Sounds like a job for FAG!
Posted on 09/28/2009 6:28:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There's a side of America that scares Frenchmen, French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand was quoted by Time magazine Paris-based writer Bruce Crumley, and it's the side of American determination that doesn't let a 32-year-old rape case die, even if the perpetrator is an elderly survivor of the Holocaust.
Seeking to explain the "cultural divide" that's as "wide as the Atlantic" between America and Europe, Crumley noted that Europeans are "shocked and dismayed that an internationally acclaimed artist" such as Roman Polanski "could be jailed for such an old offense."
Of course, at no point did Crumley cite any public opinion polls with empirical data to back up his argument about the U.S.-European cultural divide on pursuing fugitives who jump bail after drugging and anally raping 13-year-old girls.
No, instead, Crumley turned to an American author (and journalist) living in France to bolster his argument about European sentiment on Polanski:
"The French view Polanski as an artist and celebrity and feel he deserves a different kind of treatment than ordinary people, which just isn't an option in the U.S.," says Ted Stanger, an author and longtime resident of France who has written extensively on the differing public views and attitudes across the Atlantic. "The French in particular, and Europeans in general, don't understand why it isn't possible for American officials to intervene and say, 'Hey, it's been over 30 years and things look a little different now. Let's just forget this thing.'"
Of course Crumley failed to mention Stanger is a journalist who has worked for Newsweek and UPI:
Stanger lives in Paris now, but he grew up in Ohio and after finishing his high school degree there spent four years at Princeton University where he earned a BA in English literature.
He began as a reporter for United Press International's Paris bureau and then worked for the Miami Herald, a Florida daily newspaper.
As of 1981, he became bureau chief for Newsweek magazine serving in four locations: Bonn, Rome, Jerusalem and finally Paris.
Could it be that the circles Stanger and Crumley run in -- the liberal intelligentsia in Paris -- are much like the liberal elite in Manhattan and Hollywood that have been echoing the same "leave Roman alone" gripe for years?
Nah!
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
See also here :
LA Times’s Goldstein Excuses Child Rapist, Recalling His Personal Tragedies
EXCERPT :
It didn’t take long for the Polanski defenders to crawl out of the woodwork. Take Patrick Goldstein, pop culture columnist for the Los Angeles Times, who quickly penned a piece published Sunday afternoon decrying Polanski’s arrest by Swiss authorities.
Apparently, Goldstein is of the opinion that Polanski has suffered enough for his crimes, and the Los Angeles prosecutors should not be spending precious taxpayer money (a phrase which, in reference to California, causes much mental angst) chasing a 76-year-old man around the globe.
Goldstein tugged at readers’ heartstrings by pointing out Polanski’s brushes with the most depraved of the 20th century’s murderers: Polanski was a fugitive from the Nazis as a child and wife was killed by followers of Charles Manson.
What’s more, Goldstein complained, as a result of his flight from justice, Polanski undoubtedly paid a high price in his career achievement, was barred from entering the United States and other countries due to extradition issues, and all of this despite his victim’s public forgiveness.
Polanski is portrayed by Goldstein, eloquently, as a misunderstood genius. But neither being misunderstood nor a genius erases any individual’s equality before the bar of justice.
Where is Sarkozy on this? Did Sarkozy have the power, alone, to nix France’s refusal to extradite Polanski?
Celebrities, diplomats unite behind convicted child-raping degenerate
SEE HERE :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/sep/28/roman-polanski-arrest-hollywood
The surprise detention of Roman Polanski has been met with indignation in Hollywood and sparked a flurry of media speculation over the real reason behind Saturday night’s arrest in Zurich.
Film mogul Harvey Weinstein has got behind a campaign by French film-makers calling on US authorities not to extradite the Oscar-winning Polish director in connection with a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor dating back more than three decades…
“We’re calling on every film-maker we can to help fix this terrible situation,” Weinstein said, reviving a theme he adopted earlier in the year after he bought international distribution rights at Sundance to the HBO documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.
The film uncovered flaws in the legal case against the director, prompting Weinstein to allude to a possible campaign to get the charges against Polanski dropped. At a hearing this year a Los Angeles superior court judge agreed there was “substantial misconduct” in the original hearing.
A surprising clear headed article came from none other
than -— SALON
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/28/polanski_arrest/
Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child
Sodomizing a thirteen year old girl probably doesn’t deserve the death penalty, but it doesn’t deserve “nothing.” The pr*ck has run from this for 30 years, and guess what? No amount of “artistry” excuses raping a 13 year old.
parsy, who says the french can kiss our, oh never mind, they’d probably like it
The French who?
redneck, who says that parsy is full of himself and asks with a friend like this who needs enemies
Treat him like French royalty then .... whack off his head!
LOL
Funny thing is, the degenerate is a Polish citizen. The media’s been making a big deal about the new Polish law requiring chemical castration of child rapists. Since he plead guilty, he should face his just punishment under Polish law. After we get through with him. A few years as b*tch in a fed pen will soften him up.
The judge will probably give him probation if he agrees to make a movie to combat child rape.
Sounds like a job for FAG!
You’re just mad at me because I make you think.
parsy, who is pretty full now that you mention it
WOW! Now there's a repository of moral authority if I ever saw one!
redneck, who had long ago considered all you had to say and dismissed it.
Don’t miss the irony, French films are orders of magnitude raunchier than Hollyweird’s
France probably said the same thing to the Nazi-hunters back in the seventies.
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