Roman Polanski SPEAKS: Breaks Silence On Legal Woes

Dirty little secrets? Are you blaming us for simply wanting justice? I wish you could have sat with me in the courtroom and through the investigation when my daughter's abuser was coddled by the system. As charges were dropped right and left. And the one who violated at least a dozen girls spent less than a month in jail, expressed how he felt victimized by the parents of those children wanting him in prison, and now has the rest of his life to do whatever he pleases. Maybe you'd also have seen the changes in the girls and how they carry the scars. How their lives have been affected.



Maybe then you'd think differently when you hear of a pedophile who escapes justice. And you'd have a tad of empathy for those who care more about the safety of children than they do the freedom of an abuser.
About Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski SPEAKS: Breaks Silence On Legal Woes

It makes me sick that so many are anxious to forgive this guy for what he did to a child.



Like many pedophiles, he had a number of charges that were reduced. That was his first big break. He pled guilty to a lower crime and just before sentencing he took off. He paid his victim a huge sum of hush money and lived in luxury rather than serve his sentence. Now the law wants justice and he feels persecuted.



I wish our society treated the victims better than the criminals. We happily drop all kinds of charges, let them buy freedom, try to understand them, fight for prison reform and call them products of a broken community. The victims are violated by the creep, the investigators, the courts and then thrown under the bus to be forgotten. And when it's our children that makes it so much more vile.



Poor Roman... should be rotting in a cell.
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact: Get Involved

Great! Now Cheney will continue to dig his claws into citizens through their checkbooks.



I love how Mr. Waxman sent a "tough" letter to Halliburton over this. May as well have far ted in the wind for all the good it'll do.



Thanks for the link. More information is a good thing! Fanned!
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New 'Sex & The City 2' Poster: Photoshop Disaster? (PHOTO)

Must be why she dropped the middle name Winny!
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Upper Big Branch Miners' Families Offered $3 Million Settlement By Massey Energy

Maybe there are two points here. Make the mines safer or shut them down. That could be done by a strike, class action lawsuit or petitioning the fed to do their $@#* job.

And what do the families do to survive now that their providers are gone? Do they work the mine themselves, get other jobs in a repressed mining community, take a chance on suing, maybe winning, and racking up huge lawyer bills in the process, or take 3 million (more money than any of them would ever see in their whole lives) and live comfortably.



Why couldn't they do both? Add their voices to others to push for change and take the money just like it was a life insurance policy. That way the owner has to pay all the families many millions plus he's forced to make the needed changes.
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Upper Big Branch Miners' Families Offered $3 Million Settlement By Massey Energy

Let's see... make a point and be destitute the rest of your lives for spite.... or accept the 3 mil and make your life into something your loved one would be proud of. Which is a better tribute?
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In response to the LAPD's iWatch ads asking us to observe each other in fear and report terrorist activities...

Seems to me the real terrorists are the ones who spread venom in an attempt to split the country in two and undermine the president. Those who have openly declared war on him and turned their backs to the needs of the people for the sake of putting party and themselves first above all else. And those who sell our representation to the lobbies for a mess of pottage. They're the ones we should be afraid of.

When terrorists from other lands strike it can galvanize us together in a common goal. But when the domestic kind preach and act they push us further into the "us vs. them" pattern that has threatened our Union since the first ships landed here. If our country falls, it won't be due to al qaeda or other predators, but rather to the subversives within our own borders and the effect we allow them to have on us all.

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