Roman Polanski Deserves To Do The Time For The Crime. Now.
September 30, 2009 / 11:16 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierDoes artistic genius and contribution negate horrendous evil? No. This is how I’ve reasoned through the murky territory of great artists with personal failings: While they may be troubled and condemned personally, their art can stand on its own.
There is justice. You know, paying a penalty for a crime. Some justice is self-inflicted ala Michael Jackson. Some comes at the hand of the legal system ala Roman Polanski. One way or another, though, for society’s sake, diseased people like this need to be removed from the populace. Is the contribution to art sacrificed? Maybe. Don’t be a pedophile rapist, then.
I don’t give a shit about Polanski’s sad-sack sob story of a troubled Nazi dominated youth. Aw, too bad. You know what? There are lots of people walking this earth who have endured unspeakable evil and managed to grow up and live lives dedicated to the care and protection of the weak and defenseless.
I don’t believe living in the South of France, marrying and having a pack of kids is any sort of punishment. Aw, he can’t come back to America. Waaah! He can’t come back because he’ll be sent to jail because he raped a child. Does he think for one moment she’s forgotten the experience? Does he think she’s been free of his touch, smell, violation in her sexual life? Does he think that her relationships haven’t been invaded by his action? And HE wants absolution. His victim will get none.
The fact is, (and I have spoken vehemently against this in other posts by the way, but I’m including this reality as a grim acknowledgment of American justice) if Polanski gets raped in prison, guess what? He’s a grown man who can filter the experience through the psychology of adulthood. He violated a young girl. He shaped her psychological world.
Anyone defending Polanski has no moral compass and should be shunned. Those who aid and abet this monster are very nearly worse than Polanski himself. The psychotic deviants in the world often get help. I have no sympathy. Not even a shred.
Send Polanski to jail. Send the Hollywood elites to economic hell and ignore their work ’til it’s on pirated DVD.
13 Responses to “Roman Polanski Deserves To Do The Time For The Crime. Now.”
September 30 2009 / 12:43 pm
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I agree, except there’s nothing murky about it. It’s not like Polanski was about to cure cancer or do something important that might create a moral dilemma. He just makes movies, which at best provides some entertainment for people but is arguably no more socially important than the contribution of a good plumber or electrician. It just pays better.
September 30 2009 / 1:38 pm
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Go to SmokingGun.com and read her grand jury testimony. Your outrage may diminish somewhat. As well, she does not want Polanski prosecuted. You’ll see why when you read the article.
September 30 2009 / 2:41 pm
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My outrage was increased by reading the transcript in The Smoking Gun. It’s all there: the alcohol, the drugs, the intimidation, the pursuing her room to room. Ignoring “no.” The girl lying and saying she had asthma to try to get away from him.
The only thing it gave “context” to was the anal rape, which was clearly a crude form of birth control. But still, to a young girl, unspeakably physically painful.
Anyone who reads that transcript and doesn’t take away a bad impression of Polanski is reading it as if the girl were an adult. She was not.
September 30 2009 / 5:22 pm
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Dr M.
Wonderful roundup and summation. The only thing remaining is to watch the Hollywood elite and liberal left scramble to understand why they cast such a passionate defense for such a vulgar little man (not the first time they have done such a thing, either).
I had lunch with a very liberal friend of mine who insisted that Mr. Polanski is being railroaded by zealous conservative prosecuters. I reminded her that Roman has already confessed to the crime and was awaiting punishment when he fled.
“Oh, I didn’t know that…” was her first response.
“He drugged her? Why, I had no idea..”
“She told him to stop and he kept going, I never heard that before..”
“He had anal sex with a thirteen year old, OMG! That’s sick!”
She finished by saying, “he’s psycho, and I hope he rots in hell.”
How nimble is the liberal mind. From poor persectued artist to rotten fiend bound for Hades, in all of five minutes.
It’s a remarkable thing to witness.
October 1 2009 / 7:05 am
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> How nimble is the liberal mind. From poor persectued artist to rotten fiend bound for Hades, in all of five minutes.
It’s a remarkable thing to witness.
