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Basically Paris was being held in solitary confinement. That's the worst thing after a long term lockdown.

Not sure that's standard treatment for any prisoner ~ maybe you spent some time there and can tell us how it is.

Basically Paris was being held in solitary confinement.

She has/had a private cell. That is not the same as what is usually meant by "solitary confinement"

Basically Paris was being held in solitary confinement.

"Solitary confinement" in her case is having a private cell.

A wise leader would have said, "I'm happy that this troubled young woman is able to serve justice under the aid of her natural family. I want all other such prisoners the same opportunity. Perhaps we can find volunteer citizens who will donate money to pay for the tracking anklet that similar obviously-not-really-dangerous-to-society traffic violators but repeat offenders will wear."

Rev Al Sharpton is not this wise leader. He does not believe in Mercy.

Because of comments that poke at the obvious fact that a white girl who's family has a lot of money are going through a tough time, Rev Al Sharpton chose not to extend similar mercy to other families who are not as rich or white, but to demand "justice" for all law breakers. Yes, she broke the law several times. Yes, she deserved jail time AND she did, in fact, go to jail. But there are worse criminals than repeat traffic violators.

When words are spoken of your or my appearance or economic viability in such a manner, they aren't meant as means to find common ground. These words divide. When Rev Al Sharpon expresses words like this, they are a threat of violence--especially in cities known to have violent riots when the population is stirred up over supposed "racial" differences.

For example, Rodney King & OJ Simpson.

Because Rev Al Sharpton choose to divide us, he is using natural difference as unnatural divisions. Rev Al Sharpton has split from the message of Christianity. He is also unqualified as a leader who might bring others to a common goal. He is self-serving with the interest of holding others to a standard that he won't accept for himself. He holds us prisoner to our appearance and economic background.

What is race, Mr. Sharpton?

If a man as white as a lily leaf in a snow storm conceive a child with a woman as dark as chocolate during a moonless midnight...what is the race of the child? Human race, Mr. Sharpton. The baby is a human of the race "human". It's not about appearance and neither is Justice or serving the law.

If a rich woman falls in love with the young penniless man cleaning her pool and they have a child, how different is that child from a very poor couple producing children with no inheritance, Mr. Sharpton? How different is that child from a couple so rich they don't know what "poor" means, Mr. Sharpton? The answer, Mr. Sharpton is that there's no difference. Children are children. It's not about economic background but about Natural Law and the nurture of Natural Family over artificial environment of self-imposed and godless society. What and who are you serving, Al?

But because you are not merciful, Mr. Sharpton, comments like yours from a well media-represented threatening inciteful position, you have guaranteed ZERO sympathy for your "constituents" of the supposed background you seek to represent. In fact, the very super wealthy you have managed to isolate from their family are in a very strong position to not buy the tracking anklets that they could have funded for obviously not-so-dangerous traffic violators, but will fund the "needed" prisons for "justice" that you, Mr. Sharpton, want EVERYONE to serve.

Congratulations Al. You could have guaranteed family time with slightly restricted freedoms for troubled individuals in our society. You could have extended mercy for people who need the loving bonds of family and not meaningless numbing wards of the state. But instead, you shackle people to an overburdened system. This story of a troubled young girl that burns easily in the sun who also comes from a hard working self-made super rich family wasn't about "justice". This story had to be about you, Al.

And here's your legacy, Al. You've managed to put an extremely wealthy family in the position of looking upon anyone with a slightly darker tan and with a slightly smaller paycheck (which is almost all of us) as a potential predator who will jealously enslave them to the whim of a mob and an overtaxed secular social machine. Not only are the Hilton's super wealthy, Al, but they make HOTELS. How hard is it for the Hiltons to shift gears from making opulent hotels to slightly higher than the lowest bidder prisons to house ALL the law breakers like the people you think you represent, Al?

Satan, wasn't this in your plan from the beginning?

Do you think that we wouldn't see through it? Are traffic fines going to be opportunity for you to split natural families and put us into penal colonies segregated from the Graces of a real Church?

Let's just look at the future of traffic violators? Have you had your inspections? Do you have insurance? Did you renew your license? Are you driving 2 mph over the speed limit? Is your left speaker out?

