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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-12-10 09:41 PM
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113. You might want to check Marcia Clark's interview with David Wells
You'll see that one-sided documentaries are quite often completely full of shit.

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  -Swiss sets Rapist Roman Polanski free itsrobert  Jul-12-10 12:02 PM   #0 
  - I am SO ****ING SICK of hearing celebrities stick up for that guy  Recursion   Jul-12-10 12:04 PM   #1 
  - Classic scene...  KansDem   Jul-12-10 12:29 PM   #16 
  - UH OH  CTyankee   Jul-12-10 12:05 PM   #2 
  - Boycott the Swiss...  Ozymanithrax   Jul-12-10 12:06 PM   #3 
  - Make sure Roman doesn't get to meet Heidi, though...  Ken Burch   Jul-12-10 12:08 PM   #4 
  - And no more of those watches, either!  damntexdem   Jul-12-10 12:16 PM   #8 
  - navy watches?  AnArmyVeteran   Jul-12-10 12:49 PM   #24 
  - I cancelled my 3 week vacation in the Alps  AnArmyVeteran   Jul-12-10 12:53 PM   #26 
  - suurre ya did, uh, me too, yea!! but i was going for a month  crazyjoe   Jul-12-10 06:26 PM   #108 
     - Okay, maybe I'll see you in Aspen instead :)  AnArmyVeteran   Jul-13-10 09:07 AM   #123 
  - LOL  CatWoman   Jul-12-10 01:03 PM   #31 
  - lol..no thanks. Although, I do think the Swiss are po'ed that the Justice dept ro  krabigirl   Jul-12-10 03:23 PM   #91 
  - Im burning my watch!  AnArmyVeteran   Jul-12-10 12:10 PM   #5 
  - In the public square at high noon?  CTyankee   Jul-12-10 12:12 PM   #6 
  - No, in my microwave at 1124 :)  AnArmyVeteran   Jul-12-10 12:20 PM   #10 
  - And shooting more holes in my cheese!  JVS   Jul-12-10 01:53 PM   #66 
     - Better Yet...Plug The Holes  onpatrol98   Jul-13-10 07:47 AM   #118 
  - Strike up the Band!  damntexdem   Jul-12-10 12:14 PM   #7 
  - no more yodeling for me.  Tuesday Afternoon   Jul-12-10 12:18 PM   #9 
  - But could you yodel before? Is it that much of a sacrifice LOL?  AnArmyVeteran   Jul-12-10 12:20 PM   #11 
  - But he's a sophisticated European artist.  Dreamer Tatum   Jul-12-10 12:22 PM   #12 
  - And Americans haven't even arrested their war criminals  malaise   Jul-12-10 12:23 PM   #13 
  - And what's with the Greater Antilles thinking they're better than anybody else?  pinboy3niner   Jul-12-10 02:23 PM   #80 
  - Probably says more about what they think about America than about Polanski.  jobycom   Jul-12-10 12:27 PM   #14 
  - I think the main reason the Swiss dropped the whole thing is that the girl-now-grown-up  SoCalDem   Jul-12-10 12:30 PM   #17 
  - According to Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 12:34 PM   #19 
  - They dropped it because they believe he served his sentence 30 years ago.  jobycom   Jul-12-10 12:56 PM   #27 
  - Really, the US fucked up the first time. They deserve no second chance.  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 01:17 PM   #36 
  - How, precisely, did the US fuck up?  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:31 PM   #44 
     - The fuck up is what occurred in the judge's chambers.  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 01:59 PM   #70 
        - Invisible evidence? n/t  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 02:06 PM   #75 
        - See Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 02:43 PM   #84 
           - I don't use movies to solve legal issues.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 02:51 PM   #85 
           - Switzerland solved the legal issue for both of us.  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 02:55 PM   #86 
           - You might want to check Marcia Clark's interview with David Wells  MajorChode   Jul-12-10 09:41 PM   #113 
        - .  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 02:42 PM   #83 
  - This is a complete and utter fabrication. Polanski had not been  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:28 PM   #41 
  - No it isn't, and you are wrong on what you think you read.  jobycom   Jul-12-10 03:26 PM   #93 
     - The vicitm's attorney doesn't set the sentence. Only a judge does.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 03:43 PM   #96 
  - The judge screwed the pooch under pressure from the media.  old mark   Jul-12-10 01:52 PM   #63 
     - The actual testimony from the plea hearing refutes your post.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:58 PM   #69 
