed. Live, on national TV. Pretty blonds with a lot of cash? Destroy them. After all, they're just dumb blonds who inherited everything. Hatred feels good. GET EM!

Did Paris Hilton kill anyone? no

Did Paris Hilton Hilton support the war? no

Did Paris Hilton steal from you? no

What a sad waste of time and effort for so many. But I guess you're happier now.

Terrible actress.

I'm not sure how in a million years you could think she actually had been.

That doesn't mean she doesn't deserve her fate, at least to some degree (though I find the sentence a bit harsh), it just means that accusing her of faking is all sorts of wrong.

The more people talk about it, the more she's happy.

She's got everybody played.

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not to realize this isn't just another stunt.

Shit, she'll stick her arm up a cows rectum for attention, you don't think she'll mind spending a few days in a minimum security women's prison? Sheesh.

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sister mary indeed!

What is with you and your love/hate relationship and trust/mistrust issues with:

Women
Stuff involving women's reproductive organs
Oh, and WOMEN?

You protested much too vigorously.

Anybody who doesn't buy the "poor fragile bimbo", like you do, is "flawed". SNARF.



Do we have an icon for 'giggle'?


:spray:

about this useless, spoiled woman -- but I deeply resent the way the corporate media seem to think she's more important and newsworthy than the firing of the Chairman of the JCS, the deaths of more soldiers in that stupid war, and all the other real news. Instead we're deluged with nonstop coverage of the silly adventures of silly Ms. Hilton. I don't want her to be harmed or destroyed or treated differently from any other traffic offender. I just want to get real news for a change.

I get plenty of news without ever turning on a tv and have been doing so for the past decade.
Your first mistake is going to a television for news to begin with.

Television is for entertainment, always has been. Entertainment and propaganda.
Complaining about it is a waste of time.

Newton's "vast wasteland" has only gotten vaster and wastier.

Bottom line being the bottom line, and all...

Now, if they put a camera in her jail cell 24/7-I could be a little happier.

:P

You bad!! They do have a camera pointed at her cell. But it's not public... yet!! ;)

so why don't they just film the series there.

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Napalm covered and fleeing Vietnamese child exactly 35 years ago today. Is that a bizarre coincidence or what? Crying Hilton versus a crying child of war. The sad thing is that this Pulitzer Prize winning photograph probably had a lot to do with our resolution to end the war, as it seared so many consciences. What a horific irony in a way.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4517597.stm

Picture power: Vietnam napalm attack Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut describes the day in June 1972 when he photographed a nine-year-old girl, Kim Phuc, fleeing her village after a napalm attack - a picture that won him a Pulitzer prize. http://www.vietnamwar.com/phanthikimphuc.htm
The photo of Kim Phuc Phan Thi, as a burned child escaping from her Vietnamese village which has been bombed with napalm (8 June 1972) has travelled across the world and has earned the photographer, Nick Ut of the Associated Press a Pulitzer Prize. The photograph showed Kim - "the girl in the picture" - a nine year old running down the road in the village if Trang Bang. It was UT who took her to hospital. Kim's skin was so badly burned by napalm that she was not expected to survive, but after 14 month in a Saigon hospital, she returned to her village to begin rebuilding her life

http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=cd4d171a-5570-4630-aaae-8ef2db25c84f&k=46073
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/us/08cnd-paris.html?em&ex=1181534400&en=bca4bd0a208d1088&ei=5087%0A

Guilty. I plead guilty. Look at the smart-ass.

was deleted! You were talking about the photo angle, and I had just heard about the coincidence of the photographer being the one I mentioned. I didn't know you were being a smart-ass! LOL!

i just do not give a shit.

The CNN talking heads said that WE THE PEOPLE LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this stuff and that's why they keep covering it. So, what you say couldn't possibly be true.;)

I guess Justice is really blind after all is said and done!!!!

Did Paris Hilton kill anyone? No, but if she continued to drive drunk there's a good chance she could have.

Did Paris Hilton Hilton support the war? I don't know what her political beliefs are or if she even has any, do you?

