Roman Polanski, or pardon me but your poll is in my neck.

he can't even visit hollywood! isn't that enough?

also the victim doesn't want him to go back on trial and would rather just let it die

it was the 70s,anal sex with almost 14 year olds was all the rage. lighten up!

I am certain there are many who will harrumph that, following this arrest, justice was done at last. But Polanski is 76. To put him on trial or keep him in jail does not serve society in general or his victim in particular. Nor does it prove the doggedness and earnestness of the American legal system. If he weren't famous, I bet no one would bother with him at all.

She's certain, you see, so stop harrumphing!

yeah i remember when adrien brody declined to be in "the pianist" because of the stigma surrounding roman polanski and i thought to myself "i wish there wasn't such a stigma surrounding roman polanski. he'll never even get to win an academy award."

don't you harrumph just becuz polanski was herrumping

he had to find some no-name c-lister like harrison ford to accept the oscar for him, isnt that basically the same thing as a jail sentence?

arguments against arresting polanski: it happened 30 years ago!!!!! and, you know, he was in the holocaust!!! and besides, the swiss!!! you know!!! nazi bankers!!!

also, he's european. that's how they roll over there. in france if you sleep with a 14 yr old girl the president has some cheese and wine with you.

Hey Ann Applebaum do you have a young daughter? How about I rape her??? Please, I just love raping little girls.

http://karlandkinggeorge.com/images/Hackman__The_Birdcage.png

"I've seen this kind of thing before. Aristotle Onassis was just like this. And all the French. Especially Mitterand. And the English. Not Margaret Thatcher, of course..."

One more thing...this 13 year old girl was no virgin. She had had sex at least twice before by her own testimony. What kind of girl goes to a house with a grown man, drinks champagne, gets in a hot tub...etc. Again...not condoning what he did but he's paid his debt in my book.

Posted by: babyfacemagee | September 27, 2009 4:48 PM | Report abuse

Honestly, his movies should all be destroyed.

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haha

LIberals have no problem with diddling children...the normal world does......

Liberalism on display is losing support globally ... 2010 will mark the end of a foolish experiment with wishful thinking.

Liberalism is a failed concept..reality bites it in the but daily...see ObamaCare, Obama's foreign policy, Obama's economic policy ...and on and on.

Posted by: georgedixon | September 27, 2009 5:55 PM | Report abuse

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-farr/leniency-for-polanski_b_301269.html

But the story of what Polanski suffered even before the unspeakable trauma of having his pregnant wife Sharon Tate butchered in the spooky twilight of the turbulent Sixties makes me believe that overall, he's as much victim as predator himself.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2009/09/roman-polanski-still-being-stalked-by-la-county-prosecutors.html

I watched Repulsion a few weeks ago at a friend's house. He told me we had watched it like 7 or 8 years earlier, to my denial. Only after by its end did I realized I had seen it. How the hell does someone forget seeing Repulsion?

I love Polanski's films

and quite honestly don't understand what the fuck yall are on about.

He drugged and fucked a 13 year old girl and now he's being caught up on it thanks to Swiss/US cooperation.

no i know that. i mean cmon what's the fuss on either side.

dude are you fucking serious

Yeah I know, sorry. I agree fwiw, esp as the victim doesn't care anymore

Why're you so worked up about it, Jordan?

because i think it's ridiculous that people are attempting to argue against a child rapist being arrested

Yeah I know, sorry. I agree fwiw, esp as the victim doesn't care anymore

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yeah this is a great point - just make sure you do something so terrible to a person that they would rather it not be brought up again for fear of embarrassment

Eh, I wasn't a child at 13 going on 14. And I'd already been felt up by my creepy greatuncle a few times. Nothing happened to him, I don't care.

It's brought up in every article about Polanski ever!

Oh btw I think he should've done some fair punishment at the time etc, just don't see what good this does now for anyone.

i don't know, j0rdan, i understand getting worked up about shit like this, but why don't you join the fucking task force in your town that runs all the registered sex offenders out of town? i'm not saying that it isn't a serious crime, but polanski is just not the best person to 'make an example of' at this point...

to me, it's like extraditing dudes who were 'present' as lowly first officers at bergen/belsen. i mean what the fuck, most of these guys can't get hard-ons and walk with canes, focus on the motherfuckers who are white supremacists/ZOGers/SPLC-targets RIGHT NOW.

(that is, perpetrators of terrible crimes should be SWIFTLY punished).

i'm pretty sure roman polanski didn't watch a 13 year old get raped but i'll go check wikipedia again just to make sure

Niles Caulder, the David Brooks/Joe Klein of ILX.

forget it jake its chinatown

(that is, perpetrators of terrible crimes should be SWIFTLY punished).

So if you can evade punishment long enough, no harm no foul?

i do think there's a difference between condemning what he did, which like everyone does, and arguing that the justice system is fulfilling its mission by arresting him 30 years later.

i mean this is the law so whatever i guess. but i'm not really sure if it is "justice"

it's just fucked up because he's been in plain sight for so long

I mean, "Oh btw I think he should've done some fair punishment at the time etc, just don't see what good this does now for anyone" is some Bush-era DOJ style bullshit. What's the point of laws if perpetrators aren't caught, no matter how long it takes?

and there are all these guys back in the la justice dept waiting for him to get on a plane

when the victim is on the public record as wanting the case to go away

(that is, perpetrators of terrible crimes should be SWIFTLY punished).

he would've been SWIFTLY punished had he not fled the country - it's not like the LAPD diddled around for 35 years before going "oh hey we finished this case time for trial!"

a lot of sexual assault victims want the cases to go away for many reasons - this doesn't stop the police & it shouldn't

Also, you never want to encourage people to flee, or reward them for doing so.

It sucks that he's been in plain sight, but international extradition is imperfect. Dude played the system well enough to evade capture.

He planned his life around not being in a jurisdiction that would send him back to face time. It's not like he was just floating around LA for 30 years and then the DA decided to make an issue - he fled! Internationally!

yeah i mean youre right jordan.

was this the first opportunity they had to arrest him since he fled i wonder

exactly - he clearly knew that he was in the wrong, he understood the severity & he made it a painstaking point of his life - to the small detriment of his ego & career - to make sure that he never actually served time for a crime that he knew was very, very fucked up

No. He owns a house in Switzerland, so he goes there all the time. It was the first time the US asked for him.

weird