Content warning: This column contains a graphic description of child molestation.
Child molester, rapist, celebrated pedophile, movie producer and director Roman Polanski has finally been captured, and hopefully justice will be served. Polanski raped a child. That in no way means I find the rape of an adult more acceptable, but this was a 13-year-old little girl – and he sadistically raped her.
Kate Harding nailed it when she wrote: “Let’s keep in mind that Roman Polanski gave a 13-year-old girl a Quaalude and champagne, then raped her. … Let’s take a moment to recall that, according to the victim’s grand jury testimony, Roman Polanski instructed her to get into a Jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she begged to go, began kissing her even though she said no and asked him to stop – performed cunnilingus on her as she said no and asked him to stop – put his penis in her vagina as she said no and asked him to stop – asked if he could penetrate her anally, to which she replied, ‘no,’ then [he] went ahead and did it anyway, until he had an orgasm.” (“Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child”; Salon.com; Sept. 28, 2009)
I hope Kate’s recall of the graphically chilling facts makes you sick to your stomach. I hope you resent my repeating it. Because if it does, you will still have no idea what it was like for that little girl. Think about that.
Which brings me to another point. There is no way that this is the only little girl Polanski ever raped and sodomized. This is the only one we are aware of. Pedophiles and child molesters are incapable of controlling themselves – they invent and rehearse more elaborate means of getting away with their evil.
Rape, incest and debauchery have always been the pantheon of the wealthy liberal elite, and this is exemplified within the ranks of the Hollywood elite. Polanski doesn’t deny what he did, nor does he apologize for doing it. He acts as though it was his divine right as one of the gods of Hollywood.
Hollywood and the wealthy liberal elite have closed ranks in support of Polanski, they see nothing wrong with what he did. Which brings me to those feckless pieces of excrement who are anthropomorphic lurdanes that crawled from the sewers of life and now masquerade as the wise ones of their pantisocracy.
Whoopi Goldberg said that what Polanski did “wasn’t rape-rape – it was something else, but [she] doesn’t believe it was rape-rape.” If what he did to that young child wasn’t rape, what in the high hell was it? Goldberg said, “We’re a different kind of society [today], we see things differently. … [W]ould I want my 14-year-old daughter having sex with somebody? Not necessarily, no.”
It’s hard to ascribe reality to Goldberg’s irrepressible ignorance that is on display for all to see. The depth of commonality inherent in her comment pursuant to her 14-year-old notwithstanding – the question begging an answer is, would she feel the same way if a man – 31 years older than her daughter – drugged her, leaving her conscious and aware but unable to resist – and then anally sodomized her as she pleaded with him not to?
Polanski’s ability to say, “action,” “roll camera,” “that’s a wrap” and “cut,” doesn’t place him above the law. The duplicitous double standards that the liberal elites are shamelessly attempting to apply are appalling. In the real world, Hollywood doesn’t get to decide who and/or on what grounds someone should be adjudicated based on his paradigm of tolerant/intolerant acceptability. Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, Martin Scorsese and Whoopi Goldberg may be among the ruling elite of their kingdom, but in our world, people like Polanski go to jail – where the ophiophaguses would welcome him.
But don’t think this is only about Hollywood – it is an indictment of our press and institutions. It is an indictment against what America has become and is becoming. People such as the Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski – who happens to be the husband of Anne Applebaum of the Washington Post – is pressuring U.S. authorities to drop all charges.
To that point, Goldberg was right – we are in a different kind of society; we do see things differently today. Because there was a time when Polanski would have been condemned, and his only acceptable act of contrition would be felo-de-se by definition.
My personal feelings are that he should experience the same thing he did to that little girl and others who he almost certainly has similarly violated – but it should be done with a scissors and scalpel.
