There's so much that is wrong with this letter to the editor in the Montreal Gazette:
Re: "Why all this sympathy for a child rapist?" (Opinion, July 16).
I was very surprised to read Janet Bagnall's article about the genius Roman Polanski's recent problems. Her critical position about him is hard to understand.
What's so hard to understand? He raped,drugged and sodomized a 13 year old. Where I come from it ends there - even with the assertion her mother put her in that position.
Repeat after me, he raped..
She blames him for events that took place many years ago. Even the "victim" asked that he be left in peace.
Ah yes. Because the number of years since a crime has passed is facing justice. Sure. Dring, dring, dring. Notice the victim in quotations. Somehow, to this guy, she isn't a victim. As to her peace, um., maybe she says that because she doesn't want to rehash the crime?
I admire the many intellectuals and politicians who expressed their outrage at Polanski's house arrest in Switzerland.
He publicly said this?
Polanski is one of the greatest movie directors of our time. What has Bagnall ever achieved that gives her the right to criticize him?
Well, if this statement were to have any merit (and it doesn't) it would have to suppose we consider movies and the directors who make them to be of high value to a society. They aren't. Who bleeping cares he's the "greatest directors of our time?" And because he's one he's above criticism? This guy is getting on my noives.
And her description of the great philosopher-writer Bernard-Henri Levy as "unspeakably pretentious" was so out of line that I wondered about her real reasons for writing this article. I will never, ever read Bagnall's articles in the future.
Who is this guy?
Nicolas Andreescu, PhD
Montreal
Oh.
A Fiffed. I shouldaknown. A PhD in banal stupidity.
Ok doc. Let's role play: "Your daughter was raped. But can you find it in your heart to, you know, forgive the perp because, you know, like, he suffered enough and made sooooo many great movies?"
See how idiotic this is?
My take, is that this man thinks being a genius shields you from criticism, let alone criminal activities. Which explains his need to pass himself off as a genius by adding the letters PHD to his name.
ReplyDeleteProof that a PhD doesn,t make you smart after all.
It really is remarkable how some people think.
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