>>> FREE BRITTANY NOW!
FREE BRITTANY NOW!
>> FREE BRITTANY.
NOT JUST SOME KIND OF RHETORIC.
BRITTANY SPEARS IS NOT LEGALLY
FREE.
SHE CONTINUES WITH HER HEARING
TODAY OVER THE FATE OF HER LEGAL
PREDICAMENT.
THE GOVERNMENT PUT HER DAD IN
FIRM CONTROL OVER HER LIFE AND
MONEY AND THE RULE SHE CAN
APPEAL THIS.
THE JUDGE RULED TODAY THAT
BRITTANY CAN PICK AND HIRE HER
OWN ATTORNEY.
UNTIL TODAY, THIS IS PART OF THE NEWS WE ARE GETTING, SHE HAD TO
NEWS WE ARE GETTING, SHE HAD TO
USE A COURT APPOINTED LAWYER,
SPEARS SOBIBED IN COURT TODAY.
IT PITS AUTS A SPOTLIGHT HOW THE
GOVERNMENT CAN MANAGE CONTROL OF
AN ADULTS LIFE.
SPEARS SO-CALLED
CONSERVATORSHIP HAD RUN FOR 13
YEARS.
>> IF I WAS NOT UNDER HER
STRENGTH THAN I AM UNDER RIGHT
NOW WITH DOCTORS AND LAWYERS AND
PEOPLE ANALYZING ME EVERYDAY AND
ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF LIKE IF
THAT WAS NOT THERE, I FEEL SO
LIBERATED.
THEY HEAR ME BUT THEYRE NOT
LISTENING.
THEYRE HEARING WHAT THEY WANT
TO HEAR.
THEYRE NOT LISTENING TO WHAT I AM TELLING THEM.
AM TELLING THEM.
IT IS LIKE -- IT IS BAD.
I AM SAD.
>> WHY DID COURT PUT HER IN THIS
LEGAL POSITION?
IN 2008 SHE WAS PLACED IN
INVOLUNTARY PSYCHIATRIC HOLD
OVER ERRATIC BEHAVIOR.
SPEARS FACED SCRUTINY AND OUT RIGHT HOSTILITY FROM THE MEDIA
RIGHT HOSTILITY FROM THE MEDIA
AS HER FAME AND POPULARITY
EVOLVE.
THE MEDIA DEEMED A FALLEN STAR.
>> SHE LITERALLY GRABBED THE
HAIR CLIPPERS AND STARTED DOING
HERSELF.
SHE SAYS I DONT WANT EVERYBODY
TOUCHING ME, I AM TIRED OF
EVERYONE TOUCHING ME.
>> IT IS SO EASY.
IT IS SO MUCH FUN TO TAKE A
CELEBRITY WHOS A YOUNG AND
BEAUTIFUL TALENTED GIRL AND RIP
HER TO SHREDS.
>> NOBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT
MENTAL HEALTH WHEN BRITTANY
SPEARS WAS GOING THROUGH ALL OF
THAT STUFF IN PUBLIC.
THE CONVERSATION WAS ABOUT WHAT
WAS WRONG WITH HER.
THERE WAS TOO MUCH MONEY TO BE
MADE OFF OF HER SUFFERING.
>> THIS WAS A STORY THAT RAISES
A LOT OF ISSUES ABOUT AMERICA
AND ABOUT US AND OUR SYSTEMS IN
HOW WE LIVE.
CAPITALISM CAN TREAT PEOPLE
COMMODITIES WHETHER IT IS POOR
LABOR OR RICH CELEBRITIES.
SHES CONTROLLED BY HER FATHER
WHO MADE $2.4 MILLION OVER THOSE
YEARS ACCORDING TO FORBES.
SHE TOLD THE JUDGE SHE LIED AND
TOLD THE WORLD THAT I AM OKAY
AND HAPPY, IT IS A LIE.
I AM TRAUMATIZED AND SO ANGRY,
IT IS INSANE.
THE LEGAL ISSUES ARE TRICKY
ESPECIALLY WITH CLAIMS OF DURESS
AND RETALIATION.
THERE ARE ALLEGATIONS OF SEXISM HERE.
MANY MALE MUSICIAN ANDS AND ARTI
ARE NOT FORCED UNDER THIS.
SPEARS WORK AND MUSIC EXPRESSED HER FEELINGS MANY TIMES.
HER FEELINGS MANY TIMES.
TAKE HER 2000s SONG "LUCKY."
"SHES SO LUCKY, SHES A STAR,
BUT SHE CRY, CRY, CRIES IN HER
LONELY HEART THINKING IF THERE
IS NOTHING MISSING IN MY LIFE,
THEN WHY DO THESE TEARS SOME AT
NIGHT."
THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
>> HAPPY TO BE HERE.
>> THIS IS A CASE THATS GUARDED
MORE AND MORE OUTRAGE AND SOME
RELATED TO PEOPLE INTERESTED IN
SPEARS AND OTHERS GOB SMACKED
THINKING THIS IS A SYSTEM THAT
FUNCTIONS FOR AMERICA FOR
ADULTS.
