LOWLIFES AND THE LOWLIFES WHO DEFEND THEM
I've been gathering my thoughts on the situation with Roman Polanski, but, having just checked out what some of my Friends In The Ether have already said, I've discovered that they pretty much covered it all, so herewith [sorry Stacy] some quotes from them and links. Please do take the time to click on all of them and check out their full commentaries...
-Over at The Daley Gator, DarcPrynce reminds us of the details of the crime and asks the right questions:
Let’s keep in mind that Roman Polanski gave a 13-year-old girl a Quaalude and champagne, then raped her, before we start discussing whether the victim looked older than her 13 years, or that she now says she’d rather not see him prosecuted because she can’t stand the media attention. Before we discuss how awesome his movies are or what the now-deceased judge did wrong at his trial, let’s take a moment to recall that according to the victim’s grand jury testimony, Roman Polanski instructed her to get into a jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she begged to go, began kissing her even though she said no and asked him to stop; performed cunnilingus on her as she said no and asked him to stop; put his penis in her vagina as she said no and asked him to stop; asked if he could penetrate her anally, to which she replied, “No,” then went ahead and did it anyway, until he had an orgasm.
Can we do that? Can we take a moment to think about all that, and about the fact that Polanski pled guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, before we start talking about what a victim he is?
-Like Clifton, over at Another Black Conservative, I too had a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment:
However, I have been taken aback by some people's ridiculous defense of this monster! The most notable of the Polanski apologist is that crazy piece that appeared in the Washington Post by Anne Applebaum (who by the way has a conflict of interest regarding Polanski). Basically what Applebaum's argument boils down to is; why is anyone still concerned about Polanski's case? WTF? THE MAN RAPED A LITTLE GIRL!!!!!
Polanski pleaded guilty at his trial and fled before sentencing. For some 30 years he did not live like Saddam Hussein in some dirty spider hole. No, this MoFo lived the life of Reilly, with fancy homes, a jet set European lifestyle and even won awards. For that, I think Polanski deserves double his original sentence should he be extradited to the US.
That's what the average Joe would get.
-Snark And Boobs addresses his defenders directly:
You know, I thought y’all had reached the lowest nadir with your odious and utter disregard of Mary Jo Kopechne’s life because her death scored you some sweet, sweet Liberal policy making. But this? The rape of a CHILD is hunky-dory because you dig the guys “art” and his liberal thought.
Wow, how enlightened and cultured you all are. No wonder you see yourselves as Better Than Us/Smarter Than Us. You see, we dumb redneck-y Ugly Americans don’t think it is cool to rape kids. It is becoming quite apparent that YOU do. To you, rape jokes about 14-year-old girls are super awesome as long as you hate the kid’s icky Conservative Mommy. Woody Allen statutorily raping his own adopted child is totes cool too because he thinks the right way politically and he’s “arty”....
I suppose you figure “Well, at least he tried not to get her pregnant. What’s a little sodomy? At least that way she wouldn’t be “punished with a baby”. Sheesh! Relax, you uncultured wingnuts! Plus, it’s not like he disagrees with Obama!”
-Speaking of Moonbattery, Gregory Of Yardale addresses the progressive enlightened elites in The West:
Too bad we Americans have this quaint idea that it's not okay for a forty-four year old man to drug and sodomize a thirteen year old girl, even if you are an "artist and celebrity."
To the left, elites are exempt from the rules of lesser mortals provided their politics are sufficiently "progressive." Ted Kennedy got drunk and killed a woman. Che Guevara was a mass murderer. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an unrepentant cop-killer. Bill Ayers is an unrepentant domestic terrorist. All of these people are heroes to the left because they have been absolved by virtue of their politics.
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