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Freedom fighters for Polanski
What a great week with the announcement on July 12 that the Swiss would not allow Roman Polanski to be extradited to the USA.
Once it was announced in September that Roman was being held for extradition to the US, I became committed to arguing/advocating for his release. One of the unexpected great benefits of doing so was my getting to know so many wonderful people from around the world who shared this same commitment. I thank all of them for their friendship and commitment to freeing Polanski. I particularly wanted to thank Jean-Yves Chalangeas of Paris, Dave Phillips of London, Marion Demoy of London, Soledad Pertier of Miami, Florida, Agnieszka Jackl of Warsaw, Dorota Sienievitch of Paris, Domi Marchewka of Warsaw, Valarie Bau of Toulouse France, Lea Krausz of Switzerland, Liz Marinaccio of New York, and Isabelle Ruh of France. And do note that none of the aformentioned, including myself, were members of any Hollywood elite. We were members of an elite who understood that the continued persecution of Roman Polanski was unjust and outrageous.
Lynch mobs love Polanski
It took Gloria Allred, the queen of muckraking lawyers, to effectively bring the media and legal lynch mobs together in Los Angeles. It occurred in the context of her hosting former actress Charlotte Lewis at a Hollywood news conference so that Lewis could announce that she had been sexually assaulted by Roman Polanski in France in the 1980s. Why such was announced at this time was not made clear? And Gloria Allred would not allow her to entertain any questions so clarity could not be pursued. Of course, why Allred would not allow her to take questions was also not clear? And even why Allred was there representing Lewis was also not clear? And why Lewis ended up in Los Angeles and not in Paris to make her announcement was also not clear? If she was interested in pursuing justice in terms of what Polanski supposedly did to her, shouldn't she be in Paris talking to the relevant French authorities. But instead she ends up talking to LA District attorney Steve Cooley who is spending much of his time attempting to prosecute and persecute Roman Polanski while running for the Attorney General of California.
But Allred and Lewis and possibly Cooley apparently accomplished their goal of having the media in tens of thousands of news sources repeat Lewis's unsupported assertions over and over again that Polanski is a recividistic sexual predator. As for Cooley's goals, such a media circus might help to persuade the Swiss authorities to send Polanski back to Hollywood with a Hollywood ending orchestrated by Cooley.
Even though Lewis's staged performance in LA is now over and Lewis's drama coach Allred is temporarily on the sidelines, there is little doubt that their beat will go on; the court of public opinion continues to be open for the unrestrained trashing of Polanski. However, if one looks carefully enough one can find voices of temperance and sanity in this deluge, check out an article in the Guardian by Robert Harris and a blog post by Novalis Lore. They are not of the Allred genre but they are of the genre that will not contribute to the feeding frenzies and public degradation ceremonies that are so predominant in today's mediated world.
On defending Roman Polanski
The blog Shakesville periodically publishes material on the plight of Roman Polanski by guest bloggers or by one of their regular bloggers. No matter who the blogger is on Shakesville you can be assured that Polanski always represents for them the ultimate societal enemy. Anyone who deviates from their anti-Polanski party line is considered to be scum, to be a rape apologist.
So it is not surprising that their most recent anti-Polanski rant focuses on Johnny Depp who recently made some very public comments calling for the freeing of Roman Polanski. And emerging out of the Shakesville closet is a blogger going under the name mschicklet.
mschicklet states-
Johnny Depp wants us all to know that Roman Polanski is no longer a threat. You see, Mr. Depp seems to think that Polanski is no longer capable of raping someone, because he is in his 70s and has a wife and children. So, there you go, nothing to worry about. We can all sit back, relax, and join the "Free Polanski" crowd.
Depp doesn't say that Polanski is incapable of rape but for some 20 plus years he has been living a pretty sedate life- married with children and engaging in filmmaking and more filmmaking. Such is the gist of Depp's comments- that Polanski's freedom does not represent a risk to society.
mschicklet continues-
Except, wait a minute. The second man who raped me had a wife and children. Every single day, I am blindsided by anxiety attacks brought on by the memory of his scent, his voice, even the sound of his name. Memory is a fickle thing, but I remember what he did to me. He raped me. While he was married. While his two young daughters were sleeping in the next bedroom.
But, Mr. Depp says there's no way a man with a wife and children would do such a thing. No way someone who's married for 20+ years, who kisses his daughters goodnight and tucks them into bed, could possibly rape anyone. So, does that mean my experience means nothing? Does that mean it really didn't happen?
He doesn't say that no married man with children could do such a thing, but dealing with Roman Polanski in a marital context, Depp says Roman Polanski has not done such a thing.
mschicklet continues-
I take issue with the fact that Johnny Depp is using his privilege to minimize and even deny the horrific events that so many victims have been forced to endure. And, after reading the Survivor Thread and listening to the stories of other rape victims in tear-filled counseling groups, I know my story isn't all that rare.
Depp is using his privilege? What privilege? Speaking out for or against Polanski is not a privilege, it is a right. He is no more privileged than the dankprofessor, and as far as I know my privileges are quite pesdestrian. And Johnny Depp has not attempted to deny or minimize the horrors experienced by many victims of rape.
She continues-
Because, as we've learned, that's the thing about rapists. They rape people. A wedding band doesn't stop them, nor does the fact that they have children. Nor does their age. Denying this, as Mr. Depp is doing, silences rape victims. And, really, haven't victims already been silenced enough?
Well, mschicklet attributes a whole lot of power to Depp. He's just an actor, mschicklet, he has the power to silence no one. Now, maybe I am missing something, but mschicklet says that Depp is silencing rape victims and mschicklet is a rape victim and she has not been silenced. OK, I know that victims of violence, rape or otherwise, respond differently to their victimage, but her prior paragraph she indicates that all rape victims respond in the same manner. Note that I was more restrained, I said "many" rape victims. But mschicklet stereotypes rape victims. For example, not all rape victims want Polanski to be imprisoned.
