Samantha Gailey at 13 - raped by Polanski (could be anyone's daughter)
Posted on 10/13/2009 12:22:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rallying to the defence of director Roman Polanski after his arrest in Switzerland, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand declared the situation "horrifying," and suggested that if the cultural world didn't come to the rapist's defence, "it would mean there is no culture in our country."
He may have a case -- if you consider drugging and sodomizing a 13-year-old a manifestation of advanced "culture." Sadly, however, Mr. Mitterrand is hardly the only public figure willing to shrug off sexual crimes and indiscretions.
Mr. Mitterrand's own background is illustrative. In a 2005 book he described as "half real and half dream," he wrote: "I got into the habit of paying for boys ... All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously ... the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire."
Now he is telling people he never paid for sex. Indeed, he became visibly angry on television at the very thought of someone inferring anything unsavory from those book passages. Apparently, most of us ordinary non-underaged-prostitute-frequenting folks just don't have Mr. Mitterand's nuanced appreciation of high French culture.
He wasn't alone in justifying his peccadillos on the front pages. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi -- dumped by his wife after she accused him of "frequenting minors," and identified as a client by a 42-year-old prostitute -- declared himself "the most persecuted man by the judiciary in all of the history of the entire world."
Nevada Senator John Ensign ignored calls to step down despite acknowledging an affair with an aide's wife, while South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford clung to his job despite lying about his affair with an Argentinian woman.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
[hat tip to Steyn]
The french culture minister quoted in the above is also one who defends sex with little boys he paid for in Thailand.
Mr. Mitterand likes his little boys from Bangkok.
yep. really.
Barney Frank and Ted Kennedy (I Slept With 1,000 women and only drown one!) should also have been there.
Samantha Gailey at 13 - raped by Polanski (could be anyone's daughter)
Confucius say: Thai man distracted while passing turnstile, surely going to Bangkok
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