Hooray For Law and Order!

Anybody here feel really bad for Paris Hilton? Come on raise your hand. I know someone out there is really upset at her re-incarceration. Because she is crying for her mommy she should receive compassion? You really think she is getting a raw deal. You bleeding hearts think crime should go punished with a slap on the hand.

The rule of law should pertain to one and all. Hollywood has, to date, given the impression that if you are a "celebrity" you deserve special treatment. Robert Blake, Mel Gibson, O. J. Simpson, ZaZa Gabor to name a few and the list is way to long to finish and I am really to tired anyway. No one, no one is above the law. Even Moses found himself punished for breaking God's rules. What will one of these nut cases have to do to receive the proper punishment. We already know from two of them they even get away with murder.

When I was 15 and starting to drive my dad sat me down and laid out the rules. Actually, only one rule that really stuck with me. My dad said, "If you get into trouble with the law, don't call me that night because I won't get up and come get you and I will have to think hard about it the next day too". Let me tell how much of an impression that made. I remember those words exactly as he spoke them and I am now 52. I feared the possibility of spending time in jail. Not only did I fear it but I was terrified and I never have been in one as a resident.

Where did this all start? Who knows, but I do remember hearing these words as a young adult listening to parents whose children get into trouble; "Not my child". But you don't have to live in L. A. for these things to happen. It happens in small town America as well. There are folks in every town that feel they are entitled to special treatment. The truth is there are people in every town that get special treatment, but that doesn't make it right.

So what is to be done? There is a simple answer. Go by the rules! Everyone would be happier, you could have the utopia that some people aspire to, and our jails would be nearly empty not bursting at the seams.

So, today go by the rules. Be curtieous and kind to others and for goodness sake don' act like a spoiled little rich girl.