>> THIS IS SHOCKING.
THE IDEA THAT IT IS NEWS THAT A
GROWN 39-YEAR-OLD WOMAN GOT TO
CHOOSE HER OWN LAWYER IS
ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING.
THE IDEA THAT A WOMAN RELEASED
THREE ALBUMS AND SPENT FOUR
YEARS IN VEGAS AND NUMEROUS TV
AEXPERIENCESA
APPEARANCES AND STRESSFUL WORK.
SHES DOING INCREDIBLY STRESSFUL
WORK AND SHE EARNED $16 MILLION
AND SHES UNDER A RULING THAT
UNDER CALIFORNIA LAWS SAYS THAT
SHE SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DRESS
OR BATHE OR FEED HERSELF IN
ORDER TO HAVE THE ASPECT OF THE
CONSERVATORSHIP.
THERE ARE THE TWO PARTS,
PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL.
YOU MAKE $16 MILLION AND YOU ARE
NOT SUBSTANTIALLY MANAGING YOUR
MONEY?
WHICH IS ALSO THE LAW.
IT IS SHOCKING BUT OUTLINEN THE
HAND, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.
IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN IF HE WAS A
MAN.
>> LETS LOOK AT THAT PART OF
THIS BECAUSE AGAIN THE CASE AS
IT GETS BIG ENOUGH, PUT A WINDOW
ON IT.
THE SYSTEM IS A SYSTEM.
SHE SAYS AND I AM QUOTING FROM
HER SIDE OF THIS CASE IN THE
COURT HEARING, QUOTE, "I AM NOT
ABLE TO GET MARRIED OR HAVE A
BABY, I WANTED TO TAKE THE IUD
OUT BUT I CANT TAKE IT OUT."
>> IT IS ONE OF THE MOST
SHOCKING.
SHE HAS THE CONSTITUTION RIGHTS
TO MAKE HER OWN DECISION OF
APPROPRIATION.
THATS ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING
ASPECTS OF THIS.
WOMEN WHO ARE COMMITTED TO
INSTITUTIONS ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE
SHEER OWN
THEIR OWN DECISIONS ABOUT
APPROPRIATION UNLESS THEY ARE
INCAPABLE OF DISCERNING OF WHAT
IT MEANS TO GET PREGNANT OR
GIVEN BIRTH.
SHES FORCED TO TAKE MEDICATION.
SINCE THE 1980s IT IS ILLEGAL TO
FORCE PEOPLE EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE
COMMITTED.
THIS WOMAN LIVES IN A LAW-FREE
EXISTENCE WHERE NO
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN
GIVEN TO HER.
>> THATS THE LAW.
I WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE WHAT
SOME OF THE CULTURES BEEN LIKE
BECAUSE THERE IS THE MEDIA AND
WE ARE APART OF THAT.
THERE IS JUST THE ENTIRE SOCIETY
OF THE WAY IT REACTS TO THINGS
AND TREATS CELEBRITIES AND OTHER
THINGS.
THIS GIVES US A LITTLE REMINDER.
TAKE A LOOK.
>> SHE SHAVED HER HEAD AND MORE
CUSTODY DRAMA.
THANK YOU, BRITTANY SPEARS.
BEAN BAG IS GOOD FOR MY
BUSINESS.
>> NAME SOMETHING THAT BRITTANY
SPEARS HAVE LOST OVER THE YEARS?
>> HER HUSBAND.
>> THATS HER HUSBAND.
>> IT IS UP THERE.
>> HAIR.
>> LOST A LOT OF HAIR.
>> SHE LOST HER SANITY.
>> SHE LOST HER MIND.
>> CRUEL, SEXIST.
>> IT IS CRUEL AND SEXIST, MEN ARE NOT TREATED IN THIS WAY.
ARE NOT TREATED IN THIS WAY.
WE HAVE SEEN FAMOUS MEN, CHARLIE
SHEEN OR MALE CELEBRITIES
ATTEMPT SUICIDES AND ALLEGATIONS
OF CHILD ABUSE, THEY ARE NOT
TREATED LIKE THIS.
THEY ARE NOT TREATED LIKE IN THE
MEDIA AND THEY ARE NOT TREATED
LIKE THIS IN COURT.
IT IS SHOCKING.
IT IS SAD AND IT IS SCARY.
WE SHOULD ALL BE CONCERNED.
>> I THINK THATS SO IMPORTANT
WHAT YOU SAID AND THE FACT THAT
WE SHOULD ALL CARE ABOUT IT AND
FIGURE SOME OF THIS STUFF OUT,
WHATS IN THE COURTROOM AND
WHATS IN OUR SOCIETY IS
IMPORTANT, YOU HAVE BEEN AN
ADVOCATE ON THESE ISSUES NOT
EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN BUT FOR SO
MANY.
WELL STAY ON THIS STORY.