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> On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> Of all the comments being thrown around about Roman Polanski, this one is
>> bugging me most:
>> "Whatever you think about the so-called crime, Polanski has served his
>> time. "
>> Harvey Weinstein
>> There's nothing so-called about it. Polanski pleaded guilty and the facts
>> are hardly in dispute.
>>
>> so-called, because the "crime" was *statutory* rape of a sexually mature
> girl aspiring to the career of a Hollywood "model." No injury, no victim,
> no crime.
>
> Smoking Gun put the guilty plea up today or yesterday.
>>
>
> It was a plea bargain for no jail time. The prosecutor and judge pulled a
> bait-and-switch on him, so he scrammed.
>
>
> Shane Mage
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>
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I like film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum's take: "American lynch mobs never die; they only become more self-righteous about their savagery."
shrill