Hollywood Backing Roman Polanski...

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

There are times when you have to consider the welfare of the individual over retribution, or demonstrative justice by The State.

If you'll stop the pile-on for 10 seconds to re-read my original post on the subject, you'll see that I "question" the automatic assumption that he should be brought back to face his sentence, in this specific instance.

When someone who fled American jurisdiction to escape prosecution or sentencing is captured in a country with which America has an extradition treaty I would hope there is an automatic assumption they be brought back. It is not the State Department's job to decide outcomes for criminals. That job is for the courts.

[Smittie61984]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

There are times when you have to consider the welfare of the individual over retribution, or demonstrative justice by The State.

The United States is a nation of law. Not a nation of emotion. He broke the law and was caught. He should be sent back and tried for both the child molestation or "rape" (not rape-rape). And even if found innocent of the rape charges he should be charged for fleeing.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Smittie61984

The United States is a nation of law. Not a nation of emotion. He broke the law and was caught. He should be sent back and tried for both the child molestation or "rape" (not rape-rape). And even if found innocent of the rape charges he should be charged for fleeing.

He was already tried and found guilty. Well, technically plead guilty, but it's still a trial.

[fnfalman]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

I don't see re-victimizing the victim as being inconsequential, in a case this old.

Oh well, since that it's been only thirty years, a child fucking rapist should get an easy off because heaven forbids, it wouldn't do to bring unpleasant experiences to the victim again.

Maybe I should go on a killing/raping rampage myself and then go to bum freak non-extradition country for the next thirty years and then expect to be forgiven because the case would be "so old" by then.

[karl_1052]

Originally Posted by 101lifts2

The list of supporters giving Polanski their impassioned support read like a Who's Who of the cream of the movie-making world. It included, among many others, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Harvey Weinstein, Pedro Almodóvar and Ethan Coen.

didn't woody allen marry his 16 year old adopted daughter? Of course he is going to support this shit.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by karl_1052

didn't woody allen marry his 16 year old adopted daughter? Of course he is going to support this shit.

Top notch Hollywood class.

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by karl_1052

didn't woody allen marry his 16 year old adopted daughter? Of course he is going to support this shit.

"He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law.

Ronan Seamus Farrow

[goof2]

Originally Posted by 101lifts2

The list of supporters giving Polanski their impassioned support read like a Who's Who of the cream of the movie-making world. It included, among many others, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Harvey Weinstein, Pedro Almodóvar and Ethan Coen.

I shouldn't, but whenever I see celebrities supporting a criminal it makes me think of the Norman Mailer/Jack Henry Abbott disaster. I don't think much of the opinions of most celebrities.

[z06boy]

Originally Posted by goof2

I don't think much of the opinions of most celebrities.

Me either

[Papa_Complex]

And he should have been extradited back then, but he wasn't. Whose fault was that; the victim's?

Hell, this case dates back to when I was in high school.