Paris Hilton got off too easy!

[Cat]

I think she was raised badly. It’s almost abusive. Her development is so arrested that she seems unable to deal with problems that the rest of us would just find a way to handle. She doesn’t seem to have a conscience at all, or if she does, it’s so poorly formed that she’s really no better than a small toddler who has no idea that what they are doing is horribly unsocial.

In a way, I feel like the mom (and is there a dad?) should go to jail with her to make up for their bad parenting.

I’ll bet she’s never eaten mashed potatoes and canned corn and fruit cocktail in heavy syrup in her whole life, so it’s no wonder that she got sick on the jail food.

And I sympathize with her.

If I am nervous or upset, my stomach is the first part of me to do flip flops. Ever since my surgery (March 19), on the day of my doctor appointments, I get an upset stomach, feel faint, and barf. I try not to, but it must be psychological. It’s so weird to not be able to control it! The people at the office recognize me by now. (“There she comes, the fainter!”)

I also get an upset stomach before I play piano if there is something not right; e.g., I feel that the singer/choir is not prepared, etc.

So I can sympathize with Paris here. I know a lot of people say, “Too bad, sweetie, just eat what the po folk eat, you’re not above it.”

But I disagree with this. It’s really, really tough to not be able to eat because certain foods just don’t set well and you barf it up. It only takes a day or two of this to totally wring you out.

My feeling is, send her back to jail, but allow her cooks to prepare whatever she normally eats and drive it over to the jail, then clean up (take the dishes home, etc.) Surely this wouldn’t cause the jail staff any extra trouble or make work for them.

If we were incarcerating a vegetarian or a senior citizen or a person from a country outside the U.S., we would try to make some reasonable accomodation for their diet. I think it is reasonable that Paris should be provided with food that she can tolerate without barfing. It doesn’t have to be the best gourmet stuff, just a few basics of whatever she normally eats.

I just think that’s basic decent treatment of prisoners–providing food.

 

[whatevergirl]

I think she was raised badly. It’s almost abusive. Her development is so arrested that she seems unable to deal with problems that the rest of us would just find a way to handle. She doesn’t seem to have a conscience at all, or if she does, it’s so poorly formed that she’s really no better than a small toddler who has no idea that what they are doing is horribly unsocial.

In a way, I feel like the mom (and is there a dad?) should go to jail with her to make up for their bad parenting.

I’ll bet she’s never eaten mashed potatoes and canned corn and fruit cocktail in heavy syrup in her whole life, so it’s no wonder that she got sick on the jail food.

And I sympathize with her.

If I am nervous or upset, my stomach is the first part of me to do flip flops. Ever since my surgery (March 19), on the day of my doctor appointments, I get an upset stomach, feel faint, and barf. I try not to, but it must be psychological. It’s so weird to not be able to control it! The people at the office recognize me by now. (“There she comes, the fainter!”)

I also get an upset stomach before I play piano if there is something not right; e.g., I feel that the singer/choir is not prepared, etc.

So I can sympathize with Paris here. I know a lot of people say, “Too bad, sweetie, just eat what the po folk eat, you’re not above it.”

But I disagree with this. It’s really, really tough to not be able to eat because certain foods just don’t set well and you barf it up. It only takes a day or two of this to totally wring you out.

My feeling is, send her back to jail, but allow her cooks to prepare whatever she normally eats and drive it over to the jail, then clean up (take the dishes home, etc.) Surely this wouldn’t cause the jail staff any extra trouble or make work for them.

If we were incarcerating a vegetarian or a senior citizen or a person from a country outside the U.S., we would try to make some reasonable accomodation for their diet. I think it is reasonable that Paris should be provided with food that she can tolerate without barfing. It doesn’t have to be the best gourmet stuff, just a few basics of whatever she normally eats.

I just think that’s basic decent treatment of prisoners–providing food.

CAT–Your posts are priceless…should have a hall of fame here…and your posts should end up there. They are so unique…I love 'em!

