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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-21-09 03:18 PM
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11. Ahh, a Polanski defender.
Which film of his made you decide it was ok for him to rape a 13 year-old girl?
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  -Appeals court denies Roman Polanski's bid to throw out sex case Scurrilous  Dec-21-09 01:36 PM   #0 
  - It's a RAPE case, not a sex case  slackmaster   Dec-21-09 01:39 PM   #1 
  - I thought she was a hooker...  WriteDown   Dec-21-09 01:40 PM   #3 
  - I caught that too, disgusting!  Odin2005   Dec-21-09 02:54 PM   #6 
  - NO, it's unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor  tonysam   Dec-21-09 02:56 PM   #7 
  - You're right  leftynyc   Dec-21-09 02:57 PM   #8 
  - Statutory rape is worse than rape? That's ridiculous.  Flaneur   Dec-21-09 03:07 PM   #9 
     - Both involve non-consent  leftynyc   Dec-22-09 04:45 AM   #25 
  - Wrong - Because he dosed her with drugs and alcohol, one of the original charges is rape  slackmaster   Dec-21-09 03:29 PM   #12 
  - Statutory rape is a strict liability crime anyway. Intent (or lack thereof)  blondeatlast   Dec-21-09 09:58 PM   #21 
     - The rape charge has not been dismissed  slackmaster   Dec-22-09 09:35 AM   #27 
  - Did you miss him DRUGGING a 13 year old?  AtheistCrusader   Dec-21-09 05:05 PM   #16 
  - Wrong==look up "strict liability." Oh, hell, here, strict liability defined:  blondeatlast   Dec-21-09 09:53 PM   #18 
  - Isn't that called statutory rape?  JonQ   Dec-21-09 10:14 PM   #22 
  - He was charged with rape and worked out a plea bargain under which the rape charge would be dropped  slackmaster   Dec-22-09 09:36 AM   #28 
  - It was both...  MellowDem   Dec-21-09 10:36 PM   #24 
  - Whoever gave you your legal degree, failed.  boppers   Dec-22-09 04:56 AM   #26 
  - What a strange opinion.  Realityhack   Dec-22-09 01:37 PM   #29 
  - No, it's a sex case  cmkramer   Dec-23-09 11:45 AM   #32 
  - Unanimous?  WriteDown   Dec-21-09 01:39 PM   #2 
  - Wanna get out of it, Polanski?  zbdent   Dec-21-09 01:45 PM   #4 
  - Good!  proteus_lives   Dec-21-09 01:59 PM   #5 
  - I doubt it  tonysam   Dec-21-09 03:13 PM   #10 
     - Ahh, a Polanski defender.  proteus_lives   Dec-21-09 03:18 PM   #11 
        - A bit overboard, aren't you?  Flaneur   Dec-21-09 03:34 PM   #13 
        - Actually, a defender of the Bill of Rights  depakid   Dec-21-09 03:50 PM   #14 
        - Gore Vidal, is that you? nt  WriteDown   Dec-21-09 04:34 PM   #15 
        - Geneva Conventions. Nice job shoe-horning that into the thread.  proteus_lives   Dec-21-09 09:56 PM   #20 
        - Give It A Rest........ (n/t)  Paladin   Dec-21-09 08:13 PM   #17 
        - No.  proteus_lives   Dec-21-09 09:54 PM   #19 
        - I agree. All Polanski did was to anally rape a 13 year old girl  Nye Bevan   Dec-23-09 10:38 AM   #31 
        - That was uncalled for. There was no "Polanski apologism" in that post. -nt  Commie Pinko Dirtbag   Dec-23-09 11:48 AM   #33 
  - Did the court not realize that he's a talented artist?  JonQ   Dec-21-09 10:15 PM   #23 
  - Or that it may have been rape, but it wasn't "rape-rape"  Nye Bevan   Dec-23-09 09:28 AM   #30 
  - The New Yorker has a nicely balanced and nuanced article on this case.  Flaneur   Dec-23-09 12:05 PM   #34 
 

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