She continues-
In addition to trying to be the final word on what a rapist is or is not, Johnny Depp also wants to know why Polanski was arrested. "Why now?" he asks. Why is this coming up now? Because Polanski fled the country for 30 years and refused to serve his time. By asking "Why now?" Mr. Depp is focusing responsibility on the wrong people – the people who want our justice system to do its job. Instead, he should be holding Polanski accountable. Mr. Depp's words absolutely scream, "Poor him! Poor guy! Let him go! Leave him alone!" What sort of a society do we live in if so many people feel the need to defend and protect a rapist? If this isn't rape culture, then I don't know what is.
I do not believe that for a second that people who are defending Polanski are defending him because they have a need to protect a rapist. I defend Polanski not out of some psychological need relating to rape but rather the belief that Polanski has been treated unfairly and he has been punished enough. Whatever the circumstances were with with Samantha Geimer, Polanski cannot just be reduced to a rapist. The complexities of this man are immense. Few people in this world have gone thru the sort of horrific events that Roman Polanski has gone thru- a survivor of the Holocaust whose mother was gassed to death and a survivor of his wife's mutilation and murder by the Manson gang. mschicklet is distressed that people cannot open themselves to the horror associated with rape while at the same time she seems clueless as to the horrors experienced by Polanski.
And she continues-
And ever since the arrest of Polanski, that's what I've seen from such a large portion of Hollywood and society in general. I've seen some of the most respected actors and filmmakers in Hollywood defend someone who doesn't deserve it. Either they deny that he is a rapist, deny that he ever was a rapist, or blame us for not letting the rapist go. I wish Johnny Depp realized that by adding his name to the long list of rape apologists, he not helping the situation – he is hurting so many people who are now faced with the cold truth that one less person is on their side.
It must be nice to live in the fantasy world that Johnny Depp lives in. In fact, I remember when I had similar beliefs. Men with children are safe, I would think to myself, in large part because that's what my mother taught me. It wasn't until I was raped that I finally realized how wrong I had been. But it shouldn't take something like that to "wake us up." We shouldn't have to wake up in the first place.
Unfortunately, mischicklet lives in a kind of fantasy world. She rants on about rape victims, but if rape victims are so important to her she engages in a giant psychological feat when she never mentions Polanski's so-called rape victim. She must know that Samantha Geimer wants Polanski to go free; she must know at the latest judicial hearing Geimer was represented by an attorney who argued for Polanski's freedom. mschicklet chooses not to ACKNOWLEDGE a person she considers to be a rape victim. What utter callousness!
And as for concern for safety which mschicklet mentions, I share her concern. But my concern for safety entails being protected from persons such as mschicklet, persons who seem to embrace a form of vigilante justice, persons who give full vent to their anger, persons whose self-righteousness seem to know no limit. And as for safety and Roman Polanski, I personally believe that those people who believe that Polanski represents a clear and present danger to society are in a state of delusion.
And as for her comment about our culture being a rape culture, such a notion has some merit. But support for a rape culture has nothing to do with defending or opposing Roman Polanski. Evidence that we are living in a rape culture is that "we" support sending persons to prison in which rape is often supported not only by inmates but also by prison guards. The fact we can't protect persons from rape who we send away to prison so we can be protected from being raped is quite damning!!
As for rape victims, speaking up in support of Polanski, click here and for a detailed account of the circumstances involved in the Geimer statutory rape, click here.
A rape victim on her rape and on Polanski's "victim"
I encourage any one who wishes to have a fuller understanding of rape and its long term and short term consequences to read Samskara's presentation and analysis of her rape. In the context of her rape experience, Samskara explains why the so-called facts presented by Samantha Geimer, the alleged rape victim of Roman Polanski, leads her to conclude that Geimer was not a victim of forcible rape.
This is a must read for anyone seriously interested in the Polanski case and rape in general. I hope readers circulate this so it might come to the attention of Polanski and/or his legal defenders.
The mother of Samantha Geimer as suspect
Sometimes comments come into the dankprofessor blog which I feel merit attention as a full fledged post. Here is a comment from Samskara on Polanski Defenders and Rape Baiting which is now published as a post-
I'll relate a story I read and heard on Russian actress/model Olga Kurylenko ("Hitman" and "Quantum of Solace"). While in Russia, standing in a food line with her mother, a man noticed her and wanted to photograph her. He said he was an 'agent', however, given the Russian underground trade in sex slaves to Thailand and other places, Mrs. Kurylenko (Olga's mother) refused to believe that this guy was on the up-and-up. So she decided to accompany Olga to this 'meeting'. It turned out that he was in fact, a bonafide photographer with international connections into the modeling business. Olga, with her mother by her side, signed the contract and lo and behold, she's a model.
The reason I'm telling this story? Well ever since that day until Olga turned 21, Mrs. Kurylenko accompanied Olga wherever she went, all over the world, no matter where it was. As a Russian scientist, Mrs. Kurylenko knew the money Olga was making was significant and could make a difference as to her daughter's future. The one thing that Mrs. Kurylenko didn't do, was allow Olga to go off on her own with anyone until she came of age.
How does this relate to Roman and his story? Plenty. I still say, how much of this whole thing is to be blamed solely on the mother? All of it. What mother allows their young daughter to go off with a man known for his proclivities for liking young-er women? Only a mother who plainly has an ulterior motive. As a woman, I have the right to say this. I have the right to question where Mrs. Gailey's ethics were. I don't believe in morals. They're for those who ascribe to some kind of religious system of believe. I don't. I'm more in line of a left-of-liberal leaning humanist. While I agree with the fact that as sexual beings we should be able to do whatever we want in terms of our bedrooms, I also believe that there should be an effort to protrect those who may be vulnerable in our culture. But in this case, there was no 'vulnerable' little creature to protect. And anyone who doesn't understand that Geimer was already sexually mature, don't see the larger picture. And for those who think that it's 'okay' to state things like "if it where your 13 year-old daughter, you'd think differently…" They're just blowing shit up their own asses. If I had a 13 year-old daughter, I certainly would not be sending her off with someone I didn't even know that well. Like Olga Kurylenko, I would want to be there to protect my daughter, not send her off to fend for herself.
