[tlb]

And nobody cared for four years. Even for Europe that's surprising.

[SeeSharp]

No one seemed particularly disturbed by Senator Webb’s bizarre book either.

[BallyBill]

Do white males travel to Thailand for anything else other than sex with underage boys and girls? I would think Thai Stix, but I'm just an old flatus without a European “flare”.

[FES0844]

And nobody cared... I think people have become desensitized to depravity. Evil is rampant. So sad.

[Dragonspirit]

Isn’t it funny that the “rightwing” party of Sarkozy in France is in government, with an open socialist as part of it?

I guess I would be “far right” in France.

[domeika]

The hipocrisy is just blatant and eye-ball deep. To the liberals, their "friends", and ilk of similar dementia, are not only abve the law, they are immune from it....because they say so.
Take communist Che Guevera....he wasn't a murderous commie thug, at least not after liberals thought it was cool to put him on a t-shirt. It was much different after that....I mean c'mon...he's cool, so stop yammering about laws and such.
And then there's Mumia Abu Jamal, who shot police officer Daniel Faulkner to death (here) in Philly.....even admitted once to a reporter that he did it.....The libtards get a hold of it and then try to make him into a saint because he has dreadlocks, he's a "militant", a radio broadcaster, wears sunglasses.....and "he looks so cool".

So there you go, to the libs, any jerk@ff loser that can appear "cool" can win the high ground of the liberal mind. Not that it's a very big hill to take, but it's worth noting that we had better hope they don't do this with politics. You know, aggrandise someone because they think it's "cool" and somehow get them into the white house. That would be WAS a huge mistake America might not survive.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think this is more evidence that some people are simply deviant -- and they feel a strong compulsion to support and defend other deviants. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who defends Polanski is basically announcing that they too have some kind of really ugly secret in their closet and they hope that, if their secret ever becomes public, someone will defend them as well. Their defense of Polanski then, is an attempt to "pay it forward".

Normal people cannot defend Polanski. Therefore, the people who are defending Polanski are sicker than they appear.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I believe that it is illegal for an American to travel abroad for the purpose of having sex with minors. In other words, if Mr. Mitterand had used an American passport for his journey, he would have committed a felony.

[rbg81]

And nobody cared for four years. Even for Europe that’s surprising.

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Apparently the French don’t vet their officials either. The fact that this guy is their CULTURE minister is ironic and embarrasing.

[Venturer]

Iif this defender of Polanski likes little boys , it make me wonder about defender Susan Sarandon and Whoopi and what they have in their closets.

[Durus]

Perhaps one needs to be a brilliant euro-peon to understand comments like

Xavier Bertrand, the head of Mr Sarkozy’s right-wing UMP party, defended Mr Mitterrand. “The Socialists are now on the same ground as the extreme right, it’s incredible. One is not obliged to use private life for political ends,” he said.

For this unsophisticated American Bertrand make noises that sound somewhat like a coherent statement but it is in fact sound without factual meaning.

[popdonnelly]

Polanski ran out on a plea agreement that he made willingly. People generally get arrested for that. Or does America have a different standard for famous film directors?

[matginzac]

Freakin’ SOB - because the poor in Thailand - especially the children - are hideously abused by these “sophisticated” elites from other countries. The dirty little secret about the tsunami was how many pervs were caught in it because they were there for under-aged sex. May they rot in hell....

[dfwgator]

Nothing good ever came from that POS Mitterand family.

[apocalypto]

Sick! Perverted! Criminal!

[a fool in paradise]

Europeans say that Americans are too puritanical.

There would be no anchor for morality in the West if it wasn’t for the United States.

We are all sinners. Some seek to celebrate their sins.

[a fool in paradise]

Thailand?

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[Ol' Sparky]

Homosexual politicians, especially male ones soliciting sex from underage boys, is the norm not the exception.

[Moose4]

Xavier Bertrand, the head of Mr Sarkozy’s right-wing UMP party, defended Mr Mitterrand. “The Socialists are now on the same ground as the extreme right, it’s incredible. One is not obliged to use private life for political ends,” he said.

That statement makes zero sense as a "defense" of the pedofrog. And the irony is, because the charge was leveled by the oh-so-unfashionable National Front, the governmental types in France will simply say, "look at the messenger, it's Le Pen and his jackbooted fascists," and the media will sweep it under the rug. Britain does the same thing with the BNP and the UKIP, and the media tries to do it here with any conservative Republican. Shoot the messenger, ignore the message.

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[Neoliberalnot]

I’m shocked. You mean they have homosexuals in France?? This can’t be.