To sign the People’s Petition, add a comment below with your name. I will add the legitimate names to a separate list as you add them.
The Roman Polanski travesty blows up occasionally – here you see it featured in Rolling Stone in 1981
I am personally shocked at the outcry over Roman Polanski’s arrest. The guy is a felon, on the run, who committed acts that by any standards are egregious. He was not going to get away with just a few weeks in an “evaluation center” and that’s why he fled the country and has refused to return. My state taxes are about to be used to fly him back to California. I have no sympathy for him.
We’ve all ready the stories so I will not belabor all the details here. A large number of well known “artsy” types are remonstating against Mr Polaski’s current fate based on a) He’s rich and famous like they want to be; b) it all happened a long time ago; c) it was not that serious (!, only forced, non-consensual sodomy with a minor) d) it disrupted their look-and-feel-good awards show; e) and so on.
I post below a list of all people who signed a petition for Mr Polanski’s release. These are people who should not be around young children, in my opinion, and if you have any you should keep them well away.
Anyway, the petition reads simply as follows:
“We, the people of the world, feel that unconsensual sex is wrong, that performing it on a minor after having drugged her makes for aggravated circumstances, and that Roman Polanski should be returned immediately to California to face full recriminations under due process of law for his actions”.
Please comment below to sign this petition.
And here is the list of people who reportedly signed to oppose Roman Polanski’s current detention. My opinion: keep them well away from your children! (By the way, I got this list from Indiwire – please advise corrections.)
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
Andre Buytaers
Christian Carion
Henning Carlsen
Jean-Michel Carre
Patrice Chereau
Elie Chouraqui
Souleymane Cisse
Alain Corneau
Jerome 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
Jacques Fansten
Etienne Faure
Michel Ferry
Scott Foundas
Stephen Frears
Thierry Fremaux
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
Roger Kahane,
Nelly Kaplan
Wong Kar Waï
Ladislas Kijno
Harmony Korine
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-Pierre Marois
Tonie Marshall
Mario Martone
Nicolas Mauvernay
Radu Mihaileanu
Claude Miller
Mario Monicelli
Jeanne Moreau
Sandra Nicolier
Michel Ocelot
Alexander Payne
Richard Pena
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 Scorcese
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