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070608/ny_traffic_fee.html?.v=1

NYC Mayor Pushes Traffic Fee Proposal Friday June 8, 2:39 pm ET By Verena Dobnik, Associated Press Writer NYC Mayor Cites 'Inconvenient Truths' of Congestion, Pollution in Pushing Traffic Fee Plan

NEW YORK (AP) -- Traffic congestion and devastating pollution are among the "inconvenient truths" of our age and could be eased by imposing pay-to-drive fees on Manhattan motorists, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a legislative panel Friday.

Bloomberg, who normally takes the subway to work, told the lawmakers he got stuck in traffic three times on his way to the special hearing.

His remarks were greeted by a roaring ovation from supporters who included environmentalists in bright green T-shirts handing out fresh green apples before the hearing.

"The threats to our city, and our planet, are inconvenient truths that we can no longer avoid facing, and that we can no longer wait for Washington to confront," Bloomberg said, referring to the title of Al Gore's Oscar-winning global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Under Bloomberg's proposal, cars entering Manhattan south of 86th Street would be charged $8 per day, and trucks $21. Under a three-year pilot program, the fees would be collected only during the worst traffic hours, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Two major roadways flanking the east and west sides of Manhattan, FDR Drive and the West Side Highway, would be exempt.

Some lawmakers in the city's outer boroughs and bedroom communities do not support the so-called "congestion pricing," saying it would punish many drivers.

"This is a tax on middle-class people," said state Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a Westchester Democrat who chairs one of the committees that held the joint hearing. "This will stop the Chevrolets from coming in, not the BMWs."

The mayor's plan got a boost Thursday from Gov. Eliot Spitzer and U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, who announced that New York is one of nine semifinalists to receive federal funds to fight traffic jams.

"This plan would keep the city that never sleeps from becoming the city that never moves," Peters said of the proposed fees.

The city would become the first in the nation to adopt a congestion pricing plan of this magnitude. The proposal is similar to a system that London has used since 2003, and government officials there say it has significantly reduced congestion.

It is part of an ambitious series of environmental proposals from Bloomberg in recent months, including converting the entire taxi fleet to hybrid vehicles, replacing light bulbs with more efficient ones and a goal of a 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

Backers say the fee plan would cut traffic jams and pollution while generating money for mass transit projects -- nearly $400 million in its first year alone.

Environmentalists have applauded the plan, but it would have to be enacted by the state Legislature, making the support of lawmakers from outer boroughs and bedroom communities around New York critical to its success.

The mayor pointed out that on Friday, like many warm-weather, high traffic workdays in New York, a state air-stagnation advisory was in effect not only for Manhattan, but also for surrounding counties on Long Island and Westchester County.

In addition, Bloomberg said, four times as many New Yorkers are hospitalized for asthma as the national average.

He said such facts are "a reminder that when idling cars and trucks stack up on our roads and at our tunnels and bridges, they produce more than just ulcers and hair-trigger tempers," Bloomberg said. "They pump deadly pollution into the air that we and our children breathe."

In addition, he said, the hours lost in traffic rob the economy of work hours.

Bloomberg said the plan has the support of more than 80 civic, labor and political groups. The plan also appears to be gaining momentum from influential state leaders in Albany.

Spitzer said he would urge lawmakers to support the plan so that New York would qualify for the federal funds outlined by Peters on Thursday.

The other cities competing for a total of $1.1 billion in federal funds are Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Miami, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. Peters said that up to five cities will split the money, and the winners will be announced by mid-August.

Spitzer said New York would ask for $500 million -- almost half the federal money that will be available under the Department of Transportation's Urban Partnership program. Under the plan, a network of cameras would capture license plate numbers and either charge a driver's existing commuter account or generate a bill to be paid each time.

Commuters who already pay a toll to come into Manhattan via tunnels and bridges could apply that against the new fee. For example, a person already paying a $6 toll to go through the Lincoln Tunnel would be charged an extra $2 under the plan.

Senior citizens who oppose the plan held a news conference at a Manhattan hospital, one of the places they said they must sometimes drive to.

"I had a friend I had to take in for radiation every day," said Robert Goldberg, of Brooklyn. "There was no way he could take the subway."

