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onpatrol98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-10 07:52 AM
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Quote: "Also, remember that the perception of the rest of the world is that Polanksi seduced a 13 year old Lolita, not that he drugged and raped a child, and even the victim seems to hint at that interpretation with her claims that Polanski has been punished enough and the issue needs to be dropped. The world sees the arrest and attempted extradition as a publicity-grabbing move on our part."

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It's a good thing I can think for myself...otherwise, I'd care what the rest of the world thinks about this incident. I have no doubt real parents wherever they exist feel happier when people who think 13 year olds are appropriate sexual partners are incarcerated.
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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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