All those who don't give a big brown rat's ass about Roman Polanski, please check in.

[Atticus]

Just because the talking heads feed it to us, must we consume it?

[imdjh]

1. check

[graywarrior]

2. I have not paid attention. I do not watch news any more

Cable news is irrelevant and they fuel the problem.

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Hear, hear!

I gave cable news the boot years ago. My only route of exposure is video links here at DU, and I'm pretty selective about the ones I watch even then.

[graywarrior]

13. Yeah, I have to be selective now or my head will explode.

[Speck Tater]

3. If that's what they're pushing, I'm so glad I never watch TV anymore. nt

[bigwillq]

6. Are they pushing it?

Or is it just DU? Haven't watched the news or been to an on-line news source all day besides DU.

[bigwillq]

4. Checking in

:)

[subcomhd]

5. present nt

[gateley]

7. Me. But it obviously matters to some people here, so that's cool, too. I just don't

open the threads. :shrug:

[subcomhd]

14. I also have no problem with others giving a shit. nt

[HipChick]

how much taxpayers money will be involved bringing him back?

I thought CA was broke

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. He raped a child

[paulsby]

8. i cared about it 3 decades ago

and i care about it now

i have worked with rape victims on dozens of occasions and interrogated scores of rapists.

polanski is a scumbag and he deserves to do time.

so, yes. i care.

[MrModerate]

10. Happily, the local electronic media here -- while fond of celebrities . . .

Doesn't believe they can build an entire news cycle on them (Michael Jackson being the exception).

So the Polanski thing is hardly getting more than a mention.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. My only regret is that he wasn't arrested and deported over The Ninth Gate.

That movie was shit, yo.

[Sal Minella]

18. Wasn't that just perfectly dreadful?

It was like they ran out of filmstock and just stopped, and everybody went home, and they released what had been shot. One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

[Electric Monk]

20. I thought The Pianist was very well done, however

as did the Academy Awards, and a couple of other people thought so too http://www.imdb.com/chart/top?tt0253474

[inna]

12. checked in solely to unrec this in-bad-taste thread. nt

[Atticus]

15. How so? nt

[bigwillq]

16. Why is it in bad taste?

:shrug:

[The Straight Story]

17. I don't care what a child sexual abuser does, whether they be famous or not

Who cares about them and why are they in the news anyway?

;)

[asdjrocky]

19. Present.

[madrchsod]

21. do`t care about him or that girl who slept with her dad...

[Whisp]

35. no, it was the Dad that bedded his own daughter...

not 'the girl who slept with her dad'...

fucking ignoramuses here

[stuball111]

22. Here.....

[donheld]

23. It's a distraction

[FreakinDJ]

24. Roman Who ???

[Odin2005]

26. Nice to see some people don't care about child rapists.

:eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. It is the MEDIA going on overdrive

that is the problem

[Eric68601]

27. Huh?

Roman who?

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. He commited a crime, he was arrested, and if found guilty do the time

that does not mean I have to give a shit about it.

I liked the BBC approach to it.

It was part of their top of the news, as in ... ok it happened. But that was about it. The meat of the program... they didn't even mention it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Some people here have actually written letters about it before "the talking heads

fed it to us".


Thank you. :)

[Luminous Animal]

31. Nope. And I think DU needs a gossip section.

[Matariki]

33. DU needs an Indignation section

[Arctic Dave]

32. Who? And, who cares?

[madmusic]

34. The rhetoric of crime matters.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=592344

[Echo In Light]

37. +1

[suzie]

39. You know, 13 year olds who get raped are pretty obsessed about it

for the rest of their lives. That also goes for 7 year olds and 10 years and 12 year olds.

I think that if you interviewed the average person in most countries around the world, they'd not be worried about whether prosecuting predators was indicative of fascism.

Interesting that in so-called progressive DUland, it seems to be perfectly reasonable to way too many posters to be worried about the societal trend and not the child. Actually, not interesting, completely and totally disgusting.

[thereismore]

36. Hear. nt

[ecstatic]

38. Never heard of the guy before seeing the issue on DU, but,

I have formed my 2 cents, despite have few facts:

He's a jerk who belongs in jail! 13 year olds can't give consent. Except maybe to someone his/her own age.