Greg "The Hammer" Williams believes strongly in the following creedo: celebrities don't go to jail. I completely agree with that statement. Rappers are about the only ones who truly get busted and even a high percentage of those make it free of charge.
The following link, http://movies.yahoo.com/news/ap/20050224/110931426000.html, is a story about the actor Tom Sizemore. He has done such films as Saving Private Ryan and Heat. The man is on probation and failed seven drug tests this month alone, and we are even in a short month. Yet, the judge refuses to put the man in jail until his hearing.
If this guy was Joe Blow Drug Addict off the street he would be thrown in a cell without a doubt in the world the right thing was being done. However, because Sizemore is a celebrity he gets five-star treatment.
Is this what's wrong with America? Is a problem we face that we put too much emphasis on stars and athletes than we do on the common man? Or do these celebrities deserve special justice? I think not, but there is nothing we can do. As long as People magazine is being bought and Entertainment Tonight is rated so high we will always have this problem.
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