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

good one

OK, I see why Eric hates you guys

This is just an internet poll (from L'Express a French bi-weekly news magazine) but it sems to be the consensus:

The arrest of Roman Polanski is:

révoltant de transformer un festival en traquenard! 11%
(disgusting to turn a festival into a trap)

normal quand on est recherché par la justice. 65%
(normal when you're wanted by the justice system)

ridicule, c'est une affaire vieille de trente ans... 15%
(ridiculous, it's a thirty year old story)

C 'est le cadet de mes soucis! 9%
(the least of my worries)

Polanski made What? since the rape, and it's an awesome flick.

révoltant de transformer un festival en traquenard!

^ oh, the outrage

Sarkozy has much better things to do than get stuck in a traditional French polemic that no-one in France, apart from a couple of professional 'intellectuals' cares much about. France hasn't sprouted a ball-sack, he's just listening to the polls.

this thread is a traquenard

it's a traquenard

Even if you add the 'ridiculous' and the 'revolting', it's still 65% - 26% in favor of the arrest. I'm not saying that's the national average but I bet the majority understands why this is happening. The biggest outrage seems to come from the Swiss who feel their traditional neutrality and independence is in tatters and who tend to opine on that more than on the merits of the case.

Damn those ballsackless Frenchies with their uncontroversial opinions on the administration of law.

They eat cheese, y'know.

they ROLLED OVER for the NAZI REGIME and now they're ROLLING OVER for OBAMA SOCIALISM

Got their asses handed to them in Vietnam too oh wait

WAKE UP, LIBTARDS

traquenard fromage

what a disaster for surrender monkeys

http://206.47.170.43/channels/images/panther2.jpg

EXTRADITE THIS

too late

based on my extensive knowledge of sentencing garnered from years of watching law and order,

max, you just won yrself a free beer

HUMBURGER

Polanski made What? since the rape, and it's an awesome flick.

― Mordy, Thursday, October 1, 2009 3:50 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

what? is pre-chinatown so you're wrong on both counts

what?

My bad about the date. What's the other count I'm wrong on?

probably it being awesome. this thread made me get chinatown out of the library, btw

i hope you can live w/yourself

i guess you could say that the petition signers want Polanski to be free

really free

really really really really free

harbl is going on the list

good work giving MONEY to a PEDERAST, "HARBL"! maybe when you're in HELL you'll realize the MISTAKE you made!!

life of money life of sex

life of money life of hex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGz9WTqCOj0

is that where my $1.50 borrowing fee went?? o_O

OK, I see why Eric hates you guys

― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius)

You've already known why for at least a decade longer than I have.

It must be torment posting here for you two. We all really hurt for you.

we all really butthurt for you, surely

Sorry, misread that "guys" as "gays."

morelike roland marotmin

http://campbellbrown.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/01/commentary-hollywood-is-clueless-when-it-comes-to-polanski/

We all really BUTThurt for you.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:48 PM

ILX = Fox News = Democratic Party base

QED

buttwhy?

ILX = Fox News = Democratic Party base

QED

― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 2, 2009 2:49 AM (4 hours ago)

most compelling defense of polanski i've read yet

We all really BUTThurt for you.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:48 PM

Trust me, I'm a proctologist.

Jonah Goldberg, tickled:

I am delighted by the Roman Polanski controversy. Don’t get me wrong: I am horrified and disgusted by what the acclaimed director did — and admitted to — but there is an upside.

Just to recap, Polanski drugged a child put in his care for the purposes of a photo shoot. He tried to bully her into sex. She said no. He raped her anyway. He pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse but fled the country before sentencing, allegedly for fear the judge wouldn’t keep his end of the plea bargain. He spent the subsequent three decades living the life of a revered celebrity in Europe. He never returned to America because there was a warrant for his arrest. In a bit of ironic justice, he was apprehended en route to Zurich to receive a lifetime-achievement award. That ceremony will apparently go on without him.

So what do I like about the controversy? Well, for starters, that there is one at all. I think it is fascinating beyond words that this is open to “debate.”

Pretty appalling to be "delighted" by this issue.

Says the guy who has helped contribute to the obfuscation over whether waterboarding, stress positions et al. are torture.

xp

Kinda hard to rape someone unless they say no, isn't it?

puts a new spin on 'if you have to ask....'

Nice that Jonah can find an "upside" to this.

every cloud has a silver lining