Okay all I know is what I read on CNN. What I see is:

1) PH got stopped for DUI (or whatever acronym you guys use these days). She was punished for that to some extent.

2) She then gets stopped (twice) for driving on a suspended license. No mention on CNN of alcohol for those two offenses.

She apparently was sent to jail not for DUI but for breaking the law.

I told gemela that if my DD had done that, I would have driven her to the jail myself.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. I think Martha Stewart handled herself much better.

I don't disagree that she is accountable. If I was the judge she'd be there longer!

However, had she learned NO and learned accountability as a child, she might not be needing this giant wake up now....

As struggling ex-codependent, it was hard lesson for me to learn that when we protect our loved ones from consequences, we are only setting them up for harder lessons in the future...

So for example, when my teenage son screws up in school and lands in the principal's office, we don't rush down to save our son from the horror of detention.

Instead I realize that if I love my son I'll let him suffer this NOW, instead of incarceration later....

also...I'm not sure this was a no-brainer for her.

Imagine being born into an incredibly rich indulgent family as a fashion perfect blonde barbie.

I can imagine that she learned that rules applied to other people, not to her. When the message is dummed into you, your ENTIRE childhood, then I think it is highly unlikely that she would have had a Eureka moment at 18 where she understood that the law applies equally.

THIS is her eureka moment, and sadly, splashed out on worldwide media...

I am sad for her.

Rosie, I do feel sorry for her, I can't really deny it. It is painful to watch. But I feel sorry for her in the same way I would feel sorry for my son getting a root canal. The pain is necessary thing that leads to a greater good.

I have known other upstanding people who were reduced to being thrown in jail [for alcohol related violations], who grew from it and actually thanked God for the experience years later. It changed their life in a profound way.

I hope that happens to Hilton. I hope that this is her chance to develop some real character and decency as a person.

I usually feel empathy for anyone going thru pain. But for this one my thankfulness eclipses my empathy.

I would much prefer to see Paris crying and whaling for her mom now about being incarcerated, which is a temporary innocuous stay, then to see her and family-X crying and whaling for their family member she murdered while driving drunk.

I'm praying this lesson will stick and I also hope her party-hard peers glean something from it.

I hope the same things. However, I suspect that it will be harder for her - surrounded by crowds of enablers who all have something to gain by keeping her stuck where she is.

The odds are against her, but anything could happen.

You know...she isn't going to get a "real" taste of jail.

She isn't going to be in with the other criminals. No one is going to be looking to make her their bit,,ahem...girlfriend.

No one is going to harrass her...she is still going to be getting her special treatment, just maybe not the "Paris" treatment.

I would say that this little break is going to do nothing for her.

They should give her a REAL taste of it.. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Oh yeah...the worst things that are going to happen is that her extensions are gonna fall out...and her roots are gonna be showing in 45 days...oh my! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

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From my POV, apart from having to sleep on an uncomfortable bed, jail may not be that much of a punishment for her. She has no career. She lives for her fame and notariety. Anyone ever see her sister? This jail incident is simply a new chapter in her life. It will not hurt her "career". On the contrary, it will help it. It has made her yet more famous.

If this had happened to me, I would risk losing my job (assuming I lived in the USA - here I definitely would). Other than a few days of inconvenience, Paris is not really losing anything. On the contrary. She is gaining.

However I will say that Nicole Richie had better be careful. Paris will learn from this experience. Next time they get in a tiff, Paris might just gut her with her shiv.