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Roman Polanski Has a Lot of Friends
The Nation ^ | October 01, 2009 | Katha Pollitt

Posted on 10/01/2009 5:52:32 PM PDT by RobinMasters

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To: RobinMasters

If the child was black, would Whoopie have made that idiotic comment?


21 posted on 10/01/2009 6:37:08 PM PDT by adc (Rush '12All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently oppos)
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To: RobinMasters

Frederic Mitterand, the French cultural minister, said it showed “the scary side of America” and described Polanski as “thrown to the lions because of ancient history.”

And the French were concerned with the ancient history of Klaus Barbie for what reason????


22 posted on 10/01/2009 6:38:22 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: RobinMasters

I AM SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, TO HEAR THAT WOODY ALLEN IS DEFENDING ROMAN POLANSKI.

23 posted on 10/01/2009 6:43:05 PM PDT by seawolf101
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To: Vehmgericht
Did John Evander Couey has an opportunity to sign the petition to free Polanski before he died?

Perhaps not, but who cares? Couey was not a member of the artistic elite. He was just one of those boring criminal types, without even an Oscar nomination.

24 posted on 10/01/2009 7:02:13 PM PDT by TChad
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To: RobinMasters
... international culture stars: Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodavar, Woody Allen (insert your own joke here), Isabelle Huppert, Diane von Furstenberg...and every one of these great artistes would tell they're so so successful because they're much more civilized, sensitve, and compassionate than all those ugh common people out there who believe Polanski is guilty of a heinous crime...they really do live in a fantasy world......
25 posted on 10/01/2009 7:04:53 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: meandog; TurtleUp

Hey, those guys still look young enough to make a ‘youthful error’ with Mr Polanski!


26 posted on 10/01/2009 8:41:35 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: RobinMasters

Good for Katha Polit. She’s a liberal but is suitably revulsed by Roman Polanski

Good for her! If you are going to be a feminist then at least be consistent


27 posted on 10/01/2009 10:38:39 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: RobinMasters
amazing this came from the Nation...we have villified Pollitt here before...

i did not know this part about he went anal because she was possibly ovulating...how thoughtful.../s

Fact: What happened was not some gray, vague he said/she said Katie-Roiphe-style "bad sex." A 43-year-old man got a 13-year-old girl alone, got her drunk, gave her a quaalude, and, after checking the date of her period, anally raped her, twice, while she protested; she submitted, she told the grand jury "because I was afraid." Those facts are not in dispute--except by Polanski, who has pooh-poohed the whole business many times (You can read the grand jury transcripts here.) He was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge, like many accused rapists, to spare the victim the trauma of a trial and media hoopla. But that doesn't mean we should all pretend that what happened was some free-spirited Bohemian mix-up. The victim took years to recover.

28 posted on 10/01/2009 10:48:55 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: meandog; Travis McGee
These are two of the most dangerous men you could ever meet in the joint (or anywhere for that matter)...Tommy Silverstein and Michael Thompson (first left below long hair)...Aryan Brotherhood extraordinaire...they are off the scale dangerous


29 posted on 10/01/2009 11:07:08 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: wardaddy

Yeah, I hope Roman gets to meet them, but I doubt he will.


30 posted on 10/02/2009 4:53:16 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: wardaddy
Just out of curiosity, but how does a "Silverstein" get in the Aryan Brotherhood?
31 posted on 10/02/2009 6:19:39 AM PDT by meandog (GWB IS the reason for BHO!)
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To: Travis McGee

you’re right..he’d be Seg-ed up


32 posted on 10/02/2009 8:07:01 AM PDT by wardaddy
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Tommy Silverstein claims not to be Jewish...who knows...sounds like somewhere somebody was in his woodpile.

Alice Baker is much less about ideology than it is about race protection and money and power in prison. They are (were) the most effective (feared) group in Federal and maybe Kali prison.

Nearly all are multiple proven inside the joint killers.

Silverstein butchered a guard in Seg at Marion and had killed countless other inmates prior to that. Thompson has copped to killing 22 inmates hand to hand in his 30 years in Kali state joints.

Silverstein is at Florence supermax under a no human contact order which he has been under for about 18 years now since the Marion affair. Thompson is in a unit somewhere for guys who left the Tip for whatever reason. Thompson claims to have left because they started killing family members outside for beefs on the inside...including women and kids if need be and he wanted none of that.

Oddly like Silverstein he too started out too with a manageable bit but now will never get out.

Here is one of the AB national leaders who just beat a death penalty racketeering case involving a number of hits on DC blacks and other Federal prison blacks on the inside...and lol...he actually admits to being half Jewish...strange ain't it...he must be half Lepke Buchalter style Jewish..

Tyler Bingham


33 posted on 10/02/2009 8:20:32 AM PDT by wardaddy
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