In a culture that embraces the absurd and the sick, like the American's do (I'm Canadian), I think it's ridiculous that most of the condemnation is coming from the US. They're professing to be this 'hard-done-by' nation, yet they love ruling over the world when it comes to global law. And Roman Polanski is not a whipping boy for all that is wrong with the US. Their lawmakers are. And considering that they have worse REAL pedophiles within their own government like those of the C-Street band who believe it's perectly okay to rape a six year-old and confess it and have it called a 'power enhancing experience', but to break with their bretheren is punishable by death, that's whacked up to me
Polanski defenders and rape baiting
I am tired of how too many persons end their arguments against freedom for Polanski with comments/questions of the following genre.
'If you had a 13 year old daughter who was raped, would you just let it go? Allow the rapist to go free? Rape is rape.'
"Rape is rape" but rape is not rape. One rape does not equal another rape and one rapist does not equal another rapist, etc., etc. It never has and never will. We are not dealing with robots in the courtroom- one could also say that one judge or lawyer does not equal another judge or lawyer.
But when Polanski is seen as not being treated like another accused criminal, people go wild. A case can be made for Polanski having more lenient treatment than others. Of course, too many readers, not all, see defenders of Polanski as just rape apologists- end of discussion for them.
Or I can say that we are not seeing celebrity justice here but rather celebrity injustice.
Or I can say how about laying off Polanski with all the degrading rhetoric when you know both his wife was murdered and mutilated by the Manson gang and his mother was murdered by the Nazi gang. Should a person who has survived such atrocities be treated like any other person? Or really getting into the absurd should Polanski be treated like any other person whose wife and mother was murdered?
Bottom line just for Polanski- justice for Polanski is letting him go now. Justice for Ms. Gemier is to let him go now.
Such, of course, has no implications for other so-called similar cases. And even referring to similar cases here is problematic.
And what I would want as a father of a 13 year old daughter who had sex with Polanski after the daughter's mother gave permission for her to go off somewhere to be photographed by a celebrity? I can't answer the question, an inane and irrelevant question.
Enough is enough. Polanski has suffered and suffered and suffered…
Larry King- Polanski murdered Sharon Tate!
Larry King did a segment on Roman Polanski on January 6. Following is the transcript of that segment. King lost his mind when he interviewed Sharon Tate's sister, Debra, and stated to Debra that Roman murdered her sister. It's in the transcript, read it! And there is as whole lot more.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Roman was already an established film director. Everybody knew him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was the Roman Polanski.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The future was hit, he thought. And then everything just collapsed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He didn't perceive having intercourse with a 13-year-old girl as against the law.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The fact of Polanski leaving the country seems to have eclipsed what happened to the system of justice?
KING: That was a clip from the HBO documentary "Roman Polanski, Wanted And Desired." Polanski, the 76-year-old movie director still a wanted man. He pled guilty in August of 1967 to having unlawful sex with a then 13-year-old girl. He was 43 at the time. Prosecutors in LA dropped the charges in exchange for a guilty plea. He fled the United States before sentencing and is currently in Switzerland under house arrest.
Polanski's victim, Samantha Geimer, was on the show in 2003, and here is what she had to say then about Polanski and his possible jail time.
KING: In retrospect, would you have been upset at the plea bargain to time served? In other words, Roman Polanski goes free after 45 days?
SAMANTHA GEIMER, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY POLANSKI: We were — everybody was really comfortable with that.
KING: Your mother was happy with it?
GEIMER: I never even asked him to be put in jail.
KING: Your father was happy with it?
GEIMER: I don't know about that. I didn't talk with him about it.
KING: You don't think he deserved more time in jail.
GEIMER: No, and the publicity was so traumatic and horrible that his punishment was secondary to just getting this whole thing to stop.
KING: Others will join us later. We begin with Lawrence Silver. Larry is the attorney for Samantha Geimer, Polanski's rape victim. He and his client want the case against Roman Polanski dismissed. What happened in court today?
LAWRENCE SILVER, ATTORNEY FOR POLANSKI'S VICTIM: What happened today was that Polanski asked that, consistent with what the court of appeal had suggested in their December decision, that he be sentenced in absentia, and that will allow a hearing on the allegations pretty well established by the documentary that there was judicious, as well as prosecutorial impropriety.
KING: So they're asking — they sentence him to a year, tow years, three years, whatever, while he is not there.
SILVER: To sentence him absentia. One of the arguments, I suspect, is that he's already been sentenced and that this judge should merely confirm the sentence which was reached.
KING: What did this judge rule today?
SILVER: He ordered briefing on the issue and set a hearing for January 22nd.
KING: What does your client want?
SILVER: My client wants the case over. She has been enduring 32 years of relatively intense press coverage and interference with an effort to put this behind her and get it behind her. After 32 years, I think she is entitled to that.
KING: Since she is the victim, why isn't she almost automatically acquiesced to? Don't they listen to her?
SILVER: Apparently not.
KING: Do you make an argument?
SILVER: I have argued before the trial court and the court of appeal that the matter should be dismissed. He was supposed to be sentenced to time served, then the judge changed his mind, frankly, because of concerns of how the press would view him. And then, as a result, Polanski fled. And it's been just a long period of time for her to endure and her family to endure the pendancy of this case.
Had it been someone else, perhaps, it would have been gone and forgotten, probably except by her, but not because of the great publicity that this case seems to engender.