Did Paris Hilton steal from you? No, but this isn't about stealing is it?

just by appearing at parties. One of those appearances probably could pay for some fella to drive her around for a long while-now that would have been money well spend.

If she doesn't stop the drunk driving she could kill somebody. She has a problem and hopefully this will help her. At least while she is in jail other people on the roads and sidewalks are a little safer...one less drunk to mow them down. How can anybody defend a drunk driver?

I see people being called on the orgasmic joy they seem to be taking at this woman's problems. She did a crime and deserves to be punished. That's a long cry from "GOOD - THE RICH BITCH DESERVES WHATEVER BAD THINGS HAPPENS TO HER". Pretty disgusting for so-called progressives.

one could think she was scheduled for an execution.
Get a clue.

Paris Hilton gives people a focus for all their free floating rage and anxiety. Nobody really knows anything about her, so she's easy to objectify. Her vulnerability increases her value as a target. If she were giving the world the finger people would be saying , "Whoa. Cool!" Turns out we're not all that different from the Freepers we detest.

Although other selfish rich people have been.

As to whether Paris Hilton stole from me? Why, yes. The tax laws of my country have been skewed to keep her in mansions while leaving vital public services stranded. So, yes, she stole from me. But it didn't do her much good, did it?

I'm sorry you feel her money guarantees her a golden, trouble-free existence. You might want to examine that.

So what's the dollar cut off point, if you'll excuse a pun, at which you'd like to start chopping people's heads off?

Lotta big-name Democratic politicians are richer than fuck, too. How many of them would you like to see beheaded? Perhaps you can make a list.

Nobody should be so rich that there is nothing left to buy except his government. That's the cutoff point for me. Yours?

You know why we have no nobility in this country? Because our wealthy founders still didn't want this country run by an inherited hierarchy of inbred wealthy idiots who never achieved a single thing on their own. Funny about that.

Make me happy. Restore the progressive capital gains tax that penalizes quick turnovers and rewards faith and holding.

If I was, certainly many many things would be done differently. The control freaks wouldn't like it, that's for sure.

You ask "whats yours" about my cutoff point? Sorry, I don't think anyone is so rich that they should be put on a guillotine. Hell, I don't even hate Bill Gates enough not to eventually switch to Vista.

As for progressive taxation, including restoring the old capital gains rates- I'm in favor of it- but I'm also in favor of an end to the pissing away of trillions of taxpayer dollars on a bloated Military-Industrial Complex and an idiotic war on drugs. Call me crazy, but I think if we approached our fiscal priorities with a small dollop of sanity, (and made sure the ultra-rich and corporations were paying their fair share) we could pay for a solid social safety net and a SPHC system without having to raise taxes by a large amount.

Of course, that might not provide some folks the satisfaction that a wholesale redistribution of wealth conceivably would, but from where I sit, once infrastructure and social services are funded, once health care is guaranteed all citizens, once we have a livable minimum wage; I don't give a shit if some folks are richer than Croesus. Doesn't chafe my shorts. Doesn't keep me up at night with sweaty, jealous anger. I really could give a shit.

But unless I'm mistaken, your previous post wasn't about the Capital Gains tax, it read to me like a not-so-subtle insinuation that Paris Hilton should consider herself lucky that someone isn't chopping her head off. I happen to think, given what she is guilty of (along with what she is "guilty" of) that's sort of a fucked up sentiment.

tax laws. Reverse class warfare is also a very ugly thing.

The tax laws are written by the Wall Street puppets known as the US Congress, not Paris Hilton.

And the nastiness of some people is flat out yuk

living and otherwise, things.

Are you?

...the blood flows over their faces so the whole world will know they feel her pain. Ahhhweh! Ahhhweh!

Let's all measure our 'dicks of self-righteousness.' :eyes:

Transparent drama-queen-style desperate cry for attention.
It's not even about Paris, really.

It's a sad thing.

... that we celebrate such a totally vacuous being. She's the poster girl for the inheritance tax.

Happy now?
Ecstatic! Justice was finally served, on a heaping platter, to an arrogant rich family!

