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Picture it. Sicily, 1959...
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Pacino was a hustler? No way!
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Please stop making sex tapes.
Love,
Me
10/12/09
If Kate wants full custody, this may be all the court needs to hear.
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09/27/09
That anyone had the gall to defend the drugging and rape of a person (a child!) is unbelievable. I shudder to think about it--seriously, wtf is WRONG with people that they can lionize him (not simply pardon or ignore, but celebrate him) as a martyr of the coarse, moralistic U.S., and rationalize an act of violence? What does it say about their cultural views of children or sexual assault?
I can understand sympathy for Polanski and repudiation of the U.S. when the judge for reneged. (Although Jesus, a year and a half sentence for the crime Polanski committed? Ridiculous...if Philip Garrido teaches us anything, it seems that even as recently as ten years ago our sentencing practices for the minority of rapists we actually detect and convict is half assed....even if there's evidence that, like Garrido, these are serial offenders we're dealing with. I know it was Polanski's first offense and he pled to a lesser crime to avoid a trial, but the lenient sentencing of the past still makes my skin crawl, to consider one big way liberalism went wrong when it came to public safety or protection of citizens. Not that I think we're doing much better today or that longer/mandatory sentencing necessarily leads to justice or real crime prevention now....)
I can understand him running--how many people here can honestly say they wouldn't do everything they can to avoid prison, even if they feel genuine guilt (which he did not)? Who wants to atone by being locked up? Polanski and those who commit violent crimes and run are not acting in the interests of a frightened or angry public, they're acting in self-interest. I don't like it, but I definitely understand it. If I was a rapist, I'd try to escape caputure and imprisonment too.
Given that his victim says she no longer wants any role in legal dealings with him, that's the main I care about this worm....that he is (was?) free to hurt someone else if he so chooses.
I feel very, very sorry for his children, if not for him.
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09/28/09
And his lawyers HAVE trotted double jeopardy out, which seems to be where things have gotten so many of us confused.
09/28/09
It's true, as MeganGlass points out, "missing the point" is a Jezebel tradition, and I'm very happy to see it continued into the late aughties!
Mazel Tov! And congrats!
09/28/09
Dude, I'm sorry you're missing the point. There's a missing comment in there somewhere, but thanks for being such a #$%^! about it. Congrats!
09/27/09
I don't care what Polanski or any other rapist or child abuser has experienced - they are NOT excused.
I can see how tragedy might lead to bad decisions but its up to individuals to make good choices, to not break the law, and to end cycles of abuse. And people can break the cycle of abuse.
Again, an abuser is NEVER excused from their violent, criminal actions because of anything that happened in their past.
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