NEWS ITEM: Famed filmmaker Roman Polanski pleaded guilty, 31 years ago, to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. He then fled the country to avoid punishment. Today, at the age of 76, he is being detained by Swiss authorities, at the request of U.S. officials seeking his extradition.
Polanski has a roamin’ eye,
(Or is it “Roman”?) What a guy!
The lass involved was never mugged
(He claims) — but just a little drugged.
The now-forbidden drug, Quaalude,
Eased Roman’s path to actions lewd.
He fled abroad his life to live,
From U.S. law a fugitive.
Arrested now in Switzerland,
He faces stringent reprimand.
Today he voices deep lament,
Resisting delayed punishment.
There looms an ugly legal fight
As U.S. seeks to extradite.
His lawyers fume and rail and shout
He didn’t mean the law to flout.
He’s made some classic movies since:
Atonement for his erstwhile sins?
In Hollywood his friends suggest
The matter should be laid to rest.
Will Roman’s case, then, be dismissed?
Will he get slapped upon the wrist?
Perhaps his punishment should start
With quite another body part.
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A Poem for Stanley the Compassionate
Hey Stanley, when you do the dickectomy on Roman Get the knife that Mansons followers used to dismember his 8 months pregnant wife.
that'll learn him ....
on second thought put in the same prison as Manson and throw away the key.
that's the ticket ....
then again you could always send him to Auschwitz where Romans mother was gassed.
Justice! we want Justice!
Dov
Dov, what is your point, exactly?
I'm tired of this rape being called "sex with a 13 year old" - it wasn't a simple case of illicit sex, he drugged her and penetrated her in every possible way. Let me repeat, that was done to a 13 year old. There is nothing funny about it.
of course there is nothing funny about this case. who is laughing?
not me.
my point is not to excuse what Roman did. Nowhere in my remarks did I justify in anyway what he did.
Roman plead guilty to the crime. HE PLEAD GUILTY ... and was confined to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation. after that confinement and evaluation it was recommended that his sentence for his crime be time served and further evaluation. His state of mind at the time was judged compromised enough to merit being a mitigating factor in his sentence.
Roman agreed to the plea deal and so did the district attorney and the judge.
After the agreement the judge let it be known he was considering breaking the deal and sentencing Roman to a long prison term. there was evidence that outside parties were pressuring the judge to break the deal. Plea deals are done in this country all the time, btw. So, rightly fearing for his life, Roman fled.
The victim has publicly said many times, for years, that she does not want Polanski incarcerated.
btw, there is also nothing funny about Polanksi's mother being gassed in Auschwitz.
There is nothing funny about Polanski being a homeless 8 year old boy in the Krakow ghetto under Nazi occupation after the murder of his mother in Auschwitz.
There is nothing about his wife being stabbed and sliced to death while 8 months pregnant by one of Charles Mansons killers. This brutal horrifying murder of his wife happened just a few years before Romans crime, so it is an absolutely fair point to wonder about the state of mind of a man who has gone through the horrors of life that Polanski has.
Mercy and compassion for Polanski are my points, not excusing what he did. This case is not so black and white as some would like to believe.