She drove without a suspended sentence.
She drove on a suspended license.

Did Paris Hilton kill anyone?
Don't know. She could've; driving drunk!

Did Paris Hilton Hilton support the war?
What has she done with her 'celebrity' to stop it? :shrug: NOTHING!

Did Paris Hilton steal from you?
YES!! No Estate Taxes and The rich pay less taxes that the average working stiff.

I'm really happy that an arrogant little shit who spits on the poor and makes $$ off the poor, got her just desserts!

:party: .. .. .. ..

BTW? She's a grown woman!! She, at 26 years old, should've known better.

You got a link for that? Or do you just automatically think that if someone is rich, they have disdain for the poor? That casts a rather wide net dontcha think?

Go watch it. It's in one of the Hilton topics here on DU and on You Tube.

She is on video making some very nasty comments about minority's, poor people,
public school students, etc... I don't have the link. I'm sure you can find it.

Do you think her "Simple Life" show wasn't making fun of poor people?
She has no respect for people with less money than her. Perhaps you should watch that show.

I know and am related to rich people and they aren't arrogant assholes like * and PH!

Yes, leftynyc, I am that shallow!! :sarcasm:
Are you always a condescending, finger pointing, assuming, name calling, ignoramus?

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I found this posted on DU bit I'm not sure if it's the same video from yesterday. Looks like it might be...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=210&topic_id=17400

Mon Feb-05-07 11:03 PM
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Paris Hilton, already a confirmed dumbass, also a homophobe and racist?

Edited on Mon Feb-05-07 11:05 PM by marmar
From Hollywood.com:


Gay Leaders Urge Paris to Apologize
By WENN | Monday, February 05, 2007

Photo Gallery

HOLLYWOOD -

Gay rights leaders in Los Angeles are calling on Paris Hilton to explain herself
after making a series of anti-gay and racial slurs in a video that began circulating
in cyberspace last week.

The video, which appears to have been taken by an amateur videographer at a private party,
shows Hilton referring to someone using the derogatory 'f' word and describes herself and
sister Nicky as "n**gas."

And the leaders of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) are outraged by the footage.

They're calling for Hilton make a public apology before the video gets wider play.

GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano says, "When Paris Hilton utters these words into a camera,
it creates a permanent record that... she must bear responsibility for.

"These are not frivolous words, and to use them as if they are gives tacit sanction to the racism
and homophobia they engender. Hilton has an obligation to go on the record, explain herself,
and publicly apologize to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) and African American
communities and all those offended by these slurs."

http://www.hollywood.com/news/Gay_Leaders_Urge_Paris_to...

to shed light on the massive economic inequality? There are sins of commission and there are also sins of omission.

I think she should be locked up for years, as all drunk drivers should.

Sometimes the bleeding heart shit gets out of control. Save your overbearing compassion for someone deserving.

Paris Hilton can eat shit.

the years. None of them are rich, self-absorbed, celebrity socialites, either. They're people who made a very dumb mistake. Fortunately, it has become plenty less acceptable in our society to make that mistake than it used to be; but I'd be willing to wager that some of the same folks calling for Paris Hilton's head on a platter here have gotten behind the wheel after one or two drinks at some point in their life without considering themselves "criminals".

If you're saying the penalty for a first time DUI should be years in prison, fine- make that argument. But that's not what is driving much of the crazy rage around this, I think.

It's violating her probation SEVERAL times....driving with a suspended license (while INTOXICATED)....and that's just the times she was CAUGHT! Not doing ANY of the court ordered mandates (alcohol counseling, community service, showing up for her court date).

Stop trying to spin the "it's her first DUI" nonsense. There's MUCH more than that, which she BROUGHT ON HERSELF b/c she didn't do what the court ordered her to do!

She is human....her tears are very real and human too (she just better learn & grow and know that a whole lotta her 'fans' are JUST as human and crying as she is (for different reasons, though....do you think she will ever try and understand why and what things do her fans cry about?) Can empathy be learned? I hope so).

comment on the edit: this is a parenthesis(sp?) nightmare. sorry, I'm not gonna clean it up right now. Please forgive.