 

[Linda_Marie]

Wow. I don’t think those doing hi-5’s over Hilton’s renewed sentence of 45 days in LA County Jail have given thought to how truly harsh and rough that will be. A week in jail would have taught her a needed hard lesson. But six weeks in lock-up is far too heavy a sentence and will proably leave scars.

She’s lucky she didn’t leave scars on someone else with her drunk-driving. IMO, she would would have learned nothing from 3 days in jail except that she could still trade on her fame and fortune to avoid the consequences of her behaviour.

I can’t find the story now, but I understood that she was being kept separate from the general population and was receiving special treatment due to her celebrity status. The latest stories, after her return to jail, have her in the medical facility. Furthermore, she only has to serve another 18 days, not the full 45.

in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2007-06-09T072920Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-302271-8.xml

She was done for drunk-driving and driving while suspended. Her contempt for the law and the community is obvious. Paris Hilton is quite rich enough to have hired a driver 24/7 and been chauferred around while her license was suspended, thus avoiding all of this. She chose her path.

Driving violations
In September 2006, Hilton was arrested and charged with driving under the influence with a blood alcohol content of 0.08%, the minimum at which it is illegal to drive in California. Hilton’s drivers license was subsequently suspended in November 2006,[34] and in January 2007 she pled no contest to the alcohol-related reckless driving charge.[35] Her punishment was a 36 month probation sentence and fines of about $1,500.[36]

On February 27, 2007 Hilton was caught driving **70 MPH in a 35 MPH zone **with a suspended license. She also did not have her headlights on even though it was after dark. Prosecutors in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney charged that those actions, along with the failure to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program constituted a violation of the terms of her probation.[34] On May 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Sauer to 45 days in jail for violating her probation. She was required to begin her jail term June 5, 2007 or risk a doubling of her sentence.[6]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton

My brother’s childhood sweetheart was killed by a drunk driver. They have no concern for anyone else on the road and are a real danger to everyone. If more people were thrown in jail, even if only for a few weeks, for drunk-driving on the first offense, perhaps they’d think twice about getting behind the wheel of a car while under the influence.

 

[Teelynn]

I am not altogether that interested in Paris Hilton’s life…but, in watching the news today about her sobs, etc…she is no different than any of us…who would be in trouble…heading to prison. My heart goes out to her–she has led a priveleged life, and took it for granted. That was her real ‘crime,’ taking all her luxury for granted. I think as a society, we have a (grim) fascination with rich and famous people getting into trouble.

I think it some bizarre way…this may change her life for the good. Sometimes, we have to hit rock bottom …before we’re ready to seek Heaven.

I agree with you 100%. I am, however, really getting tired of hearing about Paris Hilton and other celebs and their escapades.
The way I see it, who in the heck really cares??? So many very important things going on in the world, and the media has to beat this kind of thing to death on a daily basis. :banghead: It’s almost very pathetic really. Just my :twocents:

 

[kim3260]

Thank God this did not happen, but suppose she did indeed injure or kill someone with her reckless, drunken driving, if that person was “John or Jane Q. Public” would the papers and TV news be all about them and their families sufferings or will it be Poor, Pitiful Paris crying for her mommy
My bet is on the later
She does need prayers, not to lessen her sentence, but for her to find the way and perhaps find some guidence in her life.

 

[masondoggy]

My feeling is, send her back to jail, but allow her cooks to prepare whatever she normally eats and drive it over to the jail, then clean up (take the dishes home, etc.) Surely this wouldn’t cause the jail staff any extra trouble or make work for them.

If we were incarcerating a vegetarian or a senior citizen or a person from a country outside the U.S., we would try to make some reasonable accomodation for their diet. I think it is reasonable that Paris should be provided with food that she can tolerate without barfing. It doesn’t have to be the best gourmet stuff, just a few basics of whatever she normally eats.

I just think that’s basic decent treatment of prisoners–providing food.

I completely disagree with this. She deserves NO special accomodations in jail. If she didn’t want to have to eat nasty food, she should have never got behind the wheel drunk in the first place. She made her own bed, now she has to lie in it. Jail food would probably make me sick also. Should I be allowed to have my husband bring me special meals if I ever go to jail?

