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10/15/09
The Smoking Gun, motherfucker, do you speak it? Search on "Polanski", get a clue, and STFU.
10/15/09
Aha, third time's a charm.
By the way, this is a cumulative rant, rather than being solely provoked by any one person.
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Here's a picture of Pöschwies, where they might be holding him.
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Parquet floors! And neon lighting!
Doesn't that qualify as cruel and unusual punishment?!?
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Despite the serious allegations in this case, I think there is some sort of agenda in the US justice system about making examples public figures associated with rebellion. The entrapment of Tommy Chong and in court arguments to use his movies as a justification to come down hard on him was creepy and ridiculous. The extradition and imprisonment of Canadian pot advocate Marc Emory is a dumb effort too.
10/14/09
Polanski is an admitted pedophile/sexual offender, for which there WAS a victim and justifiable outrage. In this case, I for one am happy that an example is being made out of him, the same way they did with Phil Spector and Michael Vick.
10/14/09
Paired with the other cases it just seems to me that in recent times there is a vendetta against high profile counter culture types and a use of resources disproportionate the the threat they represent to the American public. It's not as though America doesn't have significant crime issues, is this the best resource allocation in terms of protecting society?
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I have big doubts that broke ass California would be fighting for the extradition of a guy who fled the country 30 years ago after pleading guilty for a statutory rape charge if it was just a regular guy. A crime is a crime and Polanski plead guilty, but I really have to wonder about the amount of money and resources being put into these efforts to drag famous old guys out of other countries to jail them in the US. Was there a pressing need to make an example of him? It seems like most Americans had forgotten about the whole thing a long time ago.
10/15/09
Normally the public are pretty careful about not personally convicting an accused for things a court has not convicted them of, but somehow in this case that has been totally thrown out the window.
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Darling, your rant is precious and well honed, but he had sex with a kid, and ran away.
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The Holocaust defense is an insult to Holocaust survivors and their offspring including yours truly.
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[www.latimes.com]
Secondly, I have skeletons in my closet...and there are certain 'celebrities' that hope they will always remain there. They touched a six year old where they should not have, and said six year old blacked it out long enough for them to remain immune to prosecution. I have no sympathy for a dirty old man facing the consequences of his actions 30 years later, when time is not on his side.
The fact that many others have escaped justice, does NOT allow for ALL to commit a perversion upon innocence.
10/15/09
If we say that Polanski's early traumas led him to commit this crime, then why will we make an exception in his case and not for less famous child rapists? We can't start grading traumas, ("my Holocaust is more damaging than your daily beatings at the hand of your father"), because people aren't stamped out on an assembly line and there are too many variables in individuals and their experiences to make such judgments.
Would Polanski have said, before this latest development started, that the people who killed his mother and his wife should be left to roam the earth and commit their crimes again, ruin still more lives?
As to your remark about the regrets and cringeworthy past actions of those who want to see Polanski serve his time, well, some of those people are or love victims of guys like him and they know something about trauma themselves. In any case, your remark is a cheap minimizing tactic. #romanpolanski
10/15/09
and in fact they are let free and ignored. constantly. #romanpolanski
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And by "journalism" you mean something so wholly unedited that it makes absolutely no sense? Please read first paragraph and get back to us...
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HE. ADMITTED. IT.
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"Responsible journalists" also take a cursory look at their work to make sure it actually makes sense.
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BTW, if you read the grand jury testimony, you will see that it was indeed "rape-rape", as she said no about 7 times.
Yuck.
10/08/09
She alleged "rape rape". He denied "rape rape" but agreed to plead guilty to statutory rape and that is what he was convicted of. Usually people are careful about making a distinction about alleged crimes and convictions. Somehow it has become really mixed up in the public mind on this one, though, maybe because he did not give court testimony and she was not cross-examined.
10/08/09
However, as to the premise of this blog post -- the Gawker Media-ites love to generalize about geography. (As a resident of the Detroit area, I’m particularly attuned to this.) So I don’t agree that less than 20 people who spend part of their time in NYC is a trend.