What I have said, repeatedly, is that she should pay whatever penalty is legally appropriate for whatever she did. No more, certainly no less.

I don't really GIVE a SHIT about Paris Hilton- I'm certainly not one of her "fans"... I guess that puts me in the minority in this country. Really, since I avoid Cable "Newz" and Network TV like the plague, I only vaguely knew who she was and that she was in trouble with the law until I started reading the fracas here today. But I'll tell you one thing, Jack- I live in California, and fans or no, you can bet your damn bippy that if she was, as you put it, INTOXICATED in all caps when she was picked up while driving on a suspended license, she would have GOT A SECOND DUI.

No ifs, ands, or buts. SHE WOULD HAVE GOT A SECOND DUI. Dig?

So don't yell at ME about "framing it as a first time DUI". Yell at the CHP, if you're so certain she was drunk the next time she was picked up. Barring that, yeah, it IS a first time DUI, with subsequent driving on supsended and probation violations, etc.

So like I said- whatever the appropriate sentence for whatever the crime here is, that's what she should serve- and if this is about toughening the penalties for a first time DUI, OR the penalties for not showing up for alcohol class, OR the penalties for driving on a suspended or with no license (and then watch the pro illegal immigration people flip the fuck out on THAT one) then make the arguments for those things. Just understand that the folks blowing off the seriousness of a DUI are not always the champagne drinkers driving the lamborghinis. Just as often they're the guys with the six packs and the rusty pickup trucks. Again, my best friend was KILLED by a drunk driver--- I came to the hospital and was there when they took him off life support. So.... please. Don't try to lecture me and wag fingers in my face about the seriousness of the issue.

...because look around; that's not what the anger in these threads is really about. It's not about driving drunk. It's about bitterness and envy because she's rich, it's about people bitching that she's a "painted wh*re", it's about people complaining that she "got away with" making porn videos or having "casual sex". It's about people suggesting she should have her head cut off for being, you know, a talentless member of the idle rich. It's kinda sad, actually.

for LA County, where many of my most beloved friends and relatives live. That is the sum total of my interest in this situation.

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2007/06/09/paris/

Even after years of watching Hilton direct the media like her own obedient little phalanx of winged monkeys, it would take a coldhearted cynic to doubt that Hilton was experiencing real pain and anguish upon returning to prison. At the very least, we were witnessing a coddled child having a severe allergic reaction to the real world. Hilton could certainly be losing her doughnuts in a medically authentic way, since by all appearances, she's never been punished, never been forced to eat anything she doesn't like, never had to sleep anywhere uncomfortable or wear anything unflattering. While the rest of us are more than passingly familiar with deprivations and things not going our way, Hilton could actually blow a fuse from what would look, to an outsider, like a mildly unpleasant experience. That pea under a stack of mattresses might not bruise you. but you don't sleep on 5 million thread-count sheets, now, do you?

And when you consider the fact that she's protected by relatives who talk openly to the press about throwing a party to celebrate their insipid child being released from prison early after having driven drunk? It makes simple sense to assume that not only is she unapologetic for her crime, she's absolutely indignant about her punishment. The Associated Press reported that, "As Ms. Hilton was led away to await her trip back to jail, she turned to her parents and said, 'It's not right!'" You almost have to feel empathy for the girl, dragged off to endure flavorless food and sleepless nights on scratchy sheets, all the while fancying herself a pretty blond Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Let's just pray that those bad prison sheets scratch her tender white ass enough to get her out of our faces for good. Because we certainly didn't ask for this, either. No matter how the talking heads and pundits have tried to convince us that Paris is a reflection of our shallowness and stupidity as a culture, most of us have never wanted her to be a symbol of anything. Is the crotch flash an act of subversion, in which Hilton channels the paparazzi to put her image on every cover, from tabloids to respected newspapers alike? Is Hilton, like her understudies Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, just a frightened child, overwhelmed and intoxicated by all of the attention the media gives her?

