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    Default Roman Polanski Arrested in Switzerland

    Sorry if this is a repeat thread, I searched and didn't see anything...

    Is anyone else flabbergasted at how many people are rushing to this guy's defense??? I don't care how old he is or how good his movies are. He committed a really heinous crime and ran away from his due punishment and we're supposed to feel sorry for him??

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...30/2700114.htm

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    Most of my work in the ER is with rape cases. This guy drugged and raped a 13 year old girl!! He pled guilty to a slightly lesser charge, and then to avoid paying the price for his acts he ran away. This guy needs to come home and face a US judge. I don't believe that some people are essentially saying that if you run away from your crimes and hide out long enough you are entitled to a "Do Over". What???

    When I am working rape cases there are two things that totally piss me off....
    1) When a woman yells rape falsely to try and cover up getting home late or to avoid getting caught cheating. False rape charges make it all the harder for real rape victims to receive proper treatment and justice.

    2) Rapists who get away with their vile crime!

    I hope they bring him home and lock his ass up for every single day of his sentence, and then make him serve whatever extra time they tack on for running away!! Jail the rapist bastard!!!
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    Looks like Woody Allen is "demanding" the release of the scumbag. Guess his stance on fucking young girls was already quite clear though.

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    Polanski and Woody Allen both disgust me.
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    Default Re: Roman Polanski Arrested in Switzerland

    What's surprising to me is that so many people argue that since the victim has let it go, so should we. What do you ladies think of this? I agree that she shouldn't be the focus of a media circus and that we should respect her privacy, but justice is about justice. No one should be allowed to commit a crime and then throw around cash to avoid punishment.

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    I wonder if Mr. Polanski was a bus driver in NYC and not a world-famous movie director if people who be so eager to give him a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card??

    The fact that people are willing to defend this creep just makes me ill.
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    Even Sharon Tate's sister ( his sister-in-law and a victim's advocate ) is out there defending him. You do the crime, you do the time. Gee, I wonder how many people would support me if f I plied one of my 13 or 14 y.o. students with alcohol and illegal drugs and then had sex with her.
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    I'm going to guess that if the victim was Polanski's own daughter, the assailant some other famous person being protected, his view on what is "right" would be dramatically different.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xdamage View Post
    I'm going to guess that if the victim was Polanski's own daughter, the assailant some other famous person being protected, his view on what is "right" would be dramatically different.
    Agreed.

    I think that the proper sentence for Mr. Polanski back then would have been to lock him in a room with the girl's father for a half hour.
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    Quote Originally Posted by justifymylove View Post
    What's surprising to me is that so many people argue that since the victim has let it go, so should we. What do you ladies think of this? I agree that she shouldn't be the focus of a media circus and that we should respect her privacy, but justice is about justice. No one should be allowed to commit a crime and then throw around cash to avoid punishment.
    i think when he settled with her in the civil suit, one of the conditions would be her "support" should he ever come back to the USA.

    this guy is a scumbag and needs to pay the price for the crime HE pled guilty to and was convicted of.
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    fuck that. the victim is not a district attorney. her opinion as to whether or not a criminal should be tried and punished for crimes (against her and the state) is not relevant here, i don't think. if she feels so strongly about it, she can testify at his sentencing hearing and ask for leniency on his behalf, but i hope she keeps living her life and stops reading the news for a couple of months.

    most likely the charges he will face will have nothing to do with the rape, and more to do with fleeing the fucking country. this guy makes me so mad.

    and the pianist is one of my favorite movies!


    Quote Originally Posted by justifymylove View Post
    What's surprising to me is that so many people argue that since the victim has let it go, so should we. What do you ladies think of this? I agree that she shouldn't be the focus of a media circus and that we should respect her privacy, but justice is about justice. No one should be allowed to commit a crime and then throw around cash to avoid punishment.

