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1. #815244
   On September 30th, 2009 at 1:45 pm, purplepeep said:

   SpeakEasy said:
   Marc, he pleaded guilty. No excuses.

   Y’know, SpeakEasy, just recently I was trying to explain to someone that the courts take someone’s word for it when the person pleads guilty. Then comes the sentencing for what the person has plead guilty to – unless the person becomes a fugitive from justice like Polanski and kicks the sentencing phase down the road a bit.

   But some folks will have not of that reality, so ya might be beating your head against the wall there trying to explain.

2. #815253
   On September 30th, 2009 at 1:52 pm, James Felix said:

   Wonder how many of these fine folks are also on the “Free Mumia Abu-Jamal” list?

   There’s actually a difference between the two cases, and it’s what makes this Polanski thing truly sickening.

   The “Free Mumia” crowd contends that he was wrongly convicted. Their premise is that an innocent man is in jail. They’re wrong, of course, but if you accepted their interpretation of the facts their cause would be a just one. They’re not saying “Yeah, he murdered a cop but let’s just let him walk”.

   Polanski’s supporters, on the other hand don’t contend that he didn’t do it. Their position is basically “sure, he raped a little girl, but he made some great movies so we should just let it slide”. That’s utterly disgusting, it’s completely indefensible.

   I really wish that the people signing that petiton could go through what the victim went through, then we could ask them if they still think it’s no big deal.

3. #815281
   On September 30th, 2009 at 2:20 pm, Rorschach said:

   txvet, some of that Wolf brand .223 could have come in handy when WarEagle caught up with him.

4. #815396
   On September 30th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, Marc said:

   I don’t have sympathy for Mr. Polanski but in the grand scheme of things, Polanski is small potatos. The real menace in our society is the beehive of trial lawyers that puts so many companies out of business, makes doctors practice defensive medicine and drives many OBGYN specialists right out of medical practice. Each year thousands of businesses are forced to close their doors because of frivolous lawsuits, doctors close their practices and important breakthroughs in disease treatment are not made because the potential liability to frivolous lawsuits is so high. So why are we so concerned with Polanski? Polanski may harmed one person 32 years ago, although she says she forgives him and seems healthy. Trial lawyers and their frivolous lawsuits cause greater harm than Polanski could do if he had 500 lifetimes. So why is everybody so worked up about Polanski? Just go to the local courthouse and see all the frivolous lawsuits and ambulance chasing going on daily. That makes Polanski’s shenanigans small potatos in comparison.

5. #815397
   On September 30th, 2009 at 4:23 pm, WarEagle82 said:

   Here is a link with some of the details of Polanski’s rape of this child.

   http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/roman-polanski/Story?id=8705958&page=1

   Read it and realize he had already gotten away with statutory rape and managed to get a reduced charge!

   And notice how Hollywood was already defending him even back then!

   Polanski may not be the lowest life form on the planet but he certainly sees very little when he looks down.

6. #815409
   On September 30th, 2009 at 4:35 pm, James Felix said:

   So why is everybody so worked up about Polanski?

   Because he raped a 13 year old girl.

   Your position seems to be that until we do something about the trial lawyer scourge we’re not allowed to be outraged about anything else. That’s completely insane.

   If you find the trial bar so offensive maybe you should start your own blog where you can rant about them exclusively. The rest of us are capable of following multiple issues at once.

7. #815419
   On September 30th, 2009 at 4:51 pm, TigerLady said:

   What’s the deal with liberal women like Goldberg and Winger defending this crime. Why are they not outraged that this man was able to live a more-than-comfortable life despite raping a child?

   Let’s see, liberals believe abortion is okay, child rape is okay. At what age is human life sacred? After puberty?

   As a woman and a mother I can say with all certainty that had I been the mother of the 13 year old, I might be getting out of jail by now. Roman Pervertsky would be a eunich, only able to remember his exploits of my child.

8. #815438
   On September 30th, 2009 at 5:23 pm, spaceycakes said:

   At what age is human life sacred?

   oh no TigerLady–what have you done?!

9. #815448
   On September 30th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, purplepeep said:

   Marc said:
   That makes Polanski’s shenanigans small potatos in comparison.

   I’m not sure in just what world the oral, vaginal and anal rape of a terrified child who pleaded with her assaulter to stop is considered a “small potato shenanigan”, Marc.

10. #815451
    On September 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pm, purplepeep said:

    TigerLady said:

    What’s the deal with liberal women like Goldberg and Winger defending this crime. Why are they not outraged that this man was able to live a more-than-comfortable life despite raping a child?

    As I expect you already know, TigerLady, it’s pretty much part and parcel of Tinseltown elite liberal philosophy that if you if you’re one of “The Gifted Creative Geniuses” the only crime you can be denounced or ostracized for is being a conservative.

