Just a couple of points;
There is some information to indicate that Polanski also failed to pay a settlement to the victim over a separate civil suit. If this is the case he victimized the woman twice and it adds to the pattern of behavior that has created the abyss that is Polanski’s life.
Lyrae mentioned Puritanism and evolving standards but is off the mark since no one is talking about consensual sex. He/she impugns America as being guilty of this mindset but appears to be ignorant of the fact that the French public is just as outraged and their elites are just as clueless as to why. I couldn’t make sense of anything else in that post so will leave it at that.
The reason the left has a blind spot for this sort of thing is that everything they advocate is based upon the use of force… health care, cap and trade, social programs are all based on looting one person for the benefit of another. You will submit or else. Their political philosophy by definition requires them to rationalize thievery and extortion and compulsion so it isn’t that big a leap to rationalize other aberrant behavior. The right does the same thing over song lyrics etc… but they don’t seem to have the same moral blind spot for the Ayers, Osama, Polanski sort of stuff.
