After 32 years of running from an arrest warrant in the U.S., Roman Polanski was arrested this weekend, and is now facing extradition to be sentenced for having sex with a 13 year old back in 1977. First of all, I don’t have much sympathy for child-f*ckers, even if they have been victimized by the Holocaust and the Manson cult killings, as in the case of Polanski. Life is tough. What does any of that have to do with a 13 year old’s innocence? I really wish Chris Hansen had been at the airport when they got him. That would have made it unbelievably entertaining.
I wish that one fellow hadn’t killed himself, so we could have some new episodes of “Dateline: To Catch A Predator.” All we can do now is cut on MSNBC to watch re-runs of the same perverts getting their emails read aloud then later being tackled to the ground by the police.
As talented as Polanski is at what he does, in a weird way I kind of have to give him credit for having the balls to keep working at the same time as running from justice. Most people lay low when they know they’re on the run. This dude kept on working with Hollywood’s A-List, while using the fact that France does not extradite it’s citizens to his advantage.
This also proves that people in Hollywood don’t give a f*ck about how fundamentally screwed up you are if you’re talented enough. Folks gave Michael Jackson and R. Kelly supporters a hard time, but think about this: Both of them maintained their innocence in their child molestation trials. This dude plead guilty! He’s an admitted pedophile, yet people still work with him. That leads me to believe you can get away with damn near anything in Hollywood if you’re a bankable commodity.
Oh yeah, I guess being a rich white man helps. Didn’t want to go there…but ah well…f*ck it. It’s in print now.
Basically, it’s going to be kind of interesting to see how this all plays out. I want to know what you all think though. Should they sentence this 76 year old man the full amount of time he would have gotten had he stayed in the US? Do you think he’ll be able to beat the charges now that folks are claiming his original case was handled improperly? Or do you even give a sh*t? Let me know.
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I’ve got mixed feelings. Mainly due to the difference in the laws from 1977 and now. Statutory rape wasn’t as big a thing back then when drugs ran the show. So while I do think he should go to jail – I don’t think the 2009 laws should apply to someone that committed the crime in 1977.
I think he should be sentenced to whatever was the likely sentence back then, plus whatever the punishment for being on the run is now. I don’t care about whether the case was handled properly, or anything that transpired that could negate him being punished now simply because he ADMITTED it and said yeah that was me.