“It wasn’t ‘RAPE’ rape”
NS September 28th, 2009
You’ve probably heard that director Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland and will likely be extradited back to the United States to face law enforcement officials who want him for fleeing the country in 1977. What was he fleeing from? Rape charges. Rape charges that he admitted and plead guilty to. Who did he rape? A 13-year-old girl. How did he rape her? By telling her he wanted to put her in French Vogue, inviting her to a private residence for a “photo shoot”, drugging her with champagne and quaaludes and then performing numerous sex acts on her, to each of which his victim said ‘No.’ Even if she hadn’t said a word or put up any resistance, he would still be guilty of rape seeing as she was a child.
Polanski used his influence to get the girl alone and put her in a position where she was eager to please and be unlikely to question what was going on. What 13-year-old girl wouldn’t be thrilled to be hand-picked by a famous director to appear in a chic and world-famous magazine? The fact that he fed her drugs and alcohol to make her more compliant and maybe also to cover his tracks tells us a lot. Maybe he thought that later, if he was accused of anything indecent, he could just claim they were both high on drugs and booze and testify that she threw herself at him and he didn’t know she was only 13, honest-to-God, Judge; haven’t you seen how much makeup she wears and how developed her body is? C’mon, give a red-blooded guy a break! he’d say.
Think that’s sounds like a pathetic, bullshit excuse that no one would be stupid enough to use? Well, it works all the time for other men so it’s not farfetched in the slightest, actually. And even now, Polanski’s case has people wondering out loud if the ‘sex’ was ‘consentual’ or not, or if it even matters after all this time and because he’s a famous movie director who has had some tough knocks in life.
*Wait, let me get my hankie out*
Boo-fuckin-HOO! I don’t care if you find a way to solve world hunger or discover the cure for AIDS, if you rape a 13-year-old girl you must be punished for that, no matter how long ago it was.
Some bright sparks are bringing up the statute of limitations in California, as if the victim was only just reporting the rape and poor Polanski was being hunted down and tried for something he may not have done. The guy pleaded guilty, was convicted, and then fled the country because (and I quote, in a whiny, self-important voice) “The judge will give me 100 years.” So yeah, you can take your ‘statute of limitations’ crap and mosy on down to Stupid Town, y’all.
And, as usual, Hollywood is coming to the rescue of one of its own, questioning why Polanski is being arrested after all this time and even saying it’s a waste of taxpayer money.
But with so many far more important cases sitting idle because of budget cuts and lack of manpower, it is hard to fathom why the D.A.’s office is suddenly spending time and money trying to re-energize an ancient sex case when there are so many more nasty characters so much closer to home who need to feel the strong arm of the law
If you need more evidence that some people just can’t wrap their heads around ‘sex’ with a child always being rape, just watch this clip from The View, in which the following exchange takes place:
Whoopi Goldberg (after explaining the basic details of the case): …so I’m asking you guys, should he go to prison?
Joy Behar: I believe that no matter how old you are or how long ago the crime was committed, that you should be punished for it. I mean, he’s a great director. The man suffered the Holocaust, he lost his family, he escaped from the Germans, the Nazis. He lost his wife, Sharon Tate, in the horrible Manson murders. People know about that, he had a terrible time. And he’s a wonderful director. But he did rape a 13-year-old child and…
Whoopi: Wait, wait, wait. Wait, you guys. The language that we use here is very important because that is not the allegation. That is not the allegation. I’m talking legal.
Joy: Allegedly, he plied her with a quaalude and alcohol. And he also pleaded guilty.
Whoopi: Yes.
Joy: So we can assume that he did…
Whoopi: That’s a rape?
Joy: Well, it’s not consentual sex when she’s 13 and he was 40.
Whoopi: Well…
Melissa Gilbert, guest panelist: The grey area is when mama’s in the building [referring to the victim's mother, who apparently is alleged by some to have been around when the rape happened].