KING: Legally, Larry, what do you think is going to happen? SILVER: Well, the court of appeals is very strong about the fact that there ought to be a prompt and quick resolution of the matter. And the court of appeals was also strong that there ought to be a full hearing. And this plea or request to be sentenced in absentia should result in a hearing. And then the court can decide what to do as a result of what is clearly judicial impropriety, as well as prosecutorial impropriety.
KING: When come back, Larry Silver will be joined by Debra Tate, Roman Polanski's former sister in law, the sister of Sharon Tate, brutally murdered that night. Don't go away.
KING: Joining Lawrence Silver with us now is Debra Tate, Roman Polanski's former sister in law, the sister of the late Sharon Tate. On a persona note, I knew Sharon Tate. I had interviewed her a couple of months before her tragic murder. What do you want to see happen?
DEBRA TATE, FMR. SISTER IN LAW OF ROMAN POLANSKI: I would like to see this whole thing go away. I think that there has been a lot of time that has passed and we need to bring it to an end.
KING: Have you ever talked to Roman Polanski?
TATE: I have.
KING: How can you have a civil conversation with someone who so brutally murdered your sister?
TATE: Roman didn't murder my sister.
KING: I'm sorry. When the fact that he would have this terrible thing happen to him after the death of your sister, to once again focus you into the public light. That's what I meant.
TATE: I don't have any problems with Roman whatsoever. The actions that he took back then has logic that doesn't necessarily play out by the law, in my opinion. There are extenuating circumstances to this whole thing that have to do with legal improprieties. That is much bigger to me than the original offense.
KING: Did your sister love him?
TATE: Absolutely.
KING: And he loved her.
TATE: Absolutely.
KING: How was he doing when you spoke to him?
TATE: He was very concerned. He was very humble. He — you know, he thinks that this is a tragic situation. Now he sees it a little differently perhaps. And that is purely my take on things. He didn't say it verbatim, but I could hear it in his voice. KING: Was there an age difference between Sharon and Roman?
TATE: Yes, there was.
KING: How much?
TATE: Ten years.
KING: That's light by his standards, because he's been married to his current wife for 21 years. I believe he met her when he was 15.
TATE: Fifteen, 16 Years old.
KING: He had a romantic relationship with Nastassja Kinski when she was 15.
TATE: That's correct.
KING: You think he has an attraction for younger women?
TATE: I think in France it's a normal way of life. It's very well known that it's a right of passage. Younger women with older men, older women with younger men.
KING: Do you understand why people might not look favorably on it?
TATE: I absolutely do understand. I am a victim's rights advocate, and I deal with a lot of women that have truly been raped. I do understand it completely.
But this is just slightly different. And it's not up to me to bring that to public light. But there are circumstances that make it ever so slightly different than a full rape.
KING: Do you know Samantha Geimer, Larry's client?
TATE: I have never met her. Never.
KING: What do you make of her feelings?
TATE: Her feelings I absolutely understand, 100 percent. She's a mother. She's got her own children. This has got to put her, at this point in time, in a very uncomfortable position at best. And I think that it's very inappropriate on behalf of the LA DA's office, who I work with often, to pursue this case, especially in this fiscal climate. Perhaps there is an end we can reach without spending two million dollars on a trial, which is what it would usually cost.
KING: Why do you think they are so intent on this, Lawrence?
SILVER: It's hard to figure. The prior prosecutor in the case certainly, Roger Gunson (ph), a really a wonderful human being, was quite understanding of the desire of my client and her family to end this thing, even back in 1977. And that intelligence hasn't passed on.
KING: Where were you the night Sharon was killed?
TATE: I was supposed to be at Sharon's house. But a phone call, circumstances changed, and I stayed at my mother's home.
KING: You never get over that.
TATE: Never. Actually, I've never — I get victimized in way or another over and over and over again.
KING: Did you talk to Roman soon after that?
TATE: Absolutely. Roman and I remained very close for many, many years. We still are. I flew to London and testified in her majesty's high court against "Conde Nast Magazine." He won that. I went to Paris and spent some time with them. It's like time lapsed.
KING: Does she have a happy marriage now?
TATE: He has a wonderful wife, happy marriage. Beautiful, bright, brilliant children.
Martin Amis on Roman Polanski
Amis interviewed Polanski in 1979 in Paris and comments on Polanski's current situation.
On raping Polanski
There is a blogging group called themselves the astute bloggers, but from what I have read by them, whatever they have to offer it is not astuteness. Here is their "take: on Roman Polanski being transferred from a Swiss jail to his Swiss chalet-
Well, even if the above comment is not astute, it is unadulterated honest bigotry. Or to put it in other terms, it is blatant hatemongering. Or in modern day lingo, it's Polanski haters unplugged.
And for those who still believe in civility , let us not forget that Polanski was in that Swiss jail not for punishment but rather as a detainee. We detain detainees not for the sake of punishment. Polanski was detained in jail and now is detained in his chalet.
The fact that the chalet is a very hospitable environment is really beside the point. Unfortunately, what is the point to all too many Americans is that jails for detainees, the presumed innocent, should be like New York City's Riker's Island, an island where the presumed innocent are punished and degraded on an everyday basis.
Riker's Island and other similar institutions in America and around the world indicate the game will remain the same. It means that those calling themselves astute create insitutions that have more rapists exiting than entering.
The dankprofessoer knows where rape is going on and it is not in a plush Swiss chalet but rather in our jails and prisons.
The Tenant of Chinatown
Dave Phillips has published an interesting essay on Polanski on his blog The Tenant of Chinatown. Phillips is one of the few analysts (possibly the only analyst) who has gone into a microanalysis of the sexual encounter between Polanski and Geimer in attempting to determine whether said encounter represents rape beyond "statutory" rape.
