<p>I have pretty mixed feelings about this, but someone at another forum said something I thought was pretty interesting…not a direct quote, but the gist of it was that if Anna Nicole had an intervention like this, it might have saved her life.</p>
Mini, have you lost your mind? You just finished posting that the parents who had a lock in alcohol party for minors should get 27 months in jail, but you have no problem with a woman driving driving dunk, then driving on a suspended license. Why such different results in Miniland? Could it be you prefer blonds?</p>
<p>As others argued in the other forum, well, none of the kids went out and got killed, so what’s the problem? (And unlike the parents in the other case who could have gotten off with a little slap on the wrist had they chosen, Paris is truly repentent - in the only way she knows how.)</p>
<p>Besides, she is S<em>P</em>E<em>C</em>I<em>A</em>L.</p>
<p>mini - i think there just needs to be a change in the pronoun in your post #51.</p>
<p>I think we’ve suffered enough (with the media’s coverage of all this; and, then there is the enormous expense Los Angeles County has created for itself. As a resident of the LA county I’m just thrilled).</p>
<p>As an aside, as far as sentencing, interesting to see the woman in Tenn. who killed her husband (the minister), claiming she was the victim of spousal abuse, yet absolutely no evidence of that was admitted at trial, gets sentenced to 3 years today, but to only serve 210 days. Much as I’m not a Paris fan, Ms. Hilton got about 20% of that Tenn. sentence. </p>
<p>I can’t believe that she stood up and screamed “This isn’t right” when the judge ordered her back to jail. </p>
<p>No what isn’t right is that she have been caught driving drunk mult. times and now that she is finally are getting punishment for it they reduce the sentence by a month. After serving a day, get to go home because of “health issues”. Screw that. I’ve heard of people having to go to AA meetings for a year to be able to get their license back. The major thing that parents are trying to teach their childern not to do and she’s does and expects no punishment, Thats not right.</p>
<p>People lose mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters to drunk drivers. If I lost a relative because of her, I would be MORE then upset that she can break the law and get away with it because of who she is.</p>
<p>This is why it’s so hard for me. Because I have seen plenty of incidents where people don’t serve a single day in jail for probation violations for DWI and even violent crimes. But on the other hand, the idea of Paris getting special treatment because she’s a privileged character–and quick with the waterworks and other ways of dramatizing herself–sticks in my craw. When women play on this kind of stereotype to get what they want from men, it demeans all of us. </p>
<p>My wish would be that from this she learn to accept responsibility for the consequences of her actions. As my friend pointed out, it might even save her life (or someone else’s). </p>
<p>But given the number of apologists she’s surrounded herself with, a week or two in a private cell in a celebrity wing of the slammer isn’t exactly going to be enough exposure to reality to do it.</p>