Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by mickey disco » Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:40 am

rikhyray wrote:Switzerland, the lovely chocolate land, has no issues protecting blood money of mafia, nazis, terrorists, dictators, take half a century to return properties of Nazi victims, now turns into moral apostle ? Have no problems protecting properties of cannibal dictator Bokassa - but feels moraly obliged to intervene in 30 years old case of little ho pimped by her own mother to Hollywood stars. Would be interesting to know real reason of this action by Swiss police ?
You're calling a 13 year old rape victim a 'little ho'?!?!?

You are a complete and utter cunt for that. Hope it never happens to your sister or cousin.

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by mickey disco » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:12 am

The Salon article that someone linked to earlier summarizes the facts of the case pretty well. The contemporaneous testimony of the victim (under oath, in a court) is reproduced online starting here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskia1.html

Anyone who can read that (especially the second half) without thinking that Polanski deserves punishment for his actions........

The 'justifications' that are being paraded online are just ridiculous.

-'his mum died in the Holocaust' - so fucking what? 6 million people died in the Holocaust. Are all their descendants allowed to rape children, or just ones who direct a few arthouse films?

-'his wife was murdered' - 8 years previously. Very sad. After 8 years he should be at the point where he doesn't need to console himself with 13 year-old girls.

-'the girl looked much older' - pictures of the victim from the time have been reproduced on numerous websites. All I can say to that is 'bullshit', she looks 16 at best. Polanski was 44. Probably also worth mentioning here that Polanski was having an affair with Natassia Kinski when she was 14.

-'it was 30 years ago' - utterly irrelevant. Concentration camp guards etc. are still pursued 60 years on. The only reason that it's dragged on this long is that he's been too busy swanning round Europe attending sycophantic festivals and running from justice.

Fuck the creepy old bastard, send him back to the US and make him do his time.

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Brett Ratner to direct a documentary on Polanski..!!!!!!

Post by Earwax69 » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:50 am

Smoking Gun and The Salon are obviously biased... just read the tone of the articles. Smoking Gun is a freaking mugshots website and Salon is a gossip tabloid, they try to get the widest audience possible.

OMG:

"It seems that Roman Polanski's arrest for raping a 13-year-old girl 32 years ago couldn't have come at a better time for Brett Ratner. Just hours before Polanski was busted in Switzerland, Ratner taped at interview with BlogTalkRadio's "Movie Geeks United" show and announced that he'll produce a sequel to "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired."

"Wanted an Desired" is a Marina Zenovich's 2008 documentary that shed new light on the 1977 trial. Ratner believes that he can deliver a sequel that will try to convince the world that Polanski's case should be thrown out.

"The family has forgiven him. The victim has forgiven him. The rest of the world has forgiven him," said Ratner, who cast Polanski as a French detective in his movie "Rush Hour 3." "The LA judicial system is corrupt. It's horrible."

Polanski himself didn't appear in Zenovich's film, but Ratner said that he has "agreed to participate" in the sequel."


Brett Ratner, come on... :lol:

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Re: Brett Ratner to direct a documentary on Polanski..!!!!!!

Post by mickey disco » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:41 am

Earwax69 wrote:Smoking Gun and The Salon are obviously biased... just read the tone of the articles. Smoking Gun is a freaking mugshots website and Salon is a gossip tabloid, they try to get the widest audience possible.
How is the material on the Smoking Gun biased? It's a transcript of the victim's testimony in court - a matter of record, not editorial material / opinion. Unless you're suggesting they've fabricated the material?

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by Earwax69 » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:16 pm

Hum... you are right, Im surprise, I guess I confounded it with the Salon one.

I'll just shut up.!! :?

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by Machinesworking » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:54 pm

mickey disco wrote:The Salon article that someone linked to earlier summarizes the facts of the case pretty well. The contemporaneous testimony of the victim (under oath, in a court) is reproduced online starting here:
Just to add flame to the fire here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... imer1.html

I think she's the only level headed person in this case. <--- not surprising really, and again, why the whole BS about justice not serving the victims is so lame. :?

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by Earwax69 » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:06 pm

Hey that Z guy, what a pollution! 8O

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by Tone Deft » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:09 pm

:roll: ignore him. giving him attention is what he wants. :roll:
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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by knotkranky » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:19 am

Quoting from the grand jury transcript, with the girl being questioned by a prosecutor:

Q: Did you resist at that time?

A: A little bit, but not really because . . .

Q: Because what?

A: Because I was afraid of him.

Q: Did you take your shirt off or did Mr. Polanski?

A: No, I did.

Q: Was that at his request or did you volunteer to do that?

A: That was at his request.

She said Polanski later went into the bathroom and took part of a Quaalude pill and offered her some, as well, and she accepted.

Q: Why did you take it?

A: I don't know. I think I must have been pretty drunk or else I wouldn't have.

So here she is, at 13, washing down a Quaalude with champagne, and then Polanski suggested they move out to the Jacuzzi.

Q: When you got in the Jacuzzi, what were you wearing?

A: I was going to wear my underwear, but he said for me to take them off.