Phillip's analysis is heavily based on the grand jury testimony of Polanski and Geimer. Of course, relying on said testimony is problematic since there is no cross examination of witnesses testifying before a grand jury. Given that the allegations against Polanski never reached the adversarial stage since a plea bargain was reached due to the request of the Geimer's family that she not be subjected to cross examination at a trial, it is likely that the specifics of this case will continue to remain clouded.
In his analyis, Phillips is concerned about the "real" motives of Geimer and her mother. Given his skepticism and critical acumen, the dankprofessor finds it somewhat surprising that he never speculates why Geimer has repeatedly insisted that she wants no part of a Polanski trial and has called for the charges against Polanski be dropped. Possibly, said insistence may be due to a fear that if she is subjected to cross examination loopholes in her original grand jury testimony may be discovered.
Emma Thompson remains mute on Polanski
The actress Emma Thompson has made no public statement regarding her alleged withdrawal of her support for Roman Polanski.
Yes, a student has reported that Emma has told her that she would take her name off a petition supporting Polanski, but she has told no one else and she has released no statement indicating said withdrawal.
The Shakesville blog which had first reported on the student comment has had nothing to say on this since November 4.
Personally, the dankprofessor does not care what Thompson's position is on Polanski. I am not into the celebrity cult. But hardcore left feminists apparently are into said cult. They care about what Thompson says or not says on Polanski and they care about Polanski because he is a male and a celebrity.
I know the retort would be that they care about Polanski because they believe he is a rapist in the most ideal form. Now if they really cared about bringing rapists to justice they would be picketing the city hall in Los Angeles and other major cities because DA's do little or nothing about rape. They leave the rape kits in storage unexamined.
And there is little or no emphasis on rapists at large. Of course, the LA Times says that Roman Polanski is still a danger. They must know something that we don't know. Or maybe they have seen too many Polanski movies. Maybe they and others really believe that it was Polanski who slammed the kid in the face in THE TENANT.
Here is what the dankprofessor knows. The LA DA, the talking and writing heads all want to be on the Larry King Show which means they are "real" celebrities. As Celebrity Paris Hilton said on the Larry King Show, "you (Larry ) are a legend".
Now there are two people I know of who definitely don't want to be on that show- Roman Polanski and Sarah Geimer. They just want to be left alone. Ironic isn't it!
Enough said, at least for now.
Kangaroo court
This is a comment from Grant on the blog Thoughtleader–
"I have run out of ways to say the same thing. I suspect that you may be a person for whom the law has always worked and worked well and hence you have great faith in it. I agree that it is the best system we have for handling crimes and disputes and in most cases it works very well indeed. However, when the fallability of the law presents itself, the law is outdated or the law is under the control of people who do not have its fair and logical elements foremost in their minds, the law becomes a very scary thing indeed. Where you once had justice you now have a system with massive power to abuse. I suggest you look north to the Zimbabwean trial of Roy Bennet for terrorism for a great example. There seems to be a widely held belief that this personal abuse side of the law was in evidence at the Polanski trial. As such I understand why he fled. You do not consider this to even be an option because for you the law is absolute, untaintable, especially in the free, democratic USA. I wish it were so. The possibility exists that Polanski fled because he raped a young girl and the judge was onto him. The possibility also exists that he fled because the legal system became a kangaroo court and he knew the signs better than most…"
I think that he understand the dilemmas that Polanski has faced re justice in LA. But I would hesitate in embracing his belief that the criminal justice system works in most cases.
On THE VIEW Emma Thompson silent on Polanski
The Emma Thompson scenario re Roman Polanski is getting more and more bizarre. As I indicated in a previous post, a number of feminist blogs and then the media in general reported that Thompson was to withdraw her name from a petition in support of Roman Polanski. Apparently Thompson indicated to a student at Exeter College where she was lecturing that her name would be withdrawn from the petition.
What the dankprofessor found to be strange was that there was no public statement by Thompson announcing said withdrawal. And to add to this strangeness, yesterday Thompson appeared on THE VIEW with an audience of a couple of million and said absolutely nothing about Polanski.
Such must have been disheartening to those avowed feminists who were very excited about Emma's apparent withdrawal. But as the dankprofessor has previously stated such is contradictory with feminism since these people are looking up to a power figure for validation, and, in this particular case, looking up to a celebrity.
And what also disturbs the dankprofessor is not that Emma Thompson signed or not signed or changed her mind about signing a petition, but rather that she finds signing to be sufficent. Is it too much to expect the Emma Thompson make a public statement indicating her reasons for signing or not signing? Signing a petition is easy, explaining why one signed is not so easy. Are the anit-Polanski crusaders going to give a pass to Thomspson because she is a celebrity?
Roman Polanski on Sharon Tate
The sensational Sharon Tate blog reports on a Polanski 1974 Rolling Stone interview, "The Restoration of Roman Polanski" by Tom Burke, July 18, 1974.
Polanski's recollections of SharonTate and his life with her merits the attention of any person who wishes to have an accurate understanding of Roman Polanski.
Later, when he does talk about Sharon this is what he says: "Meeting Sharon? When I hired her for 'The Fearless Vampire Killers', of course. We got married in 1968. By the summer of '69 she was very pregnant and I was very busy, working on a film script in London. It seemed best she went back to the house we rented in LA and I could stay on and finish the film and get back to LA as soon as I could. Everyday we would talk on the phone. When it rang one day, I thought it was her but it was my agent in LA. He was crying. My reaction first was, naturally, no reaction, stunned disbelief, I suppose you call it. Friends came to me quickly, I think we went out for a long walk, they called a doctor who gave me something, a shot and I slept. Then I took a plane to LA. You must understand, there is much which now I cannot recall, which I have blocked out of recollection. After the funeral, I stayed on in LA because I had the ludicrous notion that finding the murderer would somehow ease my grief. I worked very close with the police for a long time, who, I have got to tell you, were quite human and wonderful. I had no idea cops could be like this. Sharon's parents worked with them too. Yes, I am still in touch with the Tates, naturally. What a question! I don't think this is known: that just before the police found Manson and all of them, I offered a reward, $20,000 for public information leading to the arrest of the killers. It wasn't collected, no. As soon as the police discovered Manson, I get the hell out of LA immediately, I could take no more, there was no more point to staying. I had begun then to accept Sharon's death, which I'd never really done before, which is really all that matters to me about it all anymore, that she is gone. The worst started: I went to Switzerland and tried to ski and become very jet-set, the idea of work was impossible. Everybody kept saying to me, get to work immediately. Idiotic. Only Stanley Kubrick understood, he told me, 'You cannot and must not work now.' "
The reporter then writes: "It is clear he wishes to get up, to pace the room, break it up perhaps. but he remains quietly seated and purposefully motionless."
