Jay Smooth on the Roman Polanski Situation

[chomiji]

As usual, Mr. Smooth makes plain, clear common sense - which is all too uncommon in most places today:

My feeling on this? Polanski is to blame and shouldn't get off because there will always be young girls (and young boys, for that matter) who are taking their first steps toward a show business or modeling career, and there will always be sexual predators lying in wait for them. Those innocents deserve that this case continue to be handled as a crime, so that those predators will at least hesitate in their intent to indulge their lusts with young flesh. And perhaps some of them will even be dissuaded. As long as crimes like Polanski's are indulgently excused by well-known popular figures, such predators have little reason to hesitate.

Comments

[avierra.livejournal.com]

The thing is, the things he did to that child would have been a crime even if she was 36 rather than 13 (drugged, flagrantly non consensual sex). I truly don't get why people are defending him. It doesn't matter what the girl's motives in going with him were, or what her mother did. The whole thing is just disgusting.

(Oh, so yeah, agree 100%)

[estara.livejournal.com]

Wow. I wish my boys were able to understand English spoken that well and fast, that was so concise and reasoned and could be so useful... I guess I should have stayed a grammar school teacher, I probably could have used this then.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Regarding sexual predators, Polanski defenders, and young boys: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8296578.stm