Roman Polanski is not above the law
I'm so furious about this Roman Polanski affair that I simply must comment on it. Perhaps I am ignorant as I had no idea about these statutory rape charges against him, but I am glad I do know now. And I'm shocked to see what an elitist morally-perversed bunch these Hollywood people are, who think he should walk free just because he is Roman Polanski.
The whole issue to me is not even that he had sex with a minor, but that he drugged her and raped her several times. It's not just a bad moral call on his part, but a clearly criminal act, which he must have known when he was doing it. He then got caught, admitted what he had done and ran. Why would he deserve any lesser sentence now after all these years on the run than he would have deserved back then in 1977?
I am so shocked that these celebrities (who are in my opinion supposed to set an example, because they are idols to many people) are taking a clearly questionable moral stand by signing a petition calling for the release of Roman Polanski. Whoopi Goldberg has apparently said that she does not think it was a rape-rape. Yeah... if it was just inappropriate touching and some nude photos instead of a rape-rape, then it must not be wrong, right? He has confessed to all the awful details! What is there to question, Whoopi? He has confessed and never received his sentence because he was a coward rich man who had the possibility to run and he chose to take it, instead of taking responsibility of his acts. Now it's coming back to bite him and all of you two-faced saviours of the world are flocking around him and telling him and the world that it's okay to molest children if you are rich enough to escape or buy your way out of the mess. You pretend to be all righteous and donate money to different kinds of charities and judge the real criminals and when one of your own is charged with a horrible criminal offense, your moral standards suddenly change. That is a double-standard.
There are several of my favorite film directors on that petition list and I'm shocked and saddened to see their names there. I don't care how beautiful and touching films you make from this point on, they won't make it on my shelf. Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen, Darren Aronofsky, Alfonso Cuaron, Costa Gavras, Terry Gilliam, Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu, Wong Kar Wai, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Michael Mann, Walter Salles, Martin Scorcese, Wim Wenders among many others... shame on you. You disgust me.
The whole issue to me is not even that he had sex with a minor, but that he drugged her and raped her several times. It's not just a bad moral call on his part, but a clearly criminal act, which he must have known when he was doing it. He then got caught, admitted what he had done and ran. Why would he deserve any lesser sentence now after all these years on the run than he would have deserved back then in 1977?
I am so shocked that these celebrities (who are in my opinion supposed to set an example, because they are idols to many people) are taking a clearly questionable moral stand by signing a petition calling for the release of Roman Polanski. Whoopi Goldberg has apparently said that she does not think it was a rape-rape. Yeah... if it was just inappropriate touching and some nude photos instead of a rape-rape, then it must not be wrong, right? He has confessed to all the awful details! What is there to question, Whoopi? He has confessed and never received his sentence because he was a coward rich man who had the possibility to run and he chose to take it, instead of taking responsibility of his acts. Now it's coming back to bite him and all of you two-faced saviours of the world are flocking around him and telling him and the world that it's okay to molest children if you are rich enough to escape or buy your way out of the mess. You pretend to be all righteous and donate money to different kinds of charities and judge the real criminals and when one of your own is charged with a horrible criminal offense, your moral standards suddenly change. That is a double-standard.
There are several of my favorite film directors on that petition list and I'm shocked and saddened to see their names there. I don't care how beautiful and touching films you make from this point on, they won't make it on my shelf. Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen, Darren Aronofsky, Alfonso Cuaron, Costa Gavras, Terry Gilliam, Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu, Wong Kar Wai, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Michael Mann, Walter Salles, Martin Scorcese, Wim Wenders among many others... shame on you. You disgust me.