Polanski, a view into the liberal mindset

The part that bothers me about all of this is that the victim has moved on and doesn't want to pursue this anymore. She has lived in relative peace for 30 years and now she's going to have to testify, and because she is no longer a minor her face will be plastered all of the news media.

I'm not saying what he did wasn't wrong, it was! However the victim should be left alone and her wishes respected.

Did anyone actually see The Pianist?

I never watched it, but heard it was very good. No doubt, Polanski is talented. Disappointing about Scorcese and Lynch signing the petition; they are two of my absolute favorites!

I suspect now he will not just serve out his sentence, but there will be new charges against him?

Methinks you didn't read my post.

I'm not talking about the mindset of Polanski. I was talking about the mindset of the liberal crowd of influencers in Hollyweird that signed a petition to free Polanski the child molester after finally being arrested for a horrific crime he committed.

The Polanski issue is not an obscure news story. It's about a 40 something year old pedophile (who happens to be a famous director) that drugged and sodomized a 13 year old girl. It's about a horrific crime and a person that ran from the law in order to escape punishment for a crime he admitted to.

I haven't noticed you objecting to rabblerousing posts by some of your liberal buds that are based on shallow intellectual assumptions and very flawed data. What's up with that?

I actually thought that The Pianist was a pretty good movie. I didn't realize until a day or so ago that Polanski directed it. You're right, he is talented.

There's the rub. We are so accustomed to thinking that anyone who is brilliant--as is Polanski in his field--must of course be brilliant in the whole of their lives.

But that's not the way it works. Someone who has genius in one area may be stupid in another. Polanski is an extraordinary filmaker but he's an idiot to think that even decades later that there wouldn't be outrage that he raped an underage girl. It doesn't matter that that girl is a grown woman who has had the courage to move past what he did to her. It does matter that he committed a crime, and in the end, the piper must be paid.

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Over 100 In Film Community Sign Polanski Petition - indieWIRE

AFP is reporting that a grand assembly of filmmakers, actors and producers from around the world have signed a petition urging the release of director Roman Polanski, who was arrested Sunday in Switzerland on a warrant for a 1977 underage sex case in the United States. Woody Allen, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Martin Scorcese, David Lynch, Wong Kar Wai, Harmony Korine, Stephen Frears, Alexander Payne, Michael Mann, Wim Wenders, Tilda Swinton, Julian Schnabel, and Pedro Almodovar are among the 100 and counting film industry figures who have signed the petition, coordinated from France by the SACD, an organization which represents performance and visual artists.

Roman Polanski Media Reports Archive: The Zero 5.0laf - The Official Website of Andrew Vachss

Originally published in The Washington Post, March 13, 1977

LOS ANGELES, March 12, 1977 ? Polish film director Roman Polanski, widower of murdered actress Sharon Tate, was free on bond today on charges of luring a 13-year-old girl to the home of Jack Nicholson under the pretext of photographing her, then drugging and raping her.

Polanski, 43, was arrested by police to Beverly Wilshire Hotel Friday night following the incident Thursday night at Nicholson's Bel Air home.

In addition to the rape charges, Polanski also was booked on suspicion of sodomy, child molestation and furnishing dangerous drugs to a minor. He was released on $2,500 bond pending his arraignment March 18.

Nicholson was reportedly out of town at the time. A spokesman for the district attorney's office told reporters that Polanski recently met the girl's mother and arranged for the girl to pose for some photographs for the French edition of Vogue magazine.

He said Polanski took some pictures at a first photographic session two weeks ago, and among these pictures was one of the girl nude from the waist up.

He said the mother became angry when she saw the picture and questioned her daughter when she returned home from the second photographic session Thursday night. Officers said the girl told her mother that Polanski had given her a tablet of the powerful tranquilizing drug Quaalude.

The director then raped the girl and forced her to commit various sex acts with him, police said.

Polanski made no public comment on his arrest. He surrendered peacefully when he was taken into custody at the hotel.



So, now a veritable potpourri of left wingers are demanding the release of Polanski who plead guilty to charges of unlawful sex with a 13 year old.

He should be locked away forever. How can these libs say its okay to let a pedophile (he plead guilty) off the hook regardless of how long ago it happened?

This kind of thinking is where you go once you head down the path of liberalism.