The Campaign to Pardon Paris Hilton

I'd been ignoring the whole Paris Hilton mess, up until I heard on the radio when I was in the other room a minute ago that there is a petition to ask Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her. Say WHAT? I was annoyed by her whining that she was picked on by the police because of her celebrity status, but good lord, give me a break. A pardon by the governor? The gal is trying to pull off the "if I pout I'll get my way" crap and acting like the spoiled rich kid that she keeps whining about being typecast as. If you don't want people to think you are a whinny spoiled brat, then you accept it when you break the law and make the same amends that anyone else has to make.

No, I'm not against Paris Hilton. I don't care if she's rich or famous or any of that, I'm not an "anti-Paris" person. I honestly don't care one whit who she is or what she does, but to start a petition for a pardon to get out of spending time in jail for breaking the law? I mean, hell, there's already a website wanting to have people sign a petition and selling CafePress shirts. I won't give the link because the majority of the comments have rather nasty language in their opinions that go along the lines of this excerpt:

"Why would we pardon Paris Hilton? Any other criminal would not be given this treatment. Would you want a drunk driver operating a motor vehicle under a suspended license driving down your neighborhood where your children are playing?"

The petition says in part...

...putting the brakes on the hotel heiress' famous high life. Paris Hilton must go to jail on June 5 and she will not be allowed any work release, furloughs, use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail...

Trust me, she'll be out the other end of this 45 days (more probably going to be half an hour), smelling sweet as a rose and dancing in circles deciding which multi-million contract to sign first: book, movie of the week, or reality TV show.

If she wants to be a role model for young girls she should teach them that when they do something wrong they should take the responsibility and make amends for it, not skirt around on popularity and daddy's money to get out of trouble free. What sort of role model is it that teaches girls that they can do anything they want to if they throw a temper tantrum. Don't most parents try to cure their daughters of that behavior by age four?

I'll shuddup now. I just wish the girl would use her star powers for good instead of for stupid selfish acts that make girls that look up to her think that is appropriate behavior.