Recently, he has spent some time under house arrest in Switzerland, electronically tagged, and anxiously awaiting the outcome of his extradition trial. He has now been set free after the Swiss government rejected the request from the Los Angeles District Attorney for his return to the US.
The French Culture Minister said that the time for calm had come and that the Catholic priest's rich personality, and his universally admired works should all regain their standing.
The philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy said:
"Switzerland has found the path to reason ... What a beautiful lesson in democracy."The world's media have reverently quoted the Catholic priest's expression of gratitude to his supporters released via the AFP news agency:
"I simply want, from the bottom of my heart, to thank all those who supported me and tell them today of my great satisfaction,"The BBC gave a balanced report, giving full weight to the joy of the Catholic priest's associates and the priest's own side of the story. Various news outlets pondered over whether the Catholic priest might find it difficult to travel as freely has he has done in the past.
Oops! Did I write "Catholic priest"? Silly me! What I meant to say was "Film director".
H/T Christina Odone: Guilty Roman Polanski and innocent Pope Benedict: Lefty luvvies show their hypocrisy
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Haha, a good one!!
Indeed. The labels on the post say it all.
Dear Father Finigan
Does the judgement in Switzerland apply in the UK too?
I would hope not, as then RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, could arrange a legal ambush to have Polankski arrested during any future visit to Britain “for crimes against a 13 year old girl who is a member of ONE RACE THE HUMAN RACE TOO ”.
In 1993/94 football season I was imprisoned at HMP Elmley, on the Isle of Sheppey under UK Civil Law,by Densitron International (now Technologies) plc, for opposing NF/BNP entry-ism into London's FARE Planning Arena at the Old Addeyans FC (Bromley-Blackheath,Cator Estate) development.
The prison officers had a notice board on the landing outside my cell. Their THOUGHT FOR THE DAY was our first psychological interaction with the Prison Authority when the cell doors opened in the morning. One day we were treated to the following pearl of wisdom:
REMEMBER THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST 'RULE 43'
I complained to the RC Chaplain (not Trevor Jacquet 'C of E' plc) that Satan's symbolic number (666 not Rule 43) shouldn't be applied to any group of humans, no matter how vile and wicked their beliefs and practices may be. I also complained about the strategic location of the message close to my cell in a House Block Wing that wasn't under Rule 43 lockup terms and conditions. The debate raged throughout the UK Prison System,spreading like wildfire until it climaxed with the murder of 'CATWEAZLE':
Leslie Patrick Bailey (February 1953 - October 1993), was a child molester and murderer who was a member of a gang along with Sidney Cooke, Lennie Smith and Robert Oliver in the abduction, torture, sexual abuse and murders of at least three young boys in and around London in the 1980s. He was sent to trial, along with Cooke and one other paedophile, for the 1984 murder of seven year old Mark Tildesley. He was already in prison for the 1985 killing of Jason Swift but was also jailed for Mark's murder in 1992. He seemed to be the only one of the gang who would admit to his crimes. He was killed, aged 40, by two other prisoners in his prison cell in Cambridgeshire. Bailey was known as Catweazle, a nickname associated with the fictional film character.
Lefty luvvies show their hypocrisy? neo-Nazis show how to murder paedophiles? I would suggest that JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE lies between the lines.
PAPA RATZI ( http://www.thepapalvisit.org ) ORA PRO NOBIS!
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us too!
Yours sincerely
Roy Hobson aka Our Lady's "Vesper" ON-LINE +
ROY HOBSON FCES1990, FRICS1984,Grad Dipl QS
Yes the hypocrsy of the lefties shines through but sooner or later God's justice will catch up with the "great ' Franco-Polish director
Good post highlighting the shameful hypocrisy surrounding such an awful crime.
Devious, Father, devious...but the picture gave it away!
I can just imagine that the gay "rights" campaigner Peter Tacthell frothing with glee at this news. After all, the same man, who accuses the Holy Father of harbouring pederasts priests in the Catholic church, is also the same man who believes that the age of consent for any heterosexual, and more importantly in his view, homosexual relationship; should be lowered to the age of 14.
The hypocrisy of the left can never be outdone
The difference is, of course, that Polanski is a Hollywood insider and therefore "in with the in crowd". The fact that he's a paedophile seems not to matter.
One might like to compare Margaret Hodge, a New Labour insider, who covered up the Islington care homes scandal from when she was head of Islington Council right to when she was a minister, even libelling one of the victims in a letter to the BBC, using information gained from a paedophile.
You fooled me, Father. It would be funnier if it wasn't both absolutely typical and equally completely appalling.
...And, of course, everyone is demanding the resignation of the 'prelates' of the Swiss Government who refused to hand 'Father' Polanski over to the due process of law; there are campaigns out to arrest the 'pontiffs' of the film industry (who are daily vilified by the press, BBC, etc.) if they dare to set foot on any foreign red carpet...
...Oh, sorry, yet another error...
Here's a positive story to counter all the rotten news. Let's not forget, 'where sin abounds how much more grace...'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1266664/Mandy-Smith-I-DID-sleep-Bill-Wyman-I-14--man-life-God.html
This girl/woman was on "This Morning" last week and was promoting celibacy for young people. She speaks from bitter experience, and therefore her story is worth spreading, I think.
Father I share your sentiments on this.
It seems that the Swiss court had doubts about the fairness of the California legal process. We cannot judge this but can understand that there are concerns: it seems that ability to pay a lawyer is a key to ensuring fair process.
Now what sort of fair trial will an accused priest get after all the recent publicity?
It seems to me safe only to avoid slogans and hype. Even that is not easy.
excellent..lol,..truth hurts sometimes..(though, Mr Polanski was never held up or expected to be a model of Virtue rpersenting Church... in Persona Christi)...so that makes it much less exciting journalism.
.but..
pax
"I'm sure if he could go back, he wouldn't do it again. He made a terrible mistake but he's paid for it. (...) I think he's sorry, I think he knows it was wrong. I don't think he's a danger to society. I don't think he needs to be locked up forever and no one has ever come out ever — besides me — and accused him of anything. It was 30 years ago now."
-- Samantha Gailey Geimer, the abused girl, in 2008.
I'm sure she's a "leftist" too.
icebrain - you're the only one who has used the term "leftist."
The same point applies: quite rightly, nobody would dream of letting abusing priests off the hook because a victim said it was all OK now.
We do try to protect victims from unnecessary trauma and publicity. But sometimes that can lead to allegations of "cover-up".
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