Polanski, a view into the liberal mindset

[Lynnie]

Did anyone actually see The Pianist?

I never watched it, but heard it was very good. No doubt, Polanski is talented. Disappointing about Scorcese and Lynch signing the petition; they are two of my absolute favorites!

I suspect now he will not just serve out his sentence, but there will be new charges against him?

 

[Rita]

Thank you for this post. I was shaking my head at the title of this thread. :roll:

Fisher...the pot you are stirring is boiling over. Really, that's enough.

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Me too - in fact, I didn't read the op because of the title.:roll:

Wow, you are amazing. You have taken a story about a pervert and a few well known individuals who wish to free him and turned it into a political piece on the evils of liberalism. Not everything in world is left against right, geez man broaden your perspective. Be careful reading the comics page, you may find a left wing angle to Family Circus.

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There is either an inability to get beyond a broad-brush approach to life or way too much delight in starting piszing contests. Give us a a break! ..

Oh yeah, I think Polanski should serve any legal sentence awarded him. Otherwise why have laws.


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[Matt J]

The part that bothers me about all of this is that the victim has moved on and doesn't want to pursue this anymore. She has lived in relative peace for 30 years and now she's going to have to testify, and because she is no longer a minor her face will be plastered all of the news media.

I'm not saying what he did wasn't wrong, it was! However the victim should be left alone and her wishes respected.

 

[mtlinscomb]

cinematic immunity clause:

Big Hollywood ? Blog Archive ? Support for Polanski Explained: The ‘Cinematic Immunity’ Clause

 

[Andy A]

Wow, do you just get home and post directly from the Drudge report?

Oh come on, SWGB. Even you can understand why Polanski should be extradited, can't you?

 

[Just Curious]

Did she receive some type of settlement? I thought that I heard that somewhere, or I could of just made it up, who knows.

 

[Santiago]

The part that bothers me about all of this is that the victim has moved on and doesn't want to pursue this anymore. She has lived in relative peace for 30 years and now she's going to have to testify, and because she is no longer a minor her face will be plastered all of the news media.

I'm not saying what he did wasn't wrong, it was! However the victim should be left alone and her wishes respected.

They victim doesn't need to testify, he already admitted it. He committed another crime when he fled, they can just prosecute him on that one without the victim.

 

[Santiago]

Did anyone actually see The Pianist?

I never watched it, but heard it was very good. No doubt, Polanski is talented. Disappointing about Scorcese and Lynch signing the petition; they are two of my absolute favorites!

I suspect now he will not just serve out his sentence, but there will be new charges against him?

I actually thought that The Pianist was a pretty good movie. I didn't realize until a day or so ago that Polanski directed it. You're right, he is talented.

 

[AlphaCrab]

Methinks you didn't read my post.

I'm not talking about the mindset of Polanski. I was talking about the mindset of the liberal crowd of influencers in Hollyweird that signed a petition to free Polanski the child molester after finally being arrested for a horrific crime he committed.

The Polanski issue is not an obscure news story. It's about a 40 something year old pedophile (who happens to be a famous director) that drugged and sodomized a 13 year old girl. It's about a horrific crime and a person that ran from the law in order to escape punishment for a crime he admitted to.

I haven't noticed you objecting to rabblerousing posts by some of your liberal buds that are based on shallow intellectual assumptions and very flawed data. What's up with that?

I still maintain that your are adept at generalizations to make your pleas seem "logical," and I dare say it, but your are probably adept at stereoptyping different people as well when it happens to fit your argumentaive calculations.

 

[Mermaid]

I actually thought that The Pianist was a pretty good movie. I didn't realize until a day or so ago that Polanski directed it. You're right, he is talented.

There's the rub. We are so accustomed to thinking that anyone who is brilliant--as is Polanski in his field--must of course be brilliant in the whole of their lives.

But that's not the way it works. Someone who has genius in one area may be stupid in another. Polanski is an extraordinary filmaker but he's an idiot to think that even decades later that there wouldn't be outrage that he raped an underage girl. It doesn't matter that that girl is a grown woman who has had the courage to move past what he did to her. It does matter that he committed a crime, and in the end, the piper must be paid.