Paris Hilton is a valuable asset to the US economy. Why destroy the asset to prove a point? A Pyrrhic victory at best. It would be like Ireland throwing Bono to 10 years in jail for smoking pot, if he did and was caught.
It takes balls to face the obvious feral mob intent on ripping the little girl apart.
!. In a free and “small d” democratic society, sheriffs don’t make law enforcement decisions based on one’s worth to the U.S. economy. If we did, every violent gagnsta rapper in the country would have free reign.
2. Even if that were a reason, she’ll probably make more money and be a hotter commodity after her stint, than ever before. Hilton’s money-making ability is based solely on her status as publicity whore. When has she ever generated such media attention? And, for the record, I don’t have a problem with her making money off of this. If people are stupid if enough to pay for it, let them part with their money.
3. She is not a “little girl”. She is a grown woman and it is about time she started acting like one. When I was her age, I certainly wasn’t crying for my “mommy” to help me out of scrapes. On the contrary, I was “mommy”, kissing the scrapes of toddlers.
4. I hardly consider 3 weeks in a private cell, with meals, a private toilet and air conditioning to be “ripping” her apart. You might want to talk to “little girls” at Walter Reed about being “ripped apart.”
5. I does not take “balls” to let a rich, whiny, celebutante go. It takes a severe case of celebrity sycophancy and/or fill-my-campaign-coffersitis.