Canada Free Press | 12Jul2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25279
“It’s who you know”
Swiss set Polanski free
Chris Hanson was on MSNBC Sunday night with the “raw footage” of his
popular program To Catch a Predator. Some half dozen men were lured by
the promise of sex with an underage girl, entrapped in a house wired
for sight and sound, and then exposed to the glare of TV lights as
wannabe predators. Men who arrived drooling over the prospect of a
tryst were quickly reduced to slobbering remorsefully over their
conduct. With the Roman Polanski case, we move far beyond the sleaze of
bad intentions, of course, to actual deeds. Polanski also had the
benefit of scores of eminent personalities offering the film director
their moral support.
I tried to picture the likes of French Culture Minister, Frederic
Mitterand, or the French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, or the
French philosopher, Bernard Henri-Levy, or Woody Allen, walking in from
the wings, like Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall, and likewise vocally
defending one or more of these morally dim light bulbs. But
couldn’t: It was too surreal. That said, the Polanski case has really
driven home the meaning of the old expression “It’s who you know.”
Sincerely,
Orest Slepokura
Strathmore, Alta