Europerv amoralists and Hollywood celebutards ask, "Why waste time and resources to extradite Roman Polanksi?"
He pled guilty and was convicted of unlawful sex with a 13 year old. A 13 year old! Because he has been convicted, the statue of limitations does not apply. He fled the country to escape sentencing.
It could have been much worse for him. This sick bastard plied a child with liquor and drugs, and then violated her in numerous ways I won't go into here. ABC News has all the gory details.
A Tragic Past is no Excuse
It doesn't matter that he escaped the holocaust an orphan. It doesn't matter that his eight-month pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson family. All more tragedy than any one person should have to bear, but it doesn't excuse criminal behavior.
Justice will be Served
Also, it doesn't matter that his victim has settled with him out of court and has forgiven him, saying she wishes prosecutors would drop the matter. This was not just an offense against her, it was an offense against the US and our system of laws. He has settled the first debt, but must still pay the second.
Even Uber-liberal Eugene Robinson says shame on Hollywood and the celebutards who are defending this creep. No surprise, Woody Allen, who divorced his umpteenth wife to marry her daughter, has come to Polanski's defense...
ABC News - Polanski
RCP - Eugene Robinson
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According to this post "it doesn't matter that his victim has settled with him out of court and has forgiven him, saying she wishes prosecutors would drop the matter. This was not just an offense against her, it was an offense against the US and our system of laws."
What do the United States and their system of laws have to do with it? I am having serious trouble following your line of thought here. Really, the law makers and law enforcers have so many better things to do, and so do you. You (and I) have nothing to do this. Nothing. Period. This is between a girl, a man and justice. Not the justice that is written by men or by countries, but justice. The girl sais "Let's forget about it", so, well, let's forget about it.
Right...
So, I shoot you dead and settle with your husband for $5,000.
All good, right?
Your train of thought has run off the rails.
I have to say, Kurt, that I agree. I think this matter should be settled.
I don't say that because I think it is ok to rape 13-year-old girls, obviously. Anymore than Samantha thinks that it was ok for Polanski to rape her, obviously. I say it because, like Samantha, I don't think it does any good for anyone. And I'm quite concerned, at this point, that it actually does much bad. Not only to Polanski - who raped this young girl and who I have less sympathy for - and for Samantha - who has been through quite enough and whose wishes, I think, should be respected.
What I'm concerned about, at this point, is everyone looking at Samantha, who has clearly taken the high road and demonstrated a lot of courage in forgiving Polanski and said to themselves, "No big woop. Got nothin' to do with me." The quest to get Polanski has everyone up in arms. But the courage of this woman seems to interest noone except as an afterthought to their commitment to nail this man.
I find that a little disturbing, actually, at this point, Kurt. It does not speak well of us, I know that. I'm pretty Jesus would be thoroughly disappointed.
Perhaps that doesn't matter to us, anymore. Perhaps this is what progress entails. I have serious doubts about that.
What I know is that this is not an America that I am proud of. And I'm pretty sure, Kurt, that our grandchildren will not be looking back at this episode in our history with pride.
Almost every impulse that an electorate has they think is noble. No matter how ignoble it turns out to be. Our one saving grace in a democracy is that our children study our history and question us, even if we will not question ourselves, about whether we really did make our best effort to be our best selves.
All I know is that everything that I know about being our best selves tells me that this is not it. And I have a strong feeling that future generations will concur. If only because they always see our faults much more clearly than we do ourselves. And they always do so with an eye to treating one another better, over time. And ignoring this woman's desire to not have this prosecution seems a strange inverse of that principle.
I am learning to accept disappointment in my country with a heavy heart, these days. Because there is nothing here about which I feel proud.
We are human, and we fail. All the more important that we question.
Rock on, Ben!
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