Ignore the insulting "free pass for artistic merit." Hold off on the legal arguments. If you're the LA DA with limited resources and a whole boatload of scumbags you're trying to deal with [including child rapists who are a current threat], is this the guy you choose to spend big bucks to go after-- the old guy who skipped out 30+ years ago, you've got to bring back from Europe and has the money to fight you every step of the way?
Is this about justice or glory?
If we stopped infantilizing teens and empowered rather than dis-empowered them, then the girl would have kicked him in the family jewels and walked out just like any other "adult" woman would have. Instead, we sexualize adolescents (my god, witness mylie cyrus and the vanity fair pic!) and then scream "monster," sicko" "pervert" when it's really all a projection of a perverted society and its infantile approach to sex.
The victim shouldn't have any say in what happens to Polanski, since at the time she was a minor and without any majority. Had Polanski not fled and become a fugitive from justice, perhaps the case could have been dismissed due to the element of time, but what he did doesn't merit any consideration for waiver of his crime nor the crime of being a fugitive. I think mostly young immature individuals prefer that this be dismissed since the are essentially amoral and haven't any sense of justice or punishment of crime. Just look at all of the hideous athletes and politicians who commit crimes of this type, or others. The young and moronic don't think it's any big deal. They really don't care at all about the victims, just continuing their idiotic hero worship, especially when it comes to sex-offending athletes.
This pedophile drugged and then raped a thirteen year old and plead guilty. He fled the US and sought residency in countries that didn't have any extradition treaties with the US. He has lived his life on the run and as a fugitive from justice. He has deliberately and willfully kept himself protected from being arrested. Now his jig is up. Polanski committed his heinous crimes in the home of Jack Nicholson, and Nicholson knew that Polanski was going to bring a thirteen year old there. The two are like peas in a pod. Polanski should be forced to serve time in jail for the crime and also for being a fugitive. He is a filthy scum bag pedophile.
Of course, every commentator has overlooked pedophilia in predominatly muslim countries. Just last week a 12-year-old yemeni girl died in labor. That is just the tip of the iceberg. For 1400+ years there have been young girls bound in harems or less formal means of concubinage. Even mohammed married a 14-year-old, so when modernizing voices call for the reform of "marraige" laws--they are condemned for being antiislamic.
During the occupation of Spain, the emir of Cordoba forced the peoples of Galicia and Asturias to send virgin teenage girls as "tribute."
Most of the idiots who become suicide bombers do so hoping they will get seventy virgins. Why seventy virgins??? Obviously, that means the bomber will have seventy little chrries to pop. I mean, you could pray or play dominoes or be waited on hand and foot by a middle aged woman just as well as a young girl. The point is that pedophilia in this cultural context extendS EVEN TO THE AFTERLIFE!
So really, pedophilia is a GLOBAL problem. Not just a "white" or American problem. We're just lucky that we live in a free society and can improve ourselves by self-critique.
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Is this about justice or glory?
He was arrested for rape.
Poland has just passed castration laws for pedophiles. Maybe he should go there.
He was arrested for rape.
Poland has just passed castration laws for pedophiles. Maybe he should go there.
Even mohammed married a 14-year-old, so when modernizing voices call for the reform of "marraige" laws--they are condemned for being antiislamic.
During the occupation of Spain, the emir of Cordoba forced the peoples of
Galicia and Asturias to send virgin teenage girls as "tribute."
Most of the idiots who become suicide bombers do so hoping they will get seventy virgins. Why seventy virgins??? Obviously, that means the bomber will have seventy little chrries to pop. I mean, you could pray or play dominoes or be waited on hand and foot by a middle aged woman just as well as a young girl. The point is that pedophilia in this cultural context extendS EVEN TO THE AFTERLIFE!
So really, pedophilia is a GLOBAL problem. Not just a "white" or American problem. We're just lucky that we live in a free society and can improve ourselves by self-critique.