The stupidity of
entertainers (Part 1)
One would think that entertainers would take great care to ensure that
their reputations aren’t tarnished by their conduct but unfortunately for some
of them, they do silly things that makes them look like fools or acting like
criminals. Here is one of them.
This Canadian citizen was born on March 1st
1994 in London, Ontario. His hometown was later in Stratford, Ontario. This 22
year-old singer and songwriter currently resides in a huge luxurious mansion in
Calabasas California. He earns between $60 and $80 million a year.
His stupidity
This young man has had several
run-ins with the law around the world before his first arrest in 2014,]including
when he was accused of reckless driving in his neighbourhood in 2012.
He was also charged in Brazil with
vandalism in 2013. In November 2014, he
was ordered to appear in Argentina within 60 days by a Buenos Aires court to give testimony on an alleged assault on a
photographer on November 9th, 2013. When he failed to do so, an arrest warrant was issued against him. Two of his bodyguards were released from
custody in April 2015.
One of his neighbours accused
Bieber and some of his friends of throwing eggs at his home on January 9th, 2014 which had caused $80,800.00
in damages. He had to pay for those damages. Naturally, what he paid for
the damages was merely a drop in the bucket considering how extremely rich he
is. He was also ordered to serve two
years' probation, complete twelve weeks of anger management, and five days of community service in what the district attorney
termed a negotiated settlement. Since then, he has permanently moved to Beverly
Hills, California after that particular incident.
On January 23, 2014, Bieber was
arrested in Miami
Beach, Florida along with singer Khalil on suspicion of driving
under the influence (DUI), driving with an over six
month expired license, and resisting arrest without violence. The police said that Bieber told them that
he had consumed alcohol, smoked marijuana, and taken prescription drugs. A
toxicology report revealed that Bieber had THC (a principal constituent of cannabis) and the anti-anxiety medication Xanaxin his system at the time of his
arrest which probably explains his conduct that particular day.
On August 13, 2014, the January
DUI case was settled with a plea bargain pleading guilty to resisting an officer without violence, and
a lesser charge of driving without due care and attention. He was given a fine of $500 and sentenced to attend both a 12-hour
anger management course, and a program that teaches about the impact of drunken
driving on victims. As part of the plea bargain, he has made a US$50,000
contribution to Our Kids,
a local children's charity.
Following Bieber's arrest on the
DUI charge, more than 270,000 persons petitioned the White House seeking to have him deported from
the United States. Although the number of signatures received was sufficient to
require a response under published White House guidelines; it has been noted that the Obama
Administration has declined substantive comment on the petition. About a decade
ago, the Supreme Court had ruled that driving under the influence, is not a
basis to deport someone.
Now one would think that this
twerp would have learned his lesson. He hadn`t learned a thing from the Miami
incident.
On September 1, 2014, Bieber was
arrested and charged with assault and dangerous driving near his hometown of Stratford, Ontario after he had a collision between a minivan and Bieber's all-terrain vehicle on August 29th. The police said that he then “engaged
in a physical altercation” with an occupant of the minivan. He was released
shortly thereafter and his lawyer blamed the incident on “the unwelcome
presence of paparazzi.” (people trying to take unauthorized
pictures for magazines etc.)
In June 2014, a video emerged of a
15-year-old Bieber telling a joke about black people, which used the word “nigger” multiple times. In the same
month, a second video showed a 14-year-old Bieber giggling as he croons his
song One
Less Lonely Girl, but parodying the main lyric as One less lonely nigger, and stating that if he were to kill one, he
would be ”part of the KKK.”
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He apologized the day the video
was released: He said, “Facing my mistakes from years ago has been one of the
hardest things I've ever dealt with” Despite that last statement he made, he
still continued to ravage his reputation as an entertainer.
Justin Bieber was charged with assault
in an alleged attack on a limo driver in Toronto in December 2013, but the
criminal charges were later withdrawn. In 2015, Abdul Mohar, 34, the limo
driver who alleges he was assaulted by Bieber who was asking $850,000 in
damages and a court order preventing Bieber from coming within 100 metres of
him. The statement of claim alleges that five other
men in the SUV night have entered into a “conspiracy” to protect Bieber from
answering to his “criminal conduct” by not co-operating with police.
Bieber’s lawyer, Brian Greenspan, called the lawsuit against
his client “totally without merit.” In an emailed statement he said: “During
the course of the incident, while speaking with the 911 operator, the limousine
driver had, in fact, identified his alleged assailant, who was still present,
as black.” After a careful assessment of the evidence, the Crown attorney
withdrew the charge against the limo driver.