We don't care anymore. And now she's become a symbol of something that bestrides her like a colossus, the inherent inequality and corruptibility of the criminal justice system -- which only means that the insanity will never, ever end. Paris Hilton's image will appear everywhere, across the globe, her every word will be broadcast to millions, this person who never did anything, who never had a marketable skill or talent to show for any of it, and who's never, in her short life, had a single interesting thing to say.

the whole situation - Paris Hilton is such a waste of time.

At the very least, we were witnessing a coddled child having a severe allergic reaction to the real world.

And I think meeting the Real World was exactly what the judge had in mind for her.

Then I'd be truly "happy"...

I've been through Brenda Frasier
And I'm here
- Stephen Sondheim

http://youtube.com/watch?v=inr3KqPISzU

:applause:

Yes she is spoiled, no surprise. But there also seems to be a strong epidemic of "fucked-in-the-head-itis" among people billing her as the Great Satan 2.0

I mean, DUIs should be treated like serious business; I should know, I had a friend killed by a drunk driver- but I have a feeling many of the folks stomping around here calling for Paris Hilton's head on a plate aren't about to demand that your ordinary DUI first offender be put to death. I don't think DUIs have anything to do with a lot of it.

...rather, I think it's what you said- weird, fucked up bitterness that she's pretty and rich, that (in the case of at least one post I saw today) she is "guilty" of having had "casual sex". (Oh NOES!)

It's been kind of a creepy day around here.

This is a national catastrophe!

Obviously, she's undermining the National Morals.

She's a spoiled child who thinks she can buy her way out of any jam she gets herself into.

Judge Sauer ain't selling.

She gets to face the punishment that any average person would have gotten for what she did.

... throwing a crying jag and making sure her face was clearly visible to the cameras. (Paris has an uncanny instinct for knowing exactly where the cameras are, even when they're on helicopters. Experience.) Maybe someday the Drama Princess will become a Drama Queen.

Someone who has more money than anyone I know will ever see in their lifetime is not the top of the list. Especially when they're pulling a stupid publicity stunt and feeding into all that's wrong with American culture. Well - not so much culture as media and political system.

For along time now we have been living with a government that saw fit to have one set of rules for themselves and another for us. We have heard the story of Bush, in college, talking down about the poor people. We have seen his agents flip off subpoenas saying they have no time. We have heard them say that something must be legal if the chimp does it.

We have lived in a country where those who are without money are openly mocked. * has stood at a podium proudly talking about who he stands for - "This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite, I call you my base."

We see our jobs being given away and told that we are all too lazy to do those jobs anyway so why should we care?

All of us have witnessed the protection the 'have mores' seem to have under this government. We are in an age where credit card companies have been given the pen to write bills to be used against us. Meanwhile * makes sure there are tax deductions for the richest of the richest of his friends. They have rallied against us and have been so uncouth as to flaunt it in our faces.

How many of us truly believes Scooter will see the inside of a jail cell let alone do hard time? Not many because I think we are realist in the type of society we live in. If you have money then you get special treatment. (in California you can get a private jail cell for a $100 a day!)

Keeping all of this in mind, I think people were fed up to see one more instance of the rich being given preferential treatment in regards to Ms. Hilton. How many of us could have gone into jail on the EXACT same charge and been out within a couple of days? Honestly, don't you think that the jailers would laugh their ass off if it were you or I saying we must have a medical condition and we need to get out so we can go home? What kind of medical condition can be treated better at home than in a jail where they have a medical facility on the premises? And if this were legitimate condition (IE, no money passing hands) don't you think that we would have been informed as to what was so bad Ms. Hilton had to be at home for treatment?

But what I think people were really outraged at was the lie about Paris' condition. I think we are tired of being spoon fed pablum. When I heard about Paris' "condition" all I could think is that with all of the lies I have put up with with this government, I don't need any more. Please, please stop peeing on my leg while telling me it is raining. Did you ever notice it is always the cover-up that gets you? I think most people are tired of seeing preferential treatment for the rich and being lied to in the process. A lot of us are smart enough to see through all of that. And let's not forget, she is there because she broke the law and committed a crime. Obviously a judge agreed that it was outrageous she got out because he put her back in for her entire sentence. Luckily, they have medical facilities to treat her and make sure she is OK.

