Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 31, 2009

No free pass to the rich and famous.

But Hollywood types say he should go free.

..thank God nothing like this ever happens in politics..

I just love stories with happy endings

for once I disagree with Bolling here. Don’t forget the girl doesn’t want to press charges at all.

As I understand, she’s backing away from the charges because of the horrific strain it would put on her and her family - can you imagine what a godawful media circus it would be? Lately we’ve been watching “reality” stars self destruct, and those are people who WANT us watching their every move. Imagine the life of an unassuming private person waking up to broadcast trucks in the front yard everyday. It’s our - the publics - gruesome fascination with this stuff that prevents her from pursuing the charges.

Apparently for Polanski, time heals all anuses.

Absolutely wonderful. Sarcasm at its finest. You and Wiley should get together sometime.

Let’s just hope DavidDow doesnt read Tom.

Great comic, wonderful irony.

-donaldo Don’t forget, we don’t prosecute criminals so the victim can get revenge. Society prosecutes criminals to protect itself. We can’t let criminals walk simply because it makes the victim uncomfortable. What the media needs to do is control itself and not consume the victim or the victims family.

Pay attention! The victim doesn’t press criminal charges, the state does, so she can’t “back away”. It is not her prerogative. He did not flee prosecution, he was already convicted (confessed his guilt). He fled sentencing. Therefore he has been tried, convicted, and sentenced, but is yet to serve his time.

Technically, he wasn’t tried. He entered a guilty plea.

Did he make a court appearance at something called a “trial”?

Rainman, he pleaded guilty. But nicely put Dypak and rainman. The victims are no longer responsible for pressing charges if something has been done. If you come in beaten up and you say your husband did it then it’s the burden then of law enforcement. I hope they put his a$% under the jail.

Mr. Bolling, best comic I’ve read in ages.

A guilty plea would usually means that no trial takes place. He would have appeared before the court for an arraignment hearing, to officially state the charges and ask for his plea; had he pled “Not Guilty”, a trial date would have been set for some time in the future, and all sorts of pre-trial proceedings would commence.

Pleading “Guilty” means that they can skip right on to sentencing, but a sentencing hearing would still have been set for a future date. It was while waiting for sentencing that he skipped bail.

My position is that I DO think Polanski should be extradited, but I don’t think he should be either treated particularly leniently nor “made an example of.” He should be sentenced for that to which he originally WOULD have been sentenced; the charge of unlawful intercourse with a juvenile (or whatever the exact wording was under the laws). There’s a lot of latitude in sentencing, and in these cases it CAN be appropriate for the victim’s wishes to be taken into consideration. Also, penalties should be added for his skipping bail, but that’s a separate issue.

The question of what should be appropriate sentencing is complicated. Since in his years as a fugitive, Polanski has NOT lived the life of a rampaging sex fiend, I think that should also be taken into consideration; to the extent that one of the purposes of incarceration is “rehabilitation”, that seems to me to be moot here.

If the U.S. Gov’t could give Polanski a guarantee that he wouldn’t be crucified, I would advise him (were he to ask my advice) to stop fighting extradition. Come back, serve a couple of years, get it over with. If, after he does his time, he still ends up getting deported so he’s never allowed back, well, that’s the situation he’s been in for 30 years anyway.

The lowlifes that came out and supported this scum. The Hollywood Left are a cesspool and their views on anything should never be listened to.