Tag Archives: Roman Polanski

Sep 30 2009

I’m not famous I can make any statement I want


Two words yesterday on twitter “Free Polanski”.

Not from a world recognised name, but a name known in New Zealand. Someone who commands an audience and imparts information, love, humor, and adds that bit in your day that makes a difference. I know, still only a voice on the radio and anyone “could” do it. They can’t he does.

But carelessly or otherwise he’s committed to a statement, a “cause celeb”, and joined a bunch of others calling for something based on what I can only assume is “better than you” -ness

Does that make him a bad person? Not really. But is does highlight that whilst I never met him, never spoken to him, and am not that likely to bump into him in the streets (although that is the most probable), I’ve formed an opinion about what he should and should not be able to comment on.

Except that this is different. We might disagree on political things, he might be left I might be center, we might disagree on Chardonnay over Sauvignon, or free-range over farm eggs. But we can’t disagree on child abuse surely?

Confusing assumed greatness, or significance, and ignoring illegality and moral bankruptcy just seems, in my opinion, to be wrong.

Then just to put the record straight I think Nelson Mandela is a Terrorist. But I’m allowed to say that, I’m not a celebrity.

Sep 29 2009

I read the news today. Oh Boy!


There were/are 3 things that prickled me this morning on the news, which in no particular order are

1. Roman Polanski. – Moral indignation from the elitist bleating about cultural significance of his works and how he should be granted clemency. I say “What about all the good things Hitler did?” It’s not good enough to claim it’s 30 years – it could be 300 years, 3 years, 3 days it would not make a difference, plying a teen with alcohol and drugs to have sex with them isn’t legal, wasn’t then, isn’t now. IF Mr. P had any backbone he would have stayed to clear his good name. He Didn’t.

2. Some Cellist is playing his thing in Auckland, and the advertising goes something like “acclaimed as a phenomenon by The Herald (a newspaper). Not, you note, acclaimed by Mr.Billy Perkins, Staff Writer, as a phenomenon, but hidden behind a facade that “The Herald” implies gravitas. The Herald speaks we listen!

3. Ministerial allowances. So an MP has been dobbed in for claiming an allowance on a house he owns and lives in. The bureaucracy that condones this is not configured to catch people out, but to ensure that the allowances are meted out to the claimants. The bureaucracy is in place to serve the bureaucracy, no other reason. They don’t check the validity of the claim, but only the receipts and mathematics are correct so they can process the claim. All care no responsibility.

As to claiming the allowance or perks, which employee for any company given a list of claimable things would not go out of their way to ensure they could claim everything, and which employee would be the advocate and loop-hole advisor to others to allow maximum claim under “the rules”

The only people going on about this are the indignant people who cry “public trough” at the drop of a hat – you know they typically are “I know my rights” type people.

Sure the allowance is a rort. It always has been. And this would be the top of a scary iceberg if we were really interested in looking in detail at everything that MP’s could and probably do claim from a daily newspaper, magazine subscriptions, stamps and a lot of other things.

Just saying.

Sep 28 2009

Roman Polanski arrested over underage sex


Swiss authorities have arrested film director Roman Polanski for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

yeah and?

Roman Polanski in Paris at the lunch of the Cé...

Roman Polanski in Paris at the lunch of the César awards nominees Français : Roman Polanski au déjeuner des nommés des César du cinéma (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

He’s been on the run since in France, scared to go back to the USA in case they arrested him, and he was in Switzerland for a film festival.

It remained unclear last night, why this visit had triggered the interest of the Swiss authorities according to the press I read. Well let me clear it up a bit.

He’s a Pedophile

Claiming innocence and justification of his pedophilia ways he said  plying her with drugs and champagne and having unlawful sex with her at Jack Nicholson‘s Hollywood home was OK since the teen was sexually experienced and had consented.

Still a Pedophile.