Celebrity Justice for Britney?
In the latest episode in the sordid, public spectacle that is Britney Spears' life, do we have the latest instance of celebrity justice -- Los Angeles style?
According to the Daily News' Greg Hernandez, the Friday-night standoff began when Spears "refused to turn over one of her sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline's bodyguards when her court-monitored visitation was over." The result was a three-hour standoff, which ended with Spears being taken away in ambulance to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
Now, do most Angelenos -- when refusing to honor a court order and entering into a hold-off with cops -- end up in Cedars Sinai? Or county jail?
Meanwhile, the biggest victims in all this, of course, are Spears' kids, whose lives know no semblance of normalcy. Imagine being picked up by dad's "bodyguards," while mom gets dragged away by the fire department, with paparazzi surrounding you -- and you're two years old.
Somehow I can't imagine these boys' fame or wealth provides much consolation. These poor children have a mother and a father, but -- best as I can tell -- not one parent. How incredibly sad.