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12 June 2007

The Other Paris

200706040203261086_2  I really have to comment on this whole Paris in Prison thing. It is on television and the radio every 5 seconds so there is no escaping it really. I guess this all bothers me so much because my daughter is around the age of all these girls that are getting in so much trouble.

Criminals walk every day because they have good lawyers and it just seems unfair that Paris is being hamstrung by a judge who is determined to make an example of her. I think in this case she is being treated unfairly, it has just gotten ridiculous especially since she could have been out in two weeks. She has probably had yeast infections that lasted longer.

I do firmly believe that Paris is a victim of her people. I believe that her people are scared to make her mad and they tell her what they think she wants to hear. I believe her people told her to go ahead and drive because they believed they could buy her out of any trouble she might get in. I also believe her people persuaded her to go on and go to jail because they already had an agreement with the sheriff and knew they would have her out in a couple of days.

I don't think she has the emotional tools to deal with something like this and I believe that people like her and Britney and Michael Jackson that have grown up in a vacuum have no idea what reality is, even when they become adults and live in the real world. They really don't even then as they still have "people" to shield them from things they probably don't even know exists. However I do think that once they realize their life is not "normal" they have a responsibility to figure out what is.

Anway, I think her sentence was fair but I think for the judge to haul her back in after she had been sent home by the sheriff was absurd. It happens every day in jails all over the country and the sheriff does have that authority normally. If she were a regular person she would have been let out after a couple of days -if that- due to overcrowding.