I see the havoc wreaked by these elite and wonder... have the powerful descended into madness?

Right on the money. ;)

do not make the connect. It is being waved in our faces every single day but people think we are just happy at seeing the rich and famous fall. The truth is that we are happy that one of them is finally being held accountable for their actions when there has been so much unaccountability for so long.

I was talking to a friend about pretty much the same thing earlier this evening.

You're awesome, demgurl! :)

I watched a lot of the coverage of this "story" yesterday and not one pundit or commentator pointed out that Paris, like Georgie, is acting as if she is above the law. Seeing her being coddled reminds us all too much of our irresponsible president who, like Paris, screams "it's unfair" whenever the real world draws too close.

This connection is the only reason I am following the Hilton story at all.

By the way, if she really really just can't stand being in jail, why didn't they offer her an alternative that was clearly even worse and more of an imposition, but something she was willing to do? With her position and influence, however ill-gotten, she could have an actual impact on people's lives. Instead, they offered her the alternative of a 40-day stay at Paris Hilton's mansion, which sounds like the first prize in some contest on MTV!

I refuse to feel pity or sympathy for a person who:

1. Broke the law.
2. Violated her probation and treated the entire process as a joke.
3. And is in the clink because of it. Now she cries because mommy's and daddy's money aren't bailing her out this time.

And as for the sheriff who let her go: Hilton's grandfather donated a thousand dollars (the max allowed) to his previous run for office.

Anyhow, people are happy because all too often the rich and famous commit crimes and get off scott-free. This time it seems that some justice will be served. That is why it strikes a chord.

Keith O. might be VERY interested in it, as am I.

About a 1,000 $, that is.

You start at thread with this shit? All of this Paris crap belongs in the lounge.

Any rich, entitled person would do; it doesn't have to be Paris Hilton. It just shows how things actually work and how much power and entitlement money can buy in this country.

Its a crying shame she didn't hire someone to drive her home when she was drunk or drive her around the subsequent two times she was caught without a license.

So now she is crying. And she can cry in jail.

But she is not destroyed. She'll be fine and partying within a month or so.

Mentally ill bush is!!!!
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when she was done.



same rules for everyone ... that is how it should be

If people here are happy, it's because they're tired of the constant double standard that the rich live in a priveleged world.

If this was the FIRST time for Paris, you might have a point. But she is a repeat offender, who showed no respect for the court and the judge.

I guess that gets her the attention she needed from her father when she was younger. I'm surprised she is going to jail. Maybe she will learn a lesson. It's kinda embarrassing we are even talking about Paris Hilton.

maybe now she will realize how much people hate since they get enjoyment out of watching her go through this. but most likely she wont care.

At the very worst she gets a quiet 1.5 month solo vacation down at the country slammer.
When she gets out she'll still be richer than Jakob Fugger.
I reufuse to perceive any further Paris Hilton related information.

nt

I'd like to believe that, as progressives, we're
a little kinder, a little more compassionate. But
sometimes...sometimes, it doesn't work out that
way.

Ms. Hilton is what she is. But taking such joy
in her troubles - even though she participated in
making them - does us no credit. And I think it
coarsens us inside. For our own sake, maybe we
should all try to be a little kinder.

justice for all.

And that requires vilification...why?

It requires rage...why?

:P

what we've seen all over this board today? Unmitigated glee at her problems. The perception that she deserves all bad things...and all because she is rich. Rich? - blame her parents for that, spoiled? - also her parents fault, too much attention - blame society for creating the demand. I'm glad she's paying for her crime PERIOD. I take no joy in her being in prison.

Where's the dividing line between gladness and joy? Maybe some people express their gladness in a slightly different way to you.

:hi:

It's just luck and playing the odds that she didn't kill someone in her crime. I couldn't care less given her vapid narcissism if she'd killed herself.

She drove twice and showed up 10 minutes late for the court hearing that was to decide her fate about the driving twice.
She pissed off the court - not me.

She is of the age where she needs to grow up.

but she could have considering she was driving drunk.

