Reminder: its OK to be a pedo, if your name is Roman Polanski

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

Well, it acts like a superprison, but sometimes it is also a massage parlour, thanks to quantum indeterminancy.

...Where Big Linda's cock is in a linear superposition of being in his pants, and up someone's arsehole.

[Jenne]

See, and my husband WONDERS why I find the idea of a 44 year old man taking on his 1st, 2nd or 3rd wife a child-bride of 13 or 14 in Afghanistan (by the way, very COMMON practice over there) morally repugnant and disgusting.  Where my subculture originated from, it was fine, but that was long ago.  Men waited longer to get married and they married very young women.  I can't imagine the wedding night was anything short of rape.  Especially as courtship rituals were short and more of a courtship of the families involved...I think that's certainly the way it is in Afghanistan.

...don't remember where I was going with this...

[Captain Utopia]

Just wanted to say that the sentiment expressed in the subject line has pissed me off for a few years now as I've encountered it every single time someone has brought up some Polanski film they like, and I explain why I won't support him or his work.

Poor woman though - I bet she wishes this would just all go away - it would have been a dead story decades ago if Polanski had served his time and faded into obscurity rather than serving himself via his career. Way to drag out the pain, fuckhead.

If Einstein were a rapist, would you deny the theory of relativity?

Only if I couldn't distinguish any significant difference between entertainment and science. But even still, I wouldn't be making excuses for Einstein if that were the case.

[hooplala]

Nor would I, but I can separate the person from their work... which some people seem to find difficult.

Lovecraft was an out-and-out raving racist, but do I still enjoy reading his stories?  Sure, why not?

[Telarus]

Nor would I, but I can separate the person from their work... which some people seem to find difficult.

Lovecraft was an out-and-out raving racist, but do I still enjoy reading his stories?  Sure, why not?

This. Also, I think that views expressed by Nick Pell @ The Black Sun Gazette need some consideration as well:

http://blacksungazette.com/?p=936  (A bit too long an pic/link loaded to quote.)

[Cain]

Well that's the opinion driven media for you.  The more shrill, irrational and violently you make your complaints, the more viewers/clicks/unique page views you get.

For more see: Coulter, Ann and Beck, Glenn.

But yeah, the it does seem that on one hand, you have people who will defend Polanski regardless and tell you about how he is the real victim here, and on the other hand you have a bunch of people trying to fire up the mob and cry for blood to be spilled, despite condoning far worse crimes than Polanski's (Abu Ghraib ring any bells?  I saw columns who believed this was a worse moral indictment of America than systemic torture and sexual abuse, ie what Polanski did on a much bigger scale). 

Personally, I just wanna see justice done, because I don't think being rich or famous or an artistic genius are a licence to be able to treat other people the way Polanski did.  I'm sick of the rich and well connected getting off scott-free from crimes that, if anyone here were to commit them, would likely land us in prison for life, if not for execution - and have major international publications try to defend them.

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

This. Also, I think that views expressed by Nick Pell @ The Black Sun Gazette need some consideration as well:

There'll always be conspiracy theories concerning anything high-profile, and there are interesting questions about the timing of this and the banks thing. But I'll agree that:

Personally, I just wanna see justice done, because I don't think being rich or famous or an artistic genius are a licence to be able to treat other people the way Polanski did.

While the means may not justify the ends, that doesn't mean the ends are completely unjustified.

[Telarus]

Agreed.