Roman goes on to say: "See I attempted for awhile there, before starting 'Macbeth', to become a hedonist, as the papers said we all were. Jesus, I hated the press for a long time after it, because, I swear this, although I already knew how the press exaggerates, especially in sensational matters, I could not believe what was being printed about Sharon! My God, 'The Sharon Tate Orgies.' Interviews given by people that Sharon and I never met! I swear I could not find one word of truth in any story printed about us anywhere, and I would not and could not lie about this fact! If there had been anything to any of that shit, I would admit it to you now. My God, it was, is, unbelievable. The murder was all a horrible mistake, you know. Manson's people were after somebody else entirely, who'd been renting the house before us! What was actually going on there was this: Gibby Folger and Voyteck were staying in the house to keep Sharon company, we'd agreed on this, they were good friends and the place was big and it seemed a good idea since she was eight and half months pregnant. Gibby was working very hard as a social worker, getting up at dawn everyday to go to work in Watts and studying speed-reading at night. I was planning a film involving dolphins–'The Day of the Dolphin'–and Voyteck wanted very much to work in movies and was devoting lots of time to research on dolphins for me. Jay Sebring was another friend who came up often, but never stayed all night one night at the house. I was dying to finish work and get there; the last time I talked to Sharon, only hours before her murder, I told her I'd get there the following Monday even if work wasn't finished. Things had been so perfect between us: we'd had some nice times in that LA house. Sharon would cook dinner for friends and after we'd all sit outside and look at the sky, the constellations, and talk about everything. Just quiet, pleasant evenings. Sharon and I would make plans, we had a wonderful future extensively mapped …"
The reporter closes this part of the interview adding: "Still he sits perfectly calm, though his eyes are such that it is uncomfortable to meet them."
Emma Thompson and Roman Polanski
Although I support the efforts of Roman Polanski not to be extradited to the United Sates, I am also generally sympathetic to those who speak out against any differential treatment of celebrities.
Celebrityhood should not make celebrities qualified for any kind of special treatment.
But we all very well know that such is not the case in America. Too many Americans worship their stars. Some do so to such a degree that if anything bad happens to one of their heavenly bodies they become psychologically unglued. Such was recently demonstrated when Michael Jackson died; there was massive mourning throughout the United States, and a media frenzy that even surpassed the trials and tribulations of OJ Simpson.
And now we have Emma Thompson, an accomplished actress and humanitarian, who has caused many people on the feminist left to go into seizures of despair and heartbreak, particularly see the Jezebel and Shakesville blogs.
And what did Emma Thompson do that caused such distress- she signed the Bernard Henri Levy petition in support of freedom for Polanski. Here we have one actress and one signatory of the petition. But what we also have is too many feminists treating Thompson as being the Ultimate one. She is treated with adoration just as all "true" celebrities are treated. Her falling from her scared superior position has caused much suffering by her worshipers.
But according to the Shakseville blog, all has not been in vain-
Last week, a reader named Caitlin e-mailed Shakesville blogmistress Melissa McEwan — who had written about being heartbroken by Thompson's decision to sign — with a proposal. Caitlin is a student at Exeter University, where Thompson was scheduled to speak last night, and knew she'd have the opportunity to meet the actor. In her e-mail, Caitlin wrote: "I have set up a petition online, in the hopes that I can hand her a list of names and comments next week from the online community (and my own university, hopefully) showing our dismay at her decision to sign the Roman Polanski petition."
The petition got 410 signatures and numerous comments, which Caitlin brought to her meeting with Thompson last night. In a follow-up e-mail to Shakesville, Caitlin writes:
Emma did not have much time between meetings, but she gave me all of the time that she had. I asked her why she had signed the petition, and she explained about how well she knows Polanski, how terrible his life has been, and how forgiving the survivor of the rape all those years ago now is. She said she thought the intentions of the judge were unclear, as were the intentions of those who arrested him recently. She told me that a lot of her friends had rung her up asking her to sign the petition, so there had been a certain amount of pressure. She said that she had already been thinking a lot about the petition, as others had expressed their dismay at her signing it.
I handed her our petition and the comments. She read them both through thoroughly, and came back to me. She said, while she supported Polanski as a friend, a crime is a crime. I don't know whether she had realised the extent of Polanski's crime, but she is now fully aware. She will remove her name from the petition – in fact, she said she would call today and sort it out. Even though, she stressed, Polanski has had some truly terrible experiences in his lifetime, experiences that we couldn't even imagine and which should not be taken out of the equation, she agreed that she could not put her name to a petition asking for his release.
Assuming that she will be true to her word, her name will be removed in the very near future. Hopefully the press will pick up on it.
She left me with this, to pass on to everyone who has signed the petition/raised awareness of this issue: "Know that I will remove my name because of you, and all of the good work that you have been doing. I have read your petition. I have heard you. And I will listen."
