Its okay to rape children in Switzerland if you are famouse

[Red Panda]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...071201129.html


Sure Roman Polanksi drugged and raped a 13 year old. He admitted to that. But what fool thought he should actually pay for his crimes? A whole 90 day senetence? Didn't they know he makes good movies and should be immune to punishment for raping 13 year olds. Its a good thing Switzerland helped out this innocent rapist who is a victim of America's arcane anti rape laws.

But seriously, somebody should just drag this scumbag into the street and shoot him. This is just an outrage. The only reason Roman Polanski is getting away with his rape is because he is famous. Its the worse example of how fame gives somebody a free ticket.

[Rapscallion]

Widmer-Schlumpf emphasized that Switzerland's decision was not based on a determination of Polanski's guilt or innocence but only on the validity of the extradition request presented by the United States and what she described as Swiss national interests. Switzerland blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony about Polanski's sentencing procedure in 1977-1978. The Swiss government said it had sought confidential testimony given Jan. 26 by Roger Gunson, the Los Angeles attorney in charge of the original prosecution against Polanski. The United States rejected the request.

What it actually says is that the US sought his extradition for trial, but failed to provide the required information and therefore failed. A slightly more accurate version of events than your emotive title.

Rapscallion

[Hobbs]

Looks to me like the Swiss were just dragging their feet, Raps. They don't need "confidential testimony" to carry out an arrest warrant.

[Plaidman]

Yeah. American has been after him for years. He always eludes them. They nearly captured him after the sting operation with a award cermonary.

Just like most countries, it's not that they don't want to help, they just want all the paperwork so that scumbags can't use a loophole.

Such as the myspace suicide girl. Owners of myspace really wanted to give all the information to the cops for Megan's suicide. (The girl who's friend's mother pretend to be a cute guy that liked her, to keep an eye on her, and when her daughter and Megan stopped being friends, she went off as that guy and told called all kinds of names and said she should die). But they needed it to be legal, so that it doesn't get thrown out of court because of a stinking loophole.

It wasn't good what he did. But everyone wants it done the legal way to make him pay for as long as possible.

[Rapscallion]

Looks to me like the Swiss were just dragging their feet, Raps. They don't need "confidential testimony" to carry out an arrest warrant.

It's called due process.

Even if everyone is convinced that someone committed a crime, as it seems to be here, they've got to dot the i's and cross the t's.

This does not mean they condone child rapists. It means they have a high regard for the law and defending it.

Besides, if the US authorities really wanted him, they would have given that testimony over.

Rapscallion

[telecom_goddess]

I've made my opinion on this known before. I am glad they refused it and set him free. IT was a long time ago, I still think she participated willingly, I don't believe she was forced, and while it was a huge mistake to do anything with her at that age, it was NOT rape in my book and it should be over and done with already.

[BlaqueKatt]

I've made my opinion on this known before. I am glad they refused it and set him free. IT was a long time ago, I still think she participated willingly, I don't believe she was forced, and while it was a huge mistake to do anything with her at that age, it was NOT rape in my book and it should be over and done with already.

have you read her grand jury testimony? And since when can someone who is drugged be a "willing participant"(he admits to giving her alcohol and quaaludes)-not to mention Roman Polanski himself ADMITS it WAS RAPE-hmmmm.

Asked why she did not more forcefully resist Polanski, the teenager told Deputy D.A. Roger Gunson, "Because I was afraid of him."

Hmmm you're drugged, in a strange place, with a man twice your size who has ignored you saying no and get away several times-but it's not rape?

does rape require it be someone you don't know? Does it require a weapon? or does it just require "I said no and he persisted". She said no, he admits she said no-it's rape.

[Plaidman]

I've made my opinion on this known before. I am glad they refused it and set him free. IT was a long time ago, I still think she participated willingly, I don't believe she was forced, and while it was a huge mistake to do anything with her at that age, it was NOT rape in my book and it should be over and done with already.

Age changes outlook.


When I was alot younger (half the age of the girl Roman raped), I had my babysitter show me porn. I willingly sucked his cock. I willingly took a hanger up my ass. I was scared of my mom finding out because I would be punish for watching porn, but I remember vivided being very willing to do that at the time.

Now I think it's rape. I didn't know what I was doing, and if I knew then what I knew now, I would have bit his nuts in half and ran to my mom.


Is it defined as rape now? Likely not. I was /willing/ after all at the time.

[telecom_goddess]

That girl was no stranger to drugs and alcohol and had consumed them both before. Besides if we are going by what SHE said she has admitted she wants the case dropped herself.

[KnitShoni]

That girl was no stranger to drugs and alcohol and had consumed them both before.

That "logic" wouldn't fly if she had been a grown woman at the time of the incident.

[Hobbs]

That girl was no stranger to drugs and alcohol and had consumed them both before. Besides if we are going by what SHE said she has admitted she wants the case dropped herself.

What she said doesn't matter. Having had drugs and alchohol, her ability to consent was gone. Even if she had been of legal age, that's still tantamount to a date-rape. I can't believe a woman brought up the whole, "She deserved it!" defense.

And Plaid, dude. That's still rape.

[lordlundar]

That girl was no stranger to drugs and alcohol and had consumed them both before. Besides if we are going by what SHE said she has admitted she wants the case dropped herself.

Tough crap for her. When the complaint is initially filed, it's out of the complainant's hand. When the complaint get's investigated, the police are acting in the public interest, not the interest of the person who filed the complaint.

There's a reason why when in a criminal trial, it's "the people vs. the defendant"

[BlaqueKatt]

Besides if we are going by what SHE said she has admitted she wants the case dropped herself.

and you don't think the multi-million dollar settlement he gave her in civil court so as not to discuss the incident has anything to do with that? Yes if she has to testify again(doubtful) she would have to give all that money back.


and Plaid-it's called "child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome"

[Plaidman]

and Plaid-it's called "child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome"

Never made me promise not to tell. Never said no-one would belive me. I was actived for all of it.

I was there. I knew what was happening, and it's one of the biggest things I can't let go of my past.

It's rape to me now, and I hate myself for what I did back then.

But it wasn't rape then, and it's not rape by any definition of the word.

So yeah, I can understand kids of all ages willingly doing sexual acts. I can belive it.

But only because their mental state is different at different ages.

[telecom_goddess]

I don't think girls are asking for it and I think that girls that get raped don't deserve it. I just think she was in this for the money and that he is not a rapist out to get everything that's moving. So shoot me...