Whoopi: Yeah, and mama’s sort of set it up…
Melissa: …taking you to this house…
Sherri Shepherd: Okay, but she’s not being charged, we’re looking at Roman Polanski.
Whoopi: No, but you have to, you can’t, you can’t, if you’re going to look at the suit you have to look at the whole thing.
Melissa: I agree.
Whoopi: This is why some of the legal people say, you know, some of the sentence was a little excessive. Having gotten all the information, some thing should have changed. So I think all Melissa and I are saying is just be aware what he is charged with and what they are doing.
Sherri: I think that as a grown person, take responsibility for the fact that you knew…
Melissa: He did…
Sherri: Take responsibility for the fact that you fled the country as well.
Melissa: I think he’s trying to atone. I think the punishment at this point may be excessive. I don’t know, that’s just my opinion.
Sherri: Why?
Melissa: Well…
Sherri: We tried Nazi war criminals from a long time ago.
Melissa: I think the crime itself is horrible, I just think the circumstances of it are so grey and so mushy and so messed up, and now you have this woman who actually is the victim who, for whatever reason, is saying let’s just back away, walk away from it, he’s…she’s over it.
Sherri: Well, a 45-year-old woman is thinking a lot differently than she was at 13. It doesn’t change the fact that at 13 years old, this woman was drugged and anally penetrated, orally penetrated. So yes, she may have forgiven him and she may have moved on, but still the crime remains. Allegedly…
Whoopi: I am not saying ‘allegedly’…
Star: If it was your daughter, even 10, 12 years later…
Melissa: Does he have daughters?
Sherri: Roman Polanski?
Whoopi: Yes, he does.
Melissa: Well, then, I think he’s going to be very mindful and watchful and I think he should be…
Sherri: So, what, that should be enough punishment?
Melissa: No, not that he has daughters…
Whoopi: Let’s be realistic here. He went to jail and plead guilty to having sex with this young lady. So it’s not like he ‘allegedly’ had sex, he DID have sex with her. What I’m saying is he did not “rape” her because she was aware and, apparently, the family were aware.
Sherri: Was it consentual? I mean, what is rape? What’s the definition of rape?
Whoopi: I don’t know if it was consentual but he was not…
Joy: Wait a second.
Sherri: When you have to give somebody drugs, I don’t know.
Whoopi: What I’m saying is he was not charged with rape, that’s all I’m trying to say.
Sherri: Even if you’re 13-years-old? And…
Whoopi: Wait. Wait! We have to get it correct. If we’re gonna bitch about what he did we have to get it right about what he did.
Melissa: What he did was despicable and disgusting, when you’re that age and have sex with a 13-year-old.
Joy: When a child is 13 years old, it’s called statutory rape. It’s not called anything BUT rape.
Whoopi: He was NOT charged. He was not charged…I know it wasn’t “rape” rape.
Sherri: Statutory rape?
Melissa: Child molest, maybe? I’m not sure.
Whoopi: Maybe child molest, but I don’t believe it was “Rape” rape.
Ah, that clears it up, then. It wasn’t “Rape” rape because the sex may have been consentual (even though she was only 13 so consent to sex with a 44-year-old man is impossible) and because her family may have known what was going on (which makes it okay, she was theirs to pimp out). Got it, good to know.
Remember folks, it’s only rape if you are grabbed from a moving vehicle or from behind in a dark and secluded area and if you are tied up, drugged, and/or beaten to within an inch of your life while struggling, screaming and scratching every second until your attacker either lets you go or kills you! Any other scenario will be torn down and picked apart by people who are too blind to see that rape is about power, not sex, and that children cannot ever have ‘consentual’ sex with adults.
It doesn’t matter if a girl walks up to a man completely naked with two cans of whipped cream, some bondage chains and a sack full of condoms, she is not consenting. If you believe otherwise you are either delusional, looking for an excuse to abuse her, or she is emotionally damaged and in need of therapy, not a quick fuck. Either way, it is rape, not sex. Yep, “Rape” rape.
There is no other kind.
