On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:31:02 -0600, Captain America
<america.captain@gmail.com> wrote:
They released her!!!!!
cnn.com
Now, I am not really into the hollywood news, etc.
But, if I had a DUI, a alcohol reckless driving charge, driving with a
suspended license, and failed to show to a court-ordered alcohol related
program do you think I'm gonna get to just wear a ankle bracelet and
stay in my comfortable house?
Quite possibly. Now, I've never had to deal with this issue...but my
brother has. He was caught driving without a license after two DUI
convictions, high on amphetemines, with amphetemines in his pocket.
He was on probation for a previous offence. My brother has a problem.
He also is a very unremarkable man, not famous, not even a high school
graduate. He does have a job, though, and bosses who are unreasonably
loyal to him. He is very, very lucky.
What did he get for this (which is, by the way, considerably worse
than Paris Hilton's offenses)?
He got sentenced to thirty days of in house rehab (thank you, judge!)
and a year later he was sentenced to six months in jail, of which he
served three weeks. He was NOT put into the general population. He ran
the office that admitted new inmates, worked nights, and the guards
threw him a pizza party on his last night there. Over crowded jail, my
brother got his own room.
He could have worn the bracelet and stayed home. He chose to do the
time, because it was less time away from his job.
That's why I can't get all that excercised about Hilton. Seems to be
'same old, same old' to me, frankly.
In my brother's case, it was fine; this has taken two years of his
life to deal with, and almost every penny he has earned. He's clean,
and it looks like, finally, he may stay that way. Nobody is as
insistent about his attendence at NA than HE is.
The thing that I have problems with isn't that Hilton is getting
special treatment. I can't see that she is, frankly. The thing that
bothers me is that everybody around me seems to think she deserves
worse than anybody else is getting.
I SEE what everybody else is getting, and believe me, having Hilton
spend forty days in the general population for the offenses she has
been convicted of? That's special treatment. Nobody else has to.
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