And you still can't muster up condemnation of child rape. She was 13, alone with a middle aged man. I don't care how she was acting, he was the adult and should have known better. Unlike him, she could not force him to have sex with her.
Yes, I can't call a horse a unicorn, either, because you stuck a party hat on it's head.
He had sex with a minor. Just like thousand of people do every day, even though most of them are also minors.
Like I said, try doing what he did. Have a 13 year old girl come to a party under the pretense of doing a photo shoot, give her a Quaalude, then sodomize her behind closed doors in a hot tub. Do you REALLY think "Nobody else heard her say no" would let you get away with it, given that you don't have the connections to the glitterati that Polanski did, even if no one other than you heard her say no? I can see the expressions of disgust on the jurists' faces now. Here's another question. You keep saying that we only have her word that she said no. Did Polanski ever say she did not? If he never claimed that she was lying, you have no standing to keep making that claim for him.
Okay, but here's the thing, the prosecutors had that kind of evidence, and didn't put in front of a jury. And the reason why they didn't is because they did a background check on Little Grifter and Momma Grifter and it probably wasn't pretty.
The fact is, the prosecutors had on one side a mother who was willing to whore out her daughter for fame, and on the other hand, a famous director who had survived the Holocaust and whose wife was murdered by a cult. So they cut the best deal they could. And you know what, I have no problem with the fact that he plead guilty to the misdemeanor and spent 42 days in jail (more than 97% of actual rapists spend in prison)
Also, just because I wouldn't do something, doesn't mean it should be a criminal offense. I wouldn't take drugs, but I think the millions of lives we ruin in the War on Drugs is a travesty.
What would it take for you to condemn a REAL rapist, if you won't condemn a middle aged man who, at the VERY least, took sexual advantage of a confused young girl? Do you applaud what he did?
Okay, buddy, you are going into serious histronics here, and I can't be responsible for your emotional breakdown. I totally condemn "real" rapists. this isn't rape. It's sex with a minor, which is a crime, and was punished in this case. Case closed. I don't applaud what he did, but I also don't think we should still be chasing the man 40 years later because some politicians got egg on their faces.
What would you say to other middle aged men today if they are at a party with a 13 year old girl? Should they give her drugs and sodomize her if "she was asking for it", or should they turn around and stay the heck away from her?
I would say, 1) "Don't do it" and 2) "Where the fuck are your parents!"
The bottom line is, since many men ARE falsely accused of rape, he should never have been alone and naked with her, EVER. He wanted to have sex with her, he took actions to make sure she could not prevent him from having sex with her, and thus rightly wears the label "child molester".
Except that's not what he was charged with. I mean, I guess you can accuse him of anything you want, but at the end of the day, the prosecutors plead him down to a misdemeanor.
So now you are arguing that he should have been convicted of a crime because other men were falsely accused, and he should have known better.. Bud you keep moving the goalposts.