Roman Polanski and Hollywood Defending the Indefensible
Whoopi “it isn’t rape-rape” Goldberg, Woody “I married my daughter” Allen, Martin “Jesus slept with Mary Magdalene” Scorsese, Monica Bellucci, David Lynch, Michael Mann, and Tilda Swinton are just a portion of the Hollywood crowd that are clamoring for the release of Roman Polanski who is being held in Switzerland waiting extradition to the United States.
Roman Polanski is on the run from the law for his rape of a 13 year girl in 1977 when he was a young 44 years of age.
Yesterday a former Hollywood starlet, Charlotte Lewis known for costarring opposite Eddie Murphy in The Golden Child, came out in a news conference that she was raped when she was 16 years of age in Paris by Roman Polanski when he was 50 years old.
Her reasons for coming out now?
Her disgust at how Hollywood is defending Roman Polanski and minimizing his offenses.
Still there are many in Hollywood that after hearing about Charlotte Lewis are defiant in their stance that immoral sexual behavior should not be penalized. Woody Allen came out and said “enough is enough“.
“It’s something that happened many years ago… he has suffered…. He has paid his due,” Allen told French radio station RTL.
“He’s an artist, he’s a nice person, he did something wrong and he paid for it. They (his critics) are not happy unless he pays the rest of his life. They would be happy if they could execute him in a firing squad,” he said.
There are others in Hollywood who refuse to defend the indefensible such as Michael Douglas who believe that Roman Polanski should pay the price for his sexual assault of a minor.
Roman Polanski’s lawyers have threatened Charlotte Lewis with legal action if she continues to allege Roman Polanski raped her.
Hollywood is still defiant and diabolically evil.
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Joe Friday says it all:
It’s kind of funny to see figures in Hollywood do all sorts of moral gymnastics to defend Polanski. Say what you will about the scandals in the Church, you don’t see Catholics suddenly stretching Catholic teaching in order to defend genuine abuse cases.
I can only imagine people would defend Polanski out of a horribly misguided sense of compassion, or they too have some skeleton in their closet that makes them think “that could have been me.”
Seriously. The guy took advantage of a minor and then evaded the rulings of U.S. courts. Wouldn’t it have just been easier to do the time and move on? I mean, if he’s such an amazing and important “artist” wouldn’t all of his buddies been waiting to work with him when he was available again? Wouldn’t they have “understood” the horrible injustice of his incarceration and worked to put together projects so Polanski could “redeem” himself?
I imagine all this is happening because Polanski, and his friends, know that going to jail means the end of his film career. I still contend to this day that had Michael Jackson been found guilty of child molestation none of us would be playing his music today.
Actually, we have seen some Catholic prelates stretch or dismiss church teaching to make excuses for sex offenders. Certainly it happens among cardinals who have, until recently, been “promoted.” For every Woody Allen or Tilda Swinton, there’s Bernard Law “and Order” and Angelo “Petty Gossip” Sodano.
That said, I think Roman Polanski is a creepy criminal and should be prosecuted. If guilty, he should go to prison. I’m happy to stand shoulder to shoulder with Charlotte Lewis, Michael Douglas, and even the conservatives at AC in saying so.
If Polanski has two who have reported his actions then there are dozens more who have remained silent.
Todd,
For once I agree with you (mostly).
Certain prelates have done injustice to the many abused children and youth in the Church.
I think they should hand Polanski over to the 16th Century Brits and accuse him of being a Papist.
Actually, we have seen some Catholic prelates stretch or dismiss church teaching to make excuses for sex offenders.-Todd
Got any actual examples supported by actual quotes?
I’m most interested in your accusation that a prelate would “dismiss church teaching” – the criteria for “stretch” is potentially too subjective. Dismissal is an active act of the will. Do you really know of a statement from any of those prelates you named such as “Church teaching on this subject does not matter,” or was your accusation a rhetorical stretch?