Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Only Scary Countries Arrest Folks who Drug and Rape 13 Year Old Girls
Who knew that in France quaaludes, champagne, and raping little girls is all the rage? Forget Thailand, pedophiles of the world, France is the place that you want to go. Well, at least as long as you’re an admired artist like Roman Polanski.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called the apprehension a “bit sinister. A man of such talent, recognized in the entire world … all this just isn’t nice.”
French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand told French news media, “In the same way that there is a generous America that we like, there is also a scary America that has just shown its face.”
And this wasn’t just some minor breach of etiquette or confusion on the part of the director and while her age is certainly a part of the story, had she been 18 this still would have been rape. Roman Polanski is a rapist.
The victim, Samantha Geimer, was a ninth-grader when Polanski told her mother he wanted to shoot pictures of her for a French magazine. He gave the girl alcohol and drugs and raped her as she pleaded with him to stop.
He’s a man who raped a little girl and then fled the country. He was warmly embraced by his adopted country, allowed to continue to make movies, and even awarded by his peers for those films. He did something utterly unconscionable and was never made to pay the cost for those actions--and, regardless of how good those movies may have been, I am baffled by the sympathy for the man.
It’s far, far past time that he paid for his crimes.
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You’re so unenlightened.
I’ve decided recently to embrace my role as atavist (at least on those issues where I don’t feel positively progressive).
Patterico has been going bonkers over this one and the despicable reaction from the Hollywood elite and wannabee celebrity suckups.
With good reason. I just popped over there and I’m appalled at what Whoopi had to say. Disgusting.
I am absolutely floored at those defending him. I think it’s past time to boycott Hollywood.
Although maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that Woodie Allen has joined the Defenders of Polanski. Compared to drugging and sodomizing a child, ditching your wife and marrying your adopted daughter is absolutely pedestrian.
These folks need to re-think their position on this issue.
I’m disappointed to see how many people are putting themselves into my “they’re subhuman troglodytes, and wouldn’t care if they disappeared from the face of the earth” category lately.
I can’t say that I’m particularly shocked to see who they are, though.
Or...oh, what’s that word?...it is also ped-something. Oh, it will come to me soon.
And I’ve been deliberately boycotting Hollywood since Attack of the Clones (with an exception for Revenge of the Sith for my son). Time for the rest of y’all to catch up.
Are you thinking of the word “Producer” ?
Um, pedophilia is the word I was thinking of. I was just trying to be clever.