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I Really Have To Tell You
by James Glaser June 8, 2007 I don't know if I have ever mentioned it to you before, but for future reference I want you to know that I have a bad back, and my mind is kind of shot, too. Now, if you ever hear that I have been sent to the hoosegow, please come down and get me out. I just know that the tight quarters of jail would warp my mind (even more), and make sleeping almost impossible, and on top of that, I'm pretty sure the bunks there are not orthopedic. Paris Hilton and I might not be on the same social stratum, but it looks like we have some of the same physical and mental health problems. For a person like Paris to serve even a three day sentence could induce life long health problems, and I am sure that most Americans are thankful that this woman was able to pay her debt to society so quickly. Seriously now, Paris Hilton does not live a life like most Americans. She has the money that it takes to buy a "get out of jail free card," . . . and I bet you thought those were only in the Monopoly game didn't you? Here in the real world, we know that those with enough money can do what ever they want, and get away with it too. Think, O.J. Simpson. A lot of people think our country is going downhill because we are starting to lose some of our constitutionally protected freedoms, but I think class warfare will do us in way before we become some sort of police state. In America today there is a small minority of extremely wealthy people, and Paris Hilton is in that class. Those people don't live by the same laws as you and I do. Wealthy people don't even live the same way as we do. They live in walled compounds called "Gated Communities." They have their own security force, and the only way you and I are getting into those communities is if we have to do some sort of maintenance on their homes. People who live in that class think differently than we do, and our courts and our jails and prisons are just that—ours. Wealthy people don't go to the "slammer" or the "Big House" when they commit a crime. No, they have nice places to do their time. No fences, no guard towers, and usually no cells, but cottages to live in. So when most of America is outraged that Paris Hilton only had to serve three days of a three week sentence, the people from her class figure she did more than enough. After all, she served those three days with the lower classes, and that is punishment enough in their eyes. Every country in history has gone through what we are going through today with the haves and the have-nots. Just like everywhere else, some day, the have-nots will be fed up enough with the Paris Hiltons of this country, and then things will really get out of hand. |
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