What would be Hollywood's response if instead Polanski were a Catholic Priest who molested childern but otherwise had an outstanding record professional work? Oops, been there, and (rightly) condemed that.

LMAOROTF......hilarious!

If it were my child the verb in question wouldn't be "extradite,' it would be "exhume."

-Jim Smith

Nicely put, and I couldn't agree more.

I'm one of the posters that's often tarred with the "liberal" brush, but I can't for the life of me see anyone justifying this.

Bill Maher, big liberal, posted this: "Why is so much of hollywood defending Polanski? If u can give a 13 year old a lude and do her in the naughty place, where is the line?"

As I stated before this little twerp is a sexual predator pedophile who should be locked up in a cell with a 6'8" convict.

That said, call me sick, but I can't help but make this observation: Consider that the girl was only 13 and pretty small. With rape victims, even adults, there are wounds, especially if raped from behind. The fact that a little 13 year old girl had no wounds, especially in the analarea, after forced rape, can only lead me to one conclusion: This Roman Polanski must be hung like a mosquito. Serious.

It's a cliche that is not born out by any data or facts that "liberalism" = soft on crime.

But, this of course opens up a whole other debate about three strikes laws, the war on drugs, etc.

I don't want to hijack the board with a discussion on that.

But I disagree with the notion that because a group of directors and actors are supporting something, makes it a liberal cause or an indicator of liberal values generally.

Now, go off and put your liberal thinking cap back on and say something stupid so I can beat up on you again!!

George Orwell said this when commenting on Salvador Dali in "Dickens,Dali & Others: Studies in Popular Culture"


"If Shakespeare returned to the earth tomorrow, and if it were found that his favourite recreation was raping little girls in railway carriages, we should not tell him to go ahead with it on the groundthat he might write another King Lear." -...- George Orwell

It happened 30 years ago. The victim says she would rather the whole matter be dropped. The perpetrator poses no threat to society any more.

On one hand, I agree that you don't want to let someone escape justice. On the other hand, with prisons overcrowded and state budgets deep in the red, do we really want to spend taxpayer money on putting this guy away? We're talking tens of thousands of dollars for extradtiion, a trial, and the cost of incarceration.

Conservatives cease to be fiscally conservative on issues that matter to them: defense (or, more recently, offense) and prisons.

Now it's clear why Jimmy is so nervous about guns.
Probably about as nervous as obama around a lie detector.

I'm so tired of pointing out the hypocrisy of liberals by saying something like, "If Rush Limbaugh raped a 13-year-old, the liberals would want him hanged".

WTF is wrong with these halfwits? How can they justify supporting one thing for one person (or group) but condemning it for another? It's completely illogical and irrational, just like their political ideology. Liberalism really is a mental disorder.

what about the statute of limitations?????

sumbuddy 'splain pleeeeze....

I'm sorry, but painting this as "liberalism" is just self serving.

this isn't evidence of qualities of liberalism. it's evidence of the absence of them.

We get Ron Jeremy to pop a couple viagras and rape Polanski, and then all is forgiven.

Am I the only one out here that remembers the tv interview with the female victim of this case from 1978 or 1979 where she admits to supplying the illegal drugs from her parents house, lying about her age to him, and previously attending orgies at her parents and neighbors houses ?

"these people" are the very same ones you defend on a daily basis....liberals.

Jimmy Dolan's response is typical of a liberal when it comes to crime and punishment. These people are constantly on the wrong side of the issue. Not all liberals mind you, but a pretty good chunk of them. Just look at the following Hollywierd has for cop killing Mumia Abu Jamaal. And now they want Polanski to skate because it's been 30 years. Want to turn the discussion on it's ear? Ask them why they weren't as forgiving to Catholic priests who were exposed as child molesters 30 years after the fact.

As for Whoopie saying that this wasn't "rape" rape, then I guess any college fratboy who ever roofied a girl and took advantage of her didn't commit rape either. As was said, liberalism is a mental disorder.

