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Roman Polanski Overwhelmed With Support

Posted by Richard Head

Tuesday December 29, 2009

Roman PolanskiROMAN Polanski is “overwhelmed” by the support he has received since being arrested in Switzerland.

The 76-year-old film director — who is under house arrest in Switzerland awaiting a decision over whether he will be extradited to America over a conviction for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 — says he was given strength by the letters he was sent after being arrested in Switzerland in September.

In a letter to French author Bernard-Henri Levy, which Levy handed over to the Huffington Post, Polanski wrote, “These messages have come from my neighbors, from people all over Switzerland, and from beyond Switzerland — from across the world.

“I would like every one of them to know how heartening it is, when one is locked up in a cell, to hear this murmur of human voices and of solidarity in the morning mail. In the darkest moments, each of their notes has been a source of comfort and hope, and they continue to be so in my current situation.”

The comments Polanski made in the letter are his first since he was taken into custody while attending a film festival in Zurich.

In 1977, the Rosemary’s Baby filmmaker pleaded guilty to charges of having underage sex with 13-year-old Samantha Gailey, now known as Samantha Geimer.

He believed he would face a jail term of just 42 days, and claimed a judge had reneged on a plea bargain deal to reduce the charges from rape and serious sexual assault if he admitted under-age sex. However, on the day of his sentencing he fled to London then Paris.

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  • Patrick Ide

    …but he did rape a child…right? I mean…is everyone forgetting that small piece of information?

  • Barb

    Yeah, it does seem like everyone is forgetting he rapped a child..he deserves to pay for that crime regardless of how much time has passed; the damn pervert

  • MikeOxweling

    She was drinking a beer when he met her. 13 should be a hobby, not a crime!

  • L.O. Brian

    Los Angeles should not use Polanski to promote their own political agenda and lust for power like a bunch of blood sucking vampires.

    Los Angeles would be better served to dismiss the Polanski case, and not use Polanski to push their trademark & signature bait and switch justice in sexual assault cases, which runs Rampant & Rampart in Santa Monica Courtrooms which are run like back alleys, since bait and and switch Justice is utilized, and the Justice ain’t blind.

    To continue to plod along with this very sad case after 32 years, is not justice, but it does serve the purpose of diverting attention away from the double standards, the Judicial and Prosecutorial misconduct and discrimination that occurred in Polanski’s case.

    Its continuation now after 32 years is only promoting the agony of the victim, a child who was pawned off by her mother, taken advantage of by a 17 year old American male as well as Polanski, and is now being re-victimized again by County of Los Angeles & D.A. Steve Cooley and his band of merry prosecutors who would rather point the finger at Polanski, than shine a light in a place where the sun don’t shine.

    The torture when will it end Los Angeles…

  • Rudy

    In Roman Polanski’s case in 1977 a plea bargain agreement got corrupted into bait and switch justice, when a photograph of Roman Polanski sitting next to smiling German girls at the Oktoberfest infuriated the Santa Monica Judge so much, that the Judge retaliated against Polanski by reneging on the plea bargain agreement, was about to sentence Polanski to a second prison term, and deprive Roman Polanski of his right to fight deportation,

    This lack of a stable judicial system and lack of Judicial integrity frightened Polanski so much that he fled the country. He self deported if you will.

    Meanwhile in California when there is something to be covered up – and gained financially, politically, a personal score to settle – there will always be bait and switch justice in California courtrooms & chambers, and this should not be confused with real Justice.

    The bait & switch operations don’t not only manfest in Roman Polanski’s case, since California Governmental Statutes also aid and abet California’s bait and switch justice which does not treat people equally, or afford people due process of law, and where they are deprived of their civil rights, under the color of law, and in some cases assaulted and battered.

    In addition, in the future there may be a chilling effect on Hollywood Directors through the threat of being prosecuted and persecuted for a movie that ends in saying “Forget it Jake it’s Chinatown”

    In Polanski’s case it seems to have turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.