Gotta Love France

“Roman Polanski date rapes a 13 year old girl using his status as a filmmaker, booze and a quaalude and then flees the country when the trial doesn't goes his way.

Did I mention he confessed to the crime?

What do the French have to say about this?

French authorities expressed solidarity with Roman Polanski's family Monday after authorities arrested the filmmaker on a 1970s sexual-offense charge involving a 13-year-old girl.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he hoped authorities would respect Polanski's rights "and that the affair (will) come to a favorable resolution," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The French culture and communications minister, Frederic Mitterrand, said he "learned with astonishment" of Polanski's arrest. He expressed solidarity with Polanski's family and said "he wants to remind everyone that Roman Polanski benefits from great general esteem" and has "exceptional artistic creation and human qualities."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/28/zurich.roman.polanski.arrested/index.html

I guess the French remain... different.

I know that the girl (now a woman) wants the charged dropped, but the whole point to laws that protect children is that there is no such thing as consensual sex with a 13 year old girl. It doesn't matter if she looked 25 (as people defending him have said)... which, by the way, she did not.

I hope they throw the book at the guy... in a US court. I have no confidence it will happen, however.”

“nah, he has too much money. Stunning though. The people who support him (HOW can anyone support him?) trump up the filmwork he's done... as though we're supposed to say "oh yeah, you made a beautiful movie. I guess you're excused from drugging and raping a 13 year old girl... but don't do it again"”

“I'll second that Yogisan.”

“Now Woody Allen is calling for Polanski's release. Bwahahaha, of course, HE would...”

“talk about the freaks come out at night...

In the United States, powerhouse movie producer Harvey Weinstein is trying to recruit more supporters for Polanksi.

"We are calling every filmmaker we can to help fix this terrible situation," his company told CNN in a statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/29/polanski.filmmakers.protest/index.html

wtf is wrong with people?”

“All the people that let him run away should be in the cell next to him.”

“I don't understand the support for Polanski at all. He wasn't wronged here. We should be pissed at France for harboring him for 30 years or however long it was.”

“Those lining up in support of Polanski should be drugged and sodomized.”

“Polanski can give a couple mil to Obama and Clinton Global and all this will go away.”

“I don't understand the support for Polanski at all.

It's because liberals love the personal dysfunction or deviancy that is so often the wellspring of creativity in artists. Polanski isn't a criminal in their minds, he's just "troubled" like so many other celebrated artists in the past.”

“The US harbors more political refugees than any other country. Isn't this political, NOW after all these years of Swiss shielded accounts?
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“Feeeeeeeeeelings, nothing more than feeeeeeelings.....”

“http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0928092geimer1.html

the victim is asking for leniency, Polanski has apologized GEE guys...you have let worse walk...where is the consistency in your charges. I mean a guy beats and rapes a woman and he is still your "Poltical Hero" but Polansky ya wanna hang?

Oh the story of the assault

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0610081polanski1.html
last edited: 9/30/09 9:18:57 AM”

“and here come the assclowns to drug and sodomize the thread with more political bs. Clearly, Polanski raped this little girl at the behest and approval of all liberals everywhere, including the presidential decrees of Obama and Clinton. Seriously, are you capable of seeing anything without a political slant?
last edited: 9/30/09 11:30:56 AM”

“And they call that other guy Tilted. LMAO”

“it's only a matter of time until it metastisizes into the trip reports too.

"It was really hot out"
There's that global warming myth BS again. LOL

"The second day was a much longer hike than we'd planned on"
just like the commie fascist health care bill! LOL

"The view was beautiful"
So's Sarah Palin”

“Palin is a dog.”

“Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin on Earth.”

“Look who's supporting the child rapist. It ain't conservatives.”

“He's Palin comparison...”

“Look at who is carping about liberals.......again and again and again.

What is the rhetorical term for this on-going campaign of cheap shots?

And when will these small-minded pricks get tired of yapping?”

“T*ltypoo and markO support child raping, as long as the raper is the correct ideology.”

“Stovie support mass murder.........and rape and slavery and sh#tty coffee.”

“Isn't this a fuego thread? I thought it was a fuego thread? Am I wrong about this being a fuego thread?



Aren't the leftie loonies always crying about Unc Sam staying out of their bedroom? No wonder they're lining up behind Pole-boy.”

“Well Rape and abuse and degredation of women has always been acceptable if you "toe the party line"...