And then she drove on a suspended license! Then, on top of that she arrives at court...late!

Now please tell me, why, oh WHY do you need to drive when you can have a private limo come pick you up? Or have a limo take you out to drive in the first place if you're going to get some drinks?

Is this a crime on the level of the Bush admin? No, but she has a similar arrogance and contempt of the rule of law that many with wealth and privilege do. Even her earlier statement that she "brings joy to people's boring lives" or whatever such comment was so obnoxious. That's why many people are happy to see her go back to prison.

Hopefully that stupid girl will learn a life changing lesson and do something useful with all that money she has. How she become famousin the first place, I'll never know.

All that said, I wasted several minutes of my life actually typing something about her. I feel sort of worthless now.

But the reasons why are completely different. My going to jail for 45 days would mean losing a job, not being able to pay off my credit card, car, or TV (all of which are budgeted into my income right now, and at last comfortably so), and losing all of that or worse, going into a pit of compounding debt, while at the same time losing my home and likely everything else I own and have accumulated over all these years. Hey- who's going to pay to store my stuff while I'm in jail? ME? On what income? What I make "working" while I'm in jail? On what I've save? What are those things called 'savings' that you speak of?

Paris Hilton will leave this situation financially unscathed, where you or I or literally tens of millions of people in this country would have their lives at best completely upheaved through the loss of their job alone. Her sentence would destroy literally everyone I know. For her, it's quite literally a "time-out". That's why I think public persons who are not generally reviled should serve their time in the general population. Let them learn what ordinary people are really like.

Come on, she has friends, even in jail. People who like her, I mean. People who will look out for her because she's Paris Hilton. God knows why, but they will, so let them. And let her learn in the process.

That's justice.

:smoke:

and his minions being taken away...then I would SMILE...

Because the chimp has hurt me and the rest of this country and her citizens. I see no reason to celebrate what has happened to Paris Hilton other than seeing justice served. It's the "rich bitch deserves it" attitude that is disturbing. Like she's personally hurt all these posters. It seems her very existence is reason enough to hate her. And make no mistake - hate is coming across loud and clear.

but I can't help contrasting the emotion in the media over Paris Hilton getting 45 days, and the acceptance of, for example, people being confined at Guantanamo for years without a trial.

Sometimes it seems that the popular media only cares about "celebrities".

NOT!

Notice how perfectly her tears are caught by the camera; even in her "suffering" she remembers to do it all for "effect."

I am sure that "crying" got her everything she wanted in her spoiled little existence, but somehow it's just not going to work this time, and that is gratifying.

Maybe, someday, she will have to confront REAL suffering and deprivation. Maybe she will be called upon to give something of herself, to forget herself for 2 seconds--that is when she can maybe achieve something in life and be worthy of a little respect. Until then, she is a vapid, self-centered, unimportant nobody, really, and I couldn't care less if she is "unhappy." One more drunk driver OFF THE ROAD.

She thought she was home free and reality came crashing down. It's the attitude that her being rich makes her MORE deserving of bad things happening to her. That's what is ugly.

While it sickens me that the corporate media fills the hours with useless coverage of such personalities I don't understand why people hate Paris. I don't care about her one way or the other generally and can't imagine taking such delight in her humiliation.

And we're the the big hearted party? Wow.

Julie

PS Noteworthy is that there are so, so many threads about her on DU, just like the corporate whore media.

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Who said she was locked up in the LA county jail for 4.5 months for, you guessed it, driving on a suspended license.

So it seems like to me Miss Hilton might have actually gotten off a little easy.

Anyone who says that she is being punished more harshly than the average offender is full of shit and has been listening to too much Faux News.

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I'm really getting sick of seeing all these Paris threads when people are FUCKING DYING IN IRAQ FOR A FUCKING LIE! And not only that but CONGRESS WON'T FUCKING IMPEACH THE CRIMINALS IN OFFICE! Has this country gone mad?! Like :wtf:


Think about it! The media is reporting ad nauseam about a spoiled rich heiress who doesn't want to follow the law and people are fucking boo hooing about it! Again, :wtf:



Here's some advice: Turn OFF the T.V.! Stop allowing the corporate whores to manipulate you and make you feel sympathy for someone who not only doesn't deserve it, but doesn't give a damn about your sympathy or empathy in the first place! Trust me, Paris Hilton would rather party it up 24/7, drive home drunk, and then say oops when she kills someone!

