Geoff Metcalf: ROMAN POLANSKI DESERVES NO MERCY?

"Polanski is a convicted rapist. Rape has gone morphed legally from a capital crime to a felony to a misdemeanor to a 'crime against humanity.'

• 80,000 women were raped by Japanese soldiers during the six weeks of the Nanking Massacre.
• According to a British scholar at the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers are estimated to have raped around 2,000,000 German women and girls.
• Reportedly, an estimated 200,000 women were raped during the Bangladesh Liberation War by the Pakistani army.
• At least 20,000 Bosnian Muslim women were raped by Serb forces during the Bosnian War.
• It is estimated that more than 200,000 females living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today have been raped in recent conflicts.
• Some 500,000 women were raped during the Rwandan Genocide.
In any of the above atrocities do you think Whoopie would question if it was 'rape-rape'?"

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"If Polanski were to be granted a pass on his atrocity, it enables all petty, venial, self important, selfish would be abusers of power and position and would grant license to future rapists (as long as they had acquired money, power and prestige). P.J. O’Rourke said, 'Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.' The same can be said for celebrity spoiled brats."

What if Polanski was a conservative Republican, Whoopi???