Seriously Robert Harris? Seriously?
I was in Montreal all weekend (more on that later) and didn’t do any blogging.
But before leaving the city for that miserable 10 hour drive home (and it was miserable in SO many way, including torrential downpours and accidents all up and down the Garden State Parkway) I stopped at a cheap sushi joint for some lunch and skimmed through the Gazette, which reported that noted pervert and child rapist Roman Polanski had been extradited. Apparently, raping children is OK if you’re a famous director:
France’s political elite rallied to the defence of Roman Polanski yesterday, calling on Switzerland to free the 76-year-old film director rather than extradite him to the United States.
Artists and filmmakers also urged the release of Polanski, who faces charges of having sex with a girl of 13 in 1977, accusing Switzerland of being overzealous in pursuing such an old case and bowing to U.S. demands.
Polanski was due to receive a prize for his life’s work at the Zurich Film Festival yesterday, but was arrested on a 1978 U.S. arrest warrant after arriving in Switzerland on Saturday.
“I think this is awful and totally unjust,” French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand told reporters.
“Just as there is an America which is generous and which we like, so there is an America which is frightening, and that is the America which has just revealed its face,” he added.
Note to Fred Mitterand. You know what’s “awful and totally unjust”? A FORTY FOUR YEAR OLD MAN DRUGGING AND RAPING A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT FOR 32 YEARS.
You’ll pardon me if I have no objection to America being “frightening” for child molestors.
Meanwhile, Robert Harris helpfully chimes in defending his friend the child rapist.
Robert Harris, a novelist who said he had been working with Polanski for much of the past three years writing two screenplays, expressed outrage over the arrest.
“I am shocked that any man of 76, whether distinguished or not, should have been treated in such a fashion,” he said in a statement, adding that Polanski had often visited Switzerland and even had a house in the resort of Gstaad.
“It is hard not to believe that this heavy-handed action must be in some way politically motivated,” he said.
Shorter Robert Harris: “It’s OK to drug and rape 13 year old children as long as you don’t get caught for 30-odd years.”
Some people really need to look at photos of their own children before they say stupid shit, because something tells me neither Mr Mitterand, Mr. Harris, nor President Sarkozy (who is also complaining about Polanski’s arrest) wouldn’t be making such a spirited defense of Mr. Polanski if he had given their child “a combination of champagne and quaaludes, a sedative drug, and ‘despite [the child's] protests, he performed oral sex, intercourse and sodomy on [the child], each time after being told ‘no’ and being asked to stop.”
Or perhaps the gentlemen are themselves pedophiles and practice this kind of thing in their own homes. In any event, I’m disgusted.
September 29th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
A ssd commentary in a male dominated world. I started to say what I would have done to him if it had been my daughter, but I think you know. You, Mr. Skwire, are an example of the good men in our society. I believe the good men far out-weigh the bad. And every time the good men gather to collectively stomp out the bad ones, humanity wins.
September 29th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
if it was my kid, Roman Polanski would be dead right now.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:17 am
You read my mind.