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one of the biggest hot topics this
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morning it's all over the tv
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is the passionate plea that britney
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spears made in court yesterday to end
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the conservatorship
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her father set up in 2008 in which he
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claimed
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that over concerns about her mental
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health that's what that was about
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she lost control of her career her
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finances and other aspects of her life
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and she claims that she couldn't even
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this is really something she couldn't
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even remove her iud without permission
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she's 39 years old i believe
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you've been all over this topic megan
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what do you think of her testimony
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yeah i mean it's ironic yesterday after
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the show i actually
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moderated a panel on human rights
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violations with
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um two people that work in this space
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and someone who'd actually fled a
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country
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because of the human rights violations
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he experienced and
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i was absolutely sick to my stomach
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listening to the audio i felt
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physically ill i had to like take a
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pause in bed after i listened to it this
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is a woman who
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is pleading for her freedom pleading for
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her life by any card-carrying definition
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this is a definition of human
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trafficking she is being forced to work
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against her will she is being
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forced to be put on medication as
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extreme as lithium which could do
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long-term damage to her brain
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because she didn't need it she is not
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allowed to have agency over her body
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over her reproductive rights and she is
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ostensibly being kept
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as a slave and working as a slave for
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her family and these conservators
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my concern right this moment is if these
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are people that will do this to this
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woman for
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13 years 13 years
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what can they do right now retaliating i
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actually believe this has reached the
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level that the fbi needs to be involved
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and extradite her from her home away
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from these people this very moment
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because these are people that could
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continue the abuse
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in real time i think it's that extreme
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on a
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level of how we have treated this poor
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woman in the media
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go back years and years as we saw in the
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documentary um we have been
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brutally unkind we have not listened to
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her uh her instagram which i have
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followed for years
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is very strange she never seemed like
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someone who was
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in my opinion telling the truth or in
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control of herself and
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i am not i am sadly not surprised by
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this but it's much more extreme than i
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ever could have possibly imagined
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i feel horrible for her places like
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saturday night live have made fun of her
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the past few years because of things
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like her instagram it was the only
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way she had to speak to the world and it
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is her fans that did this
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the free britney movement are the people
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who started this and i hope to god
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they get her out of this environment in
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this situation today
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i think it is at that level and if she
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were any other person not named britney
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spears
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this is a human trafficking issue and
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should be treated as such
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okay um okay sarah um
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are you feeling that strongly about it
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and what is your biggest takeaway from
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what you've been watching
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well specifically the documentary where
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i learned more about this story
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it really highlighted the problem with
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stigmatizing
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mental health in the documentary one of
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the attorneys says she's never seen
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anyone get out of one of these
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conservatorships so i don't under
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know the numbers but it seems very rare
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that people are able to free themselves
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from these situations
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it holds people uh prisoner from from
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doing basic things
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megan rattled off some of the examples
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and some of the other things are like
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small purchases driving in the car with
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your boyfriend you know you get into her
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autonomy like the iuds the
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the medication even just uh lightening
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up on therapy and as someone who's done
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a lot of therapy it can be exhausting
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so to be able to say hey i need a minute
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or i need a break or i need to recover
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if you're doing good work on your mental
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health it involves your voice
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as well the other thing is uh
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i think that we also have weaponized it
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against people who
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speak up because a lot of people suffer
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in silence but when you speak up it can
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be used against you like it is being
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used
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consistently for 13 years against her
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in my own experience having been open
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about postpartum and some
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struggles i've had insurance coverage
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life insurance you can be denied which i
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was for certain policies
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when you've had mental health care so i
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think the more we
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shine a light on this field and the
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broad spectrum of
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there's a difference between psychosis
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and extreme behavior and people along
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the spectrum that are battling some
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different issues
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and that with the right therapies
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medications all these things people can
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be very high
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functioning so this is a reflection of
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an antiquated view of mental health and
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i agree with megan she needs to be freed
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immediately
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okay all right so uh sunny um
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conservatorships
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are supposed to be a last resort for
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those who can't take care of themselves
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that's what they're about so what do you
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make of uh brittany's case
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you know i guess you can speak to it
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legally too if you want
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yeah well this is completely
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unprecedented this
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uh is an unprecedented conservative
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ship uh case because there are two types
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of conservative ships
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there is one uh over a person and one
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over an estate and she is under both
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types
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so when you think about a
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conservatorship over an estate
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um that makes a little bit more sense to
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most people because some folks just
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aren't good at managing their estate so
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not many people are
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financial planners not many people
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understand
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how to take care of their money and so
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in that sense you may understand okay
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she
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maybe wasn't good at taking care of her
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money uh
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she had an addiction to shopping and so
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you may need
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someone uh to take care of that
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but she also has this conservatorship
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over her person and like megan mentioned
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she can't take her iud out without um
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you know without permission from the
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court uh and her conservator
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she can't um you know buy certain things
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uh for her person she can't buy food
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she can't stop therapy that is something
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in the law we generally see
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with people that have early onset
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dementia or
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alzheimer's she had none of that and so
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i have to agree with sarah that this is
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really an antiquated view of uh mental
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health
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because we remember in 2008 we saw
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what i think was a mental breakdown and
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so to force her
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13 years later to be under the
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the really almost bondage of a
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conservatorship of
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not only her state but of her person is
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just highly unusual
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but one thing that i i want to mention
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is the standard in california and really
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all over the country
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to have to put in place these types of
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conservative ships is
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really high you have to show clear and
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convincing
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evidence that there is an issue or
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issues
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to such an extent that you can put these
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things in place so i have to imagine and
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i haven't seen all of the evidence in
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this case
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that in 2008 there was that type of
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evidence that a judge
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felt that she needed to be protected
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i don't know that that evidence exists
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13 years later
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but something must have been
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really she must have been really in
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trouble 13 years ago to have put this in
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place
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well their story is not completely told
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i guess at this point
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um anna did you think she made a
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compelling case to drop the
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conservatorship or not
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i thought she was incredibly uh
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compelling i i listened to
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some of her testimony yesterday some of
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the statement that she made
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uh to the court and look most
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conservatorships
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are for people who are older and only
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getting worse who have dementia who have
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senility who are vulnerable to being
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taken advantage of
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by predatory folks i think britney
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spears yesterday presented herself as
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somebody who is very much in control of
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her life
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who is uh you know has the mental
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capacity
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to be able to make her own decisions
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she's 39 years old
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this is not the britney spears uh you
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know as a teenager
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this is not the britney spears in her
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early 20s with addiction issues with
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mental issues
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this and i and it feels like the court
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hasn't taken into account
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her evolution and to hear this grown
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woman
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who is making tens of millions of
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dollars for casinos
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for her managers for her father who is
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you know taking advantage of it
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begging to be taken off of this and
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talking about
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the conditions infra-human conditions
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she is being
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subjected to because you can be rich you
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can be famous
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and you can still be uh tortured
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mentally and it feels like she is in
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a place that i hope since this is a
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california case
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the attorney general of california takes
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interest in this case because it's it's
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felt very compelling
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and just terribly unfair and sad
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