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Should Roman Polanski be punished for his crime?

Should Roman Polanski be punished for his crime?


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@earthworm

There can be no exceptions to the law. This guy doesn't get to use a get out of jail free card just because he got away with it for thirty years. He's a pervert and he has to pay the price.

You can't make exceptions to your principles and values. If you could then they wouldn't really be principles and values would they?
 
Flight is a crime. Purdy much the answer to the question.

a judge lying to get a confession is what. is that a crime. he made a deal to get Polanski to confess. then he changed his mind. **** that. your courts suck and the judge is a lying asshole and made this whole mess happen. now they are making the woman suffer. you really need to consider a debate in favor of your courts.
 
I am not trying to judge him at all. He most certainly should face trial, where he would be judged. He is far more likely than most to see a successful legal evasion of punishment, since he has more money than most to spend on lawyers.

We do have a responsibility to those who live in this country to ensure that fleeing is not a way to evade punishment until it is forgotten.

if you have a responsibility to those that live there maybe you should find a different set of judges that keep their word when they make a deal. the woman would not place those charges today and wants this nightmare that your courts are causing to end. some kind of justice.
 
This is exactly what I predicted would happen. Americans/Britons on one side of this issue, and continental Europeans on the other. Obviously the cultural divide on matters of justice is incredibly wide.

yes some of us believe that a man's word in the case of the judge should be honored. some like Kangaroo court American justice.
 
if you have a responsibility to those that live there maybe you should find a different set of judges that keep their word when they make a deal. the woman would not place those charges today and wants this nightmare that your courts are causing to end. some kind of justice.

And that would certainly come up at a trial now if he is brought to the US. That does not change that he is almost certainly a child molester.
 
a judge lying to get a confession is what. is that a crime. he made a deal to get Polanski to confess. then he changed his mind. **** that. your courts suck and the judge is a lying asshole and made this whole mess happen. now they are making the woman suffer. you really need to consider a debate in favor of your courts.

It doesn't change the fact that Polanski raped a 13 y/o girl, then fled justice. After that, it doesn't matter what Polanski was, or wasn't told by some judge.
 
he fled because the deal he made was not going to be honored by a judge that broke his word. If you made a deal to buy a car for 20000 and then the manager says when it is time to write the check, i changed my mind it is 32000 would you stay around to honor your deal by paying 12000 more. it is the same thing. exactly the same thing. would you give up the extra 12000? according to this you would do just that.

And nowhere have I argued that he should be punished more harshly than he plea bargained for. The US courts should accept his guilty plea and punish him in accordance with his deal. But this does not change the fact that he raped a 13-year-old, pleaded guilty, and fled the country.
 
And that would certainly come up at a trial now if he is brought to the US. That does not change that he is almost certainly a child molester.

just like the untried Bill Ayers is a terrorist in the minds and hearts of Americans. well i can see this going down an old road. he is about as much a child molester as you are. no one really even know what happens. but in America you are guilty before you get to court and stay guilty in the minds and hearts of the masses no matter what the court says.
 
just like the untried Bill Ayers is a terrorist in the minds and hearts of Americans.

OK, I didn't want to say this before, but you have absolutely no ****ing clue what you're talking about. Have you ever even been to the United States?

katiegrrl0 said:
well i can see this going down an old road. he is about as much a child molester as you are. no one really even know what happens. but in America you are guilty before you get to court and stay guilty in the minds and hearts of the masses no matter what the court says.

Actually he did get to court. He pleaded GUILTY. And then he fled.
 
just like the untried Bill Ayers is a terrorist in the minds and hearts of Americans. well i can see this going down an old road. he is about as much a child molester as you are. no one really even know what happens. but in America you are guilty before you get to court and stay guilty in the minds and hearts of the masses no matter what the court says.

I have never been accused of a felony, let alone child molesting. He has been, and we in this country have certain rules as to how such a situation is handled. He chose to evade those rules for his own comfort.
 
OK, I didn't want to say this before, but you have absolutely no ****ing clue what you're talking about. Have you ever even been to the United States?



Actually he did get to court. He pleaded GUILTY. And then he fled.

i only recently have been set free by renouncing my US status. so you won't get me there. i lived in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco and LA. That would give me a certain amount of experience there.

he plead guilty to a deal that was changed and he did not stay. he would not have done that had the deal been honored. he would not have said he was guilty if there was no deal. i did that in a Chicago court. i went with guilty for the points and $75 instead of rolling the dice and being found guilty and having to do traffic school and $150 in a fine. it was the same thing he did. in my case the judge honored his deal. in Polanski the judge did not. now tell me what you know that i don't.
 
I have never been accused of a felony, let alone child molesting. He has been, and we in this country have certain rules as to how such a situation is handled. He chose to evade those rules for his own comfort.

no he choose to evade because of a lying judge.
 
just like the untried Bill Ayers is a terrorist in the minds and hearts of Americans. well i can see this going down an old road. he is about as much a child molester as you are. no one really even know what happens. but in America you are guilty before you get to court and stay guilty in the minds and hearts of the masses no matter what the court says.


Bill Ayers confessed to acts of terrorism. It doesn't matter if he has been tried, or not.
 
it was like 30 years ago givem a break
 
it was like 30 years ago givem a break

What if it was your daughter?

Actually, though, his flight from justice only ended a couple days ago. That crimes is still very new.
 
Bill Ayers confessed to acts of terrorism. It doesn't matter if he has been tried, or not.

he did not. that was not a confession that was a statement in a book. a confession comes in when authorities are present and it is signed. he could have said that to sell books. if that was a confession that could be honored he would be in court already. it is a good thing that there are lawyers that understand those things.
 
I used to live in the US. i never realized just how anal Americans can get over silly ****.
this really is silly stuff.

when the woman wants to drop all this why the big deal. what are you all trying to prove?

he fled because the deal he made was not going to be honored by a judge that broke his word. If you made a deal to buy a car for 20000 and then the manager says when it is time to write the check, i changed my mind it is 32000 would you stay around to honor your deal by paying 12000 more. it is the same thing. exactly the same thing. would you give up the extra 12000? according to this you would do just that.

Statutory rape? He forcibly raped a 13 year old girl. He deserves to have the book thrown at him.
 
What if it was your daughter?

Actually, though, his flight from justice only ended a couple days ago. That crimes is still very new.

when he walks you will cry like all the others like you. you'll get over it.
 
it is in my book. he was railroaded but maybe you expect that in your courts.

Railroaded? He walked a BS technicality. He's guilty as hell. You know it and I know it.
 
when he walks you will cry like all the others like you. you'll get over it.

If I see him around my kids, I'm going to give him a double tap to the head and call it self defense. No court in the south would convict me.
 
Statutory rape? He forcibly raped a 13 year old girl. He deserves to have the book thrown at him.

maybe 30 years ago if he were actually guilty. but since the judge got the confession falsely that may not even be so.
 
maybe 30 years ago if he were actually guilty. but since the judge got the confession falsely that may not even be so.

It doesn't matter how long ago it occurred. He plead guilty, he fled, he deserves to do the time. I don't care how old he is.
 
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