She says Polanski went back in the house and returned in the nude and got into the Jacuzzi with her. When he told her to move closer to him, she resisted, saying, "No. No, I got to get out."

He insisted, she testified, and so she moved closer and he put his hands around her waist. She told him she had asthma and wanted to get out, and she did. She said he followed her into the bathroom, where she told him, "I have to go home now."

Q: What did Mr. Polanski say?

A: He told me to go in the other room and lie down.

She testified that she was afraid and sat on the couch in the bedroom.

Q: What were you afraid of?

A: Him.

She testified that Polanski sat down next to her and said she'd feel better. She repeated that she had to go home.

Q: What happened then?

A: He reached over and he kissed me. And I was telling him, "No," you know, "Keep away." But I was kind of afraid of him because there was no one else there.

She testified that he put his mouth on her vagina.

"I was ready to cry," she said. "I was kind of -- I was going, 'No. Come on. Stop it.' But I was afraid."

She said he then pulled off her panties.

Q: What happened after that?

A: He started to have intercourse with me.

At this point, she testified, Polanski became concerned about the consequences and asked if she was on the pill.

No, she told him.

Polanski had a solution, according to her.

"He goes, 'Would you want me to go in through your back?' And I went, 'No.' "

According to her, that didn't stop Polanski, who began having anal sex with her.

This was when the victim was asked by the prosecutor if she resisted and she said, "Not really," because "I was afraid of him." She testified that when the ordeal had ended, Polanski told her, "Oh, don't tell your mother about this."

He added: "This is our secret."

But it wasn't a secret for long. When the victim got home and told her story, her mother called the police.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 479.column

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by Machinesworking » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:15 am

knotkranky wrote:Quoting from the grand jury transcript, with the girl being questioned by a prosecutor:
Again.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... imer1.html

That was ten years ago. Let the woman have her peace, all you people wanting blood aren't helping anything. The judge reneged on a deal, screwed it all up for everybody, especially the victim, but yeah, we're sooo concerned about her and how she feels right? Bullshit, it's just drama and focused rage and hatred for his actions that people care about, not justice, not in the least.

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by ikeaboy » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:24 am

Machinesworking wrote: The judge reneged on a deal, screwed it all up for everybody, especially the victim, but yeah, we're sooo concerned about her and how she feels right? Bullshit, it's just drama and focused rage and hatred for his actions that people care about, not justice, not in the least.
So you think this rage and hatred towards his actions is misplaced? I think its entirely appropriate.

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by knotkranky » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:42 am

Machinesworking wrote:
knotkranky wrote:Quoting from the grand jury transcript, with the girl being questioned by a prosecutor:
Again.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... imer1.html

That was ten years ago. Let the woman have her peace, all you people wanting blood aren't helping anything. The judge reneged on a deal, screwed it all up for everybody, especially the victim, but yeah, we're sooo concerned about her and how she feels right? Bullshit, it's just drama and focused rage and hatred for his actions that people care about, not justice, not in the least.
you bet, i'm with you by most accounts. Polanski's a douche is all.

The extradition is crap and I say everything stays as is.

move along, nothing to see here
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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by mickey disco » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:18 am

Machinesworking wrote:
mickey disco wrote:The Salon article that someone linked to earlier summarizes the facts of the case pretty well. The contemporaneous testimony of the victim (under oath, in a court) is reproduced online starting here:
Just to add flame to the fire here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... imer1.html

I think she's the only level headed person in this case. <--- not surprising really, and again, why the whole BS about justice not serving the victims is so lame. :?
She received some sort of undisclosed financial settlement from him, I wouldn't be surprised if this letter was related to that in some way. She may not want it all brought up again at this stage in her life, and that's understandable. But the only person to blame for that is Polanski, for going on the run for 32 years.

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by Machinesworking » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:52 am

mickey disco wrote: But the only person to blame for that is Polanski, for going on the run for 32 years.
No, the media is to blame for that, and the court of public opinion that hashes this out for their own satisfaction.
Here's another ten year old article where she states her side, very clearly.
http://www.people.com/people/archive/ar ... 52,00.html

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Re: Polanski arrested in Switzerland on US warrant!!

Post by mickey disco » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:16 am

Machinesworking wrote:
mickey disco wrote: But the only person to blame for that is Polanski, for going on the run for 32 years.
No, the media is to blame for that, and the court of public opinion that hashes this out for their own satisfaction.
Here's another ten year old article where she states her side, very clearly.
http://www.people.com/people/archive/ar ... 52,00.html
Completely disagree. If he'd have done his time 32 years ago that would have been the end of it, and no-one would care about the victim now. I actually think it's very strange of her to complain about the media spotlight after she's given a number of interviews about the incident over the years, and allowed herself to be photographed at media screenings of Polanski's films, but that's just my opinion....

Besides, her wishes at this stage are irrelevant - the justice system serves society as a whole, not individuals, and society views the crime in question as extremely serious and worthy of punishment. Why should a child rapist get let off the hook just because the victim, following receipt of a substantial amount of money, says she forgives him? What about if instead of forgiving him, she asked that all her male relatives could kick him to death - would you support her wishes then, as well?

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