
Chorus of disapproval … a man wears a 'Free Polanski' sign on his shirt at the Zurich film festival. Photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images

Child Molester, Roman Polanski, filming in Poland. Photo: Polish National Tourist Office
At this hour at least 100 of Hollywood’s elite have signed a petition of Grievance against the arrest of Hollywood director, Roman Polanski, in the matter of his flee from justice after conviction of Child Rape following Polanski entering of his plea of guilty.
Polanski swore under oath during his plea hearing that he knew full well his victim was a girl of 13 years of age at the time of his crime of child rape.
This is not only a crime to which Polanski plead guilty, it is a crime for which Polanski has voiced NO Repentance and instead, has Justified his Pedophilia Crime in a statement during an interview originally appearing in Tatler and is collected in Amis’s book, Visiting Mrs Nabokov.
Here’s a section of the first quote from from Polanski.
“If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see?
But… fu*king, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fu*k young girls. Juries want to fu*k young girls.
Everyone wants to fu*k young girls!”
-Roman Polanski
And though not a signer yet of the below petition, Whoopie Goldberg says it is not “rape-rape” yesterday on The View. The Hollywood Petition for Roman Polanski
We have learned the astonishing news of Roman Polanski’s arrest by the Swiss police on September 26th, upon arrival in Zurich (Switzerland) while on his way to a film festival where he was due to receive an award for his career in filmmaking. His arrest follows an American arrest warrant dating from 1978 against the filmmaker, in a case of morals. Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision. It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him. By their extraterritorial nature, film festivals the world over have always permitted works to be shown and for filmmakers to present them freely and safely, even when certain States opposed this. The arrest of Roman Polanski in a neutral country, where he assumed he could travel without hindrance, undermines this tradition: it opens the way for actions of which no one can know the effects. Roman Polanski is a French citizen, a renown and international artist now facing extradition. This extradition, if it takes place, will be heavy in consequences and will take away his freedom. Filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians—everyone involved in international filmmaking—want him to know that he has their support and friendship. On September 16th, 2009, Mr. Charles Rivkin, the US Ambassador to France, received French artists and intellectuals at the embassy. He presented to them the new Minister Counselor for Public Affairs at the embassy, Ms Judith Baroody. In perfect French she lauded the Franco-American friendship and recommended the development of cultural relations between our two countries. If only in the name of this friendship between our two countries, we demand the immediate release of Roman Polanski.
The Hollywood Signers of this Petition, as of September 29th:
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Jonatham Demme
Stephen Frears
David Lynch
Martin Scorsesefull list:
Fatih Akin, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Luc Barnier , Christophe Barratier, Xavier Beauvois , Liria Begeja , Gilles Behat, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Marco Bellochio, Monica Bellucci, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci , Patrick Bouchitey, Paul Boujenah, Jacques Bral, Patrick Braoudé, André Buytaers, Christian Carion, Henning Carlsen, Jean-michel Carre, Mathieu Celary, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Souleymane Cissé, Alain Corneau, Jérôme Cornuau, Miguel Courtois, Dominique Crevecoeur, Alfonso Cuaron, Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), Etienne Faure, Michel Ferry, Scott Foundas, Stephen Frears, Thierry Frémaux, Sam Gabarski, René Gainville, Tony Gatlif, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Ghanassia, Terry Gilliam, Christian Gion, Marc Guidoni, Buck Henry, David Heyman, Laurent Heynemann, Robert Hossein, Jean-Loup Hubert, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gilles Jacob, Just Jaeckin, Alain Jessua, Pierre Jolivet, Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation), Roger Kahane, Nelly Kaplan, Wong Kar Waï, Ladislas Kijno, Harmony Korinne, Jan Kounen, Diane Kurys, Emir Kusturica, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, André Larquié, Vinciane Lecocq, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lenne, David Lynch, Michael Mann, François Margolin, Jean-PierreMarois, Tonie Marshall, Mario Martone, Nicolas Mauvernay, Radu Mihaileanu, Claude Miller, Mario Monicelli, Jeanne Moreau, Sandra Nicolier, Michel Ocelot, Alexander Payne, Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY), Michele Placido, Philippe Radault, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Raphael Rebibo, Yasmina Reza, Jacques Richard, Laurence Roulet, Walter Salles, Jean-Paul Salomé, Marc Sandberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, Barbet Schroeder, Ettore Scola, Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Silvera, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Guillaume Stirn, Tilda Swinton, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Radovan Tadic, Danis Tanovic, Bertrand Tavernier, Cécile Telerman, Alain Terzian, Pascal Thomas, Giuseppe Tornatore, Serge Toubiana, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Tykwer, Alexandre Tylski, Betrand Van Effenterre, Wim Wenders.