A wise leader would have said, "I'm happy that this troubled young woman is able to serve justice under the aid of her natural family. I want all other such prisoners the same opportunity. Perhaps we can find volunteer citizens who will donate money to pay for the tracking anklet that similar obviously-not-really-dangerous-to-society traffic violators but repeat offenders will wear."

Rev Al Sharpton is not this wise leader. He does not believe in Mercy.

Because of comments that poke at the obvious fact that a white girl who's family has a lot of money are going through a tough time, Rev Al Sharpton chose not to extend similar mercy to other families who are not as rich or white, but to demand "justice" for all law breakers. Yes, she broke the law several times. Yes, she deserved jail time AND she did, in fact, go to jail. But there are worse criminals than repeat traffic violators.

When words are spoken of your or my appearance or economic viability in such a manner, they aren't meant as means to find common ground. These words divide. When Rev Al Sharpon expresses words like this, they are a threat of violence--especially in cities known to have violent riots when the population is stirred up over supposed "racial" differences.

For example, Rodney King & OJ Simpson.

Because Rev Al Sharpton choose to divide us, he is using natural difference as unnatural divisions. Rev Al Sharpton has split from the message of Christianity. He is also unqualified as a leader who might bring others to a common goal. He is self-serving with the interest of holding others to a standard that he won't accept for himself. He holds us prisoner to our appearance and economic background.

What is race, Mr. Sharpton?

If a man as white as a lily leaf in a snow storm conceive a child with a woman as dark as chocolate during a moonless midnight...what is the race of the child? Human race, Mr. Sharpton. The baby is a human of the race "human". It's not about appearance and neither is Justice or serving the law.

If a rich woman falls in love with the young penniless man cleaning her pool and they have a child, how different is that child from a very poor couple producing children with no inheritance, Mr. Sharpton? How different is that child from a couple so rich they don't know what "poor" means, Mr. Sharpton? The answer, Mr. Sharpton is that there's no difference. Children are children. It's not about economic background but about Natural Law and the nurture of Natural Family over artificial environment of self-imposed and godless society. What and who are you serving, Al?

But because you are not merciful, Mr. Sharpton, comments like yours from a well media-represented threatening inciteful position, you have guaranteed ZERO sympathy for your "constituents" of the supposed background you seek to represent. In fact, the very super wealthy you have managed to isolate from their family are in a very strong position to not buy the tracking anklets that they could have funded for obviously not-so-dangerous traffic violators, but will fund the "needed" prisons for "justice" that you, Mr. Sharpton, want EVERYONE to serve.

Congratulations Al. You could have guaranteed family time with slightly restricted freedoms for troubled individuals in our society. You could have extended mercy for people who need the loving bonds of family and not meaningless numbing wards of the state. But instead, you shackle people to an overburdened system. This story of a troubled young girl that burns easily in the sun who also comes from a hard working self-made super rich family wasn't about "justice". This story had to be about you, Al.

And here's your legacy, Al. You've managed to put an extremely wealthy family in the position of looking upon anyone with a slightly darker tan and with a slightly smaller paycheck (which is almost all of us) as a potential predator who will jealously enslave them to the whim of a mob and an overtaxed secular social machine. Not only are the Hilton's super wealthy, Al, but they make HOTELS. How hard is it for the Hiltons to shift gears from making opulent hotels to slightly higher than the lowest bidder prisons to house ALL the law breakers like the people you think you represent, Al?

Satan, wasn't this in your plan from the beginning?

Do you think that we wouldn't see through it? Are traffic fines going to be opportunity for you to split natural families and put us into penal colonies segregated from the Graces of a real Church?

Let's just look at the future of traffic violators? Have you had your inspections? Do you have insurance? Did you renew your license? Are you driving 2 mph over the speed limit? Is your left speaker out?

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070608/ny_traffic_fee.html?.v=1

NYC Mayor Pushes Traffic Fee Proposal Friday June 8, 2:39 pm ET By Verena Dobnik, Associated Press Writer NYC Mayor Cites 'Inconvenient Truths' of Congestion, Pollution in Pushing Traffic Fee Plan

NEW YORK (AP) -- Traffic congestion and devastating pollution are among the "inconvenient truths" of our age and could be eased by imposing pay-to-drive fees on Manhattan motorists, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a legislative panel Friday.