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What? Am I supposed to feel sorry for a 26 year old woman who cried, threw a fit in the courtroom and had to be dragged out of court screaming her head off?

I've known people who have gone to jail because they didn't pay a parking ticket. This 26 year old woman drove drunk. She got probation and a suspended license. She continued to drive. Got caught. Was warned. She drove again. Got caught. Was charged with violating her probation. She got sentenced to jail.

All she had to do was shut up, serve her damn time and go home. She wasn't going to serve the whole 20+ days anyway. She would've gotten out for good behavior. But her lawyers and the sheriff decided to go against the judge's orders and let her have home incarceration.

Thank God she didn't kill anyone when she was driving drunk.

It was said on TV that she's only going to realistically serve 18 days at the most now.

There's nothing to be happy about. She's serving her time. End of story as far as I'm concerned.

If it was you and I, we'd be in jail the FIRST time - no if ands or buts...

Boo fucking hoo...

She's a leach on society...

A rich do nothing famous for being famous...

She does NOTHING to contribute to society...

She's already had WAY too much leeway...

I hope she rots...

On second thought - I don't really think that much about her ever if at all...but now that you mentioned it, and I happen to notice this lame thread...

We've got far more important things to worry about, but it IS nice to see the USELESS rich and powerful (as opposed to the rich and powerful that do good) get their just deserts for the havoc they wreak on society...

I never was a fan of hers, but I never had a problem with her either.

She made a serious error in judgment and is paying the price. But a month in jail is not the worst thing that ever happened to anyone. She'll survive.

Hopefully, she'll come out of it stronger and with a better understanding of what life is like for the other half.

But I'm not rejoicing at her unhappiness. She didn't ask to be born into that world.


A part of me does feel sorry for her - it must be very traumatic to a girl who has lived the way she has all her life.

But what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. In the long run this will have been a positive experience for her.

please. in 45 days she'll be back to being a rich, spoiled, arrogant drunk.

never understand why anybody would give two-shits about what happens to 'celebrities'.

They're not happy yet. They want to stomp on her face and spit at her. Drives me crazy and yes, that is not a very long drive at all but still, I find the glee offputting and gross.
Lee

Ah, shucks, she didn't do nuthin'!

While I don't think she should go free, I do think the Paris bashing is getting a little out of hand.

I have no respect for a parasite like Paris Hilton, but the vitriol on DU has blown me away. What a waste of bandwidth.

I think it is good she got a taste of jail. That should be enough and I hope she has learned her lesson. To make her a football, out and then back in again? Bullshit. All of the Paris haters would be crazy if it happened to them. Most have never seen the inside of a jail is my guess.

I've been gone now for several days, which I always do when DU implodes like this. Pathetic people who hate those who have more than them really bore me.

I'll be back when this dies down.

Thanks for your reasoned post.

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to me in this ordeal is how it glaringly underscores the way "justice" works in this country for the wealthy and celebrities.

Her initial release is the kind of thing that happens to the rich all the time. Ironically, Paris' celebrity status worked against her in this instance. Had she not created the publicity circus around herself over the years no one would've been aware of her release and she'd go happily on with her privileged, care-free life.

I think Paris is playing it up a bit, as well.

No, she didn't. She broke the law, and got probation. Then she thumbed her nose at the law and broke her probabation. Then she TRIED to use her connections to get special treatment. The judge didn't give her a "sentence far harsher" than anyone else, he simply refused to show her special treatment.

She's crying because she thought she could do whatever she wants and "mommy and daddy" would fix it for her. She instead got a dose of reality, which is what she needed.

I am happy because justice was served. If taht makes poor little privileged rich girl cry, then that's her problem and she needs to grow up. Maybe this will help her grow up and face reality.