Their logic is that the crime is so ancient and that the victim has let it go, so there's no point in pursuing him. I see their point, but I don't agree with dropping the charges. Everyone who wants to punish Polanski is motivated by a desire to punish deviant behavior, a crime against society as it were. Me? I'm honest about it: I don't like guilty bail jumpers.
I'm honest about it. The bastard needs to serve the rest of his paltry time and some more on top of it for new charges of bail jumping, fleeing the country and evading justice. And some people mock the "Why? As an example of all the other rapists in Europe?" angle and I say...no....as an example to anyone who thinks jumping bail and fleeing the country is a great idea.
Considering Muad only bumped this after I started grilling him about slavery, I'm beginning to suspect his motivations here are less that sincere. That's not even taking into account all the "hilarious" pedobear pics he's posted over the years.
You trolled and got trolled back, so don't start whining and crying about it. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.
This cartoon has convinced me. Fry the bastard. I still think the money and resources required could be better spent, though.
Justice has a dollar limit, huh? Actually, it does and that's the problem. In this case, it was money well spent.
High profile cases demand prosecution. Otherwise, every asshole who winds up prosecuted for similar crimes will complain that "the system" lets rich, white males go.
We live in a world of finite resources. Personally, I'd rather see a repeat drunk driver locked up for life instead, but that's just me.
No it wasn't a two month sentence. By running the idiot before sentencing the idiot now faces all six original charges and of course the fleeing charges. Hopefully he gets life in prison with no parole.
Overusing a meme (to creepy limits, I'll admit) is one thing; actually doing it and condoning the practice is another. Flawed argument is flawed.
Meh. I'm not going to call the guy a pedo or a racist, but how many times does someone get to make the same "joke" before it starts raising eyebrows?
Oh. By the way, evil old fuck Gore Vidal has employed the "she was asking for it defense." No, really. He literally called the victim a "hooker". Then he goes on to accuse the press of being...anti-Semitic???
If we had a Nazi-apologist poster that kept making jokes about killing Jews, but insisted the Holocaust was a bad thing, what would you think of that person? Oh, and he keeps trying to point out how the Holocaust was France and Britains fault as well, and how WWII was really "the war of Russian aggression."
Are you really resorting to "I know you are, but what I am?" This topic really flusters you, doesn't it? Gonna answer the Nazi question?