The inconsistent, contradictory ramblings of Scarlett the Harlot

Dear Directors, Producers, Agents, Actors, and Fucktards,

Roman Polanski is a rapist. He is. Just because Switzerland finally decided to arrest and extradite him does not mean he deserves a walk, nor does it mean he didn't do it. I get that it smarts. I mean, he was in Switzerland specifically to go to the Zurich film festival to get a lifetime achievement award (I actually appreciate the irony, "oh, you thought you were getting a gift? Too bad, enjoy your cell!" ) but to begin a campaign to free him, to add your name to a petition, to insinuate that he didn't do exactly what he pled guilty to isn't just immoral, it's actually pretty fucking stupid.

Especially if you're Woody Allen. Hey Woody, how's your step-daughter wife?

Listen, I get that Roman Polanski had a tragic life. I cannot imagine what he went through as a child, he lost his mother to Auschwitz and he himself barely escaped the Nazis. There aren't words to losing your lover and your child at the same time to Charles Manson & Family. And I can even see how the former gave him a serious fear of authority and a persecution complex. This does not, however, excuse him from committing a crime. A few crimes, actually, but he pled to the one so the others would be forgotten.

This is what Roman Polanski, your hero, did: he took pictures of a thirteen-year-old girl--those pictures were topless and/or completely nude. He said they were for French Vogue, but if he hadn't said that, then wouldn't that be, oh, I don't know kiddie porn? He then gave said thirteen-year-old an endless supply of champagne and a third of a qualude. Other news outlets are calling it a sliver, but frankly there's a big fucking difference between a sliver and a third. Call a spade a spade. He then got into a hot tub with the girl while they were both naked. She, being appropriately skeeved out, said she was having an asthma attack and had to go home. He ignored her. They ended up back in the house (owned by Jack Nicholson), whereupon he put his face in her vagina even though she said no. He then proceeded to have intercourse with her. She said no. He asked her if she was on The Pill. She said no. He asked her when her last period was. She said she didn't remember. Mind you, this is all while he's fucking a doped up adolescent who asked him repeatedly to stop. When she said he couldn't remember when her last period was, he then sodomized her so she wouldn't get pregnant. The entire time this is going on, she's saying no, and asking him to stop and take her home. Needless to say, he ignored her.

That my friends is rape. It's not a little rape. It's not maybe rape. It's not even "rape". It's fucking rape. The man raped a thirteen-year-old girl. I don't care if he's Moses. He raped her. He might still be a talented film-maker, but rapist is on his resume.

He was indicted and charged and pled to "sex with a minor" which is basically statutory rape. Why? Because he knew if he didn't plead to something he'd be convicted of something worse. Then, before he could be sentenced he skipped town. For thirty fucking years.

This is not the action of a man who believes himself to be innocent. This is the action of a coward. Who rapes thirteen-year-olds.

Then, knowing if he set foot in the United States he'd be facing jail time, he went and had a merry old time in Europe, living the high life in Paris, traveling to basically any country that didn't have an extradition treaty with the United States, making movies, and giving the girl a settlement when she sued him (because he raped her). Also, he played the victim rather nicely the entire time.

And he continued to make movies.

When he filmed Lolita (irony of ironies), he famously said of his relationship with Natasha Kinski--then only 15 herself--"I don't know why you're surprised. I thought you all knew I liked them young." If that isn't a blatant disregard for the fucking law then I don't know what is.

Even if you don't want to acknowledge that the man's a rapist, you have to acknowledge the fact that he's been living on the lam. There's a reason the man hasn't been back to the United States. Because he'll be arrested for skipping town. Sad, but true. And you're right, he did already plead guilty to the rape. So he's pretty much going to be charged with bail-jumping or whatever. Good. He should be in prison.

For a while there were rumors of judicial misconduct and the possibility of an appeal. This would have happened, the LA District Attorney was even willing to let it happen. But Roman refused to show up at trial. So it didn't. He had his chance. 

Now a lot of you are saying that because the talented artist's victim wants to let it all go, water under the bridge, blah blah blah the rest of us should too. But that's stupid. For two reasons, one, he broke the law and he should be held accountable finally, and two, because it sets a horrifying president to force victims to forgive their aggressors so the aggressors won't have to go to jail. "But my son [Chris Brown?] would never do that. You should forgive him [Rihanna?] because it's just not in him to do that bad thing [beat you like it's Mario Cart?]"

See? That makes everybody uncomfortable. Except Hollywood. Because it's been a tragedy that Roman Polanski couldn't work there while he was in exile eating dry bread and expensive cheese off of gold plated dishes in his big shiny mansion in Paris. It's a horror that he's faced vilification by his peers. Even though they hid it well by giving him an Oscar and a standing ovation a year or so back. It's an unthinkable mess that he had to accept said Oscar in absentia because he'd be arrested.

Want to know how you don't get arrested? 

You don't break the fucking law.

Want to know what I think is a tragedy? 

That a little girl has to deal with the scars of being raped and sodomized by a man who she was supposed to be able to trust.

That at the time Angelika Houston, who I normally love, had the nerve to say "I don't think he's a bad man, I think he's a sad man" when she was in the house for part of the time.

That people are still throwing out the tired bullshit that the girl was a Lolita or her mom was a bitch. It. Doesn't. Matter.

The girl said no.

No halfway decent mother would want her child exposed to that.

Also, the age of consent in California was sixteen. It's now eighteen. The girl was thirteen. That means she couldn't legally consent even if she had been sober. Roman Polanski broke the law.

So many people today lament the fact that the idea of justice is relative. That Justice is not color blind, or class blind, or opposed to taking the occasional bribe. I'm one of them. I can't think of a person who hasn't complained that the rich have a different set of rules. And so far, that idea has proven true. And when you think about it, Hollywood is lamenting the same thing. Only they're doing it from the opposite side of the argument. I want Roman Polanski arrested because, as a rapist, he deserves it. They want him let off because, as an artist, he doesn't. The problem is, Roman Polanski does deserve justice. Unfortunately for you people Justice for Roman Polanski is a prison sentence.

Cordially,
Scarlett the Harlot

PS: This is what a rapist looks like: