[lbo-talk] Polanski

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Tue Sep 29 22:40:32 PDT 2009


On Sep 30, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
>> On Sep 30, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
>>> And not sex, rape. It's a different thing.
>> Not rape. *Statutory* Rape. Two totally different things.
> No, not statutory rape. Rape rape.
> Read the transcript

No force, no coercion is alleged. If the lady had not been in a legal purdah there would have been no shadow of a case. People are slavering over the "thirteen." Populist puritan prurience on the left and yahoo prurient envy on the right seems to have made for an interesting set of bedfellows.

Shane Mage


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> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
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