Okay, so in the past few days, filmmaker Roman Polanski was finally collared after more than 3 decades on the loose for his rape of a 13-year old in 1977. Here’s the victim’s testimony (via Patterico)….

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.

The reaction of Hollywood’s narcissistic bubble-dwellers to the arrest of Roman Polanski underscores the stark divide between moral relativists willing to romanticize the degeneracy of an artist and the rest of us. The capacity of these entertain…

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”.

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

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.

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.

At what age is human life sacred?

oh no TigerLady–what have you done?!

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.