by Amelia Danielle

Created on: April 21, 2008   Last Updated: April 22, 2008

Many are the perks of being an American celebrity today. You get free designer cloths, fabulous SWAG, invites to all the best hotels, parties and shows and of course adoring fans wherever you go. These are all things celebs have willingly signed up for when entering the volatile and intense career path of entertainment.

Far be it from me to judge their lives. I know nothing about walking down the street and being bombarded with invasive fans begging for autographs and pictures let alone the constant threat of the paparatzi hounding me for an all-the-rage candid photograph to show me shopping for groceries or sipping tea with friends. However, it's beyond my understanding as to when exactly we as citizens signed up to pay for some celebrities frivolous and careless use of the police just because a photographer stalked them to the Pinkberry. I see it mostly with the young celebrities like Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears. They find it so overwhelming, the short walk from theier local Kitson store to their awaiting BMW, so they call on the help of the boys in blue as if they were on their personal pay roll. When cops could surely be out helping, I don't know, those in actual need; they are instead escorting some overpaid celebutaunt to and from her vehicle.

These celebrities are paid millions to sing and act (terms I use very loosely), millions to endorse products and thousands more just to show up at night clubs and be seen partying. They should make sure that they have their own personal body guards tagging along if the threat of adoring fans and photographers (who by way of promotion are actually helping their so-called careers) bears too heavily on their day.

I remember when I called the police to report a break into my home, it took them 45 minutes to show up to my house. Mind you someone broke into my apartment with a metal baseball bat and threatened my life. It took them 45 minutes.

Maybe it's not the most serious offense in the world today, and there are far more things to focus on. But it's things like this that slowly tick away at the fabric of our nation. Having our coveted police force turned into escorts for bratty little Hollywood starlets is something that just adds to the reason why America isn't taken very seriously anymore. And why Hollywood and the world's obsession with reality has gone majorly too far.

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