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Liberal Catholics Blast Roman Polanski's Lefty Defenders: What if He Were a Priest?

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I have to laugh whenever I see bigots such as yourself, Danny boyo, make snide remarks about catholics. Howsomever, what else can come out of the mouth of a wingnut Lefty Loon, but to disparrage people who make a fair and honest statement concerning that low life Polanski, will drive you Lefty Loons bonkers. What I read from those hypocrite catholics was simple truth. Polanski should get no pass, and if catholics tried to pull the Lefty Loons trick on a pervert priest all Hell would breakout. Something like the airhead president Obama. He nmakes more airhead remarks against his opposition than Carter has little Pills. No lefty loon will comment about his blatant hypocracy. Nor do you complain when the nimrod president gets caught in lies, or does the very thing that he, and you wingnuts ridiculed President Bush for. 2010 I hope will end on an up by getting the democRats whittled down to size and lose the control of Congress. I also am hoping that the Republicans get a vetoproof majority and pull the old simple majority routine on the surving democRats while undoing the damage they and their airhead leaders have done to this nation. Just my opinion. If you don't like it and feel the need to hammer me into the ground. Go ahead. In the words of that Great American Archie Bunker......I don't care!

Bob Dobbins (BD of MASSACHUSETTS) of MA 2:21AM May 05, 2010

It's a lot about "wink wink"...
As any professional group international "Hollywood" has it's own good ole' boy fraternity so it's kinda difficult for the American side of Hollywood to get too worked up over what is to them traditional "get a pass" behavior of adult male actors, directors & producers with underage (age 18 in California) girls... Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, Elvis Presley, and the casting couch system of female actress wannabes including 16 & 17 year old high school dropouts and senior hi grads anybody?
On the European side you have this fondness with Polanski's fellow contemporary French & Spanish etc. film directors of the 70's & 80's with producing R rated sexually oriented fare where the middle aged male lead has as his main love interest pursuit a teenage school girl.
Add to the fact that they routinely produce films featuring middle aged males in sexual situations with under 18 minor actresses & actors (The Godfather, Blame It On Rio, The Name of the Rose, Pretty Baby, The Tin Drum to name a handful of many, many others). Qualudes aside, for a 13 year old who had previously engaged in intercourse a couple of times earlier in life, drinking alcohol & getting naked in a hot tub of swingin' actors for sex in most all of the Continental European countries (predominantly culturally Catholic) is/was legal, or within a year or two of being legal so they actually believe it was nothing worthy of a "lynching".

aj of OH 1:49AM October 14, 2009

Too much wingnuttery and “he said - she said” going on in this case with Polanski downplaying it as nothing and the barely “victim” exaggerating the incident.
Polanski didn’t spike her drink with knock out animal tranquilizer - she willingly ingested illegal illicit substances over a period of time to get impaired. Takes more than a sip or two under “non"peer pressure to get impaired.
What was she already doing in a hot tub unclothed to begin with to even enable vaginal intercourse and anal sodomy at the home of an actor legendary for relationships with women young enough to be his daughter or grandaughter? Hardly pedophilia, if contemporary photos are any indication of her appearance at the time - typical of a cute student entering her freshmen year of college - quite post-pubertal.
He went farther during their make-out session than she would have wanted and verbally indicated and wingnuttery California’s greatest weapon in the case was their Puritan 19th Century statute making all oral sex and all anal sex between husband and wife a felony punished by years of imprisonment (and everybody else beside husband and wife for that matter).
The truth of this case is unquestionably in the middle. Catholic priests & parishes settle financially and Civily (as Polanski already had with the said victim) for far greater offenses.
O.K. so the French and Europeans have a different view than 1970’s California the first main historical State cultural victory of the Social Purity/Christian Women’s Temperance Movement setting the cultural-political agenda in late 19th Century California.
Continental Europe (France & Poland included): Founded upon the religion of Christendom which is founded upon her eternal “Father” impregnating - “come upon you” (I am not making this up!) a Jewish 12 year old named Mary and giving her to a 30 something year old man named Joseph to sleep naked with and boink at least a Quicky on the wedding night to be fully legally married according to Judaism.
There’s part of your explanation for lax historic attitudes.
As the U.S. Supreme Court has declared the designation of Sodomy et. al to be unconstitutional as a criminal charge and California no longer recognises the existence of such - I am assuming it could be some sort of “double jeopardy” to retry Polanski on a charge of unspecified sexual imposition of a minor… as the crime of sodomy has no "heretofore" alleged existence in California... as in erased from Legal memory.

Andreas of OH 8:45PM October 08, 2009

Have you seen the list of signatories to the petion supporting Polanski? I recognized all of three or four names. The rest were europeans, not "Hollywood liberals." Put Polanski in jail! But don't allow the Right-wingnuts to blame liberals for supporting him.

ml of NC 5:22PM October 04, 2009

My "tiny mind"? I note that I have seen nothing from the militant fems on either cable or mainstream regarding official condemnation of Polanski. Further, militant fems did give Kennedy and Clinton a pass - and Kennedy even had a body in his back seat.
My "tiny mind"? Yours must be infinitesimal. I just love getting catty with a rad-fem. We must do this again.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 2:25PM October 01, 2009

"Nor is it surprising that militant leftist feminists - who would slap a man with a sexual assault charge if he so much as kissed a woman if she turned her head away - have nothing to say about a fellow lefty raping and sodomizing a 13 year old girl after he provided her with booze and drugs. Ah...militant feminism - they gave Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy a pass too. It seems as long as you support the killing of the unborn you can do pretty much what you please."
Sorry, which feminists are you referring to? All the ones I know (which is a lot) are pretty upset about people defending Polanski. Which you'd discover if you did a bit of research. Maybe just try searching for a feminist blog if that's not beyond your tiny mind? Check out what renowned feminist Kate Harding has to say on Salon. As a starting point. If you can manage that in between hating women and hating women.

Sarah of TX 1:35PM October 01, 2009

That the Hollywood left has circled the wagons around one of their own - though he be a child rapist.
Nor is it surprising that militant leftist feminists - who would slap a man with a sexual assault charge if he so much as kissed a woman if she turned her head away - have nothing to say about a fellow lefty raping and sodomizing a 13 year old girl after he provided her with booze and drugs. Ah...militant feminism - they gave Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy a pass too. It seems as long as you support the killing of the unborn you can do pretty much what you please.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 10:40PM September 30, 2009

Yes, he drugged and repeatedly raped a 13-year-old girl, pled guilty, and fled prior to sentencing. It's also true that some attorney from the LA DA's office, who was not assigned to the case, engaged in an illegal and unethical ex-parte discussion with the judge in an attempt to thwart the plea bargain.
Polanski may be a great film director -- so what? Al Capone set up soup kitchens in Chicago during the Great Depression -- did that make him any less a murderous thug?
Having pled guilty and the original judge having since died (or retired, I forget which), it's time for Polanski to return and face justice. No doubt Polanski's virtues (if he has any) would be taken into consideration when sentencing is rendered. But, in spite of what they may think, and at times get away with, elites are not exempt from the rule of law.
As my grandmother used to say, "Nothing improves the moral climate of a town like the occasional public hanging." LA is waaay overdue.

James of CA 6:21PM September 29, 2009

was not this girl drugged? this makes the crime even more heinous.

j. connell of NJ 5:22PM September 29, 2009

You call out Polanski's "lefty defenders" without a shred of evidence that there is anything left-wing about them, other than that they work in Hollywood. Then you call them the left's honchos, without a shred of evidence that they have any significant influence on liberals or progressives today.
Prove your points!

pastordan of WI 12:22PM September 29, 2009