However when the admitted child abuser is one Roman Polanski ahh, then the high and mighty think it's disgraceful
that one of theirs is being held in prison.
While no one seems to care
that US prosecutors merely want Mr Polanski to return to be sentenced
for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, and that in fact he
had pleaded guilty to all charges at the time (as part of a plea bargain),
but then fled abroad. In other words he is an admitted child
abuser, who has been on the run (via various extradition clauses) from
justice for the past twenty two years.
Yet French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner called the detention of the film-maker - a French citizen - in Switzerland a "bit sinister" while Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is also backing the director. "We're calling on every film-maker we can to help fix this terrible situation." A petition has also been raised and signed by various
film-makers and actors including Monica Bellucci and Fanny Ardant
expressing dismay at Mr Polanski's arrest.
Even British writers have walked into this trap, with novelist Robert Harris having been reported as describing the arrest as "disgusting treatment". How sick is this? If he was a tramp who had raped and sodomised a thirteen year old girl, then these same 'luvvies' would have wanted him locked away as an animal.
At least one criminal psychologist Dr David Holmes has come out on the side of justice and has said that "the
villain often gets away and in cases like this ... simply the passage of
time should not [lead to] a point that we accept some sort of
mitigation. In a way, we are awarding the people who avoid detection."
Let me recap the actual charges proved against Mr Polanski (several other women have accused him of raping them when they were teenagers). Samantha Geimer, was aged 13 when its charged by her, that he had earlier photographed her topless, before drugging, raping and sodomising her ..... I repeat, she was only 13. This a picture of the little girl as she was when Polanski committed these crimes (Remember he has admitted all the charges).....
If she was your daughter, what would you do to this man? If she was my daughter, I would be in a French prison and one Polish paedophile would be castrated and dead.
Update: One of his supporters, Harvey Weinstein has since been jailed for multiple rapes and sexual assaults on actresses.
There is a reason Polanski has not been back to the US for many years. He would be tried in a court of law. It is rumoured that the swiss police were tipped off by US authourities to arrest him, yet he has been in Switzerland before. Question is why now?
ReplyDeleteNothing to do with his well voiced opinions in favour of the Bush regime and their policies, is it?
Still as a self confessed child abuser he deserves all he gets. But you wonder why it has taken so long to get him.
Yes mate .... I just find it odd that a child abuser can get away with it because they have hollywood friends.
ReplyDeleteHow people who have kids can excuse him because 'it was along time ago' and because he makes films is beyond belief.