Shall we remember Le Brasserie and the famed Waitress sandwich with Dodd and Kennedy?

WAIT is that acceptable?

It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant�s annex. They are drunk. Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. (The dates are drunk too. �They�d always get their girls very, very drunk,� says a former Brasserie waitress.) Betty Loh, who served the foursome, also leaves the room. Raymond Campet, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells Gaviglio the senators want to see her.

As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd�s lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room. Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check.

Eyewitness Betty Loh told me that Kennedy had �three or four� cocktails in his first half hour at the restaurant and wine with dinner. When she walked into the room after Gaviglio had gone in, she says, �what I saw was Senator Kennedy on top of Carla, who was on top of Senator Dodd�s lap, and the tablecloth was sort of slid off the table �cause the table was knocked over�not completely, but just on Senator Dodd�s lap a little bit, and of course the glasses and the candlesticks were totally spilled and everything. And right when I walked in, Senator Kelly jumped off�and he leaped up, composed himself and got up. And Carla jumped up and ran out of the room.�


Now Tilty, LushO....is this acceptable in treatment of a woman? Its an easy question, can a drunken man grab and grope a female waitress?”

“OH THANK GOD!!!!

Well Roman is off the hook (LOL). One of your mouthpieces has spoken. Apparently there is different types of rape.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/roman-polanski/6245219/Roman-Polanski-backlash-as-Whoopi-Goldberg-says-director-didnt-commit-rape-rape.html

Goldberg, star of The Color Purple and Sister Act, said: "I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape.

"He pled guilty to having sex with a minor and he went to jail, and when they let him out he said 'You know what, this guy's going to give me 100 years in jail. I'm not staying'. And that's why he left." Polanski was arrested in Zurich, Switzerland on Sunday and faces extradition to the United States. He fled the US in 1978 before being sentenced for the crime and has been pursued around the globe by prosecutors ever since.


oh and Debra Winger et al

One celebrity supporter, the actress Debra Winger, said it was a "three-decades-old case that is dead but for minor technicalities. We stand by him and await his release and his next masterpiece." Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein said Polanski was a "humanist" who had been the victim of a "miscarriage of justice". He said: "We will have to speak to our leaders, particularly in California. I'm not too shy to go and talk to the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and to ask him once and for all to look at this." However, the views of the Hollywood elite seemed out of step with those of ordinary Americans and they now face a backlash. ”

“His victim, Samantha Gailey, told a grand jury that the director had plied her with champagne and drugs and taken nude pictures of her in a hot tub during a fashion shoot. Polanski then had sexual intercourse with her despite her resistance and requests to be taken home, she said.

The director originally faced charges including rape and sodomy but they were dismissed following plea bargaining and he admitted unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

sounds like "rape-rape" to me... and he confessed.

i'll never look at whoopie goldberg the same after reading her statement. that's for sure.

like i said... the freaks come out at night.
last edited: 9/30/09 12:40:39 PM”

“can a drunken man grab and grope a female waitress?

Sure, if it is consensual.”

“you know, the thing that gets lost in these articles is that there is NEVER a situation where ANY adult can have sex with a 13 year old girl and it is ANYTHING but rape. it doesn't matter what the victim wants or wanted. it doesn't matter who the accused is. in this case polanski CONFESSED he had sex with this girl as part of a bargin to get out of other charges related to his crime... but when it came time to pay up the filthy coward fled justice.

they damn well better send him back so our courts can finish what he started.”

“So you actually read where

As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd�s lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room. Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check.

And you determine that was consentual? What she WANTED to be Assaulted?”

“No, I wasn't responding to the scenario highlighted in your trashy, unsubstantiated post. Rather, you asked, "can a drunken man grab and grope a female waitress?" and I responded.
last edited: 9/30/09 1:10:25 PM”

“Hey Cocaine Dan, I don't give a rat's ass about Polanski.

The justice system will do its thing no matter how far your panties get up your crack.

Speakin' of crack..............smoke much?

Gee, what non-issue will mad dog conservatives like you and Stovie use to try and scapegoat "liberals" next??

You sure are obsessed with celebrity.”

“Typical moonbat 'ethics' from markO and t*ltypoo.”

“You wouldn't know ethics if it bit you in your inbred, cornbread-eatin' ass, Stovie.”

“I know rape of a child is wrong, markOdumbO.”

“No kiddin', $h!t-fer-brains.”

“Laugh @ yo bruder Stupie.”

