Justice denied

[The_Reginator]

From an editorial in the Ottawa Citizen:
Justice denied

The international wave of forgiveness that washes over Roman Polanski, film director and sexual predator, raises an intriguing question:** What if Polanski had been a Roman Catholic priest?** …

This is a man who raped a 13 year old girl for crying out loud! And he has supporters!

Imagine Polanski’s supporters if he was ‘Father Polanski’. Headline: ANOTHER CATHOLIC SEX ABUSE SCANDAL !!!

Sheesh.

 

[Peggy_in_Burien]

It just makes me sick to think about it all.

Funny how the “Hollywood Crowd” twists themselves into such pretzels in order to defend one of their own. I guess if they were to point a finger, three fingers would be pointed back at all of them.

 

[LilyM]

From an editorial in the Ottawa Citizen:
Justice denied

This is a man who raped a 13 year old girl for crying out loud! And he has supporters!

Imagine Polanski’s supporters if he was ‘Father Polanski’. Headline: ANOTHER CATHOLIC SEX ABUSE SCANDAL !!!

Sheesh.

And why isn’t anyone demanding investigations and that heads roll among whatever governmental authorities allowed Polanski to live and work overseas and so elude justice for so long?

After all, isn’t the argument that someone who knowingly moves a pedophile priest to another parish or diocese and allows them to continue their work is guilty of covering up the crime they committed? So why not someone who shelters a pedophile director in another country and allows him to continue working?

In which case, of course, most of Hollywood who fawn over Polanski, and kept giving him awards and whatnot during his ‘exile’ (what a disgusting term) is complicit in the guilt.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

Frankly, this is beating a dead horse. The Swiss chose not to deport him. It happens to people you’ve never heard of, too. But, who cares? It becomes a big thing only if the person is a celebrity. Let the Swiss apply their laws, and we ours, etc. End of story.

 

[LilyM]

Frankly, this is beating a dead horse. The Swiss chose not to deport him. It happens to people you’ve never heard of, too. But, who cares? It becomes a big thing only if the person is a celebrity. Let the Swiss apply their laws, and we ours, etc. End of story.

I don’t think the others pled GUILTY to raping 13 year olds, nor did they skip the US just before their sentencing. If any of the others did, guaranteed it would make news.

 

[mlchance]

It becomes a big thing only if the person is a celebrity…

…and a confessed rapist. Folks keep forgetting that part.

– Mark L. Chance.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

…and a confessed rapist. Folks keep forgetting that part.

– Mark L. Chance.

So what do you suggest? That we send a US Marine Division to Switzerland to capture him, thumb our noses at the Swiss, and tell the rest of the world that if justice isn’t carried out the way AMERICANS demand it, it isn’t justice?

It’s done. But comfort yourselves with this: Polanski will get his at his Judgment when he dies.

 

[mlchance]

So what do you suggest? That we send a US Marine Division to Switzerland to capture him…

Overkill plus no plausible deniability. A small covert team of freelance professionals could accomplish the same thing more quickly and quietly.



– Mark L. Chance.

 

[The_Reginator]

But comfort yourselves with this: Polanski will get his at his Judgment when he dies.

For his sake I’d rather him receive temporal punishment before he dies. Might knock a century or two off of Purgatory(?)

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

Overkill plus no plausible deniability. A small covert team of freelance professionals could accomplish the same thing more quickly and quietly.



– Mark L. Chance.

Yeah, sure.

To each his own outrage, but for me, “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn.”

 

[agbasinger]

I don’t think the others pled GUILTY to raping 13 year olds, nor did they skip the US just before their sentencing. If any of the others did, guaranteed it would make news.

Bingo.

 

[Kuan_Yin]

Maybe he will feel so embolden now, he might make a mistake and enter a country who would send him back to the USA so he could face his punishment.

 

[Peggy_in_Burien]

So what do you suggest? That we send a US Marine Division to Switzerland to capture him, thumb our noses at the Swiss, and tell the rest of the world that if justice isn’t carried out the way AMERICANS demand it, it isn’t justice?

It’s done. But comfort yourselves with this: Polanski will get his at his Judgment when he dies.

Yes, he will get his Judgment when he dies.

I am not advocating sending the Marines to Switzerland–they did nothing wrong in this case. I am extremely angry with the Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, who is now deceased, who sentenced Mr. Polanski, after he plead guilty to rape, to only 90 days of psychiatric evaluation–which Mr. Polanski skipped the country to avoid. The fault for this lies entirely on the bench of that courtroom in Los Angeles!