Commentary: Governor Schwarzenegger - Please Double Paris Hilton's Sentence

Actually, we couldn't care less about Paris Hilton. In fact, we're a little amused by the fact that in this age of the Patriot Act, global warming and war, there are people who think that keeping a spoiled little rich girl out of jail is a pressing issue. We're also amused that these same folks characterize this heiress to the Hilton fortune is a “self made” anything. Anyway, we offer this petition partly in jest, but if you wish to send it on to the good governor, just click on the envelope icon at the end of the text and enter the address governor@governor.ca.gov into the email form.

Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:

Poor little Paris Hilton. After getting stopped numerous times for driving on a suspended driver's license, a judge has sentenced her to spend 45 days in jail. After spending a lifetime never having to take responsibility for her actions, she is finally being made to do so.

It seems that you, dear governor, are now being asked to pardon her transgressions. Why not? It seems that those who raised her always let her get away with everything. From her public actions, we doubt that she has ever been made to take responsibility for anything she's ever done. Her family money has always been able to buy her out of any difficulty she's found herself in. Why should this case be any different?

Because you are now in a position to help this young lady learn that there are consequences to her actions, a lesson most of us learn at a very young age. You are now in the position to teach her a valuable lesson that her mother and father evidently neglected to teach her.

Usually, we are against incarceration for minor offenses. We are appalled that our prisons are filled with people who have committed victimless crimes. In this case, though, we feel that a little jail time might do this poor girl some good. And we feel that because she's wasting your time and taxpayer dollars with her ridiculous attempt to get you to let her off scott free, that you should just go ahead and double her sentence.

Think about it – for 90 days Paris Hilton would have to survive on instant mashed potatoes and mystery meat. Might that teach her some humility? For 90 days she would be surrounded by people who know that being broke means that there's no money to buy necessities like food, not that you left your credit card at home. She would be around people who consider being on the street, or having one's only car repossessed , a crisis – in other words she would learn that a bad hair day is a minor inconvenience, not a crisis. For 90 days, she would be surrounded by people who could care less who she is and would laugh at her (or worse) when she tries to explain that she's “too good for this.”

Double her sentence Mr. Schwarzenegger, or at least let the sentence stand as it is. If not, we're afraid that she'll be back.

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