Roman Freak, Polanski's Crimes Diminished By The Careless And Undisciplined Left

Polanski, the name first gathered meaning for me not for the famed movie director's professional work, but for the terrible crime committed against his young, and pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, at the evil hands of the Manson Family. Murder, and that understates the atrocities of that deranged cult, and so senseless. Why, we asked? What a shame! What a waste!

In the aftermath of that horrific crime I felt sympathy for Mr. Polanski. I saw him as a tragic figure, a victim too, just as surely as Jackie Kennedy was after that day in Dallas. Poor man, we empathized. He must be suffering so, I thought. All of that good will undermined when he raped a thirteen year old year girl eight years later.

I'm not the naive youth I was once was, so it comes as no surprise that there are those that now defend, or at the least diminish Mr. Polanski's crimes. Their discount of this pedophile's rape of a thirteen year old girl,

There is, apparently, more to this crime than it would seem, and it may sound like a hollow defense, but in Hollywood I am not sure a 13-year-old is really a 13-year-old.-Tom Shales, a Hollywood movie critic.

is appalling, even if it isn't a surprise, and yes it is hollow. A position such as Mr. Shales emotes above isn't from a place of sympathy for Polanski, it comes from indifference and ignorance. TommyBoy doesn't bother to wonder how it came to be that thirteen-year-olds in Hollywood are open to being abused; take a hint Tommy, it is because of pedos like Roman Polanski that kids are, (what term would he understand, maybe he would say?) , growing up too fast! Polanski was not the victim of an early teen-aged siren calling him to his demise, he was/is a predator who drugged and raped a child!

And, he is also unrepentant, a fugitive from justice who likely raped many more girls during his illegal freedom. Pedophiles don't change, they find their next victim; isn't that what we have heard time and again as this nation's children are abused? Ironically, this so-called great artist, (er, bullshit artist, freak, scumbag), has done less to promote the betterment of humanity than has his wife's killer in the last forty years. She died in prison while trying to atone for her misdeeds. Mr. Polanski should now meet the same fate, death while in prison (he is now in his 70's, do the math, if he gets the proper sentence). But if that happens, will he be rewarded while there with the courage to admit his wrong, the integrity to show remorse, and, the humanity and selflessness to atone for his acts in the manner that Susan Atkins chose; will he work to prevent the crimes he committed from happening in the future? I doubt he will, poor man.