G'Day All
I was reading an article "Yes, He's talented And He"s a Rapist" written by Lynden Barber.
After reading this article and part of a statement tendered in Court, of the young girl at the time, there is very little difference between Polanski and Ferguson
Ferguson is a low life, Why not Polanski?
I guess it must be that Ferguson was caught sentenced and gaoled before he could escape to somewhere else build a career make a lot of money marry and have a child or two of his own
Ferguson is a low life so too is Polanski
Whether Polanski served his time back then or now what's the difference
Child predators are low life and so are child abusers just because some one has money should make no difference
Thanks have a good life from Dave

I agree dwg, this Polanski guy is as bad as Ferguson, as would be any other convicted paedophile.

I very much doubt that the US courts would go to so much trouble and expence to bring in a suspected (apparently having already pled guilty) paedophile from another country just because he is famous and they want to bring him down!

Whether or not the victims mother condoned or arranged for Polanski to have sex with her daughter to further her career is not relevant.

The girl was 13 for goodness sake. No more excuses.

The comments concerning a politically initiated arrest of, a dare I say it Jewish / polish motivation are e not only naïve but they are embarrassingly stupid.
The Polanski issue has, via traits of a double jeopardy inspired plot, the continued the harassment of an individual under the ploy of justice for the victims of pedophilia. Iitiated by DA Gunson
If the writer attempted to look up the self help groups available to these victims, too numerous to mention here although
Here is link worthy of note!
http://www.nationalalertregister.com/national-alert-registry21.htm
One could easily draw the conclusion Australia was in the hands of radical right wing Christian element of greater malevolence than the so called, evangelistic groups so active in the USA.
What is so annoying to me is that the perception of pedophilia is being associated with the media in such a narrow context as an association by fame rather than actual circumstance.
For this reason alone I would argue that the person making the accusation be as widely publicized and criticized for the wrongful incarceration of the accuse persons, rather than the absolute totalitarian joke that is the legal system In Australia.

Here is a photo of the couple at time of the “alleged rape”.
Remember that Polanski was 45 at the time, and the and the case reads more like a soap opera than a sexual assault.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskicover1.html

The simple fact is that Polanski is still attempting to protect the dignity of the person so central t this case and that the media, and legal system, so paranoid about these circumstance s won’t let it go.
And we have all these ersatz so called anti pedophilic idiots jumping on th band wagon of ignorance and spouting such misleading garbage it’s impossible to tell fact form fabrication.!

thomasfromthecoma
There is no doubt about his guilt
Low Life simple as it is
I suppose you would condone the crap that has gone on with my son as well
I suppose you would condone any other child abuser as well
If the mother or anyone else would allow this to be done to a thirteen year old CHILD is just as guilty as the low life that did the crime
I bet if it was up to Ferguson he wuold say how concerned he is for his victims as well if it was going to get him off the crime he paid so should Polanski
Child Abuse and Child Molestation no forgiveness
The girls statement doesn't seem like she was very much apart of any form of consent and said that the girl was scared of him
Thanks from Dave

dwg stop confusing you oown problesm with polanski. if you actaully can , read , and i assume you can unless, your getting your input this done for you , you would see the obvious level of legal garbage and involvement that has ocurred within the so called legal capabilities of the california legal system . wake up !
ferguson is ferguson , polanski is polanski thats where the resemblance ends

Re CJ Morgan's post of Saturday, 3 October 2009 at 2:55:50 PM.

Polanski was party to a plea bargain with the State of California. According to reports, the terms of that plea bargain were that in exchange for pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse, Polanski was under order of the court to be detained in the State prison system for (up to?) 90 days for psychiatric assessment, with the court agreeing to validate whatever recommendation should arise from that assessment.

In the event Polanski was released by the Department of Corrections after only 42 days a free man. One can only conclude that that release was consistent with the recommendations made, and that there was either a standing authorization, or one specific to the order under which he was detained, for that release. As to whether that order also could be deemed to have the status of a sentence is something I should imagine may well soon be the subject of legal contention in the US: the fact of Polanski's early release seems prima facie evidence that it was so regarded, and is evidence as to the totality of the State of California's part of the plea bargain made.

If release, as opposed to remand for sentencing, occurred (which it did), it would seem that the contention that Polanski is a fugitive from US justice may be nothing more than a post-dated, long-running, face-saving fraud on both the US public and the international community. Make the lie big enough .....?

As to Polanski's testimony, there is none. There was never any hearing. I'll say it again: it was a plea bargain. Plea bargains means public scrutiny of both the basis for the charges, and testimony, is avoided. The only reported testimony is that of Samantha Gailey (now Geimer) before a grand jury, a procedural requirement in the US, as I understand it, for an arrest accompanying the laying of charges, and as such unchallenged as the basis of ALL charges laid, and all but one, withdrawn.

Celebrity blackmail?

http://jdlong.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/something-stinks-in-the-roman-polanski-case-meanwhile-feds-arrest-him-in-switzerland/

'Terminator' to terminate?