I feel no sympathy for her.

 

[masondoggy]

My brother’s childhood sweetheart was killed by a drunk driver. They have no concern for anyone else on the road and are a real danger to everyone. If more people were thrown in jail, even if only for a few weeks, for drunk-driving on the first offense, perhaps they’d think twice about getting behind the wheel of a car while under the influence.

I agree. In fact, a few weeks is not nearly enough. Anybody convicted of DUI should get a minimum year in prison and permanent suspension of their license.

There are just NO excuses for getting behind the wheel and there should be no second chances…we all know that the victims of these cold people never get a second chance.

 

[LovedForever]

This is a 26 yr old woman who DROVE DRUNK (which is bad enough), she then broke her parole TWICE!
Paris Hilton lives as though the rules for the rest of us (peons) do not apply to her.
Now she knows that is just not true.

Welcome to the real world Paris. Maybe now you will grow up a little.

What a disgrace this whole fiasco has been.

 

[Cat]

I still maintain that the woman has been raised to be a “cripple.” She has no idea that drunk driving is “wrong.”

When you come across people who were abused as children and raised to have no conscience, surely you all know that these children can’t be “fixed” with a short-term effort; e.g., a week at Vacation Bible School? They have major problems that take years of intensive, loving work to straighten out, and sometime these problems persist even into their adult years.

You can’t undo the effects of abusive upbringing with a few weeks or months or even years in jail.

Paris Hilton was raised badly. Proof is in comparison. There are many “children of privilege” who are delighful adults, charitable, law-abiding, and faith-filled.
It’s not the privileged upbringing that caused Paris to commit crimes, it’s abusive upbringing by foolish, perhaps even evil parents.

I’m actually considering not staying in Hilton Hotels anymore. What’s sad is that these hotels are the Official Hotels of the United States Figure Skating Association. Oh, well, I’m sure the Hilton Board of Directors had nothing to do with how Paris Hilton was raised. But I personally would quit my job if I were part of the Hilton corporation, knowing that someday, Paris will inherit it all!

Paris Hilton is an emotional cripple when it comes to real life. She needs long-term care and therapy, not punitive measures. She doesn’t need to be “taught a lesson.” She needs to grow up all over again with loving parents that will instill good values and discipline in her.

And I still insist that the woman be fed food that she is capable of eating and keeping down. What on earth will force-feeding her biscuits and gravy do to help her see the error of her ways? For someone raised like her, that’s just cruel treatment. Her mind, as warped as it is by bad upbringing, will NOT make the connection that “barfing up food” is her “punishment” for “driving drunk.”

It’s like beating a baby for crying. They don’t understand why you’re doing this to them, they only know that it hurts and makes them cry harder and not trust people.

Paris Hilton is like a baby when it comes to conscience. She doesn’t have one because no one cared enough about her to give her a conscience. It’s the saddest children’s story in the world.

Don’t you see?–Paris Hilton doesn’t even understand that what she’s done is a crime or a sin! She’s like a small child who screams out in the middle of the Consecration at Mass–“Mommy, I have to go poop!” Certainly the small child should be gently and firmly taught that this isn’t appropriate so that they won’t continue to do this as they grow up. Paris Hilton was obviously never given this kind of guidance or discipline. She’s totally crippled in her conscience. It’s very very sad, an example of child abuse to the extreme. It should be a lesson to all of us who are raising children.

 

[Cat]

whatevergirl, thanks for the kind compliment. I can assure you that not everyone on this Forum agrees with you!

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Thanks again.

 

[Milliardo]

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse; she might be like a spoiled brat, but she broke the law, and now she should pay for it. That’s how it is. It’s not an excuse to say she was raised badly, so she’s like a child, etc. She’s old enough to understand the law, or at least read it.

 

[JimG]

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse; she might be like a spoiled brat, but she broke the law, and now she should pay for it. That’s how it is. It’s not an excuse to say she was raised badly, so she’s like a child, etc. She’s old enough to understand the law, or at least read it.

