Celebrities belong to a different class of people, they are not subject to normal petty laws short of perhaps murder. Even then, you often see the accused, and the fans of the accused, twist facts to the breaking point to portray any prosecution as persecution.
Even when the bastard pleads guilty.
In the case of Roman Polanski, there’s no question of the facts. He drugged a 13 year old girl and anally raped her over her protests. When everyone says Polanski is fleeing a statutory rape charge, it its because that’s what he plead guilty to in very favorable plea bargain. Then, when it seemed that the Judge wouldn’t accept the plea bargain, he fled the country.
But, in the eyes of a lot of celebrities, Polanski deserves special treatment, and are actually appalled that he may now be extradited as if he was (gasp) some sort of fugitive rapist. That fact alone is stomach-churning.
But I have a special asshat right here for Whoopi Goldberg:
It wasn’t rape-rape.
The woman actually said that.
It wasn’t rape-rape. Whoopi? Rape-rape? You talk about not having the facts, here are some facts for you. The victim may have forgiven the guy (and can you blame her for wanting to get on with her life?) but she’s never recanted, and the facts of her testimony were never in dispute. The assertion that this was not really rape is appalling, and exposes a moral ugliness in celebrity culture that, in this particular case, has crossed the line into evil.
Oh yeah, you’re right, other countries do see rape of 13-year-olds differently than us, if by “us” you mean the little celebutard bubble you live in. These asshats are the public face of America folks, which is why electing Obama didn’t stop anyone from wanting to bomb the crap out of us.
UPDATE: OMG WTF? From the LA Times, these words actually left the mouth of an actual real person:
In an interview, Weinstein said that people generally misunderstand what happened to Polanski at sentencing. He’s not convinced public opinion is running against the filmmaker and dismisses the categorization of Hollywood as amoral. “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,” Weinstein said. “We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe.”
Well slap me with JLo’s adopted baby and call me Bono, of course they can absolve Polanski, because they’re so much more compassionate than anyone else. The sad thing is, the fucktards really believe that.
3 Comments
Steve Buchheit · October 1, 2009 at 9:09 am
Yep, even after all the wonderful fun we went through in the 80s as sexual abuse was drug into the open, and then the late 90s with the Catholic scandals, we still have a cultural problem with this concept.
As I’ve said elsewhere, even if a US Judge says, “Time served” for the original crime, there’s still the matter of fleeing. That adds several years to most people’s sentences.
So here’s to his extradition and his going to jail. At least he fled after the conviction/plea deal. If had fled before then, we would be discussing statute of limitations issues.
(although your last line is a bit of a logic jump)
S Andrew Swann · October 1, 2009 at 9:54 am
I’ll cop to the last line being a cheap shot, but its not an unreasonable one. The USA is an invasive creature in an infinite number of ways that piss off a lot of people just as much as our military projection. Celebrity is our most potent cultural export, and one of the prime reasons that a lot of the world sees us as boorish and morally bankrupt.
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