Thread: Roman Polanski. Why are people sympathectic to this guy?

I dont get it. He drugged and raped a 13 year old girl, pled guilty and then ran to another country before being sentenced. I dont get why the media gives this guy a pass cause it happened a long time ago and he is a good director. These same news people were still bashing Michael Jackson years after he showed up to court and proclaimed his innocence after being accused of something similar. And even though he was found not guilty they continued to say horrible things about him and call him a peadophile and predator... But this Polanski guy ran like a coward and got to enjoy a great career and new life without facing the music. This CNN news guy just said, well it was 30 years ago and he has a new family now..etc...It seems that more and more the news is becoming almost all opinion and no facts. F@ck The Pianist, I fell asleep during that sh@t.

Sex with a minor is wrong, but drugged and raped? Pedophile? Lets not over dramatize. Who know how old she seemed. Anyways, not to excuse what he did, but he was obviously totally fucked up over the murder of his wife at the hands of the Charles Manson crowd.

Your wife being murdered is no reason for drugging and sodimising an underage girl. I like some of Polanski's films but have no sympathy for that kind of behaviour.

Originally Posted by miles

Your wife being murdered is no reason for drugging and sodimising an underage girl. I like some of Polanski's films but have no sympathy for that kind of behaviour.

Exactly, someone like that gotta pay for it like anyone else... The fact is it wasn't sex or relations like that, he actually abused her...... If you think of what that does to the girl, then it shouldn't make any difference if he's a direction or a heroin junkie now, he should get the same punishment...


Certainly not any sympathy just because he has what is considered a highly respectable and appreciated position in our society as a director...

Of course he probably is a great guy these days to everyone, but that's not the point.. Jails probably have plenty of great guys who've done one dumb thing, but you do something that takes that much away from another human being, it doesn't matter what else you have going for you, you gotta pay..

Hollywood always forgives "genius"...ever wonder how Woody Allen keeps making movies after what he's done?

Originally Posted by Lyle

Hollywood always forgives "genius"...ever wonder how Woody Allen keeps making movies after what he's done?

Ha ha ha! very good, but i dont think its anyones business what mia farrow does with that chinese dude woody allen brought home. Peter Griffen is a genius!

Originally Posted by miles

Your wife being murdered is no reason for drugging and sodimising an underage girl. I like some of Polanski's films but have no sympathy for that kind of behaviour.

With regards to his wife, well like i said, it wasn't to excuse or sympathize with the behaviour, but it does provide some insight into his state of mind, if that sort of thing interests you. He was a normal guy at one point, and he has zero history of this kind of thing.

As for the drugging bit, it's more like he gave them to her, and she took them. Yeah it's wrong, but it's not like he slipped something into her drink to incapacitate her.

Forget the anal sex part, unless you consider that to be somehow worse than the "normal variety", in which case you're getting moral.

Anyways, I'll repeat my point, this time pay attention. Yes what he did was dead wrong, it was also a crime. But the conviction was for unlawful sex with a minor, not for rape. I see a difference. It wasn't your typical act of violence. A rapist he ain't. So there's no need to portray this as being any worse than it already was. You might consider what the victim herself has to say about it. "An unpleasant memory...but I can live with it.., he made a mistake,... but he's paid his dues and he's not a danger to society"

The media do seem to give him a free pass and yeah, it could because of catherine tate.

I think the reason that Jacko couldn't shake it off is because of hos much he was in the spot light... the media and most of the people they serve are vultures who love to watch somebody go down crashing asn burnung and Polanski didn't have that level of exposure.

....what if that 13 year old was your daughter?

Originally Posted by CGM

Sex with a minor is wrong, but drugged and raped? Pedophile? Lets not over dramatize. Who know how old she seemed. Anyways, not to excuse what he did, but he was obviously totally fucked up over the murder of his wife at the hands of the Charles Manson crowd.

Of course he's a pedophile, how can giving drugs to a 13 year old and then fucking her in the bum possibly be justified under any circumstances?

He should get at least 5 or 6 years, it sends out a terrible example.

He's actually far worse than that Geofrey Leonard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSB4sQGT_4

This guy is a seen as a monster and evil to the core yet he did no worse than Polanski. Of his two 'victim's one was 16 so of perfectly legal age to be butt fucked with decency, and his younger 13 year old brother voluntarily went to the house for some mutual sucky time.

The only difference is Geoffrey didn't flee the country when convicted but accepted the charges, and went to court and was charged.