        - Well, I'm refuted again by the sharpies on GD.....nt  old mark   Jul-12-10 02:15 PM   #78 
        - the judge promised Polanski all the time he'd do would be in psychological evaluation.  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 04:28 PM   #99 
           - He, and the judge should have been hung.  The Green Manalishi   Jul-12-10 04:38 PM   #100 
           - Of course, there's no evidence of that promise, is there?  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 05:27 PM   #101 
  - Considering she got a large sum of money  Riftaxe   Jul-12-10 03:29 PM   #94 
     - I know/knew nothing of any money that changed hands  SoCalDem   Jul-12-10 04:10 PM   #97 
        - She sued him civilly, won, and he refused to pay the judgment.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 05:48 PM   #103 
  - Well said.  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 12:32 PM   #18 
  - extremely well said.....  CatWoman   Jul-12-10 01:09 PM   #34 
     - Bewteen you and me...  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 01:36 PM   #49 
        - How about a first chance to punish him?  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:41 PM   #51 
        - They had it and blew it.  BurtWorm   Jul-12-10 02:05 PM   #73 
        - oh  CatWoman   Jul-12-10 01:51 PM   #62 
        - What would happen if Courtney Cox slept with a 13 year old boy?  jobycom   Jul-12-10 03:30 PM   #95 
           - Then Courtney Cox raped a child. Like Roman Polanski did. n/t  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 05:50 PM   #104 
  - where he was raised it's legal to drug and rape minors? who knew...  dionysus   Jul-12-10 12:44 PM   #21 
  - Europe is so much more advanced than us when it comes to child-fucking  Dreamer Tatum   Jul-12-10 12:46 PM   #22 
  - LOL  crazyjoe   Jul-12-10 06:28 PM   #109 
  - Where he was raised a 13 year old could consent to sex with an adult.  jobycom   Jul-12-10 12:58 PM   #29 
     - right, but she didn't consent, even after he drugged her.  dionysus   Jul-12-10 01:07 PM   #33 
     - Prove it.  jobycom   Jul-12-10 01:27 PM   #40 
        - she said no a few times. wtf are we thinking to have a problem with boozin up, druggin and ignoring  seabeyond   Jul-12-10 01:37 PM   #50 
        - Well she was doing drugs and hanging around an older, powerful man - doesn't this mean  uncommon   Jul-12-10 01:41 PM   #52 
        - Or at least different views of rape...  LanternWaste   Jul-12-10 02:11 PM   #77 
        - Twighlight Zone  onpatrol98   Jul-13-10 08:04 AM   #121 
     - In much of the world  uncommon   Jul-12-10 01:30 PM   #43 
     - I never argued that it did or should.  jobycom   Jul-12-10 01:48 PM   #57 
        - You have mentioned the "age of consent" in various countries in which Polanski might have lived or  uncommon   Jul-12-10 02:35 PM   #82 
     - Prove your claim.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:35 PM   # 
        - Read the thread instead of just responding to whatever catches your eye  jobycom   Jul-12-10 01:49 PM   #58 
           - You proved nothing, except your basic ignorance of law and geography.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:52 PM   #64 
  - Raping and sodomizing a 13 year old that you have drugged was not a crime  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 12:47 PM   #23 
  - Nope.  jobycom   Jul-12-10 01:04 PM   #32 
     - I think the mistake was made years ago. He served his time. But  CBGLuthier   Jul-12-10 01:21 PM   #38 
     - He didn't serve any time--he skipped before sentencing.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:33 PM   #46 
     - Kindly cite the law you are referring to, please?  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:23 PM   #39 
     - Ugh, and frankly that kind of coercion  uncommon   Jul-12-10 01:31 PM   #45 
     - I hope you never serve on a jury for a rape trial.  uppityperson   Jul-12-10 01:54 PM   #67 
     - Actually, he is precisely the juror most of my clients would love to have.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 02:00 PM   #71 
     - This post has my vote for the best rape apology yet  MajorChode   Jul-12-10 06:17 PM   #107 
     - Well, if you'd bothered to read the thread instead of pulling shit out of your ass  jobycom   Jul-13-10 05:13 AM   #116 
        - Sweet Jebus, you can't even read your own posts  MajorChode   Jul-13-10 07:06 AM   #117 
     - News Flash  onpatrol98   Jul-13-10 08:15 AM   #122 
