And the Academy Award for Most Disturbing Spectacle...

Here are the facts:
1) Roman Polanski raped a 13 year old girl (Samantha Gailey).
2) He drugged her with a combination of champagne and Quaaludes.
3) Polanski was quoted as saying “If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… f—ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”
4) Samantha Gailey felt increasingly uncomfortable in the situation she had ended up in and asked several times to Polanski to stop, before Polanski performed oral sex, had intercourse and sodomy on this 13 year old girl.
5) After serving 42 days in jail, he fled to Europe, where he has citizenship in France and Poland, for fear he would be put in jail for 50 years.
6) 100 of Hollywood’s actors and directors signed a petition asking for the release of Polanski after his most recent apprehension in Switzerland.

When I put these facts together I come up with several conclusions. First, what Roman Polanski did, drugging a 13 year old girl so he could take physical advantage of her, is sadistic, disgusting and illegal in the most heinous sense. He even seems to gloat about it by pointing out that all men, apparently, want to have sex with young women. It seems to me that this is his appeal to us. He is saying “I rapped a 13 year old girl, but don’t worry, I know that you want to as well. So it’s okay.” He purposefully fled US custody so that he would not be charged and claims, with support from French “intellectuals” that as a French citizen he is free from extradition. All these facts together, and taking into account that Polanski plead guilty to his insidious crime, prove his criminal intent and motivation. Jail is where this sick person belongs; not idolized by Hollywood elites.

Which brings to the most disturbing fact that 100 people feel that Polanski, as an Academy Award winning artist, should be free from prosecution because....he’s a director? He won an award? He has money? The only way I can see this is that those 100 people who signed this petition condone rape. That may sound harsh, but to me, it seems glaring and obvious. Polanski is allowed to rap a 13 year old girl because he is wealthy and part of an elite establishment that is above the law. Every one of the signatories should be ashamed. Would you like to know some of them? Here are some names you might recognize:

Woody Allen
Darren Aronofsky
Terry Gilliam
John Landis
David Lynch
Michael Mann
Martin Scorcese

Sad really. All I know is I’m glad none of these amoral characters are in charge of a committee or a legislature. Their unethical beliefs and ideals are repugnant to say the least. Shame on them all!!!