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Fri Nov 27
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Although the assassinations, the draft & the Mansons (the non-musical ones) would have sucked.
Yet Post-Punk hadn't been invented yet (and presumably angst & alienation), so adolescence would have been depressingly perky.
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That said, what consideration is due to the victim, who now wants to be left alone to live her life out of the public eye as best she can? Her rights were violated by the assault. Does she have the right to influence the type or nature of the trial now? Does she have the ability to do so?
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Also. Whenever people speak of this, they should mention that Quentin Tarantino went on Howard Stern two years ago and defended Polanski, saying the 14-year-old her brutally raped was an "L.A. party girl." Reflect on that before anyone buys Inglorious Basterds on DVD.
09/27/09
Do you think that California should release one of their homicidal child rapists so that they'll have space in jail for someone who poses no threat to anyone?
And I can't believe that you would actually advocate that child molesters be executed. What a fucking evil -- not to mention stupidly narrow-minded -- view of criminal behavior and morality.
09/27/09
We have no idea if he repeated it or not while in France. The sex abuse laws there are primitive, and sex between adults and kids is almost never prosecuted. Because France is "free-thinking".
We also have no reason to believe that this child rapist poses no threat to anyone. If you rape one kid, you'll rape more of them. Everything we know about child fuckers says that is so. Polanski, based on his taste for foreign children, has probably raped again and again in France, where they don't call it rape if the victim's father has been paid for it.
Shoving this scumbag into a California prison would not free anyone. Where do you get your info? Polanski finally serving his sentence would not set anyone free who is charged with a violent felony.
Finally: Of course child molesters should be executed. There is no cure. There is no turning it off. There is no healing. They are all, every one of them, violent, once they pass through the first few stages of the terror they visit upon the world.
They will all commit murder if left out there. And how is raping a child less than murder in terms of what we will not accept?
I can't believe you think you have the moral ground here. Idiots like you are why everyone gets the death penalty. You have no idea when to shut your fucking face.
09/27/09
Here's where I'm getting my information. The reality of protecting children from serious sex offenders in California is grim. They release them and can't even keep track of them because of massive budget cutbacks. So, in such a climate, is this really the time for LA to embark on some costly show trial (teams of attorneys, PR people, security, police investigations, etc.) to put Polanski behind bars for a few months when real predators are roaming free? You tough on crime types end up causing more crime.
I'm not even going to answer your other questions, most of them hardly make sense. I assume that you're drunk (-- isn't nine a little too early?). The few that somewhat resemble ideas are clearly thrown in only for the shock value.
(I'm pretty confused about what you mean by "idiots like you are why everyone gets the death penalty." How did you arrive at that?)
Enjoy the article -- and your next drink -- Ian.
09/28/09
Show me on the Code pénal where France hurt you.
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(Hits SEND)
Whoops!
[I saw what you did there.]
09/27/09
On the other hand, if the little weasel had gone to jail in 1978 he and his rich friends would undoubtedly have been able to get his sentence reduced or get him a new trail and he wouln't be in this shit now. So I'm kind of torn...
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* On a Sunday, even!
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The controversy of idiocy (ie keep the gummit hands off Medicare)?
Geez- isn't that obvious enough now.
Or are you asking the press to explain that Medicare is a state run institution?
It would be good- if someone explained it to them, but they wouldn't believe it anyway-doesn't suit their greed agenda.
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Ass.
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AP is lucky that's the worst of it. But let this be a reminder: Notes mode be damned -- Never, never put anything on a story file you wouldn't want a everyone to see.
09/27/09
I actually came to suggest this. Switzerland is altering its legislation on international tax evasion, mostly at the behest of the United States and its multibillion dollar lawsuit against the Union Bank of Switzerland.
This would seem not entirely unrelated.
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Frankly I"m not going to be shocked if they do send him to the States where, for the sake of the woman, the rape case is dropped. but then he gets 10 years for fleeing.
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So by your reasoning Susan Atkins did him a solid then. Wonder if he got a chance to thank her.
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What annoys me is not that what you do is pathological, it's more so that it's really insanely boring.
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Uh, at least I hope he/she isn't sober.
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This is the result of--what I believe to be--the poor judgment of nearly everyone involved...
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