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    Have you seen the Petition for this? What amazes me is how many WOMEN are coming to this fucknut's defense! >_<

    *DG*

    Here are the names (so far)

    Woody Allen
    Wes Anderson
    Darren Aronofsky
    Jonatham Demme
    Stephen Frears
    David Lynch
    Martin Scorsese

    Full list: (it might have been quicker to name who didn’t sign the petition)

    Fatih Akin, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Luc Barnier , Christophe Barratier, Xavier Beauvois , Liria Begeja , Gilles Behat, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Marco Bellochio, Monica Bellucci, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci , Patrick Bouchitey, Paul Boujenah, Jacques Bral, Patrick Braoudé, André Buytaers, Christian Carion, Henning Carlsen, Jean-michel Carre, Mathieu Celary, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Souleymane Cissé, Alain Corneau, Jérôme Cornuau, Miguel Courtois, Dominique Crevecoeur, Alfonso Cuaron, Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), Etienne Faure, Michel Ferry, Scott Foundas, Stephen Frears, Thierry Frémaux, Sam Gabarski, René Gainville, Tony Gatlif, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Ghanassia, Terry Gilliam, Christian Gion, Marc Guidoni, Buck Henry, David Heyman, Laurent Heynemann, Robert Hossein, Jean-Loup Hubert, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gilles Jacob, Just Jaeckin, Alain Jessua, Pierre Jolivet, Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation), Roger Kahane, Nelly Kaplan, Wong Kar Waï, Ladislas Kijno, Harmony Korinne, Jan Kounen, Diane Kurys, Emir Kusturica, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, André Larquié, Vinciane Lecocq, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lenne, David Lynch, Michael Mann, François Margolin, Jean-PierreMarois, Tonie Marshall, Mario Martone, Nicolas Mauvernay, Radu Mihaileanu, Claude Miller, Mario Monicelli, Jeanne Moreau, Sandra Nicolier, Michel Ocelot, Alexander Payne, Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY), Michele Placido, Philippe Radault, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Raphael Rebibo, Yasmina Reza, Jacques Richard, Laurence Roulet, Walter Salles, Jean-Paul Salomé, Marc Sandberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, Barbet Schroeder, Ettore Scola, Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Silvera, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Guillaume Stirn, Tilda Swinton, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Radovan Tadic, Danis Tanovic, Bertrand Tavernier, Cécile Telerman, Alain Terzian, Pascal Thomas, Giuseppe Tornatore, Serge Toubiana, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Tykwer, Alexandre Tylski, Betrand Van Effenterre, Wim Wenders.

    EDIT: new names

    Isabelle Adjani
    Antoine Aronin
    Paul Auster
    Morgane Beauverger
    Candice Belaisch-Goldchmit
    Yamina Benguigui
    Pascal Bruckner
    Jessika Cohen
    Philippe Corbé
    Jean-Paul Dayan
    Katarina De Meulder
    Arielle Dombasle
    Nathalie Faucheux
    Corinne Figuet
    Pierre Forciniti
    Louis Garrel
    Albert Gauvin
    Johanna Gozlan
    Davide Homitsu Riboli
    Taylor Hackford
    Isabelle Huppert
    Neil Jordan
    Thierry Kamami
    Milan Kundera
    Gaelle Lancien
    Claude Lanzmann
    Bernard-Henri Lévy
    Sam Mendes
    Camille Meyer
    Patrick Mimouni
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    Marie Nieves Perez Neël
    Salman Rushdie
    Carine Sarna
    Ysabelle Saura Del Pan
    William Shawcross
    Olivier Soares Barbosa
    Steven Soderbergh
    Nil Symchowicz
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    What I found esp. disturbing: What about the girl's MOTHER? From what I understand, her mother allowed her to go over there alone.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DorianGrey View Post
    Have you seen the Petition for this? What amazes me is how many WOMEN are coming to this fucknut's defense! >_<

    *DG*

    Here are the names (so far)

    I'd like to go the other way. Here is a list of celebrities that have come out AGAINST Polanski:

    Joy Behar from The View
    Kirstie Alley
    Neil Gaiman
    Kevin Smith (yay!)
    Jewel
    John Legend
    Bill Maher
    Lisa Kudrow

    Short, but i omitted a lot of people whom i'd frankly never heard off, which also applies to most of the list of people supporting him.

