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Roman Polanski made headlines this week, when he was arrested in Zurich after spending 31 years as a fugitive felon. Polanski pled guilty to drugging, raping, and sodomizing a 13 year old girl, but fled the country before he could be jailed for his crime.
Whoopi Goldberg is now, apparently, a pedophile apologist, claiming Polanski’s crime wasn’t “rape-rape.” Hollywood elites have rallied around the director, signing a petition to “Free Polanski”. Harvey Weinstein, Martin Scorcese, and David Lynch are just a few celebrities who have demanded that Polanski go free.
After all, it happened a long time ago and Polanski makes good films. Why should he be punished, simply because he feloniously assaulted a child?
Coincidentally, the topic of statutory rape has touched the White House. One of Obama’s ubiquitous czars, Kevin Jennings, has come under fire for encouraging a 15 year old student to continue a sexual relationship with a grown man he met in a bus station bathroom. The so-called “Safe Schools Czar” told the student to use a condom, instead of reporting the relationship as required by law.
This follows a summer of investigative reporting by Lila Rose, who found that Planned Parenthood was also covering up rape and teaching clients how to lie to circumvent laws that require reporting of incest and statutory rape. Planned Parenthood continues to receive $350 million from tax payers to fund their clinics, and celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Blythe Danner continue to lend their names and likenesses in various Planned Parenthood campaigns.
Has pedophilia and child molesting become so mainstream that Americans are no longer outraged at the violation of our children? Instead, pedophiles and the people who aid and abet them are lauded and rewarded with high level positions and media awards.
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Incredible.
I followed the Whoopi Goldberg link to a video of her reference to "rape rape" on The View.
She rather pompously lectures the other 'panellist' ( is that what they are?) about how important it is to know 'exactly what happened', so that 'we know what we're talking about here'. And then invents this new term of "rape rape". As though that cleared up the confusion.
Outrageously, she then goes on to explain to provincial Yankee types, who may not be aware that the whole world isn't shopping at Walmart and eating Tootsie rolls, that the rest of the world doesn't see it the same way. Being an actress and all, she is better aquainted with the 'rest of the world' than you hill billy hicks.
She names 'Europe' as an example of these more (presumably) 'progressive' and enlightened attitudes.
Really? Does she really think that in Europe, drugging and sodomising ANYONE, let alone a 13 year old is not absolutely considered "rape". And even "rape rape" too Whoopi.
But you know what? I'll bet that if it was a US soldier in Gitmo who drugged and sodomised a female inmate, then that, THAT, would most certainly be "rape rape".
It's disgusting, isn't it? I wonder what happened to the God-given common sense of these Hollywood folks. Great article, Lisa.
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