Fuck Roman Polanski, if it was ok to ply a 13 yr old girl with drinks and then pound her bum hole everyone would be doing it.

The whole point is that it isn't and therefore he should get punished.

And lets not forget he also fucked Nastassja Kinski at 15 too. He liked them young, don't get me wrong, if I could get away I'd fuck a 15 year old Kinski too, she was smoking hot back in the day, but it's wrong and you can't get away with it.

Fuck Polanski, stick in the slammer and let him die in jail.

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Originally Posted by CGM

Sex with a minor is wrong, but drugged and raped? Pedophile? Lets not over dramatize. Who know how old she seemed. Anyways, not to excuse what he did, but he was obviously totally fucked up over the murder of his wife at the hands of the Charles Manson crowd.

Of course he's a pedophile, how can giving drugs to a 13 year old and then fucking her in the bum possibly be justified under any circumstances?

He should get at least 5 or 6 years, it sends out a terrible example.

He's actually far worse than that Geofrey Leonard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSB4sQGT_4

This guy is a seen as a monster and evil to the core yet he did no worse than Polanski. Of his two 'victim's one was 16 so of perfectly legal age to be butt fucked with decency, and his younger 13 year old brother voluntarily went to the house for some mutual sucky time.

The only difference is Geoffrey didn't flee the country when convicted but accepted the charges, and went to court and was charged.

Fuck Roman Polanski, if it was ok to ply a 13 yr old girl with drinks and then pound her bum hole everyone would be doing it.

The whole point is that it isn't and therefore he should get punished.

And lets not forget he also fucked Nastassja Kinski at 15 too. He liked them young, don't get me wrong, if I could get away I'd fuck a 15 year old Kinski too, she was smoking hot back in the day, but it's wrong and you can't get away with it.

Fuck Polanski, stick in the slammer and let him die in jail.

Wait... so you wouldn't do it because you couldn't get away with it?

Originally Posted by JazMerkin

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Originally Posted by CGM

Sex with a minor is wrong, but drugged and raped? Pedophile? Lets not over dramatize. Who know how old she seemed. Anyways, not to excuse what he did, but he was obviously totally fucked up over the murder of his wife at the hands of the Charles Manson crowd.

Of course he's a pedophile, how can giving drugs to a 13 year old and then fucking her in the bum possibly be justified under any circumstances?

He should get at least 5 or 6 years, it sends out a terrible example.

He's actually far worse than that Geofrey Leonard.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSB4sQGT_4
This guy is a seen as a monster and evil to the core yet he did no worse than Polanski. Of his two 'victim's one was 16 so of perfectly legal age to be butt fucked with decency, and his younger 13 year old brother voluntarily went to the house for some mutual sucky time.

The only difference is Geoffrey didn't flee the country when convicted but accepted the charges, and went to court and was charged.

Fuck Roman Polanski, if it was ok to ply a 13 yr old girl with drinks and then pound her bum hole everyone would be doing it.

The whole point is that it isn't and therefore he should get punished.

And lets not forget he also fucked Nastassja Kinski at 15 too. He liked them young, don't get me wrong, if I could get away I'd fuck a 15 year old Kinski too, she was smoking hot back in the day, but it's wrong and you can't get away with it.

Fuck Polanski, stick in the slammer and let him die in jail.

Wait... so you wouldn't do it because you couldn't get away with it?

Mate if the law said it was ok to fuck a 15 year old Nastassja Kinski and she was up for it I'd happily plough her beanfield guiltfree.

But the age of consent is 16 and so therefore I wouldn't go there.

In fact as I'm now 35 I wouldn't have sex with anyone under 18, would feel a bit weird even for me.

Originally Posted by Bilbo

Mate if the law said it was ok to fuck a 15 year old Nastassja Kinski and she was up for it I'd happily plough her beanfield guiltfree.

But the age of consent is 16 and so therefore I wouldn't go there.

In fact as I'm now 35 I wouldn't have sex with anyone under 18, would feel a bit weird even for me.

Well, I'm certainly not defending him here, as now being 23, I wouldn't get with any girl under the age of 18, but I'm guessing if got with Kinski in either Poland or France, he was in fact NOT breaking the law as the age of consent in both countries is 15, in fact in Spain I believe it is 13.

But for me, it's more of a moral issue, as you know fucking young girls is... well, you know... disturbed & wrong. I think once I got to the age of 17, the idea of shagging a 15 year old became disgusting to me.