Bloomberg, who normally takes the subway to work, told the lawmakers he got stuck in traffic three times on his way to the special hearing.

His remarks were greeted by a roaring ovation from supporters who included environmentalists in bright green T-shirts handing out fresh green apples before the hearing.

"The threats to our city, and our planet, are inconvenient truths that we can no longer avoid facing, and that we can no longer wait for Washington to confront," Bloomberg said, referring to the title of Al Gore's Oscar-winning global warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth."

Under Bloomberg's proposal, cars entering Manhattan south of 86th Street would be charged $8 per day, and trucks $21. Under a three-year pilot program, the fees would be collected only during the worst traffic hours, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Two major roadways flanking the east and west sides of Manhattan, FDR Drive and the West Side Highway, would be exempt.

Some lawmakers in the city's outer boroughs and bedroom communities do not support the so-called "congestion pricing," saying it would punish many drivers.

"This is a tax on middle-class people," said state Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a Westchester Democrat who chairs one of the committees that held the joint hearing. "This will stop the Chevrolets from coming in, not the BMWs."

The mayor's plan got a boost Thursday from Gov. Eliot Spitzer and U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, who announced that New York is one of nine semifinalists to receive federal funds to fight traffic jams.

"This plan would keep the city that never sleeps from becoming the city that never moves," Peters said of the proposed fees.

The city would become the first in the nation to adopt a congestion pricing plan of this magnitude. The proposal is similar to a system that London has used since 2003, and government officials there say it has significantly reduced congestion.

It is part of an ambitious series of environmental proposals from Bloomberg in recent months, including converting the entire taxi fleet to hybrid vehicles, replacing light bulbs with more efficient ones and a goal of a 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

Backers say the fee plan would cut traffic jams and pollution while generating money for mass transit projects -- nearly $400 million in its first year alone.

Environmentalists have applauded the plan, but it would have to be enacted by the state Legislature, making the support of lawmakers from outer boroughs and bedroom communities around New York critical to its success.

The mayor pointed out that on Friday, like many warm-weather, high traffic workdays in New York, a state air-stagnation advisory was in effect not only for Manhattan, but also for surrounding counties on Long Island and Westchester County.

In addition, Bloomberg said, four times as many New Yorkers are hospitalized for asthma as the national average.

He said such facts are "a reminder that when idling cars and trucks stack up on our roads and at our tunnels and bridges, they produce more than just ulcers and hair-trigger tempers," Bloomberg said. "They pump deadly pollution into the air that we and our children breathe."

In addition, he said, the hours lost in traffic rob the economy of work hours.

Bloomberg said the plan has the support of more than 80 civic, labor and political groups. The plan also appears to be gaining momentum from influential state leaders in Albany.

Spitzer said he would urge lawmakers to support the plan so that New York would qualify for the federal funds outlined by Peters on Thursday.

The other cities competing for a total of $1.1 billion in federal funds are Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Miami, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. Peters said that up to five cities will split the money, and the winners will be announced by mid-August.

Spitzer said New York would ask for $500 million -- almost half the federal money that will be available under the Department of Transportation's Urban Partnership program. Under the plan, a network of cameras would capture license plate numbers and either charge a driver's existing commuter account or generate a bill to be paid each time.

Commuters who already pay a toll to come into Manhattan via tunnels and bridges could apply that against the new fee. For example, a person already paying a $6 toll to go through the Lincoln Tunnel would be charged an extra $2 under the plan.

Senior citizens who oppose the plan held a news conference at a Manhattan hospital, one of the places they said they must sometimes drive to.

"I had a friend I had to take in for radiation every day," said Robert Goldberg, of Brooklyn. "There was no way he could take the subway."

She being kept away from the general population in a large room. It’s a better room than solitary. They compared it to a motel 6 yesterday.

I think she should have her choice of private room or general population.

best thing to happen to this spoiled celubutard. let her be in a locked tiny room for 23 hours a day with no TV, no cellphone, no texting...let her think about her actions, they do have consequences.

That's the worst thing after a long term lockdown.

Not if you have other inmates threatening to beat or kill you.