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French government drops support for Polanski
AFP ^ | September 30, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 09/30/2009 9:51:31 AM PDT by MaestroLC

PARIS — The French government on Wednesday dropped its public support for Roman Polanski, saying the Oscar-winning director held in Switzerland over a three-decade-old child sex case was not "above the law."

"Roman Polanski is neither above nor beneath the law," said government spokesman Luc Chatel.

"We have a judicial procedure under way, for a serious affair, the rape of a minor, on which the American and Swiss legal systems are doing their job," he told reporters.

He added: "One can understand the emotion that this belated arrest, more than 30 years after the incident, and the method of the arrest, have caused."

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To: TexasFreeper2009

As long as he gets to share a cell with a nasty biker type who hates child molesters - I don’t care what they initially get him for. If you catch my drift.


21 posted on 09/30/2009 10:00:37 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is a trojan horse designed to infiltrate and bring down Western civilization.)
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To: MaestroLC

Bravo! His film awards should be taken away too.


22 posted on 09/30/2009 10:01:13 AM PDT by eleni121 (The New Byzantium - resurrect it!)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


23 posted on 09/30/2009 10:01:32 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't remember Americans being called "racists" when we fought against Hillarycare.)
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To: MaestroLC

I had a feeling France would come around, eventually, to whatever degree they could. This Polanski case has really been polarizing, with more and more willing to let all those in the Entertainment Industry look like the jerks in this, and not willing to join them.


24 posted on 09/30/2009 10:01:35 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.)
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To: dfwgator

One of the funniest movies ever!


25 posted on 09/30/2009 10:02:21 AM PDT by frogjerk (Obama Administration: Security thru Absurdity)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Was that meant to be ironic or were you not aware that Manson is in jail for killing Polanski’s wife and child?


26 posted on 09/30/2009 10:02:48 AM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: Nikas777

Just wait, you’ll be soon accused of supporting a child rapist. Not only the DA screwed up the case, but the judge was corrupt, and the entire American judicial system was and is arrogant, capricious and corrupt. Just ask Gerald Amirault. Just ask Roman Polanski about the Manson Gang who have been jailed in comfy facilities and given Ph.D. education at your cost. Thank you, I’d flee too!


27 posted on 09/30/2009 10:03:21 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: frogjerk

I’m pretty sure Whoopi doesn’t have a 13 year old daughter. If she did, would she invite Roman over to her chateau in the south of France to do a photo shoot of her? I’m afraid I know the answer. No problem. It’s not “rape rape” in France.


28 posted on 09/30/2009 10:03:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't tell 0bama what comes after a trillion.)
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To: frogjerk
...... what a guy

Roman Polanski: What Did He Do?

Last year, transcripts of Geimer's 1977 grand jury testimony, which resulted in six charges against Polanski, were made public. The transcripts include shocking details of 13-year-old Geimer testifying that the 43-year-old Polanski plied her with champagne and part of a Quaalude before performing oral, vaginal and anal intercourse on her, despite her demands to "keep away."

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29 posted on 09/30/2009 10:03:55 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: AbeKrieger
As long as he gets to share a cell with a nasty biker type who hates child molesters

According to my pals who serve as guards in Angola (3 generations there) most biker gangsters in jail are themselves "child molesters" who take teen girls and turn them into prostitutes and as drug mules.

30 posted on 09/30/2009 10:03:59 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; TexasFreeper2009
Maybe Charlie Manson and Phil Specter can be his cellmates!

That would make an excellent cage match.

31 posted on 09/30/2009 10:04:37 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (I wonder why Solomon Ortiz (TX-27) likes Muammar Gadaffi so much?)
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To: frogjerk
Maybe they actually read what he plead guilty to.

The grand jury testimony was sealed up until the arrest so you're probably right.

32 posted on 09/30/2009 10:06:38 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Revolting cat!
For some reason conservatives don't trust the govt - but they trust the govt in regards to our screwed up justice system - especially the 1960s corrupt and inept 60s California judicial system.

I am not supporting Polanski - I could care less about the guy per say - I just think the case itself is complex.

I think he was told if he pleaded guilty he would be given either some jail time or pay a fine and be on probation, etc and the DA screwed him over and sought like a near lifetime jail sentence. I am going by memory from a documentary I saw which was not kind either to Polanski or to the DA.

33 posted on 09/30/2009 10:08:04 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: Nikas777

“I just think the case itself is complex. “

How so? It seems quite straightforward to me.


34 posted on 09/30/2009 10:10:00 AM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: MaestroLC

Since the French threw Polanski under the bus, its “french frys” again.


35 posted on 09/30/2009 10:10:23 AM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: slackerjack

Well since Whoopi is liberal and a good Hollywood idiot, her lack of education doesn’t matter. If she spouts the politically correct lines, then she’s a visionary to them.


36 posted on 09/30/2009 10:10:27 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: frogjerk
"Whoopi is going to be pissed because it wasn’t “rape rape”!

Of course not, it was "love" rape. /s
37 posted on 09/30/2009 10:10:36 AM PDT by TruthBeforeAll (The Top 10 Most Murderous Cities (per capita) Are All Run By Democratic Mayors. - 2005 FBI Report)
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To: MaestroLC
Why did they grant him (a convicted felon and convicted child rapist) citizenship in their country if they aren't going to go to bat for him now?

Maybe someone in the French Government actually read the transcript where Polanski said he didn't think there was anything wrong with having sex with a 13 year old and that it is every man's fantasy to "do it with" young girls (only he didn't use the words "do it").

38 posted on 09/30/2009 10:12:12 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: MaestroLC
Under the bus.

Only the far left in this country supports child molesters, Michael Jackson??

39 posted on 09/30/2009 10:12:35 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: MaestroLC

Interesting how the left is defending this guy. Probably the same people who act as if every Catholic priest is a dangerous pedophile.


40 posted on 09/30/2009 10:12:41 AM PDT by cvq3842 (I don't ask what my country can do for me - I ask my government to STOP doing things TO me!)
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