This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I see. Perhaps I was not clear, but my "feeling" after watching the movie that, under similar circumstances, I also would have fled, was not based on my belief that Polanski did was O.K. In fact, so the record is clear, I am just going to come right out and state that I believe that drugging and anally raping a 13 year old girl is very, very wrong. In fact, I believe that drugging and vaginally raping 13 year old girl is very, very wrong. Further, I will state that there is no appreciable doubt in my mind that Polanski drugged and raped a 13 year old girl, and the fact that the girl was thurst upon him by a warped stage mother and the fact that it happened in a jacuzzi and not in an alley do not even come close to being mitigating factors in my mind. And thus, perhaps if I were in Polanski's situation, I should have had the moral courage to stay a face the music, no matter how unjust the outcome would be, because I had done a bad thing and therefore I should allow bad things to happen to me. But, in truth, based on the conduct of the judge as described in the documentary, I recall feeling that, instead of staying, I would have fled.

I would have fled regardless of the conduct of the judge. If I am facing long prison time and someone lets me out of the country - sayonara, baby.