It's kinda odd to have Rush Limbaugh be so outraged by the idea that feminists might be willing to give Polanski a late-in-life pass for the horrible offense he committed in Jack Nicholson's house over 30 years ago. Right wing talk radio is using the debate to imply that liberals are hollow moral shells while they - the Hannity's, Beck's and 'Mr Three Times To The Altar' Limbaugh are somehow safe-keepers of girls and women everywhere. How about El Rushbo taking a look at the child sex slave trade in his own backyard in Florida?
I think Polanski is a freakin' slime ball who should have been extradited from France or from Poland decades ago (the two countries he has lived in and whose limited extradition treaties with the US allowed him to live untouched since he fled in 1978). But he wasn't, and in the intervening years he has presumably and hopefully kept away from drugging minors and fucking them in the ass.
With Polanski 76 years old - and his victim extending forgiveness - what exactly do we achieve by extraditing, and locking this man up, bringing the woman and her family back into an unwelcome spotlight? I say - absolutely nothing. Wouldn't it be more productive to have Polanski be required to make a movie about rape and have every ounce of profit be given to the safe houses littering the French countryside where victims of sexual assault take refuge.
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