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>> The story of Britney Spears is the story of a destruction of a
>> beautiful, talented star by a heartless abusive scoundrel, an
>> ignorant court, a predatory media, and apathetic hypocritical
>> public. And it is indictment of the character of all those who
>> participated in this predatory act.

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> More likely all of that exacerbated her predisposition to mental
> illness, which runs in her family. Her paternal grandmother, Emma
> Jean Spears suffered from severe depression. She tried to committ
> suicide three times over a period of a few years and was finally
> successful on her fourth attempt at the age of 31 after shooting
> herself in the chest with a shotgun. A lot of Britney's behaviour is
> so classically bipolar I find it difficult to understand why mental
> health treatment was not addressed much sooner than this.
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> I don't think it's particularly helpful to blame anyone, but what I
> will say about all of this, is there needs to be new laws put in
> place that restrict photographers from relentlessly hounding
> celebrities. Celebrity is a career choice like any other job and it
> should not give people license to harrass them, stalk them, and
> intrude on their private lives. When they are "off the clock" they
> are simply ordinary citizens deserving of the same level of respect
> and privacy under the law as anyone else.
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> Case in point are these upskirt photographs that circulate. Not long
> ago a man was arrested by police when a woman caught him taking
> upskirt photographs of her in a department store. Turns out he had
> been doing this to thousands of women over a number years and had a
> collection of pictures to prove it. He was treated like a sex
> offender, convicted, and put in jail. Yet in a display of blatant
> hypocrisy when the paparazzi do the same thing to a celebrity he gets
> rich and the public blames the woman. Talk about a fucked up double
> standard.
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>> I'm hoping that it be Mr.Timberlake, as he is the only person in all
>> of this who's acted in anything like worthy manner.

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> I agree with this. Judging by a couple of interviews I saw in which
> he literally speaks for himself he seems like a decent man who cares
> about what happens to her. I don't need to know her personally to
> feel badly about this. I don't care who she is or how much money she
> has, she's just a mentally ill person in crisis, like a lot of us
> here were and still are, and I find the whole situation terribly sad
> for all involved.