        - Each time I read one of these Polanski threads the apologies get more outrageous  MajorChode   Jul-13-10 11:52 AM   #125 
  - i believe even sophisicated europe raping a 13 yr old is a crime. you might want to check on that.  seabeyond   Jul-12-10 12:51 PM   #25 
  - Here's a link:  jobycom   Jul-12-10 01:12 PM   #35 
     - According to the Wiki article you linked yourself:  uncommon   Jul-12-10 01:45 PM   #54 
     - he grew up inPoland  uppityperson   Jul-12-10 02:07 PM   #76 
  - Anally raping a minor wouldn't have been a crine when/where he was born/raised?  uppityperson   Jul-12-10 12:58 PM   #28 
  - Rape of a 13-year-old was legal when and where he was raised?  LostinVA   Jul-12-10 01:01 PM   #30 
  - Again, if it was consentual, it wasn't rape.  jobycom   Jul-12-10 01:21 PM   #37 
     - he didn't rape her in 45 so 13 irrelevant. time of rape was 15 .ergo, not his country either. rape  seabeyond   Jul-12-10 01:35 PM   #48 
     - He wasn't even raised in France, BTW.....  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:42 PM   #53 
     - It's also irrelevant where he grew up - a crime is judged in the place in which  uncommon   Jul-12-10 01:46 PM   #55 
        - Completely irrelevant--but interesting that pre-war Poland sex crimes should be  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 01:50 PM   #60 
     - Are you deliberately pretending not to understand what I said, or are you genuinely missing it?  jobycom   Jul-12-10 01:47 PM   #56 
        - YOU brought up the argument rape of a 13 year old accepted in the country he was raised. I called BS  seabeyond   Jul-12-10 01:53 PM   #65 
        - no i- it;s just we all know better than you that pre 1945 law is totally fucking irrelevant  bettyellen   Jul-12-10 06:12 PM   #106 
     - He drugged her and raped her after she asked to go home  LostinVA   Jul-12-10 01:51 PM   #61 
        - she only said no a couple times, before resigning self to rape and just waiting for him to get done  seabeyond   Jul-12-10 01:54 PM   #68 
           - exactly. And of course a 13 yr old can consent to taking ludes and alcohol also.  uppityperson   Jul-12-10 02:04 PM   #72 
           - I remember a few months ago posters saying she was a prostitute  LostinVA   Jul-12-10 02:05 PM   #74 
              - Um, duh, you can't rape a prostitute.  uncommon   Jul-12-10 02:33 PM   #81 
                 - what is really appalling is she is 13. he is 46. she is a kid. he is powerful. people argue level  seabeyond   Jul-12-10 03:11 PM   #88 
                    - Well, those precocious little girls - they are always out for sex. I know at 13 I knew exactly what  uncommon   Jul-12-10 03:24 PM   #92 
  - The "perception of the world" is not a yardstick by which  uncommon   Jul-12-10 01:29 PM   #42 
  - ITA.  krabigirl   Jul-12-10 03:23 PM   #90 
  - "To the world, we are backwards and barbarian"  proteus_lives   Jul-12-10 07:01 PM   #112 
  - ???  onpatrol98   Jul-13-10 07:52 AM   #119 
  - Um, didn't you get the memo?  uncommon   Jul-12-10 12:29 PM   #15 
  - Okay, now let's get the Swiss to "set free" the 52,000 names of American tax cheats...  KansDem   Jul-12-10 12:40 PM   #20 
  - And we set Dick Cheney, George Bush and a whole host of  sabrina 1   Jul-12-10 01:34 PM   #47 
  - Oh, he WILL  LiberalEsto   Jul-12-10 01:49 PM   #59 
  - Right back Atcha  RedstDem   Jul-12-10 02:21 PM   #79 
  - why did the U.S. courts refuse to provide the requested information?  Greyhound   Jul-12-10 03:05 PM   #87 
  - He served his time and even his victim said he has atoned for it.  krabigirl   Jul-12-10 03:22 PM   #89 
  - He didn't serve any time--he fled before sentencing.  msanthrope   Jul-12-10 05:30 PM   #102 
  - He didn't serve time, and the victim has no legal standing concerning this  LostinVA   Jul-13-10 07:58 AM   #120 
  - I'm smashing my watch and no more chocolate or cheese EVER!!!!1  Bluebear   Jul-12-10 04:11 PM   #98 
  - can't give up cheese dude, it's the best stuff on earth.  dionysus   Jul-12-10 06:53 PM   #110 
  - He has money...  Hubert Flottz   Jul-12-10 05:57 PM   #105 
  - I agree! Fuck the Swiss and fuck Polanski!  proteus_lives   Jul-12-10 07:00 PM   #111 
  - he Might Like That  Dinger   Jul-12-10 10:47 PM   #115 
  - Ditto! FUCK THE SWISS!!!  Odin2005   Jul-12-10 10:43 PM   #114 
  - She was 13 and drunk! If he had been "Father Polanski" the same celebrities would castrate him!  DailyGrind51   Jul-13-10 09:57 AM   #124 
 

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