redshift1 wrote:
What is the purpose except revenge and lots of publicity for office minded prosecutors.
Have you ever heard of a word called "justice"?
The liberal mind never ceases to amaze me. All kinds of excuses, is was sooo long ago, the victim wishes to move on now, he's already paid a price by having to live in France and Switzerland all these years. Let's just let the old man die in peace and move on.
If it was your daughter I would hope you would feel differently.
Did anyone else notice that this is a terrible usage of the phrase "let sleeping dogs lie"? I mean, what kind of retribution are we facing if we wake the "sleeping dog" here? Answer that OP! Personally I'd rather let bygones be bygones.
Hey I hate LC
He raped a young child. You got that? "let bygones be bygones"? So if your child raped and buried alive in grave - buried alive - and that person who raped and buried your child alive ... ten years later is apprehended you okay with him getting off because we will let "bygones be bygone"? Are you that callous? That uncaring of your child? Wow
Not that I disagree with you, but why add the "buried alive" thing? Doesn't really strengthen the argument.
You have no clue into the concept of justice. What you and your bloodthirsty brethren seek is really vengeance.
it doesn't - I just get so vehement in how his prosecution should continue despite the time lapse
I really don't understand how anyone can cut slack for child rapist just because "been a long time"
On a similar note, why the hell is there a statute of limitations on rape cases in many states?
Barnacle Betty wrote:
Hey I hate LC
He raped a young child. You got that? "let bygones be bygones"? So if your child raped and buried alive in grave - buried alive - and that person who raped and buried your child alive ... ten years later is apprehended you okay with him getting off because we will let "bygones be bygone"? Are you that callous? That uncaring of your child? Wow
All I wanted to do here was be a dick and play grammar/phrase police. My last sentence was meant to be a suggestion for a proper thread title. Sorry for the confusion.
It's interesting though that you felt the need to assault me with your post. I didn't deserve that as I had no intention of contributing to this debate whatsoever. It's almost as if you "raped" me mentally, stole my innocence, and left me buried alive - buried alive- (I have to deal with this abuse for the rest of my life you know). The tables have turned, sir!
Hang him!
r.t.i. wrote:
You have no clue into the concept of justice.
And you base this on????
What liberals seem to have no concept of is right and wrong.
It is wrong to drug and rape a 13 year old period. Whether 3 days or 30 years have passed is irrelevant into the crime this disgusting excuse for a human being committed.
If Polanski wasn't a famous director there would be a fraction of the support for him. I don't know how much time he should serve, but he should come back and face justice. If it is decided he's done enough fine, but no one should just be able to skip out on their sentence and then get off without ever having to answer to anyone.
I'll answer your question by asking you this question, what if it were your daughter?
canspo wrote:
If Polanski wasn't a famous director there would be a fraction of the support for him.
Probably. Celebrities usually get special treatment. Though, you could probably find someone that Krakow plus his pregnant wife's murder detatched him from the consequences of his actions. I'm not saying that I think he's not culpable, but I think that it wouldn't be the run of the mill case, either.
Then you have the judge receiving coaching from the prosecutor, which is a whole other issue all together. I wouldn't be surprised if he the case were dismissed on that alone.
ciego no más wrote:
He's not Gary Glitter. Could you show me something that suggests that he's a danger to society?
How about that he drugged and raped a 13 year old?
King Author wrote:
Yeah I guess he's a bad guy and all, but he doesn't even live here. How many millions of dollars is California going to spend to bring him back here to lock him up here? Why is this our problem and not Switzerland's or France's or anyone else's. Arrest him if he enters the country, otherwise he's someone else's problem.
Because he committed the crime in America against an American citizen. What jurisdiction does Switzerland have over that? The Swiss are simply honoring the extradition request per their interpretation of international law and their obligations therein. Unlike the French, who seem to look the other way when the accused is a world famous artist. Believe me, if Roman Polanski was a two-bit nobody from Alabama, the French would have extradited him long ago.
If anyone thinks Polanski should be not prosecuted, please read Eugene Robinson's column in today's Washington Post. Eugene Robinson is uber liberal, but he makes a compelling case for why Polanski should do some time for his crime.
He won't spend any time in jail. This will cost the state of California millions of dollars and probably get dragged on endlessly. And for what? Justice will NEVER be served. He would have had to spend years of his (relative) youth in jail, at worst he now gets a couple years at the end of his life in a minimum security white collar prison.
I think he should pay the price, but the big story here IMO is what a ****ing p**** he was to run away like that for long. He would have spent at most two months in jail, protected from the general population I'm sure, and instead he has spent DECADES fleeing the system, a total coward. And I can't believe other filmmakers defend someone who would just flee from the justice system like that.
Any crime should be dealt with appropriately, but I can understand a Holocaust survivor's added aversion to incarceration. He shouldn't have fled, but I can understand why he did.
Rich people don't go to jail.
i dont think he rape her...some little skanks 13 year olds look like there 18-20, ialmost did a 16 year old at a party...thanfully...my bro stop me and but sadly my hurted in the morning...weird...it smell like bacon...and i she was like taste the rainbow....babe?