“Were you molested by a family member, Stovie?

Perhaps that is why you are such a twisted turd.

Maybe you should go soak your head.”

“I don't give a rat's ass about Polanski. -drunkO

So far, Mutt has been 100% correct.
Only the Far Leftist Moonbats support Polanski the child raper.”

“so far I haven't seen anybody on here say they support Polanski - I see people accusing and infeering other people of supporting him, but I haven't seen a single TT'er say "I support Polanski," and therefore I still see no reason why this thread has been politicized”

“stove and xl, you have shown me kindness in the past, so i have to say that this really disappoints me. im finding it harder and harder to reconcile the kind person who ive hiked with in georgia and colorado and florida and indiana, who brings gifts for his friends to the hikes, with the hateful person i see on this forum

or the guy who emails me with his phone number, just in case i need help dealing with my borderline alcoholic friend, and sends me delicious venison jerky and chocolate clear to the other side of the globe, with the troll who uses every minute opportunity to go on an anti-left tirade

mutt, im sure youre a good person, but i have no evidence

but this kind of behavior is disgusting. not a single person has come out in support of polanski (did you even read violin's post?). people are sneering at your moral grand-standing because YOU are exploiting this story for your own small purposes. you use child-rape for your own ends. how do you feel about that? a child getting raped helps your agenda. and you feel good about using it to denigrate your political enemies. a child getting raped helps stovie and xl and mutt. you used a child's rape for your own ends. think about that
last edited: 9/30/09 4:58:48 PM”

“Crash is such a liberal.”

““it's only a matter of time until it metastisizes into the trip reports too.

"It was really hot out"
There's that global warming myth BS again. LOL

"The second day was a much longer hike than we'd planned on"
just like the commie fascist health care bill! LOL

"The view was beautiful"
So's Sarah Palin”
pepsisformosa
3:12:47 PM
9/30/09

Interesting how all your potential comments only come from the right. Is that how you see it. Only the right politicize stuff?
last edited: 9/30/09 5:44:46 PM”

“didn't see anyone blaming this 13 year old's rape on republicans... did you? interesting.”

“besides, I think we all can agree Palin's boneable, left or right”

“Ya gotta hand it to markO and t*ltypoo.
We now know when drugging a 13-year-old girl and sodomizing her in a hot tub against her will is A-OK: When the rapist is a rich Hollywood bigwig.”

“Nobody has answered why the people that let this man run to France haven't been dealt with, Lets exposed their sorry asses for a change.”

“you used a child's rape for your own ends

So? Are you saying my personal character makes what I said any less true? Tell me, what outspoken conservative support has there been for Polanski? Because I've seen an OUTPOURING of support from high profile liberal "talent" around the world. I don't feel bad AT ALL joining the outrage conservatives are heaping on liberal moral relativist SH*TBAGS who can handwave away what was nothing other than CHILD RAPE.

Yeah, I"m using this for my own ends. I'm fundamentally against scumbaggery. I'll speak out against child rape when and where it suits me and with absolute moral certitude! If you're offended by my being against child rape, then I suggest you take a good long look at your moral character.”

“Those lining up in support of Polanski should be drugged and sodomized.�
viOLiN
8:46:10 AM
9/30/09

(HOW can anyone support him?) "�
pepsisformosa
8:36:43 PM
9/28/09

No kiddin', $h!t-fer-brains.� (in response to stove's statement that child rape is wrong)
MarkO
5:02:27 PM
9/30/09

yea, that really sounds like all the libbies are supporting him

If you're offended by my being against child rape

of course im not. im offended that you use it to further your personal hate campaign

I'll speak out against child rape when and where it suits me and with absolute moral certitude

and i support you doing that. but thats NOT what youve been doing here. show me where youve castigated polanski. you cant because you havent. youve been using it as an excuse to excoriate hollyweirdos, tt lefties, and all libbies everywhere. youre making it about the left, and not polanski.

THATS what i have a problem with
last edited: 9/30/09 7:07:32 PM”

“having said that, i do have a problem with those that are supporting him, calling for his release, etc. however, i dont think your average, garden variety liberal supports polanski. i believe it is more a case of solidarity of the fraternity of hollywood film makers. many of them probably know him personally. theyre probably in denial. theyre sticking together like family, just like when any other criminal is accused, their family supports them. hollywood is a big dysfunctional family. and theyre coming together to get behind one of their own. i dont agree with them, but it is what it is”