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Against the tide

Roman Polanski's poetic justice

Posted by: Rhonda Robinson

Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:59 PM

At first, I just wrote-off the Roman Polanski ordeal, along the Hollywood nuts that support him as standard-Hollywood insanity; until Whoopi Goldberg said, “I know it wasn’t rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape-rape.” So, I did some checking and found she was almost right. It wasn’t rape-rape; it was worse.

He repeatedly sexually assaulted, sodomized, and photographed a 13 year-old girl after subduing her with champagne and Quaalude.

After spending just 42 days in prison under psychiatric evaluation in 1978, he fled the country the eve of his sentencing when he heard the judge wanted to give him 48 more days. So the coward ran.

Polanski went to France to live a life of luxury. He went on to make films and win awards. He traveled between France and his home, a ski chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland.

Then, on September 26, 2009 at the request of U.S. authorities, he was arrested by Swiss police at the Zurich Airport.

Ironically, he was traveling to Switzerland to accept a lifetime achievement “Golden Icon Award” at the Zurich Film Festival. Poetic justice, I say. Nabbed, and thrown in jail for the life time achievement of extreme cowardice, and predatory rape.

Polanski originally ran because the judge was still going to give him another 48 days in prison. The fact that he could have only spent 90 days in prison for raping a child is inconceivable. However, justice may prevail after all when you consider judges aren’t so light on child molesters these days, as a bonus he would be branded a sex-offender for the rest of his life. Then there are the added charges for running. Let’s send him back to France with a scarlet “S” on his forehead—after he serves his time here in prison.

The film industry has shown their arrogance in full array. At last check 138 people in the industry have signed a petition demanding Polanski’s release; yes—“demanding.”

“We demand the immediate release of Roman Polanski” they say. “Film-makers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision… It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary film-makers, is used by police to apprehend him.”

Their delusions of right and wrong what constitutes greatness, and to who and what they “pay homage” to is astonishing.

Which do you think is more audacious? That because they are film-makers, and they believe his work as a film-maker is so wonderful, it gives him a seat above the law to bask in his own glory? Or that being film-makers can demand anything of U.S. authorities…including the release of a captured fugitive.

Who knows what Whoopi’s definition of rape is. Obviously there too many in that industry who are so wrapped up in their own self-gratification that they can’t see the rape of a child as more tragic than being arrested on the way to receive an award.

In interest of presenting the full story, we have to note that the victim has publicly “forgiven” him. That merely states more about her, than it does him. It in no way releases a criminal from his sentence.

Comedian George Carlin had a routine that said there should be a law that “stupid people” should have to wear an “I’m stupid” sign around their necks. That way, the rest of us could identify them. We could see them coming and would not try to depend on them, and we could avoid them and spare ourselves.

Thank you Woody Allen, Debra Winger and so many others in the film industry for making and signing your own “stupid” sign. We hope you continue to wear it so the rest of us will see you coming, and can avoid anything with your name on it.