If she follows through, hooray for Thompson — and either way, hooray for Caitlin, who had the guts to use a brief meeting with a celebrity to do what many of us have wanted to over the last month: Ask what the fuck went through her head before she signed. And it sounds like the usual — he's suffered, he's charming, the victim wants it dropped, judicial shenanigans, all the cool kids are signing — minus any thought of what he actually did to the victim in 1977, before fleeing the country. Lévy conveniently left any mention about that out of his petition, but Caitlin did not. And that information is rather crucial to making a decision about whether to call for leaving poor old Polanski alone. I've been wondering the whole time how many of his supporters have taken a good look at it, and how many just got a phone call saying, "It's a witch hunt — sign this" and agreed.
Here's hoping not only that Thompson makes that call, but that her change of heart gets enough real media attention for other celebrity signatories of the Free Polanski petition to think twice about who and what, exactly, they agreed to stand up for.
Of course the Jezebel blogger comes out patronizing both Emma Thompson and all other signatories. They just couldn't know what they actually signed. I signed the petition and I knew just about all aspects of the Polanski case that have become public. And I assume that such was also the case for many of the other signatories.
What I find so terribly depressing is that apparently so many, (see the comments on the Shakesville blog )are so dependent on any power figure. Doesn't such dependency represent the antithesis of what feminism is all about?
Speaking only for myself, if Harrison Ford decided to remove his name from the petition I would be unfazed. What does Harrison Ford have to do with me? I speak for myself; Harrison Ford speaks for himself. Why should I or any body else petition Harrison Ford? If such petitioning would occur as it has occurred in reference to Emma Thompson, it just demonstrates the dependency and vulnerability of the petitioners.
Targeting Polanski in jail or prison
In one of my recent posts, on The Polanski Danger, I took the LA Times to task for claiming that Polanski remains a danger to others and therefore he should extradited and be sentenced for his crime.
What I failed to note is if Polanski is returned to the LA County jail system or to a California prison, he will be in a state of danger. He will become a target for those inmates who want to make a name for themselves by killing a celebrity or a target of many inmates who hate child molesters since they had been molested as a child. Of course, in an attempt to avoid this Polanski in effect would be put in solitary confinement.
Bringing Polanski back in will cause more suffering, including more suffering by Polanski's victim. I guess somebody must win if Polanski returns. Who might that be other than Steve Cooley? Well, the dankprofessor knows that justice will not be the winner.
Roman Polanski is the painted bird
Sean Beaudoin in his ON POLANSKI post gets it right when he states-
What does matter, and what I hear almost no one mentioning, is Polanski's background. Not his artistic background, but his background as a human being. Geraldine Ferraro ignorantly and self-righteously claimed in her recent NY Times polemic that "he's rich and continues to lead a charmed life." Ms. Ferraro, apparently not having done an ounce of research since vetting Walter Mondale's chances of winning more than one state against Ronald Reagan, could not be more wrong. Polanski lived through a horrific childhood, a childhood of truly cinematic brutality and deprivation in the woods of Europe as a Jewish orphan riding out the end of World War Two. His pregnant mother was killed at Auschwitz. Jerzey Kozinski, in fact, based his epic and disturbing work, The Painted Bird, on Polanski's early experiences. If even a tenth of Kozinski's book is true, it's astonishing that Polanski managed to make what he did of his life, let alone expressing a creative vision that wasn't entirely one of dissolution and madness. Twenty years later, in a quintessentially American example of brutal irony, Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was also horribly murdered. Her death, at the hands of the Manson Family, was one of the most sensationalized and bizarre episodes in a decade ridden with war, massive cultural upheaval, and narcotic self-abasement. Should we not at least take into account these factors when determining whether Polanski is a dangerous pedophile or a thoroughly flawed person who may, due to those experiences, have lost a certain degree of rationality and judgment at the time of his crime? This is the problem with adjudicating thirty years after the fact. It is simply unfair, if not unjust, to take any behavior out of the context of its era. Is it morally relativist to think we may not be entirely capable of judging decisions made under the moral yoke of Spiro Agnew, napalm, Owsley, and monthly political assassinations? Certainly any judge or jury or editorial could have then. And they did. A deal was reached, likely in some part because of Polanski's celebrity, that seems ludicrously lenient now. But there were also unanswered questions that made the prosecution more difficult. Like, for instance, why was this girl made up to look like an adult and then dropped off at Jack Nicholson's house at night by her mother, who without question knew her daughter would be alone with a notorious director? We can never know the answer, just as we can never know Polanski's mindset, but what is certain is that we were very different people then. There were no missing child photos on milk cartons. There were no gossip websites or instantaneous cellphone photography to curb public behavior. In the drug-and-libertine haze of early seventies Hollywood there were few limits on debauchery, let alone documentaries about the Jon Benet-style sexualization of young girls, or the very public Lohan and Spears censure of stage mothers who thrust their daughters into inexcusable situations in exchange for potential careers. If Polanski is to be brought to justice, why are there no similar calls for charges to be filed against the girl's astonishingly and criminally negligent mother?
Yes, yes and yes again Polanski's background as a human being is relevant but somehow so many people either deny that his background is relevant or simply avoid looking at his background. Of course, not fully looking at Polanski's humanity is a form of dehumanization.
And Beaudoin believes that Polanski's survival experience in Poland was the source material for Jerzy Kosinki's novel, THE PAINTED BIRD. Whether or not Polanski was Kosinki's painted bird is beside the point. The dankprofessor's concluding point is that in today's world Polanski is the painted bird.
LA Times and the Polanski danger
The LA Times in its editorial of October 31, "Polanski's Victim is not Judge and Jury" presents various arguments as to why Polanski's victim's call for the case to be dropped against Polanski be ignored.
However, the Times editorial does go beyond the fringe in terms of their following statement-
"Even if Geimer no longer holds a grudge against Polanski, that doesn't mean he doesn't pose a continuing danger to others."
