The decision to free Roman Polanski is a wise decision. It honors the people who took it. It shows that the arguments developed by the movie director's partisans -- including those published on the French review's website of La Règle du Jeu -- have finally been fruitful. It shows that Polanski's French lawyers, Hervé Témime and Georges Kiejman, were right to remain tenacious. At this very moment, I am thinking about Emmanuelle, his wife. I am thinking about his two kids who saw their dad's name ignominiously dragged through the mud. I am mostly thinking about him: Roman Polanski, who I don't know, but whose fate has moved me so much. Nothing will repair the days he has spent in prison. Nothing will erase the immense, unbelievable injustice he has been subjected to. Nothing will take away the hysteria of those ones who have never stopped pouring contempt upon him, hounding him through hatred and asking for his punishment as if we were living the darkest and most ferocious hours of the McCarthy era all over again. At least the nightmare is about to end. At least the end of the hell is looming. And this, for the time being, is what does matter.
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Each event will be duly recorded here.
And each event will prompt the bunch here to repeat what they have already said.
It is a ritual.
-- Panen de caelo praestitis
-- Omne delectamen
OREMUS.- Deus qui nobissub Sacramento mirabili..
Tedious. The same stuff over and over. The imputation of motives. The histrionic
I'll be checking in from time to time in the unlikely event there will be something new, some insight based on facts, some reason to pause here and exchange new ideas with people open to them. I hope I don't succumb too often to the temptation to defend myself against the latest libel.
4:30 PM CST
...This Polanski case is having weird effects on virtually anyone who comments. I think I already mentioned on another blog that the DSM IV-R should be amended to include "Blogger Burnout
Syndrome"
A suggestion of criteria, from anyone, would be in order.
Of course I remain normal, rising above the cacophony.
Rising Radiant One
12/5/09
This is an example of what I said before in the other blog. You're receiving this even though its not attached to one of your comments:
"A presentenc
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CONTINUED
Probation officers' reports are used by judges in determinin
http://www
James: Logically, what other purpose could a presentenc
You repeatedly recommende
You also posted that the prosecutor might not allow the victims to be interviewe
Because the victim and her mother were interviewe
I never saw this lengthy wiki definition before on the threads.
2:10 AM CST
Ambrose Bierce, my greatest student.
666
12/5/09
I guess you know me better than I know myself. You see right through the projection
-- Your account
-- Your email
-- The forum.
Many in the McCarthy era had broken no laws and done nothng wrong except write a play that seemed a little too critical of capitalsim
Even if one is to believe the best case scenario that Polanski "only" had sex with that girl, polanski still chose to break the law.
I live in a state in which weed is decriminal
But my sister, though lamenting the harsh laws, fully accepted that her actions got her into this. She didn't run to Canda and call herself the white Emmett Till.
But this modern aristocrat is SO entitled that he honestly believes not being able to buy your way out of jail when you've actually commtted a crime is akin to a black kid getting lynched for being black.
This author is a modern aristocrat
Race, religion, politics, all these are are social constructs which exist for the sole purpose of dividing the non wealthy and powerful and to dstract us from the fact that the only division that REALLY matters is that between the wealthy and the non wealthy.
if the above author hadsimply written articles in which he felt Polanski should be released for whatever reason, well, that's one thing.
But this author has alternatel
DW: You seem to know who asked for what. How do you know?
The plea bargain was initiated by Roman Polanski and his attorney. When Samantha's attorney learned about that from the district attorney, they considered Polanski's plea bargain and supported it urging the judge to accept the plea. Polanski was concerned about how more publicity would hurt his career, and he was concerned that the notoriety would hurt Samantha. Her attorney did not want Samantha subjected to a "Hollywood
They agreed to the plea bargain initiated by Polanski and his attorney.
dreamweave
I gather you conceded there is no other offense he could be charged with that would include premeditat
If there's a trial, all six charges of the indictment will be brought forward, not just the one he was charged with and pled "guilty" according to the plea bargain. If there is a trial, new evidence would include the question of premeditat
6:40 PM CST
Quote :
"If there's a trial, all six charges of the indictment will be brought forward, not just the one he was charged with and pled "guilty" according to the plea bargain."
Yes. But a snowball down here in The Furnace Pits will become a snowman before any of this Kafkaesque 30 year old Devil's carnival will rear it's face again in a 2009 L.A courtroom.
In the "Newsweek" blog I suggested that if Polanski had any integrity, he would demand a new trial and call the bluff of the incompeten
But it's not going to happen.
The Saint
12/4/09
Highly interpreta
I will add that the probation officer, Mr. Gold, is likely Jewish and I am sure he more than most had great sympathy with Polanski's travails caused by the Nazi regime while he was a child. I believe he was overwhelme
Probation Officer's Report
(Reads like a 'get out of jail free card')
Defendant not only survived but prevailed
surmountin
he has risen to the heights of his chosen profession
and has become one of the leading creative forces of the past
two decades.
Wow! And what does this have to do with the case?
Sound like a review of his autobiogra
Possibly not since Renaissanc
While enriching the community with their presence, they have brought with them the manners and mores of their native lands which in rare instances have been at variance with those of their adoptive land.
etc.
Polanski was sentenced to 90 days incarcerat
Arrested in Zurich, he spent about 45 days in jail there, then was offered bail, $4,500,000
He will get house arrest at his chalet, which is far from the eyes of Zurich, but a quick trip to the French border.
Polanski will flee, the French will not return him.
If the Americans complain, the Swiss respond, Bail's our law, like yours. And he has been incarcerat
Result: Swiss are $4,500,000 richer. Bail jumping is profitable to courts. The money will work nicely for a remodeling of the court house, no?
"It will be permissibl
"A defendant who does not agree with the sentence handed down by the court can flee the country when..."
I'd do it myself, but I'm busy trying to find two other string players to form a quartet with Rubin10101
7:10 PM CST
...Hope your music plays better than your take on the law...
666
12/4/09
Secondly, I fail to see the “immense, unbelievab
While we’re on the topic, I’m sure that nothing will erase the immense, unbelievab
Also, the defense is horrifical
Polanski is not the victim, he’s a privileged coward.