October 6, 2009
Polanski/Goldberg/rape posts/videos
Ms Goldberg: “It wasn’t rape rape” (video/text)
Ms Goldberg, what is “rape rape”?
Here are some words by the once 13 y/o girl now woman, Ms Samantha Geimer, who Roman Rapist Polanksi raped. She admits that she did not want to go to the police because of the publicity and that she was lied to by the judge (doesn’t elaborate). She says every time it is brought up again it opens old wounds. This January she filed an affidavit trying to get the DA to drop the charges. But at this point it’s more than rape – it’s fleeing the jurisdiction and failure to appear because he has never been formally sentenced for what he pled guilty to – which was rape.
She was in favor of him picking up his Oscar – even writing an LA Times oped. She told Larry King he is a stranger to her.
Source: CNN
Samantha Geimer’s January 2009 court affidavit:
Every time this case is brought to the attention of the court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others, That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of the case.
CNN writes how upset Ms Geimer is that the 1977 transcript was released and in the sidebar they have a link to it.
True as they may be, the continued publication of those details cause harm to me. I have become a victim of the actions of the district attorney.
Spokeswoman for the DA SANDI GIBBONS:
This is an issue between Mr. Polanski and the court. All I can say is that the warrant for Mr. Polanski’s arrest was issued by the Superior Court of Los Angeles in 1978 because Polanski fled the jurisdiction. The court issued a warrant for his arrest that is valid to this day.
1977 PEOPLE interview
The fallout was worse than what had happened that night. It was on the evening news every night. Reporters and photographers came to my school and put my picture in a European tabloid with the caption Little Lolita. They were all saying, ‘Poor Roman Polanski, entrapped by a 13-year-old temptress.’ I had a good friend who came from a good Catholic family, and her father wouldn’t let her come to my house anymore.
1993 Rapist Polanski agreed to pay her $500,000.
1996 He still hadn’t paid her anything and owed another $100,000 interest. Don’t know if this was ever paid out. But it shows once again what a pig he is and what disdain for the law he has.
1997 PEOPLE interview:
I was this sweet 13-year-old girl, and then all of a sudden I turned into this pissed-off 14-year-old. I was mad at my attorney; I was mad at my mom. I never blamed her for what happened, but I was mad that she had called the police and that we had to go through this ordeal. Now I realize she went through hell trying to handle things as best she could.
2003 when Roman rapist Polanski won an Oscar for “The Pianist” she spoke with Larry King in support of him attending.
He’s just a stranger to me. I met him twice, three times. … His life really has nothing to do with my life.
2003 LA Times oped:
Looking back, there can be no question that he did something awful. It was a terrible thing to do to a young girl. And honestly, the publicity surrounding it was so traumatic that what he did to me seemed to pale in comparison.
People don’t understand that the judge went back on his word. They don’t know how unfairly we were all treated by the press. Talk about feeling violated! The media made that year a living hell and I’ve been trying to put it behind me ever since.
The one thing that bothers me is that what happened to me in 1977 happens to girls every day, yet people are interested in me because Mr. Polanski is a celebrity.
True. But she can speak for those girls – especially nowadays when celebrities are put on a pedestal.
She has to also realize the rapist knew full well that if she had the courage to come forward what the press would be like. He counted on it and he got it. Imagine a 13 y/o being called a seductress when she was drugged and raped and could not in the eyes of the law consent even if she wanted to. And how is it a man 31 years older than her – more than three times her age – was unable to hold off an alleged 13 year-old Lolita?
But there are people like Whoopi Goldberg who still feel this way and are protecting him because it wasn’t “rape rape”.
Do you think she wants to hear ignorant women like Ms Goldberg speak?
Do you think she wants her teenage sons to read that testimony or have to respond to classmates who have?
Bottom line: It’s Ms Geimer’s choice and her choice should be respected.
