Perhaps in a way I am defensive of him but I suspect I am really being defensive of Sharon Tate who is being victimized as well in all of this - she was not married to Mr. Perfect any more than many other women including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.  But she was not married to a pedophile or a rapist.  I defy anyone to find anyone who knew her who ever had an unkind word about her.  Despite all the innuendo after the murders, during the trials, during this when it happened and now during this again.  I defy anyone to find anyone who knew him at the time who ever had an unkind word about him.  Or about them.  Despite the innuendo there were no wild parties with platters of pills being passed around.  No orgies.  

And then the phone rang in London. He went nuts. His judgement was clouded.  What was Lolita’s excuse? That sounds cruel but it’s honest.  What was her excuse? She stood in the kitchen at Jack Nicholson’s house drinking champagne with Roman Polanski and Anjelica Huston. A cool chick she was.  How Anjelica Huston described her. A chick.  Not a little girl. He offered her part of a Quaalude. She took it. He didn’t slip it into her champagne. He didn’t tell her the champagne was fizzy grape juice.   She knew what it was. She took her top off the day before. She took her clothes off that afternoon.  Willingly. 

Anjelica Huston defended him.  She could have ended up destroying her career doing so. I suppose that makes her dangerous around children as some believe I am. Simply because she defended him.  She really didn’t defend him so much as she simply told the truth. As she saw it . And she was there.  None of us were.  We can call into question the "he said, she said" but it is difficult if not impossible to call into question what Anjelica Huston saw for herself. 

This is, again, about agenda.  Growingly a political agenda. But also an agenda of advocates. Several of whom I intend never to speak to again as long as I live. They should know better just as Roman Polanski should have known better that day. Just as Samantha Geimer should have known better.  And certainly just as her mother should have known better. 

It was and is a tragedy. Something horrific that happened.  To everyone. All of us.  It was a reflection of mores at the time that were not healthy for our children. We should not glorify Lolitas. Nor should we glorify their men. I am not despite what seem apparently believing I am. I am, however, putting it into perspective.  Lolitas and their men.  You have to look at both.

The moral considerations aside the real issue here is the matter of the case itself. It was closed. Samantha Geimer has stated that in her statement in 2003. This is not about what she did or what he did. It is about what the judge did. 

Do we really want our judges and our juries to be able to change their minds for no reason other than they have changed their minds after pleas are entered and agreements signed off on or after verdicts are rendered because someone has criticized their decisions?  Do we want mob rule after the fact?  

Do we really want judges who reverse themselves because it holds political advantage? That is what happened here. And so Roman Polanski left the country. If he fled as some claim, he fled the Nazis once more.