You should read "Fatal Vision" about Dr. Jeffrey McDonald (a former Green Beret) who brutally murdered his family and then tried to frame it, ironically, as if hippies had done it just like the Polanski murders.

Anyway, all throughout the book his father-in-law, who had suffered his daughter and young grandkids (beleive they were all little girls...can't remember all the details because I read it 20 years ago) being murdered and had concluded (rightly, I believe) it was done by his slob son-in-law, kept saying "If the courts don't administer justice, I will". He never got specific, but you knew what he meant. And I agreed with him. I've never forgotten his saying that and I would do the same thing if somebody did something awful to any of my loved ones (should the courts fail to properly protect and respect our society).

So what? I was unaware that surviving the holocaust gave one a pass to commit heinous crimes, just as I was unaware that being a victim of a horrible crime (Manson murder of his pregnant wife) gives one the right to commit other felonies.

But back to the holocaust. Didn't we hunt down and prosecute those responsible for the holocaust many years later? Weren't many of those apprehended at that point in time elderly? Aren't we right now in the process of deporting (or maybe we already did) an elderly person suspected of participating (somewhat benignly, I believe) in the holocaust? And isn't there a lot of reasonable doubt as to whether that person was even involved at all in the holocaust? Using the Polanski defenders logic, shouldn't we have just "let it go" for those holocaust criminals because of the time passed?

There is no doubt of Polanski's guilt in this case. He didn't just rape the poor little girl...he sodomized her! My gosh people, wake up! To use a famous quote "Have you no sense of decency? At long last, have you lost all sense of decency?"

Everyone take a real close look at our weak kneed leftist posters and you can see why we have a huge problem in the criminal justice system, They forget the victim and have all sympathy for the accused.
The pervert drugged and abused a minor skipped out of the country its time he pays, wouldnt it be neat though if he was punished the same as his offense, only bad thing he would probrably enjoy himself.

Im sorry but I guess the older I get the more my thinking changes. The fact that he left the country should alone get him life in prison. He should be stripped of all his finances and the money given to some kind of victim's fund. I would like to see which actors and studio people would be willing to PUBLICLY back him up.

...the number of people who will apologize for you raping a child given enough time and your shiny talent with movie making.

He deserves to pay for his crime.

the moral and cultural relativism being used to explain away the rape of a 13 year old is just jaw dropping.

I dont care if he's jesus. or Job. Or moses.

when you can explain away raping a 13 year old girl, there is no hope left for you.

who ARE these people????

Jimmy Dolan WTH is wrong with you. We should excuse people from their crimes if they have been through difficult circumstances?? The problem with people like you is they see everything in terms of Rep & Dem, not right & wrong.

what if it were your daughter?

Hey Jimmy, how many children have you not really "rape" raped as Whoopie Goldberg puts it? I am stunned by your complicit acceptance of child rape just because Polanski, or Bill Clinton (although Lewinsky was technically an adult, she was his daughters age) or whoever gets caught having his way with a minor, so long as theyre part of your camp you will not only back them up to the bitter end but instead try to spin it as George Bush's fault? Good God, whats wrong with you people?

yes, liberalism is a mental disorder

Anyone that really cares that the Hollywood bunch is standing behind a rapist of a 13 year old girl should boycott the movies that are associated with those supporting Polanski. That's what I am going to do.

Jimmy Dolan can be his "roomie".

I agree with Stan. While it's normally bad to rape a 13 year old, you hate to take into account Polanski's cultural heritage. The entertainment industry is always looser with sex than you rightwing Quakers, so cut him some slack. Also, running from the law for so many years is punishment in itself; especially when you are part of the Hollywood entertainment industry and can't go to Hollywood without some kook throwing you in jail for sex! We need to keep in mind that we need to give artists a little leeway because their thinking is more advanced than typical people and they contribute so much to society.

Birds of a feather, flock together.

Forget about his pregnant wife being murdered by the Manson family, he is a Holocaust Survivor. Who knows what those nazis did to his brain. He is definitely got some trauma issues. Who knows how many criminals got away these 30 years while republicans were hunting down a Holocaust Survivor