Then about a year ago I saw the HBO documentary on him and it seemed he was railroaded by a really crazy judge and a not-so-perfect Los Angeles prosecuting system. But after that, when he was offered a deal by the very law that had convicted him, he still didn’t come back to the U.S. to face the music.

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You watched the HBO documentary and yet somehow believe that Roman Polanski should trust anyone in our justice system?

The law is indeed the law. And the law is what needs to be held accountable in this. Not Roman Polanski.

No one can understand why we no longer have the respect of other nations - this is added to the list of why. 

Everyone’s acting as if it were just plain statutory rape, consensual on the part of the minor (as if that ould be okay). _________________________

Maybe because that is what everyone involved including the prosecutors determined it to be. Consensual but statutory rape.  There may have been non-consensual acts committed.  The prosecutors dropped the charges regarding those acts. 

He admitted guilt, he was convicted, sentence was passed and he ran. He should be put in prision. He raped a young girl who may have had to undergo years of therapy to release herself from the emotional prison he caused.

And since we don’t know what he’s really been doing all these years, and studies show that this type of behavior is almost never a one time event, how many other young girls did he pottentially victimize?

He should be thankful we are not the country that cuts off the portion of the body that commited the crime.

In a country where people like Foley and Taggart are our spiritual and moral compasses, where members of the clergy are routinely hustled off to the ecumenical versions of "Betty Ford" only to be loosened on new parishes, records redacted. Where a guy of twenty one, once caught necking with a seventeen year old and is branded as a sex-offender for life and must register as such.

When a bunch of "good old boys" can drag a gay kid behind a truck then kick the living daylights out of him and not even get a slap on the wrist; when there is so much more to worry about in this old world of ours how can any of you take such a pseudo-moralistic approach to Polanski.

Had any of you bothered to bone up on the history you might have just a little empathy, like CB has, for the situation. After all she narrowly missed sharing the same fate of Sharon Tate.

Yes, RP did something really, really bad. Yes, there was serious wrong doing in the Judicial as well as the Prosecutorial process, several times. And yes, some sort of even handed approach toward resolution is necessary. But NO, a screaming mob does NOT need to be appeased; on the other hand they cannot be ignored. Hopefully better leaders, better role models and better education will out in the evolution of personal ideals, how we regard others, our planet and ourselves; in that order.

God help us all if not. 

As a child I was molested, by my father.  When I was in my 20’s he forced a confrontation and I told him what I thought of him.  That night he blew his brains out!  He managed to spend his last hours yelling insults and obscenities at my mother and blaming her for his actions!  So, my primary abuser gave me justice.

Now, almost twenty years later, my mother has died and left me some money.  My older brother has decided that he has the right to steal my inheritance.  My older brother was my secondary abuser, he beat me viciously and often in front of his friends, who found it amusing.  I am living on a disabiltiy income because my body is worn out from the first twenty years of beatings.  I don’t have the money to pay for a lawyer so my brother will get away with stealing $66,000 from me, someone who desperately needs it. 

Yes, I think Polanski should go to jail.  All rapists should go to jail.  But let’s look at the big picture.  There are millions of women out there like myself who have suffered the same abuse and continue to suffer because they are under the control of men who continue to abuse them.  The real cowards are the men in power who, firstly, refused to go after Polanski when her first ran away, like a low-life coward, secondly, these men continue to keep the laws in favour of the men who abuse. 

Just count how many women are beaten to death each year.  How many men end up on those ridiculous talk shows justifying the abuse of their female partners or daughters!  Why aren’t they in jail?

Let us also not forget the stupid women who actually chase after these abusive men to father their children!  How stupid are they?  My mother was raised during WWII in Hungary and in a war camp and finally in Germany.  I have no doubt she was raped.  She had no mother, her mother died before the war.  She had no-one to teach her that this was wrong so that when it was happening to me she blamed me rather than my father.  My mother had nothing but abuse her own life, her father, her grand-parents, her step-mother, her sons, and finally the medical system in Quebec where she lived the last fourty years of her life. 

Women who are born in North America have more of a chance to learn that this abuse is wrong yet they are so desperate to have any penis in their lives that they don’t care about the quality of the person wearing the penis or how that person treats them or their children. 

If you are reading this site you have the intelligence to know abuse is wrong, yet how many of you out there allow a man to control your life?  But, we have to have a man!  After all, almost all of the women’s magazines tell us every day - we are nothing without a man, any man!  Hence the closing of the tragic circle: women allow men to abuse them because we tell ourselves and each other that we have to have a man; men allow men to abuse women because they have the power and just maybe they’re doing it themselves!

Thanks for taking a minute to read my rant on Roman Polanski, peodophile, rapist.