Mohar told the Toronto
Star he was “really shocked” when he spoke to the 911 operator and wasn’t
thinking clearly. The majority of the men in his vehicle were black, he said,
adding that he told the police officers who responded soon after that two of
the men were white.
According to the statement of claim, the Uber notification
came from Bieber’s tour manager, Josh Williams. When Mohar arrived at the club
around 2:15 a.m., he was told to drive the group to Yorkville’s Hazelton Hotel
and was given a CD by a bodyguard to play during the trip.
After departing from the club, the young man sitting
directly behind Mohar told him “loudly and aggressively” to “max out the
volume,” the court documents say. Mohar then turned the volume up somewhat and
the man allegedly said: “I told you to max out the volume.” This man, the
lawsuit alleges, was Justin Bieber.
His SUV, Mohar claims, smelled like marijuana and alcohol
(so much so he had to spray it with air freshener for two days afterwards). The
music on the CD had a heavy bass and even though the windows were up, he said
he felt it could be heard from outside. He said that he was worried about
damaging the stereo system and getting a headache.
“Suddenly, and without any warning,” Bieber allegedly came
from the SUV’s back seats, wedging himself between the two front seats, and
turned the volume all the way up on his own.
Mohar claims he then said. “Please don’t do that. ” Then,
without any more words exchanged, he said Bieber punched him on the right cheek
with a closed fist. He said that the punch was very hard and painful.
He added that he was
actually scared he might get into an accident or that the incident could
escalate, specifically that he could be attacked with a weapon or by all the
men in the SUV who he says were doing nothing to stop the alleged attack.
As he pulled his SUV over to the side of the road on
University Ave., Mohar alleged Bieber punched him another four or five times in
the back of the head.
He said he got out of the vehicle, started walking away and
called 911. While on the phone with the dispatcher he said Bieber followed him,
getting inches from his face, and said: “What’s your problem?”
The court documents also say that a bodyguard, who had been
following in another SUV, then got between the two men, someone took the CD out
of Mohar’s SUV and the entire group fled.
When describing the incident to the responding police
officers, Mohar said he told them the man who assaulted him “looked like a
Justin Bieber kind of guy.” The police later confirmed to him that Bieber was
at the club that night, the documents say.
While Mohar was at the police station giving his statement,
Bieber’s tour manager, Williams, phoned him on his cellphone. The court
documents say that Mohar passed the phone to investigators and soon after,
Williams came into the station to give a statement, which included an admission
that his client, Bieber was one of the occupants in the vehicle. After watching
a YouTube video that purported to show Bieber at the club that night, In Mohar’s
civil claim, he said that days later he reiterate his belief to police that
Bieber was the one who assaulted him.
Months later, the prosecutor in the criminal case told Mohar
that he would likely have to drop the charges against Bieber because it was
Bieber’s word against his. That is generally the practice if there are no witnesses to
the assault.
Mohar was told that Williams,
the tour manager, would not return phone calls to him and that the other five
passengers in the car would not co-operate with police and could not be forced
to come to court to testify because they were American citizens.
As an interesting aside; in the year 2000, I attended the Tenth United
Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of the
Offender in Vienna as a UN recognized “Individual Expert” and in my address, I spoke about the need to
the United Nations creating a Rule that
would make it possible to extradite material witness from one country to
another. Alas, the delegates didn’t agree with my proposal. If they had
accepted my proposal, the five American
witnesses could be forced to come to Toronto and give testimony under oath.
The voice recording of Mohar’s 911 call has him describing
the passengers as being black although two of them were white.
Mohar, a father of two young girls, said he was disappointed
that no justice was served in the criminal courts and that is why he is decided
to pursue his lawsuit against Bieber.
Mohar said that he saved for a year-and-a-half to buy his SUV
limousine to become a chauffeur for Uber. He said he has always been treated
well by his clients.
Mohar’s lawyer, Clayton Ruby said, “The case is about power,
money and abuse by Bieber.”
Mohar said in his civil claim that he was shaken after the
alleged assault and went to the hospital two times because he believed he might
be having a heart attack. “Too much stress,” he said of what he believes caused
his symptoms. He has since stopped using Uber and only drives regular clients
he knows.
Bieber said during a roast of him on Comedy Central. and I quote;
“I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can
still turn out good music and turn everything all around. “I’ve lost some of my
best qualities. For that, I am sorry.”
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