Posted on 10/08/2009 4:04:22 PM PDT by Cincinna
France’s new culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, who has defended the filmmaker Roman Polanski against extradition charges for statutory rape, was attacked on Wednesday for his admission in a 2005 autobiography, “The Bad Life,” that he “got into the habit” of paying “young boys” for sex in Southeast Asia despite “the sordid details of this traffic.”
Mr. Mitterrand, who is a nephew of former President François Mitterrand, faced calls for his resignation from the far-right National Front. Later, the Socialist Party spokesman, Benoît Hamon, told Reuters: “As a minister of culture he has drawn attention to himself by defending a filmmaker accused of raping a child, and he has written a book where he said he took advantage of sexual tourism. To say the least, I find it shocking.”
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That’s some headline.
Shouldn’t “attacked” read “exposed”, like it’s a bad thing?
Hey, it was just a habit. You know, like taking the same streets when you drive to work, or shopping in the same order of aisles at the grocery store, or turning on the computer when you come home at night, or starting the coffee when you first get up, or screwing young boys for money.
You know, habit.
So he wrote of his “habit” in 2005 and still managed to get appointed culture minister? Incredible.
He was just sharing French culture.
Imagine the chagrin of the American homosexual community who are now finding out that their consorts abroad deal in children ~ oh, my, oh, my, oh, my!
what mitterand? tell us it is not true!
this is not the mitterand that was president of france though.
Well, I hope he used a French letter.
Good catch.
The paedophiles and pederasts seem to be coming out of the woodwork now. I don't know which is more sickening: their actions or the media's mitigation.
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The tide is turning against Polanski in France. Many of the elites are still trying to shoot the messenger (Marine le Pen)but the outcry against Polanski among regular folks, even many writers and artists, is growing. They are even turning on one of their own, Frederic Mitterrand, the new Minister of Culture.
Sarko has made a priority of ending sexual exploitation of children, especially via sexual tourism. The political career of Mitterrand,is, IMO, on life support.
If you have a strong stomach, and read French, here are the excerpts of Mitterrand’s book caudsing the uproar:
Extrait du livre La Mauvaise Vie, de Frédéric Mitterrand (Edition Robert Laffont, 360 p., 2005), pages 293 à 307.
'All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excite me enormously. One could judge this abominable spectacle from a moral standpoint but it pleases me beyond the reasonable.'
He was in actuality a sex tourist paying pimps for intercourse with underaged boys who had no choice in the matter. In his own words, a "slave market." M Mitterand apparently has some perspective from which to judge this other than the moral one. I'm not sure I really want to know what it might be, but I can guess.
it is titillation. what a worm of a frog
Thanks Cincinna. And thanks Sarko.
Yes. Notice that the Slimes considers that he’s being “attacked” as being the story rather than the acts and the fact that he admitted it.
Thus, he’s placed as being the victim in the story.
Old Radio Moscow had nothing on the current MSM.
Frederic Mityterrand is the nephew of Francois Mitterrand, President of France for 14 years.
naughty naughty nephew!
actually, more like a worm. frederic est un ver!
They support single-payer pedophilia.
A new way some celebrities “redistribute their wealth.”
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