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    this is so wrong. he should pay for his crime even if the victim has forgiven him. everyone else does and he should too. i think it's amazing how the media and everyone is defending him saying he only ran away because he thought they were going to give him too much time. haha i'm sure everyone that jumps bail does it for the same reason! ( i don't know if he was out on bail but i'm just saying that anyone who doesn't show up for sentencing probably does it cuz they think they'll get time)

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    I am also wondering where are organizations like NOW? For those who think Mr. Polanski should be able to just get a "Do Over", I would like them to follow me around for a couple of nights in the ER while I am dealing with rape victims. Let them see the wreckage of rape and child molestation, and then let's see what they think. I believe they would change their tune. And..I guarantee they would change their opinion VERY quickly if the victim was THEIR daughter or spouse.
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    Ok, I just read a transcript of her testimony, and it's clearly rape. Not just statutory rape, I mean. It's pretty sick and disgusting. I really hope they throw the book at him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elvia View Post
    Ok, I just read a transcript of her testimony, and it's clearly rape. Not just statutory rape, I mean. It's pretty sick and disgusting. I really hope they throw the book at him.
    Of course it was rape, he drugged her and fucked her up the ass.

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    See, before I read that and was asking around, I got a whole lot of different stories about what happened. Some people seemed to be under the impression that it was an entirely different scenario- that it was consensual, that there were no drugs involved or that she brought her own and took them herself, that he was under the impression she was over 18, etc. If that were the case, I could perhaps understand some celebrities saying things like "it wasn't exactly rape." But...wow. No. So, now I'm really at a loss as to how anyone could suggest it was somehow less than rape.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thatgirl003 View Post
    this is so wrong. he should pay for his crime even if the victim has forgiven him. everyone else does and he should too. i think it's amazing how the media and everyone is defending him saying he only ran away because he thought they were going to give him too much time.
    Excuse me? I'm sure anytime you are incarcerated it feels like "too much time"...why on earth do people think he is above paying the price for committing a horrible crime

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    This has disgusted me for years.

    I don't watch his movies and won't.

    Everyone acts like because he was a "victim" of violent crime his own actions are excusable out of mental distress.

    I still wonder if Charles Manson didn't get paid enough to do the deed for this sicko, still wonder - Manson is such a cartoon of serial killing.

    I lived in France for a while and understand they are much more liberal about "sex", but they better take a stand on this or I'm just grossed out that their politicians would support him.

    I'm glad they never gave up this creep, I have just a little more faith in justice.

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    He should go to prison for statutory rape and that's what he deserves. As someone else said, it doesnt matter that the victim "supports" him. A 14y/o girl will not want her 20 y/o bf go to jail for statutory rape either (if they both get caught having consensual sex), but her feelings are irrelevant. Criminal charges are brought by the state not the victim.

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    ^It sounds like it was forced rape, not just statutory. He should be prosecuted against whichever is more severe (or both)...

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    ^^ Of course.. didnt do research, just went by what someone said.. if it's forced he is a scum and should be punished accordingly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trem View Post
    I'd like to go the other way. Here is a list of celebrities that have come out AGAINST Polanski:

    Joy Behar from The View
    Kirstie Alley
    Neil Gaiman
    Kevin Smith (yay!)
    Jewel
    John Legend
    Bill Maher
    Lisa Kudrow

    Short, but i omitted a lot of people whom i'd frankly never heard off, which also applies to most of the list of people supporting him.
    <hugs copies of Clerks> Oh Kevin Smith, how I wub thee. always liked you, now I wub your fat ass.

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