I'm sick of hearing about it. That's why I'm writing this. Maybe, if I put this on my blog, people will stop bringing it up as a topic of conversation anymore. At least with me.
Then again, maybe I'm nuts. But still, I wish to say the following...
To Prince Harry:
On behalf of the American people, I'd like to apologize that your privacy was invaded while you were visiting us. What you do behind closed doors in your own hotel room is none of our business, and I am sorry that some people have forgotten this.
To the Paparazzo responsible for the current "Naked Prince" pictures:
You should be ashamed of yourself. If it's not bad enough being a Peeping Tom, you took pictures and sold them. That's disgusting, and in my opinion, using someone else in this way without their knowledge puts you on a level with child pornographers. And frankly, I'm somewhat surprised that you haven't been brought up on charges, because in this country we have laws prohibiting people from profiting from their crimes-- even if it involves some of their own work. Your photos are no different than a murderer's tell-all book in that manner-- they are evidence of your crime.
To the Consuming Public, including but not limited to:
All the little fangirls screaming their heads off over pictures of "Naked Prince Harry!"
Everyone buying the magazines for something to gossip over
All the people who bought the magazines and newspapers to "stay informed of current events", who then spent the next two weeks looking down their noses and talking scathingly about the prince
And everyone else who has acted like "What happened in Vegas" is the biggest news of the summer:
Congratulations, you have just paid someone (through the magazine middlemen) to be a peeping tom and take dirty pictures.
YOU are the reasons that the paparazzi act the way they do. They stalk people and invade their privacy to take pictures of them because they are sure that YOU will buy them. If you take away the demand for such things, they'll stop.
And really, where is your common sense and decency? Think about how you would feel if you were the prince-- if you were in your hotel room, would you feel that you had the right to do as you wish without strangers watching? Even play a game of strip poker or lay around in your birthday suit? I know that I would. And I would feel violated if someone was peeping in the windows and taking pictures of me without my knowledge, even if I was fully dressed. This was a horrendous violation of privacy-- not just because the prince was naked (although that exacerbates it), but because he was in a place where he was within his rights to have an expectation of privacy.
Furthermore, the prince is in the spotlight all the time. Think for a second about what that means. Many people, maybe even most people, get nervous about giving even a ten-minute speech, during which everyone is judging how they look, how they speak, and how they act. A lot of people like to have powerpoints filled with interesting pictures and graphics so that the audience will be paying attention to the slides rather than them. Now, take that feeling of nervousness, and multiply it exponentially, because as a prince, Harry is in the spotlight all day, every day when he's in public, and he doesn't even get the powerpoint to distract everyone. Is it really so much to ask that when he goes home at the end of the day he should be able to have a break from that? I don't think so.
So, in conclusion, let's stop accusing the prince of acting stupid, and put our anger and indignation where it belongs.
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