Of course it’s no excuse. The point is that she was treated differently than most Los Angeles County defendants convicted of the same crime. Most serve no jail time at all, or are released within 24 hours.

Yes it’s a serious crime, but if you want all DUI’s to get serious jail time, then the good people of L.A. must be prepared to cough up more tax money for more jails.

 

[a_priori]

Of course it’s no excuse. The point is that she was treated differently than most Los Angeles County defendants convicted of the same crime. Most serve no jail time at all, or are released within 24 hours.

Most don’t rub the judge’s nose in it by being late to court and keeping him waiting on the bench with reporters standing by.

 

[psalm90]

PH lives in a far different world than I do. I hardly know who she is, and judging from what I’ve seen on TV about her recently, I’m not missing much.

When I see anybody, male or female, just strutting for the cameras, I get sick, I turn the channel, etc.

When I see the tabloids in the supermarket strutting “news” like Paris has a hangnail, or whatever, I wonder whose lives are so shallow as to write and read that stuff.

 

[LilyM]

Of course it’s no excuse. The point is that she was treated differently than most Los Angeles County defendants convicted of the same crime. Most serve no jail time at all, or are released within 24 hours.

Yes it’s a serious crime, but if you want all DUI’s to get serious jail time, then the good people of L.A. must be prepared to cough up more tax money for more jails.

She’s not just any DUI - she’s not only a repeat offender but a repeat parole violator.

 

[deb1]

My feeling is, send her back to jail, but allow her cooks to prepare whatever she normally eats and drive it over to the jail, then clean up (take the dishes home, etc.) Surely this wouldn’t cause the jail staff any extra trouble or make work for them.

If we were incarcerating a vegetarian or a senior citizen or a person from a country outside the U.S., we would try to make some reasonable accomodation for their diet. I think it is reasonable that Paris should be provided with food that she can tolerate without barfing. It doesn’t have to be the best gourmet stuff, just a few basics of whatever she normally eats.

I just think that’s basic decent treatment of prisoners–providing food.

logistically this would be difficult for the jail. i am sure that she is not the only person that gets sick off of jail food. in high school i wouldn’t eat my school’s cooking because i hated it so much. so i stood outside during lunch.

if i went to jail then i would want my hubby to cook me good food and bring it to the jail, as would many other people.

it would be unfair to allow paris to get home cooking and no one else.

i could see a prisoner sueing because paris was allowed home cooking and they weren’t.

in a few days her stomach will have adjusted to the cooking and she will be fine.

 

[deb1]

I still maintain that the woman has been raised to be a “cripple.” She has no idea that drunk driving is “wrong.”

When you come across people who were abused as children and raised to have no conscience, surely you all know that these children can’t be “fixed” with a short-term effort; e.g., a week at Vacation Bible School? They have major problems that take years of intensive, loving work to straighten out, and sometime these problems persist even into their adult years.

You can’t undo the effects of abusive upbringing with a few weeks or months or even years in jail.

most people in prison have been abused. so paris is in good company.

serial killers often have some of the worst childhoods that one can imagine. but we still punish them.

i admit to having compassion for her but that doesn’t mean that i think that her punishment should be shortened. if anything it is a sad commentary on our society that driving drunk and breaking parole only gets you 45 days

i do think that we should pray for the young lady. she could do a lot of good with her fame.

i will say that the joy that some feel over seeing her crying though bothers me. the news media seems to be gloating over her tears.

 

[stbruno]

It is sad that anyone needs to serve time in jail, but hopefully Paris and all prisoners will use this time to reflect on their lives and have conversion moments. I know it may be utopian or maybe even Pollyannish to think that people might improve rather than get hardened by their experience and do more grave crimes when they are released or even in prison. With God all things are possible! Maybe instead of criticizing her, we should collectively pray for her and all those convicted of crimes.

My son said, maybe she was experiencing chemical withdrawal symptoms while in jail…after all she was driving under the influence?!