Barron Hilton Live Up With His Sister’s Example
Paris Hilton’s younger brother Barron Hilton was arrested on DUI charges. Another Hilton hits the comfort of jail. The thing is that Barron is underage and will faced serious charges that will certainly give their parent a banging headache. Barron is only 18 years of age. His arrest took place in Malibu at 8:04 a.m. Tuesday February 12, when the third of Rick and Kathy Hilton’s four spawn was pulled over on Pacific Coast Highway by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy.
Celebrities Don’t Kill People, Regular People Do
Celebrities Don’t Kill People, Regular People Do by Roxanne McDonald
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We vacillate with the opinions, go back and forth with the amount and kind of punishment a drunk driver should get. But when it’s Paris, we go soft. [No pun intended] |
Okay, enough is enough. Celebutante Paris Hilton gets a drunk-driving conviction. She tries to get out of taking responsibility for her wrong-doing. She finally gets jail time. She can’t eat, can’t sleep, and can’t—according to TMZ reports quoting psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy, “participate in a meaningful defense” due to her being “emotionally distraught and traumatized” over her required jail sentence…so the trial is postponed till August.
A conveniently “private” medical condition suddenly erupts, disturbing enough that a convicted person is released after serving three days.
Now, the definitions of what constitutes a criminal act are revisited. How much culpability is taken into account and somehow miraculously reconsidered: a poor person, a regular guy or gal, will put at risk loved ones the world over should he or she drink and drive. But if a celebrity drinks and drives, the risk is diminished, discounted? Or the value of civilian life is somehow now measured on a different, special scale?
Add to this (the not new) discussions of how if prisoner #1223344 couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, and was “distraught” over having been incarcerated to pay a debt to society, as it is deemed, that prisoner would get little more than a tough shit response.
I am one of those who has gone soft and back to hard again about how Paris is being given a bit too much favoritism, so I don’t have much right to bitch about the back and forth, the indictment and rescinding….
Paris Does the Pen
Paris Does the Pen by Roxanne McDonald
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Paris has full cavity search (?), a flora legium of fans, and first day (and night) blues as she serves her time. |
Paris reportedly had to undergo what any incoming prisoner has to—the cavity search for contraband. She then was escorted to her cell amidst chants and the offer of gifts (say Celebrity Spider and TMZ). But the complaints over the conditions eclipse the notoriety Paris has enjoyed these last years.
She can’t sleep in what she purportedly described to friends by phone (a different kind of cell phone, ahem) as a “freezing” cell with no pillow and only three blankets as well as the nighttime noises and bright lights (the latter again not of the fame type the celebutante is used to). She doesn’t eat, either.
Instead, she is crying and still scared…though Beverly Hills psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy refused to discuss his patients after his two-hour visit to Paris, saying only how “Everything’s fine.”
Paris Hilton No Antigone
Paris Hilton No Antigone by Roxanne McDonald
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Great stuff, Paris Hilton fans—appealing to the governor to help someone displace, deflect, and avoid altogether personal responsibility…. |
As if we don’t have enough passing the buck and blaming everyone but the one initially responsible behaviors. Paris chose to do what she did to incur the [impending] punishment, but fans evidently appealed to Governor Schwarzenegger to help Paris avoid doing jail time for a violation—driving on a suspended license after a DUI had her CDL suspended.
At the same time, the fans didn’t think this up themselves, I understand. According to Celebrity Spider, TMZ, and other news source sites, the celebutante urged fans to endorse an online petition that would pardon her from serving her 45-day jail sentence for a 2006 drunk-driving arrest.
The petition, addressed to Schwarzennegger and posted on Hilton’s MySpace blog, thanks to a “friend” named Joshua, includes the following pleas:
“…the American public who support Paris are shocked, dismayed and appalled by how Paris has been the person to be used as an example that drunk driving is wrong.
She provides hope for young people all over the US and the world. She provides beauty and excitement to (most of) our otherwise mundane lives.
If the late former President Gerald Ford could find it in his heart to pardon the late former President Richard Nixon after his mistake(s), we undeniably support Paris Hilton being pardoned for her honest mistake as well.”
Evidently Joshua and company have not yet taken a critical thinking course, and have yet to learn about fallacious reasoning. I’m not even sure as a former instructor of such a course I could begin to get through to them the many problems with their statements—including, for example, false analogy, two wrongs not equaling a right, and and and…um, appeal to authority?
How can you be appalled by one being used as an example when you are the example to begin with? That is, when you did commit the crime, then blow off the punishment? And blaming your publicist for not informing you…well, first, displacing the responsibility won’t work; and second, ever hear that ignorance of the law is no excuse?
Paris Hilton: Is She the New Madonna?
Paris Hilton: Is She the New Madonna?
The answer is no. But more importantly, you may ask, who is Paris Hilton? Well, she is the grand daughter of Conrad Hilton of the Hilton Hotel fame. She first saw public notoriety when a stolen sex video of her hit the internet a few years ago and she gained a reputation as ” Paris the heiress.” The word Paris Hilton is now the most searched name on the internet next to Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Angela Jolie, and you get the idea. (read more…)