Happy Sunday Everyone,
Usually my blog topics focus on style and fashion. However, entertainment tends to go hand in hand with both style and fashion. So, after reading a celebrity article, I decided to move into the topic of Entertainers, just for the day.
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I read an article that was done on Robert Downey Jr. He is known as one of the bad boys of Hollywood, and rightfully so. In the 90's, RDJ went to jail for drug offenses and over the years has been the focus of positive and negative media attention. In this article, Robert Downey Jr. stated that going to jail did not really change him and that jail was not that bad.
And, of course we know that Paris Hilton has had a couple of arrests in which she spent time in jail as well as our bad girl Linsey Lohan. It seems that neither of these young ladies were deeply affected by their jail experiences either. The thing that struck me about the Robert Downey Jr. comment was his admittance of it not being bad. But then again, I saw his point completely after evaluating the situations.
Although these stars were in one of the worst jails in the U.S., they were kept separated from the general population, for their safety, their privacy, their start status and whatever else the system wants to use as an excuse for the special treatment. Los Angeles County Jails are over crowded, understaffed, under funded, dirty and nasty. Many of the people in LA County jail come from all walks of life. There are gang members, murderers, robbers, drug addicts and mentally disturbed. And, these stars were not exposed to any of that, because I guarantee, had they been exposed to real jail life, they would have a completely different outlook.
Even worse, is that mixed in with all the hardened criminals are people that perhaps never paid their parking tickets and ended up going to jail because of warrants, or people that perhaps broke a law of some minor infraction. Many of those misdemeanor type people are pretty much first time offenders with minor infractions, but basically they live a decent and law abiding life. But yet and still, when they are thrown into general population, no one is concerned for their safety, no one is making sure their privacy is protected, they are just thrown in their and whatever happens to them while there just happens. And, unfortunately, if something does happen, the jail assumes no liability, so you can't even sue them.
My question, after reading what Robert Downey Jr. said is, what made you better than the guy who was in jail for a ticket? Why should your life be worthy of protection and not another life? To Paris Hilton, Charlie Sheen and even Lindsey Lohan, what makes your life more valuable than the average humans life? And, is your drug and alcohol abuse better that the average drug and alcohol abuse? Is your DUI less dangerous that the average person's DUI? What, do your inflictions come with warning label so that anyone who sees you can identify you as a menace? If you were to kill someone in your drunken and drug induced states, would your victims life be less important than your life? So Mr. Downey, of course it wasn't so bad. Of course it was not a learning experience to you. Why would it be?
Thank you all for reading my weekend edition. I'd love to hear your comments and feedback.
Until tomorrow when we return to our regularly scheduled fashion and style blog,
Blessings, Peace & Prosperity
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