The fact that the victim says she wants him freed is irrelevant. After all, she has been outed as a rape victim, no anonimity for her. Everytime it's been in the news she's had her humiliation rubbed in her face. She wants it to be over. I imagine she wants it gone from her life, she wants to be who she is, not Roman Polanski's victim. and nobody will let that happen. keep to the Fen Causeway
It would be easy to file them under conspiracy-theory paranoia if it weren't for the way that the stories and reports keep surfacing, and the apparently inconsistent standards that apply to famous people.
This whole campaign against Polanski must have something else behind it.
Why would he be singled out when, during the 1960s-80s Los Angeles 'free love' movement, any number of prominent movie and music stars - Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Denis Hopper, Jim Morrison, to name only a few - were engaged in luxury home, pool-side, drugged out orgies? Virtually all of this took place in notorious Laurel Canyon where, for several decades, underage girls were consumed like hors d'oeuvres.
How many parents are on record as having objected?
This is not to condone Polanski's act, by any means, but the LA police department might have done better to do a thorough investigation of the murder of Polanski's pregnant wife, which was studiously thwarted, than to have pursued Polanski for what was known to authorities to be common Laurel Canyon practice.
One might wonder even whether Polanski knows a thing or two about the Laurel Valley drug / sex / murder racket that authorities would prefer to ensure were kept under wraps. .
I'm quite sure Samantha regrets the mistake of coming out in 1997 but her present notoriety is largely her own undoing. She relinquished her "right to be forgotten."
For a thorough treatment of the case I suggest reading Gerald Posner's Polanski's Next Escape and related articles linked on the dailybeast site.
In the end, this is not something that Hillary or Barry can touch. In addition to lock-stepping seniors into happy euthanasia camps, they can't take on a label of letting old geezers get away with raping teenagers.
This will run its course. The Superior Court in California will have to drop the case for lack of something, and that will be that. Unfortunately for Polanski, since he has run from sentencing before, he probably won't be allowed free on bond. So he will do some time until it all winds through the system...starting now, I presume. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
