It is difficult to believe that, after all these years, Roman Polanski has finally been arrested for raping a 13 year old girl. What is even more bizarre is the widespread support he enjoys in Hollywood. However, it appears that Hollywood is not going to influence average Americans this time. Feminists are taking the lead on the left in condemning Polanski and his supporters. “‘Roman Polanski raped a child. Let’s just start right there, because that’s the detail that tends to get neglected,’ wrote feminist and author Kate Harding in an impassioned column in Salon.” — The Guardian.co.uk. Those liberal voices are harmonizing perfectly with the conservative voices which have long reviled Polanski.
The Guardian owns this story. It’s from The Guardian that we learn what is going on in Polanski’s head: “…he fled to Europe to escape sentence, where he promptly began walking out with Nastassja Kinski, then aged 15. In an interview with Martin Amis, he said if he was a murderer the press and police wouldn’t be so obsessed by him. ‘But… f—king, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f—k young girls. Juries want to f—k young girls – everyone wants to f—k young girls!’”
Do you see what Polanski implies? “…everyone wants to f—k young girls!” Everyone includes you and me. He does not speak for me. I want young girls and boys protected from predators, whether pedophile priests or pedophile actors.
What are we able to discern from the defense of Polanski by the Hollywood elite? They think that a great artist should be excused for pedophilia. Further, by extension of their argument, the glitterati are telling us that they are above the law by virtue of their involvement in the arts.
The Guardian makes a powerful argument that liberals are killing liberalism. Examine their thought, via the links above, on the detrimental effects of multiculturalism on liberalism.
For years I haven’t given much thought to Roman Polanski, but now that he has been arrested, I hope he finally serves his time in prison — a real prison.
