Showtime Acquires Docu ‘Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out’

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• Roman Polanski raped a child, a 14-year-old girl. His defenders and enablers say it was “only” statuary rape and entirely consensual–as if that provided even the slightest whiff of moral justification; as if a 14-year-old can even give legal consent to sex with an adult under California law. But it’s even worse than all that: According to the contemporaneous testimony of the minor child involved, the sex with Polanski wasn’t consensual at all; she testified that she asked Polanski to stop and that he did not. (Don’t take my word for this, check out the case file.) So what we now have, all these many years later, is a fascinating bit of hypocrisy: At a time when many in Hollywood are quite properly criticizing Republican senatorial candidates for insensitive comments about rape, we have an actual rapist–the rapist of a child–who has for some reason earned the support and sympathy of many of those same Hollywood types….because he is “an artist” and “has suffered enough” and it was all “so very long ago.” This moral blindness in an outrage. Roman Polanski raped a child. He should be in jail, not living in luxury in Europe. His film career should be over, not thriving. Shame on anyone who gives him cover. He raped a child.

  Comment by Francis — Thursday November 1, 2012 @ 2:13pm PDT  Reply to this post