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Paris Hilton going back to jail
cnn ^ | 6/8/07

Posted on 06/08/2007 12:13:44 PM PDT by bnelson44

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A judge has ordered Paris Hilton returned to jail and she was taken from court screaming.

A crying Hilton was taken to court in a police car Friday for a hearing on her early release from jail, heightening the struggle between the judge who sentenced Hilton and the sheriff who turned her loose.

Hilton appeared to be in handcuffs when she was placed into a black-and-white patrol car, which sped away from her Hollywood Hills home with lights flashing. Paparazzi sprinted in pursuit and news helicopters pursued overhead, broadcasting live TV coverage.

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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
I think Judge Sauer found his great white rich defendant who people love to hate, and relished the opportunity to grandstand and make an example of her.

I can't disagree fully there. However, there were two things that happened during her initial sentencing that I think were factors too. 1. She was late to her hearing. and 2. Her mom was openly berating the judge in the courtroom. I'm still mystified how she didn't get a contempt of court for that. Anyway, my point is that the case was made personal because of those two factors more than anything.

If she was on time and her mom had kept her fat mouth shut, I doubt the judge would have cared if the sheriff let her out early.
61 posted on 06/08/2007 1:09:49 PM PDT by Thoro (Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.)
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To: Moose4
I’m getting the feeling that the sheriff is in deep caca.

Or deep "Baca"...

62 posted on 06/08/2007 1:09:59 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Polls are for strippers and liberals." Caller to Rush, 6/5/2007)
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To: VaRepublican
Perhaps we should lock up the entertainment industry and news media for turning a minimally attractive dimwit into a global celebrity instead.

Turning her into an icon did more damage to the youth of America than any lesson they will learn from her going to jail for 23 days.

63 posted on 06/08/2007 1:10:29 PM PDT by garv (Conservatism in '08)
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To: Thoro

Whose idea was it for a telephone conference today? If he got a “smart” answer like “sorry, I’m under house arrest” that might have irritated him too.


64 posted on 06/08/2007 1:14:10 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: garv

Agree completely.

As multiculturalism fractures and balkanizes our society, I think the liberal media manufactures these idiot “celebrities” as a “bread and circuses”-like distraction that appeals nationally and helps sustain a national market for their garbage.

For example, it’s interesting to analyze topics that make up fodder for the monologues of the late-night comedians. Their joke-writers focus overwhelmingly on either Bush, Cheney etc. or the shenanigans of these absurd “celebrities.”


65 posted on 06/08/2007 1:17:34 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: Thoro
However, there were two things that happened during her initial sentencing that I think were factors too. 1. She was late to her hearing. and 2. Her mom was openly berating the judge in the courtroom. I'm still mystified how she didn't get a contempt of court for that. Anyway, my point is that the case was made personal because of those two factors more than anything.

What amazes me is that a family so stupid hasn't already managed to completely squander away their fortune.

66 posted on 06/08/2007 1:27:07 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: AppyPappy

“Is the party at her place still on for tonight?”

Ha ha! I suspect not.


67 posted on 06/08/2007 1:33:59 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
What amazes me is that a family so stupid hasn't already managed to completely squander away their fortune.

Heh, if I recall correctly, stupidity was pretty much her plea to the driving on a suspended license charge, which I'm sure didn't help sway the judge towards sympathizing for her.
68 posted on 06/08/2007 1:37:44 PM PDT by Thoro (Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.)
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To: bnelson44; Jeff Gordon
This is so sad. A beautiful woman of her status, reputation and social class should not be treated like this. She should be protected from such plebeian rules.

Jeffy,

Social class is something that must be properly maintained for it to have any meaning. When Conrad Hilton started working in the hospitality industry he was providing individual beds to multiple cowboys every night. His success was founded on the belief that even the most common person deserved to be treated with a level of comfort and courtesy.

If you left off your sarc tag you should be more attentive.

