http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/polanski-tug-of-war-begin_n_301545.html

poor..poor Roman. maybe he shouldnt have been fucking 13 year old girls then?????? 

That's a fair point Ryan. Good topic.

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That's a fair point Ryan. Good topic.

i can has ps3?

why are you copying my avatar

something Mince started a few weeks ago, copying avatars you find visually offensive. you're supposed to make your own ms paint rendition of it first. also ed is a backwoods yokel hick so he probably thinks it's funny for other reasons

why are you copying my avatar

Don't derail the topic.

Polanski you fool

I don't see the point of this, that was over 30 years ago and even the """victim""" doesn't care anymore

something Mince started a few weeks ago, copying avatars you find visually offensive. you're supposed to make your own ms paint rendition of it first. also ed is a backwoods yokel hick so he probably thinks it's funny for other reasons

ive been residing in ~banland~ for the past couple weeks so guess i'm out of the loop.

i'm just gonna assume that ed hates black people so here's a lil paste from my sociology class discussion board that ed probably agrees with:

Speaking of Malcom X, I went to school in the county and blacks were allowed to wear Malcolm X and other sayings of white discrimination but I wore rebel flags daily and had them in my locker and in my truck and got it all taken away from me, along with 50 more kids. I saw this alot in my school, if you were black the teachers and staff wouldnt say a word to you but if you were white we were considered being prejudice. And the NAACP came to investigate. That was stupid. We dont have a white society that helps us, or white college grants, or white colleges. Yet we have NAACP, black college grants, and black colleges. Maybe I need to research more, but I cant figure that out. And not other culture such as the chinese or japanese have organizations to help them because of their color or nationality.

I have black, asian, chinese, japanese, etc. friends. But I wore rebel flags, its a heritage thing not a hate thing. It drove me nuts in high school to see the blacks with blacks and the whites with whites. We are all the same and should get along. This is 2009, before long there will be no black, white, chinese, japanese, mexican, everyone keeps mixing and cultures are all coming together. Before long we will be just one big mix, then no one can say anything.

I dont care how hard immigrants work, they have it made in America.

The difference between immigrants from generations before and the immigrants now is that the people who came before worked hard and paid taxes! They did not work under the table as many of these people do and they did not send much of their money earned back to the country they came from. That is what a lot of Latino's do that come here. I am not racist by any means but I believe in being fair. Yes, I agree with you that Americans are lazy now and that has a lot to do with our jobs being taken. I just don't believe that it's fair for these immigrants to not have to speak english and not pay in to our government. Instead they receive all sorts of handouts that even the people born here are not eligible to receive. Is that fair?

Yeah the 30 year thing seems weird but meh you can't just get away for shit just because it happened 9000000 years ago.

OH SORRY I SHOT JFK BUT NOONE FOUND ME ALL THIS TIME SO WERE COOL, RIGHT?



p.s ryan yo avatar is sweet

Justice must be served... at all costs

ahahaha what the hell, he was charged, convicted, and fled. this really isn't defendable, it's not like someone just found out he did it, he was meant to go to prison and he ran away ahahahaha

Haha love the Pinochet reference Dada XD

Sure, he committed rape [well, ][/well,] and fled the country before sentencing [even ][/even], but he was forced to avoid countries with extradition policies that would jeopardize his freedom for thirty years so it's all cool, right?!?

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What... using various laws to escape a conviction is fine but using the same tactics to catch and extradite him is wrong? Lets have the lawyers figure this one out. Everyone else should fuck off.

"(He has) atoned for the sins of his young years," Jacek Bromski, head of the Polish Filmmakers Association, told The AP. "He has paid for it by not being able to enter the U.S. and in his professional life he has paid for it by not being able to make films in Hollywood."

Like this guy.

In Paris, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he hoped Polanski could be quickly freed by the Swiss, calling the apprehension a "bit sinister." He and his Polish counterpart Radek Sikorski wrote to Clinton and called Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey about the case.

And these guys. Especially these guys since it was the policy set by people in their position that lead France to deny the US's extradition requests to begin with. It's out of their hands now and they should definitely fuck off.

With that said this is pretty disgusting. Money and acclaim shouldn't give you access to bullshit plea bargains or excuse you of the crimes you've committed and neither should cash settlements with rape victims, which, according to testimony and his guilty plea, is what exactly what happened. Oh, and lets not forget that she was 13 at the time when he lured her in, drugged her up, and raped her on top of fleeing the country before the real sentencing hearing of said acts would commence.

Oh well, I guess the Zürich Film Festival will have to send their life time achievement award to his cell back in the states.

Sure, he committed rape [well, not real rape, only statutory rape under US law right?] and fled the country before sentencing [even though he served 42 days!!!], but he was forced to avoid countries with extradition policies that would jeopardize his freedom for thirty years so it's all cool, right?!?

I think it was real rape