Posted on 09/17/2013 8:29:21 AM PDT by Borges
In 2009, Samantha Geimer was watching the daytime talk show "The View" from her then-home in Hawaii when the panel took up the topic of her encounter at age 13 with director Roman Polanski. Polanski had just been arrested in Switzerland, more than three decades after the day in 1977 that changed both their lives.
"It wasn't rape-rape," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, setting off a firestorm of criticism. In fact, it was "rape-rape" by nearly any definition except the charge to which Polanski pleaded guilty (unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor) — the underage Geimer was drugged and verbally resistant, according to court records.
But after years of hearing other people's theories about that day, she was amused, more than anything, by Goldberg's choice of words. "I laughed so hard," Geimer said. "I thought, 'Oh, my God, she did not just say that.' These days, you can't say that. Everyone's gonna be all over you."
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Whoopi Goldberg is clearly an Idiot.
She should run for president; she’d be a shoo-in.
Sounds like the lady pulled herself away from the effects of our “Film Celebrity’s actions. Good for her.
How she can be a celebrity is beyond me. She looks like a dirty, homeless person. She certainly is no role model for anyone nor someone to be admired.
yeah and sam malone did her. yeeeeccchhhhh.
She was a stand-up comedian doing ghetto humor. It’s not like they need to be dressed to the nines. Her stage show made it to Broadway where Spielberg saw her and cast her in The Color Purple.
Not to diminish anything that happened to this woman, but I sometimes wonder if Tate’s murder twisted up Polanski’s brain. It certainly was horrible.
Not to mention his insane childhood.
She and her husband are okay about making rape-rape jokes?
One reason she thinks she is OK today is her nonjudgmental attitude toward sex, fostered in a 1970s, pre-AIDS Southern California. She said she first realized this when she learned about the case of Elizabeth Smart, a Mormon girl who was abducted in 2002 at age 14 and repeatedly raped."She was taught that if you're raped, you're devalued as a person, that it's shameful and wrong," Geimer said. "Nobody ever taught me that. Everyone's like, 'Don't you feel guilt or shame or used or dirty? I was like, 'No, I don't.' I didn't do anything wrong. Why should I feel bad?"
... Geimer's teen years were a series of boyfriends and casual drug use. At age 18, she got pregnant, married and quit partying. The marriage didn't last, but the impulse to clean up her life did. She ran a home day-care center and went to legal secretary school.
If this woman valued herself and saw nothing wrong with random sexual flings, why did she "clean up her life" after straying off the track following a drugging and rape event by a protected member of society (the celebrity class)?
The sex and drugs were to take the pain away. It wasn't her fault, what happened. But she seems to be too kind to Mr. Polanski these days.
She’s been asking for the conviction to be put aside for a while now. Or whatever the equivalent would be.
In 1988, she filed a civil suit against Polanski, alleging sexual assault; it ultimately was settled for a six-figure sum. It took years to collect on but when she finally got the money, Geimer said, it helped with the raising of her three children, since her work as a secretary and Dave's as a property manager were not very lucrative.Over the years, Geimer has often defended Polanski's right to move on with his life.
Clearly she did NOT let Mr. Polanski off the hook (she DOES say he RAPED her) yet the media keeps sticking up for him.
Writing the book, Geimer said, was a way to reclaim her own story. Most of it is about the Polanski case and Geimer's perspective on how she and others at the center of highly public crimes are exploited. She will be making talk show appearances and speaking at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills this month.
So now it is her turn too to exploit this offensive act that she says should be put to rest and forgotten.
Denying Polanski re-entry to this country is not simply about a "rape charge". It is also about criminal flight from prosecution for said charge. That carries its own penalty. It is defiance of the court and legal authorities.
See my comment in #16. SHE can drop HER charges against him, but the government has it’s OWN case against him.
Of course. She has no legal standing in this at all. Her role as a witness for the prosecution has already been served.
I fail to see any humor in anything she says or stands for.
Perhaps if her teenage granddaughter had been the one drugged and sodomized she would understand there is no difference between her definition of ‘rape’ and ‘rape-rape’.
And she still looks like she smells.
Femi-Nazis and the legal class will be because if her perspective were to become well known, much less accepted, the entire government control via sex gambit would be at risk.
Never, ever, EVER accept that government is more concerned with “justice” than with power and salaries.
Note the victim sued, won a settlement, and wants the usual suspects to pipe down. That settlement was gotten without Big Gov and that won’t fit the “Party Line”, either in Media legal circles, or amongst the Femi-Nazis.
Big government and the Femi-Nazis are not going to be amused at her success and happily married life attacking their premises.
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