Uh, Jonathan, did you have someone else check up on her a day later? My own experience is that the liberal mind is not just nimble, it’s stuck in taffy. You can move it out of position, but if you look again at it 24 hours later, it’s right back where it was before you shifted it.
I call it the “Liberal Reset Button”. At night, during sleep, the LRB gets pushed, and all newly received data is vetted against The Officially Accepted Liberal Positions®, and, if it is found to work against or even repudiate any of them, the new data is rejected as inconsistent with Undebatably True and Accepted Liberal Dogma®. Thus purged, the liberal mind is free to return to its prior state of ignorance and bliss.
Test that sometime. Find a vaguely reasonable liberal, get them into a discussion and show how, starting from their own positions, they can be led step by step to a conclusion or end point which shows the desired result is impossible given their starting point, or some similar totally mutually exclusive result derives from what they believe in. At the end, they will agree with you that they are wrong.
Within a day or two, you engage them in discussion on the matter once again, it will be as though the first discussion NEVER HAPPENED. They literally will have no recollection of the whole discussion, of the obvious falseness of their presumptions, and will still retain those notions they had before you ever brought the matter up.
The LRB has been activated!. All is back to its proper liberal state.
October 1 2009 / 8:42 am
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What I can’t understand is why we’re still talking about this. Man touch kid, man go jail. He put thing in kid, give kid drink, he go ‘way. Is that monosyllabic enough for anyone still waffling?
October 1 2009 / 11:38 am
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Dayum, Doctor! You go girl!!!!
October 1 2009 / 11:40 am
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I feel sorry for Roman. Why doesn’t he just contact Attorney General Holder, like Roman’s friend Marc Rich did, find out how much a Presidential pardon would cost, and pay it? Roman will never have the luxury of dealing with a government this corrupt again and he aught to take advantage while he can.
October 1 2009 / 12:10 pm
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Is this finally the moment when we as a society finally grasp how damaging Hollywood elitists are to society?
And, how dare they place themselves above the laws the rest of us assume we’ll have to follow. These are the people who complain about salaries of others, while making up to 20 million dollars a shot to play “make pretend” for a month or two (something the rest of us outgrew at about the age of 10)…all the while, more dedicated to spreading socialist/liberal agenda than entertaining anyone with their drivel. Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him?
October 1 2009 / 2:50 pm
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Mr. Polanski is a discusting pervert, he felt he would not get the standard “Hollywood” deal of community service for raping a 13 year old, so he showed his courage by running away to France. The hollywood elite of course whine that he is so talented he should not be punished, I hope the pervert supporters keep coming out of the closet so we can have a real effect of their careers. The provide little or nothing to the culture, most are not even good at their jobs, but the demand special treatment and extreme pay. How do you go about doing a “Dixie Chicks” on the pervert supporters? Maybe just maybe there will be enough backlash that wew could clean out the cesspool known as hollywood.
October 1 2009 / 5:00 pm
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Hey, I’m not a big-time Hollywood producer, but I HAVE published a book. Does that at least mean I can get away with minor traffic violations, maybe a small assault?
October 2 2009 / 12:07 am
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Coming from the mother of two little girls under the age of three:
The Hollywood glitterati (At least, those who signed that petition to “free Polanski”) don’t seem to grasp the fact that if this were some other man (like, say, a priest or beloved teacher) doing the same thing to a minor (girl or boy), they’d be demanding that he be hanged by his testicles at this very moment, and the institution that allowed such a crime to happen shamed into a multi-million-dollar settlement.
However, this is Hollywood. Apparently, they seem to believe that the laws of this country, not to mention common decency, don’t apply to them. “Tolerance” is their morality code – for “do whatever your heart desires, as long as you don’t dare to criticize our idols.” And Harvey Weinstein dares to say that Hollywood has the “right moral compass”! Right. Sure. Who is he trying to kid?
There was a quote from one of those newspaper advice columnists from long ago that fits Polanski and his supporters to a tee. “Morals are what separate human beings from animals. If anyone here is having a problem in that department, please consult your veterinarian.”
October 22 2009 / 9:32 pm
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Roman Polanski is guilty of abusing a minor and he really deservers to be in jail.