OUTRAGIOUS!!! Welcome to the United States of Celebritocracy.

If it were you or I, we'd be "cell-block meat" already!!

24 hours ago none of this had happened ...... ONLY IN CELEB-RICA!

Yesterday, the L.A. District Attorney charged Lindsey Lohan with seven misdemeanor D U I charges stemming from her two D U I arrests within 60 days earlier this summer. You might say, Wow, 7 charges! Well, not so much WOW...she'll be traumatized by having to spend 1 day in jail and 10 days in community service. (Poor woman's liable to be "scarred" for life!) Link to story - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20412961/

• First question: How long would you or I spend in jail, if we pled no contest to 2 D U I arrests? How much would it cost in legal fees and insurance "bumps?"

Yesterday, Nicole Richie was released from jail after spending 82 minutes in detention on her four day sentence for a D U I drug arrest that took place in December 2006. (Get this....Richie didn't even reach her cell! She basically had a walk through the jail!) Richie was originally sentenced to 96 hours in jail for the D U I arrest, but then that sentence was reduced to 90 hours. Here's the link to story - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294355,00.html . Richie's lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley said, (And this part is just priceless!) "She was really treated like any other inmate. I think every inmate in her position, with that type of charge, would have been treated as she was."

• Second question: When was the last time you heard of someone get sentenced to "a walk through the jail" for a D U I arrest? And what do you think that attorney's smoking??? "Treated like any other in-mate" - she never even made it - IN!

Sometime yesterday evening, an unidentified ESPN source told MSNBC that Michael Vick will not admit to killing dogs or gambling on dogfights when he enters a guilty plea in a Richmond, Va., federal court Monday. (I can hear it now, "I never trained my dogs to get so brutal your honor - it was them outside dogs that came in and changed a friendly neighborhood match into something bloody and vicious! I love my dawgs!) In a meeting between Vick's attorney and Federal Prosecutors Michael Vicks attorney announced that he will plead guilty to "interstate commerce for the purpose of dogfighting." (Huh? What the hell does that mean?)

From what I've read in the papers and gleaned off the internet these last few weeks, there are 3 co-defendants who have already pleaded guilty and are expected to testify against Vick at trial. In addition there are reported to be numerous video's of Vick participating at dogfights and some other video's said to depict the execution of 9 dogs that lost their respective matches. To make matters worse, Vick's father, Michael Boddie, (now estranged from Vick and his mother), told the Journal-Constitution Thursday, that he witnessed Michael hold dog fights in the families Newport News, Va. garage until 2001. "I wish people would stop sugarcoating it," Boddie told The Journal-Constitution. "This is Mike's thing. And he knows it ... likes it, and he has the capital to have a set up like that."

A ("wishing to remain anonymous") government official has told the AP that Prosecutors will recommend a 1 year to 18 month jail sentence for Vick. (That's it?) The maximum sentence is 5 years, but District Judge Henry Hudson is not bound by any recommendation. He's known as a fair but heavy handed judge when it comes to sentencing. High profile defendants don't impress him. (NOTE TO JUDGE HUDSON! : There's a guy sitting in prison in South Carolina with a 30 year sentence for similar charges).

• Third set of questions: Show of hands! How many people believe Vick will get near the minimum of the jail sentence, (or maybe even a suspended sentence), and a multi-million dollar fine? (My guess, 12 months suspended sentence & maybe $5 million fine to be paid to PETA). How many of you believe the NFL will allow him to return to pro football after a 1 season suspension without pay? Reasoning: the Court can say they were tough with him; the league can say they were tough with him; and Vick can laugh all the way to the bank and continue to be a role-model to gangsta's and dog fighters all over the world! He's got a $110 million dollar contract, and when he comes back they'll be falling over themselves to sign him. SCUM BAG !

I think it's a terrible day for this country when celebrities and sports figures are treated differently than ANY other citizen. When that happens, we can no longer say we live in a democratic republic. We are no longer a society ruled by law - but a society based on media visibility, and the ability to pay - a Celebritocracy. I see it more and more often with sports figures and Hollywood types, they have their justice and you & I get ours - and unfortunately, "never the twain shall meet!"

How many years would you or I be going away for with 2 DUI arrests?

How about for setting up and betting on dog fights?

What about the 9 or 10 Cincinnati Bengal players arrested last NFL season either for gun charges, or beating the hell out of someone in a bar fight?

How many thousands of dollars in bail, lawyers fees and insurance bonus premiums would we have to spend?

Pro players and starlets don't care, their Publicist will just peel off as many "Benjamin's" as it takes. Ten Thou? A hundred thou? No problem-o!

This is not just, and it is not justice! This should never be happening in the United States of America.


Dum Spiro Spero!