Over 100 “Artists” Sign Petition To Free Roman Polanski: New York Times Asks, “Why Now?”
The list can be found here, and as Allahpundit over at Hot Air says, most are European types who we never heard of.
Some, however, are household names, including people like John Landis, Johnathon Demme, and Martin Scorsese. And, of course, that paragon of virtue himself, Woody Allen.
I’s like to ask a question: Just what the hell is wrong with these people? They really and truly think that they and their ilk are above the law. What’s a little child rape between friends, eh? And it was so long ago. One argument in favor of Polanski I read this morning actually said that he’d served his time. He couldn’t come back to America. Poor baby. He had to be content getting rich(er) in Europe.
In addition to the Hollywood liberal elite crying in their imported beer over Polanski, the New York Times ran an opinion column by an openly sympathetic Robert Harris that asks, why now? It also makes this incredibly stupid assertion:
So it seems fair to deduce that the capture of Mr. Polanski — who has never been accused of similar offenses before 1977 or since — was an understandably low priority for the California criminal justice system, a system so short of money, that a court ordered it to release 40,000 convicts early because of prison overcrowding.
It was just once, so what’s the big deal, right? That’s quite a rationale Mr. Harris has working there.
Sweet smokin’ Moses.
By the way, another point I’ve seen brought up in several places about this whole thing: What would the liberal take on this be if he had been Father Polanski instead of a film director? They’d be pounding their chests in righteous anger and demanding his liver on a stick instead of signing petitions for his release, that’s what.
