I'm famous therefor I'm immune to the law

Ferret

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I'm curious about a few things I've seen in the news lately:

Kobe Bryant has been accused of sexual assault. Does anyone think this will go to trial - let alone, get a conviction?

More amusingly, Deion Sanders had his car worked on and the mechanic had charged him $4,000 and he paid only $1,500 because "Jesus told him". He was taken to court and he WON?!?!?

Am I missing something here? Since when does the law not apply to certain people? Is it because of their skin colour, or is it because they're famous? Am I missing something?

-Ferret

"...and dont' even get me started about OJ..."
 
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Nightstalkers

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It depends on how many Nightstalkers you have supporting you as well.
 
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DÛke

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Awww...since when does the law not apply to certain people?

...Since the simplest concept of bribery had been first used.

...With that, since money first invented and more importantly seen as the measure of how "well" a human being had turned out. This plus bribery equals some part of your answer.

...Also since knowing few people in high places, law or whatnot can be bent as easily as you flip and flap the Benjamins.

...Charm would not hurt at all. A nice or a rehearsed choice of words is really a deciding factor on how a lie is heard.

...Good looks, good complexion, and all the surrounding people already feel "alright" around you.

...Insert, if necessary, threats and intimidation...

...A tendency to be outspoken, or at least a history of it, whether it is the defendant or his or her lawyer is always a plus, not for the ability, but simply for the tendency.

...If you're good with it, you can also have a power of suggestion in your tone of voice, choice of words, and charm - you can perhaps "talk" your victims into saying (and doing) things they would never do...a form of hypnosis.

...I should also mention that if you are in a position of a creator of rules, you can break others' creations (i.e. rules), if you are in a position of following the rules, than you are in no position to break that which you cannot built. Creators create and break, and followers follow and obey...

"To be placed above the law" is a false statement. You are either over or under the law already, right there when you commit your actions. If your mindset is "I am an obedient of the law," you will be less persuasive and more likely to be hunt down. If your mindset is "I am over the law," that alone gives you the confidence of an outlaw, and believe it or not, helps when and if you're caught.

Self-confidence is a huge measure of how guilty you are seen, or if you're caught at all. The psychology behind it is simply amazing - it does wonders. You are either born with instincts to be over or to be under - not just the law, but others as well. You need not necessarily have the capabilities to bribe. Your actions speak of what kind of a person you are. If you’re over, whatever law, government, persecution, and charges will not exactly stand in your way, or at least have a way harder time of dragging you down. If you’re the good citizen, then you’re the “good” citizen. And thank you for being so. But don’t expect to have what it takes to overcome the law. In fact, just the term “the law” should be enough to have you fear and tremble before what is greater than yourself. You are also the type of person who "fears the consequences of 'bad' actions," or so to speak on behalf of "good" citizens. What you do is confound by ethics and moral values: "does this yield good or what?" You indeed think of what an action "yields," and less of what you want, whatever the consequences might be. Of course, in the United States, for example, many people do this as well - are they all creators? No. To know what an action might yield is different than thinking and considering what it might yields. Take abortion, for example - there is no sexually active person who is yet blind to the consequences of intercourse. The consequences are known. When the victim then says that she didn't desire a child when she engaged in an intercourse, and then avoids it by abortion, it does not mean that she is a creator, that she is "above the law." It means that she is irresponsible. That she knew what is possible yet completely rejected it and thought only of "the moment." Being above the law is different - it is when you are blind to the possibilities and probabilities yet still commit the action, and then if you're caught, still have the charm and instinct to evade. That is being above the law, that is being a great human being in general.

I could go on, but this is long already...
 
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Svenmonkey

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Aside from the legal issue, what the heck are these guys thinking? They're frigging rich! Mr. Sanders could pay a freakin' million bucks to a mechanic and not feel any pain in his wallet, and this Kobe Bryant guy probably has a supermodel wife or girlfriend and decides to randomly rape some woman (it was probably consentual and the woman wants publicity or something, though). That makes me sick.

Rich and famous people are always such jerkholes.
 

Spiderman

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Haven't heard about the Deion Sanders thing.

From Bryant's side of the story, he said it was consensual and what he's guilty of is adultry (I think he married his high school sweetheart).

Until the facts are out, I don't think we can or should judge the wealthy; there are plenty of people who sue them just for a settlement and a piece of their pie so they'd go away. If there's a dismissal of his case, it could be that the accuser doesn't have a case and made it up, rather than it being dismissed because Bryant's famous.
 
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train

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Sander's biggest argument was that when the car was picked up, an amount was told to the shop in the figure of 1,500.00. That amount was the authorized amount in cost of repairs that was authorized by Sanders to fix his vehicle...

The shop went beyond that, without asking him, and he didn't have to pay...

Apparently they had proof of the authorized amount...:confused:
 
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Apollo

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Bryant is married to an actress (I think her name is Vanessa Williams). He says he is very sorry for cheating on her. *rolleyes*

Probably it was consentual, but the whole issue is stupid anyway. What was he thinking?!? The friggin moron...
 

Ferret

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Originally posted by Apollo
Bryant is married to an actress (I think her name is Vanessa Williams). He says he is very sorry for cheating on her. *rolleyes*

Probably it was consentual, but the whole issue is stupid anyway. What was he thinking?!? The friggin moron...
I know his wife's name is Vanessa, but I don't think it's Vanessa Williams (or at least not THE Vanessa Williams). The latest I heard was the he was dong some big time groveling: He bought her a 15 carat diamond ring vauled at about $4,000,000.00! Talk about hush money...

Again, it all comes down to people thinking they can get away w/ anything..

-Ferret

"...of course, you don't have to be rich and famous to have that attitude..."
 
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Apollo

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Sorry, my bad. Rick Fox, Bryant's teammate, is the one married to Vanessa Williams--my brain slipped.

At any rate, Bryant's wife is still gorgeous, so he's still a moron. ;)
 
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sageridder

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Originally posted by Apollo


At any rate, Bryant's wife is still gorgeous, so he's still a moron. ;)
Agreed on that some people just don't appreciate what they've got.Look at what Huge Grant had at home and he still chased after Carl Malone in a fright wig.I don't think he forced her, I think she saw a way to get her singing career going after all ther is no bad press as they say.After all it worked for Twanna Brawly.
 

Spiderman

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Staff member
Exactly. Again, the facts aren't out yet, but it could just as well turn into a case where a gold-digger is trying to get some money, which is pretty much as dispicable as Ferret's aversion to the rich and famous doing as they please.
 
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