{"id":9191,"date":"2009-11-28T04:35:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T11:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2009-11-28T04:35:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T11:35:15","slug":"the-unsnarkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9191","title":{"rendered":"The Unsnarkable"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"polanskipedobear\"I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy’s bizarre and disgusting HuffPo article, in which he does a premature touchdown dance<\/a> at the prospect of the freeing of convicted child rapist Roman Polanski. Were I to do so, I’d probably start by noting that L\u00e9vy is wrong to say Polanski is about to be freed; at best, Polanski is about to be released on a $4.5 million bond<\/a>, will have to wear an ankle bracelet, and remains without a passport. The extradition hearing remains, and is considered a slam dunk by most legal experts; Polanski is far from having been “freed.”<\/p>\n

Were I to go on, I’d probably note L\u00e9vy’s deep concern that Polanski’s children have evidently been taunted in school because their dad’s a convicted fugitive child rapist. Now, that’s not fair to Polanski’s kids — they didn’t choose their dad, and one can’t blame them from the fact that their dad once forcibly raped a 13-year-old. But one can’t help but wonder whether Polanski’s children would face taunts if Polanski had paid his debt to society when it was due. Or, for that matter, if he had simply made the very easy decision not to rape a child.<\/p>\n

I could go on in this vein for some time, pointing out the factual errors in L\u00e9vy’s piece, his pathetic attempt to paint Polanski as some sort of political prisoner, or the fact that not once in the article does L\u00e9vy even acknowledge that Polanski was ever even accused of drugging, forcibly raping, and sodomizing an underaged girl, not to mention the fact that Polanski pled guilty to statutory rape in the case, then fled before he could be sentenced.<\/p>\n

I could note all this, but I won’t, because nothing I can say would be more damaging to Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy’s credibility than these, his own words, as written:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bernardhenri-levy\/polanskis-release-from-pr_b_372121.html<\/div>\n

I am mostly thinking about him: Roman Polanski, who I don’t know, but whose fate has moved me so much. Nothing will repair the days he has spent in prison. Nothing will erase the immense, unbelievable injustice he has been subjected to. Nothing will take away the hysteria of those ones who have never stopped pouring contempt upon him, hounding him through hatred and asking for his punishment as if we were living the darkest and most ferocious hours of the McCarthy era all over again. At least the nightmare is about to end. At least the end of the hell is looming. And this, for the time being, is what does matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

L\u00e9vy wrote these words, sincerely, about a convicted child rapist and fugitive from justice. Nothing I could possibly say would be more damning than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy’s bizarre and disgusting HuffPo article, in which he does a premature touchdown dance at the prospect of the freeing of convicted child rapist Roman Polanski. Were I to do so, I’d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}