http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1645 Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:25:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1645&cpage=1#comment-74362 Free Paris - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:58:32 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1645#comment-74362 [...] It’s been impossible to ignore all the publicity about Paris Hilton, and difficult to resist posting on. It was just too hard to resist blog posts entitled Paris Has Been Liberated! and Paris Burning. I’ve heard claims that Paris was being treated more harshly than others with similar offenses would, but I’ve actually only paid marginal attention to the whole affair and hadn’t seen any clear evidence either way. Today the Los Angeles Times presents an analysis,and also turns this into a real story as opposed to celebrity fluff, ensuring that we’ll always have Paris. The analysis in the Los Angeles Times find that “Paris Hilton will end up serving more time behind bars than the vast majority of inmates sent to L.A. County Jail for similar offenses.” The Times analyzed 2 million jail releases and found 1,500 cases since July 2002 that — like Hilton’s — involved defendants who had been arrested for drunk driving and later sentenced to jail after a probation violation or driving without a license. [...] [...] It’s been impossible to ignore all the publicity about Paris Hilton, and difficult to resist posting on. It was just too hard to resist blog posts entitled Paris Has Been Liberated! and Paris Burning. I’ve heard claims that Paris was being treated more harshly than others with similar offenses would, but I’ve actually only paid marginal attention to the whole affair and hadn’t seen any clear evidence either way. Today the Los Angeles Times presents an analysis,and also turns this into a real story as opposed to celebrity fluff, ensuring that we’ll always have Paris. The analysis in the Los Angeles Times find that “Paris Hilton will end up serving more time behind bars than the vast majority of inmates sent to L.A. County Jail for similar offenses.” The Times analyzed 2 million jail releases and found 1,500 cases since July 2002 that — like Hilton’s — involved defendants who had been arrested for drunk driving and later sentenced to jail after a probation violation or driving without a license. [...]

]]> http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1645&cpage=1#comment-72008 Paris is Burning - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:19:59 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1645#comment-72008 [...] Paris Has been Liberated! [...] [...] Paris Has been Liberated! [...]

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