Conrad Hilton intentionally left his heirs an adequate but modest inheritance that his son was able to overturn through a lawsuit against the estate after his father died. The old man should have given it all away before his death. I don't believe anyone today could really imagine how ashamed he would be of his pampered Great Granddaughter if he were here to see what has come from his legacy.

Normal people learn how to properly interact with their fellow human beings. Individuals such as Paris, and some other spoiled young people of leisure, act worse than Jane Goodall's Wild Gombe Chimpanzees of Tanzania. Flo or Fifi were obviously each much better mothers than Kathy Hilton.

In reality this bad behavior has little to do with wealth or privilege. Numerous, dirt-poor, individuals have displayed far worse behavior. The difference is that it is so common we think nothing of it, and those plebeian individuals are held accountable as a matter of course.

69 posted on 06/08/2007 1:41:16 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister
Social class is something that must be properly maintained for it to have any meaning.

Plebeians do not get to decide what is proper for the upper classes. You need an attitude adjustment.

70 posted on 06/08/2007 1:47:09 PM PDT by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: DumpsterDiver
"She's 26."

When I was 26, I was a Corporal in the Marine Corps, living out on my own in Washington, D.C., while going through a divorce.

I cannot imagine her ever taking responsibility for her own life.
71 posted on 06/08/2007 1:49:23 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot
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To: JennysCool
Actually, because of the judge's idiotic actions today, she does. She was given 45 days reduced to 23 for good behavior. Then, the Sheriff set her to house arrest.

Now, today, the judge forces her to serve the full 45 days?? Why, because the Sheriff was the one who screwed up??

Doesn't make any sense to me. She screwed up but this is a juge with a want to become famous and to make a point. And the masses cheer. Typical.

72 posted on 06/08/2007 1:56:34 PM PDT by Solson (magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.)
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To: Old Grumpy

I had an invite. That’s crap. I didn’t go to jail. Why should I suffer?


73 posted on 06/08/2007 1:57:08 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: FortWorthPatriot

Maybe she will. She needs our prayers. She is a young woman who people think has everything but really she has nothing.


74 posted on 06/08/2007 2:01:19 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Jeff Gordon
It's ironic that some people just don’t believe in tagging their sarcasm.
75 posted on 06/08/2007 2:09:23 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: bnelson44
Who bloody cares about this? When she gets out, she'll write a book about her harrowing experience in the "big house."

It'll be made into a made-for-tv movie series, and she'll demand to play the lead.

And then we'll have to endure another few years of everybody fawning over this attention whore.

76 posted on 06/08/2007 3:03:29 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: higgmeister

“It’s ironic that some people just don’t believe in tagging their sarcasm.”

It’s not sarcasm if it is tagged as such.


77 posted on 06/08/2007 3:21:23 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve
It’s not sarcasm if it is tagged as such.

Exactly my point.

78 posted on 06/08/2007 4:25:00 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn
People are always caught driving on a suspended license, because driving is such a big part of daily life for most people.

Very true. A lot of folks, a lot of regular folks like you and me, get caught driving while suspended. Most regular folks rely on their car for transportation. Not everyone has access to public transportation.

Most folks, come to think of it, can't afford to hire a car service until the suspension period is over.

Little Miss Moneybags could have done that. She could have hired a fleet. She chose, instead, to piss on the law.

79 posted on 06/08/2007 5:48:34 PM PDT by grellis (Femininists for Fred!)
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To: CindyDawg
She is a young woman who people think has everything but really she has nothing.

How, how in the world, could letting her out of jail and teaching her (at 26!!!) that her actions have no consequences be in her best interest? Don't lose sight of the fact that this whole mess stems from a DUI. Let her out of jail now, prove to her that she can get away with anything.

And the next time she goes for a drunken joyride, maybe she'll kill someone. Maybe she'll take out a whole family. But at least she'll have had our prayers.

80 posted on 06/08/2007 5:57:30 PM PDT by grellis (Femininists for Fred!)
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