The Polanski sexual abuse case is one of those things I have heard about over the years, but never bothered to read up on, mostly because it seems disgusting (not something I really want to dwell on).
Reading the facts presented on Wikipedia makes my stomach turn. I can’t imagine a 43 year old man ever wanting to do what the article describes.
Just absolutely disgusting.
How long have the facts of this been out? For instance, would Holywood have known the details back in the days before the internet?
I couldn’t imagine reading the details and then wanting to have anything to do with the guy, even acting in one of his films.
As far as extraditing him back to the US goes, I really don’t know. In my open, he never served his sentence.
The facts have been out there pretty much since the beginning. Geimer’s family reported the incident to the police when it happened and Polanski was arrested and charged.
Polanski has admitted he had sex with Geimer (and has admitted he has had sex with other teenage girls). But he denies it was rape. He says it was consensual sex and there were no drugs involved.
Geimer has also stood by her story throughout the years. She testified at the time that she was drugged and told Polanski no. And she stills says this even though she now says she doesn’t think Polanski deserves to go to prison.
An update: the Polish court has adjourned to review documents received from the Swiss court which heard the US extradition request against Polanski some years ago: New effort to get Polanski stalls.
That is a dumb title to the second article. Not that I would expect more from The Guardian. When you use a drug to incapacitate someone in order to rape them it is not statutory rape, it’s rape rape.
Should he serve his time? Absolutely. Should the matter be dropped? Probably. The victim has no interest in it, and from interviews I’ve read, she wants it to be forgotten.
By that “reasoning”, any criminal whose victims suffer from Stockholm Syndrome should avoid punishment.
Perhaps I’m being excessive here, but it would certainly be nice if Polanski would somehow be tricked into going to a country where drone strikes by the CIA were acceptable and the President were to take care of him by that device. Certainly would be a nice thumb in the eyes of the Hollywoodrati and if played right would increase support for the party in the right areas.
I missed this one before. But it’s just proof that Goldberg is often an idiot.
Polanski wasn’t convicted of rape because he was having consensual sex with an underage girl. He was convicted of rape because he forced a woman to have sex when she was telling him no. It doesn’t matter if the victim is thirteen or thirty; that’s “rape-rape”.
So for this 40 year old crime, which the victim no longer wants pursued and as a result of which has probably lived a considerably more comfortable life financially than she would have otherwise, which originally carried only a $2,500 bond and brief negotiated sentence (albeit about to be renegade on) of time served in Chino, you would choose to have the President of the USA employ the CIA to assassinate him in a foreign country?
I hope I made it clear I wasn’t being serious but nonetheless:
'70s rape is still rape. We still (rightly) prosecute and deport concentration camp guards in their 90s-the same principle applies here.
The justice system isn’t about the victim’s whims, its about whether the laws were broken.
The same could be said for Otto Frank.
Ofc, the sentence needs to be extended as befits a civilized state especially considering his defiance of the law and his fame.
I suppose its in the low hundreds in my government priorities list, but certainly it’d be a far less offensive thing for the Obama administration to do then for example its current budget deal which has the potential to kick off many thousands of people from Social Security.
At this point, Polanski is wanted for the original crime of drugging a minor and raping her. He’s also wanted for the additional crime of taking it on the lam. I don’t approve of CIA assassinations but I think it’s appropriate to use all legal methods to pursue him.