Erika Abrams, Gianni Amelio, Roger Andrieux, Alexandre Babel, Jean-François Balmer, Véra Belmont, Alain Berliner, Pascal Berney, Lucien Blacher, Catherine Boissière, Thierry Boscheron, Freddy Bossy, Patrick Bouchitey, Cédric Bouchoucha, Katia Boutin (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Guila Braoudé, Anne Burki, Lionel Cassan (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Teco Celio, Christophe Champclaux, Brigitte Chesneau, Catherine Chouchan, Jean- Pierre Clech, Henri Codenie, Robert Cohen, Guy Courtecuisse (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Morgan Crestel, Frédéric Damien, Sophie Danon, Hervé de Luze (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Benoît Delmas, Dante Desarthe, Romain Desbiens, Thomas Desjonquères (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Guillaume D’Ham (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Christelle Didier (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Kathrin DiPaola, Ariel Dorfman, Jean Teddy Filippe (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Martine Fitoussi, Matteo Garone, Catherine Gaudin-Montalto, Stéphane Gizard, Christophe Goumand, Dimitri Haulet, Dominique Hollier, Isabelle Hontebeyrie, Frédéric Horiszny, Anne Jeandet, Arthur Joffé, Paola Jullian, Richard Klebinder, Jean Labadie, David Lanzmann, Françoise Lassale, Carole Laure, Christine Laurent-Blixen, Emilien Lazaron (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Pierre et Renée Lhomme, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Christine Mathis, Christopher, Spencer et Claire Mc Andrew, Allison Michel, Jean-Louis Milesi, Jean-Marc Modeste , Christian Mvogo Mbarga, Juliette Nicolas-Donnard, Eric Pape, Abner Pastoll, Olivier Père, Suzana Peric (Membre de l’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski “The Ghost”), Jacques Perrin, Thomas Pibarot, Anne Pigeon Bormans, Sabrina Poidevin, Agnès Catherine Poirier, Harry Prenger, Gilbert Primet, Tristan Rain, Jo Reymen, Laurence Reymond, Christiane Rhein, Avital Ronell, Marc Saffar, Gabriela Salazar Scherman, Jean-Frédéric Samie, Pierre Schumacher, Luis Gustavo Sconza Zaratin Soares, Frank Segier, Guy Seligmann, Julien Seri, Pierre Silvant, Roch Stephanik, Jean-Marc Surcin, André Techiné, Valentine Theret, Jaques Vallotton, Jean-Pierre Vergne, Sarah Vermande, Gilles Walusinski, Anaïse Wittmann, Arnaud Xainte, Christian Zeender.
EDIT: new names
Isabelle Adjani
Antoine Aronin
Paul Auster
Morgane Beauverger
Candice Belaisch-Goldchmit
Yamina Benguigui
Pascal Bruckner
Jessika Cohen
Philippe Corbé
Jean-Paul Dayan
Katarina De Meulder
Arielle Dombasle
Nathalie Faucheux
Corinne Figuet
Pierre Forciniti
Louis Garrel
Albert Gauvin
Johanna Gozlan
Davide Homitsu Riboli
Taylor Hackford
Isabelle Huppert
Neil Jordan
Thierry Kamami
Milan Kundera
Gaelle Lancien
Claude Lanzmann
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Sam Mendes
Camille Meyer
Patrick Mimouni
Yann Moix
Mike Nichols
Sandra Nicolier
Marie Nieves Perez Neël
Salman Rushdie
Carine Sarna
Ysabelle Saura Del Pan
William Shawcross
Olivier Soares Barbosa
Steven Soderbergh
Nil Symchowicz
Danièle Thompson
Eugenia Varela Navarro
Diane von Furstenberg
Margaret Walker
Elsa ZylbersteinAnd those organizations:
- l’Académie des César
- l’API (Association des producteurs Indépendants)
- l’ARP
- l’ARRF – Association des Réalisateurs et réalisatrices de Films – Belgique
- la Cinémathèque Française
- le Festival de Cannes
- le Fonds Culturel Franco Américain
- le Groupe 25 images
- la SACD
- le SPI
- l’Union des producteurs de films
- L’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski « Ghost »
- Pathé
- Scott Foundas (LA Weekly)
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Additional reading:
Patterico’s Pontifications: Leftists and Conservatives Can Agree: Polanski Is a Child Rapist Who Should Face Justice and Applebaum Demands Correction From ME??
HotAir: Applebaum blames the victim for the rape and Arresting a child rapist “outrageous”, says columnist with axe to grind
Frugal Cafe: Roman Polanski & Hollywood’s Warped Support of Another Criminal Sister Toldjah: Hollyweird elites launch effort to “free Polanski” Michelle Malkin: “Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!” Ed Driscoll: ACORN v. Polanski The Washington Post: What Polanski Deserves Gateway Pundit: 100 Hollywood & European Kooks Sign Petition in Support of Child Rapist Polanski Diary of a Mad Conservative: How to get shunned in Hollywood Tommy Christopher, Mediaite: Whoopi Goldberg on Polanski Crime: “It Wasn’t Rape-Rape” Maggie’s Farm: Shortest Hollywood Film Ever? The Confluence: “Free Roman Polanski?” WTF? The Smoking Gun: Polanski The Predator Live Journal: Scorsese, Allen, Aronofsky & others join “FREE POLANSKI” petition Below The Beltway: Roman Polanski Trying To Dodge Justice Again BBC World Have Your Say: On air: The arrest of Roman Polanski Wellsy’s World: Don’t waste your tears on Roman Polanski Guardian: Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries Oliver Willis: Roman Polanski Is A Child Rapist My Treasure: Hello, Roman Polanski Drugged, Raped and Sodomized a 13 Year Old Human Sexuality Channel: Roman Polanski finally arrested Comments from Left Field: Weep Not for Roman Polanski Salon: Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child ZTower: Judge Whoopie, having skillfully resolved the Rocky/Bullwinkle case, suggests Polanski’s rape of child is not really a rape-rape
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