The untouchables

They are rich. Influential. The object of popular adulation. And, more often than not, above the law. They've been called geniuses, compared to Renaissance artists, praised and rewarded endlessly. They are the so-called Celebrities. Now one of them sits in jail in Switzerland for raping a 13-year old and running away from justice. And big names have flocked to his defense. Yeah, it's the case of Roman Polanski. A petition supported by French intellectual (read media darling) Bernard Henry-Lévi decries the "lynching" of Polanski. It has been signed by some 100 people.

Il est honteux de jeter en prison un homme de 76 ans pour un détournement de mineure - la seule charge retenue, aujourd'hui comme à l'époque, par la justice californienne - commis il y a trente-deux ans.

Such garbage amounts to believing that they are better than us. And therefore allowed to do as they wish. Never mind he drugged a 13-year old girl, took her into a jacuzzi and had sex with her. He was convicted of drugging her and sodomizing her.
I've loved every Polansky film I've seen. I admire his talent. Chapeau. His ordeal as a holocaust survivor moves me. But as a father and a human being who's had to battle his own demons, I hope that justice is done. Maybe he should bring a camera to prison and he just might become the star of "Polansky does the Penitentiary." Perhaps it was fated that he should receive payment in kind.