    It’s a variation of the “Yeah, but Mussolini made the trains run on time” defense. While I’d agree that Polanski did make some great films, it doesn’t change the fact that he’s guilty of violent child sex abuse.

11. #815498
    On September 30th, 2009 at 8:37 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    Answer to everyone’s dilemma:

    Bring him back. Set aside the conviction for “prosecutorial misconduct.” That oughta make his apologists happy.

    THEN, give him a new trial on ALL CHARGES, and read into the record the victim’s grand jury testimony and have her testify now. Impose a “gag order” on the trial so there can be no purient interest played out in the “media.” When the great Roman Polanski is convicted of drugging, providing alcohol, and raping a 13 year old girl, sentence his sorry a$$ to life in p0rison.

    Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force! In what world, Whoopi is drugging and raping a 13 year old girl “…not rape-rape?” The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!!!!!!

    ECS

12. #815537
    On September 30th, 2009 at 10:34 pm, Marc said:

    If the DA Steve Cooley wants to chase after Polanski, that’s OK with me. But I don’t understand why Jane Fonda escapes scrutiny. Fonda pointed an antiaircraft weapon at US pilots and basically approved of shooting down our pilots. She also urged American soldiers, airmen and sailors to go awol and to defect from the US military. Fonda gets to go on shows like Letterman where the moron Letterman congratulates her on her “courage”. The tapes of Fonda’s message to our soldiers are still available. As far as I am concerned, Fonda really engaged in treasonous conduct. And I don’t think there is a statute of limitations on treason. Yet no DA or district attorney has the guts to start a grand jury investigation into Fonda’s despicable conduct. The Justice Department and DAs all give us some mumbo jumbo about “freedom of speech” or “lack of jurisdiction”. Fonda is far, far worse than Polanski. Polanski is a kook. Fonda is, in my opinion, attempting to undermine the morale of our soldiers while they are on the battlefield. If Polanski is put behind bars, then Fonda should be right there with him. I would put Fonda behind bars for a longer stretch than Polanski. She is far worse than an oddball like Polanski.

13. #815562
    On October 1st, 2009 at 1:04 am, purplepeep said:

    Marc said:
    If Polanski is put behind bars, then Fonda should be right there with him. I would put Fonda behind bars for a longer stretch than Polanski. She is far worse than an oddball like Polanski.

    You really don’t have a clue on this, do you Mark?

    Being an oddball and being a jackass is not illegal, nor a crime. If it were, the jails would be full.

    On the other hand, what Polanski did – the brutal sexual assault of a child – is a crime to which he had has pled guilty.

    If you’re searching for a valid comparison point to Polanski that’s not the apples vs. the oranges think “OJ Simpson”.

14. #816081
    On October 1st, 2009 at 10:51 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    To anyone who thinks that Polanski is small potatoes, or that it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars to prosecute him, read this:
    

    Let me tell you a few things about the rape of a child…it is the absolute, final, and total end of childhood, of any sense of innocence and wonder…

    That girl is forever defined by that moment, as I have been defined by my own moment of terror and pain and horror. There is, for me, no place on this whole planet that is safe. I move farther and farther from the center of things. I find myself in hotel rooms or houses in remote places where nobody knows where I am, and very few even care…

    I am not alone. The number of my companions may startle you. A Canadian study indicated that almost one-third of all men are sexually abused by the time they are sixteen, usually by a figure of authority—a priest, a cop, a coach, a parent. Or a stupid film director. I don’t know the figures for women, but they are probably even higher.

    These children grow up damaged. They are far more likely to be drunks, addicts, failures, misfits. They are even, strangely, far more likely to be heavily addicted to cigarettes…

    From where I sit—and I have sat exactly in this same spot for sixty years—the rape of a child is absolutely the equivalent of first-degree murder. Roman Polanski is a murderer, the murderer of a child…

    Read the whole thing – even if you can’t stomach it. Especially if you can’t stomach it.

    I know one of those children now grown, and what this man wrote about the lasting damage done to these children is the absolute truth.

    For Polanski’s victim to say she’s moved past it, that she’d forgiven him, whatever, I pray is true for her own sake, not his.

    But for Polanski to be allowed to continue flouting the law, and worse, for those who claim, like Harvey Weinstein, that “Hollywood has the best moral compass…” and then defend this “murderer of a child”, is a blight and a curse on this nation.

    In 1775 John Adams wrote, “They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” (Novanglus No. 7).

    If we no longer uphold those laws that govern us, then we have indeed lost the Republic that our forebearers fought and bled and died to defend and preserve.

    And we truly have lost our heart and soul as a nation.

15. #817434
    On October 4th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, Rorschach said:

    Wayfaring Stranger, +10 for that comment.