Sunday, May 2, 2010

Roman Polanski breaks his silence


Roman Polanski has issued a rather lengthy statement today. It reads like your classic irresponsible “I’m the real victim” whine. Nowhere in his statement does he actually state his crime. 
La Regle Du Jeu: I can now remain silent no longer!
I can remain silent no longer because the American authorities have just decided, in defiance of all the arguments and depositions submitted by third parties, not to agree to sentence me in absentia even though the same Court of Appeal recommended the contrary.
I can remain silent no longer because the California court has dismissed the victim’s numerous requests that proceedings against me be dropped, once and for all, to spare her from further harassment every time this affair is raised once more.
I can remain silent no longer because there has just been a new development of immense significance.  On February 26 last, Roger Gunson, the deputy district attorney in charge of the case in 1977, now retired, testified under oath before Judge Mary Lou Villar in the presence of David Walgren, the present deputy district attorney in charge of the case, who was at liberty to contradict and question him, that on September 16, 1977, Judge Rittenband stated to all the parties concerned that my term of imprisonment in Chino constituted the totality of the sentence I would have to serve.
I can remain silent no longer because the request for my extradition addressed to the Swiss authorities is founded on a lie.  In the same statement, retired deputy district attorney Roger Gunson added that it was false to claim, as the present district attorney’s office does in their request for my extradition, that the time I spent in Chino was for the purpose of a diagnostic study.
The said request asserts that I fled in order to escape sentencing by the U.S. judicial authorities, but under the plea-bargaining process I had acknowledged the facts and returned to the United States in order to serve my sentence.  All that remained was for the court to confirm this agreement, but the judge decided to repudiate it in order to gain himself some publicity at my expense.
I can remain silent no longer because for over 30 years my lawyers have never ceased to insist that I was betrayed by the judge, that the judge perjured himself, and that I served my sentence.  Today it is the deputy district attorney who handled the case in the 1970s, a man of irreproachable reputation, who has confirmed all my statements under oath, and this has shed a whole new light on the matter.
I can remain silent no longer because the same causes are now producing the same effects.  The new District Attorney, who is handling this case and has requested my extradition, is himself campaigning for election and needs media publicity!
I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition more to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago.
I can remain silent no longer because I have been placed under house arrest in Gstaad and bailed in very large sum of money which I have managed to raise only by mortgaging the apartment that has been my home for over 30 years, and because I am far from my family and unable to work.
Such are the facts I wished to put before you in the hope that Switzerland will recognize that there are no grounds for extradition, and that I shall be able to find peace, be reunited with my family, and live in freedom in my native land. 
Blah, blah, blah. Does Polanski actually think that the tiny amount of time he served in Chino is sufficient for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl?  Surely he is not counting his time in exile, where he was living the high life. That would be a little too much, even for him. 

OK, Roman you said your piece, here is a STFU biscuit go chew on it while you await extradition.

5 comments:

Just a conservative girl said...

This guy makes me sick. As a person who was raped the fact that he can even feel that this sorry statement is enough makes my skin crawl.

I have refused to watch this man's movies since what happened to me. I will not give money to man who thinks that raping a child is acceptable. It is even more maddening to hear so many people standing up for him. So what he is a good director? That doesn't mean is isn't a violent child rapist.

Sorry, I had to get that off my chest.

spc said...

The guy deserves so much worse than what he has had to "endure". He really is an ass and yet fully wants to blame somebody else. The wonderful thing about the justice system is that it protects everyone by seeking prosecution on their own. It prevents scumbags like this guy from buying his way out of trouble (not so for politicians) and forcing them to pay the legal penalty for their wrong-doings. A person can not commit a crime against another person (in most cases) even if the person is complicit, i.e. assisted suicide.

Clifton B said...

JACG:

Yours is an outrage shared by many. I just don't understand why so many people are willing to excuse his crime away.

Clifton B said...

Ozzie:

Yes, Polanski just wants it all to be done and over with, simply because he feels he has suffered enough. We should all be so lucky to have suffered so lavishly.

Janelle said...

I'm not sure how all of this will impact the young girl, now a grown woman if the extradition takes place. But I am quite sure that the closer Polanski gets to drawing his last breath, he will start to realize that whatever awaits him doesn't resemble Switzerland or any other habitat on our planet.

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