Polanski representing a continuing danger to others! There is not a scintilla of evidence that Polanski over the last 31 years has done anything of a dangerous nature.
Now if the LA TIMES takes its editorial function seriously and really considers Polanski dangerous, why do they support his forcible return to the United States? Shouldn't they be arguing that Polanski be able to return to France? And if it turns out that he becomes a danger in France then it would be a French problem, not an American problem.
Also see follow-up post- Targeting Polanski in jail or prison.
Bernard-Henri Levy on Polanski.
Bernard-Henri Levy had a powerful and emotive essay on the Huffington Post. In the dankprofessor's opinion he gets to the core of the matter re those who are condemning Polanski when he concludes his essay on the following note,
Because it is shameful, finally, that we can't, when we talk about his life, evoke his childhood in the ghetto, the death of his mother in Auschwitz, the murder of his young spouse, eviscerated along with the young child she was carrying, without the prayers of the new popular justice crying, "Blackmail!': even for the most abominable serial killer, the prevailing "culture of excuse" jumps to scrutinize the difficult childhood , the broken family, the traumas — but Roman Polanski would be the only person in the world under judicial jurisdiction not to have the right to any kind of attenuating circumstance…
It is the entirety of the affair, in truth, that is shameful.
It is the debate that is nauseating and from which we must abstain.
I hardly know Roman Polanski. But I know that all those who, from close and from afar, join in this lynching will soon wake up, horrified by what they have done, ashamed.
Bravo to Bernard-Henri Levy whose call is really to view the life of Polanski in holistic terms. Almost all avoid or deny that the murder of his mother, the the murder of his wife and about to be baby have any relevance to Polanski's life after these terrible tragedies. It is so much easier not to look at the horrors that Polanski went thru. To deny that one's past has anything to do with one's present is surreal.
As for Levy's final line that those who "join in this lynching will soon wake up, horrified by what they have done, ashamed." Such is unlikely. To experience the horror they must become open to Polanski's horrors; the risk of doing so is that they would then have to deal with their feeling of guilt. Such would end up making them more similar to Polanski who has felt survivor guilt throughout much of his life.
Sharon Tate's sister calls for Polanski release
Debra Tate, the younger sister of Sharon Tates has called for the release of Polanski from a Swiss jail. Watch her on MSNBC by clicking here. The interview with Debra comes at the end of the segment, and it is definitely worth waiting for. You will also find the text of the interview.
Response to Boston Globe op ed on Polanski
The Boston Globe published an op ed piece on Roman Polanski. Following is my response which was published as a comment-
Graff concludes her essay with a "bring him home". The 'him' of course being Roman Polanski.https://dankprofessor.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/on-roman-polanski/
But if she knew anything about Polanski she would know that Polanski did not and does not have a home except for one period of time. That time being when he was married to Sharon Tate. Whatever home he had then was terminated
when the so-called Manson family killed Sharon Tate, killed Sharon and Roman's baby to be and killed two dear friends of Roman who he had asked to stay with Sharon while he was in London. So his respite with a domestic life ended. Before that he lived in France and before that in Poland where he witnessed the mass murders of the Holocaust and lost his mother to the Nazi murderers.
Nothing to do with his 1977 illegal sex with a child of 13 you say. Please, welcome to never never land. Terror hurts and is long lasting, nine years is nothing. But all too many want to know nothing about Polanski; they don't want to know about him so they can engage in a guilt free stoning. Maybe after the stoning if they say oh my God what have I done, maybe then they might feel guilt. But now before the stoning, before justice occurs maybe they might learn a little bit about survival guilt. Yes, this is the sort of guilt that Polanski suffered from-
tortuous guilt, if only I had not gone to London, I should have been able to do something,
I should have been with them. I should have died. To find out about Polanski rent the last film he made prior to the 1977 rape; the film is THE TENANT, made in 76, directed by Polanski,
and starring Polanski, starring him because the film was about surivior guilt and madness; it was about him. See my post on this if you care to understand-
And no I am not a celebrity and not a part of any elite and I am not an apologist for Polanski. All I ask is that people do not embrace revenge under the guise of justice, and that they open their eyes- wide open. Maybe once they hav e done this, they will understand how truly devastating the consequences were of the Manson murders.
Home, Polanski's only home or escape if you will has been thru his movies which, of course, have been horror movies most of the time and that is what we are dealing with people- horror.
Polanski probation report
The New York Times reported the following in regards to the September 1977 Polanski probation report-
The report, submitted by acting probation officer Kenneth F. Fare, and signed by a deputy, Irwin Gold, recommended that Mr. Polanski receive probation without jail time for his conviction on one count of having unlawful sex with a minor. In a summary paragraph, the report said: "Jail is not being recommended at the present time. The present offense appears to have been spontaneous and an exercise of poor judgement by the defendant." It went on to note that the victim and her parent, as well as an examining psychiatrist, recommended against jail, while a second psychiatrist described the offense as neither "aggressive nor forceful."
Despite Ms. Geimer's age and her testimony that she had objected to having sex with Mr. Polanski and asked to leave Jack Nicholson's house, where the incident occurred, the probation report concluded, "There was some indication that circumstances were provocative, that there was some permissiveness by the mother," and "that the victim was not only physically mature, but willing."…
The report paints a sympathetic picture of Mr. Polanski's background. Compiled when Mr. Polanski was 44, the report began with an account of his fractured childhood. It described his birth to a Polish national father, Riszard Polanski, and a Russian national mother, Bula Katz, and told how his Jewish family was confined behind barbed wire in a Krakow ghetto during the German occupation.
In 1941, the report noted, Mr. Polanski's mother was taken to Auschwitz, not to return. Later it said, "the defendant's father cut the wires permitting the defendant to escape" the ghetto, to spend the war with Polish families.
Recapping the defendant's background, the report said Mr. Polanski was blocked from attending advanced art school after the war "because of his Jewish origins," lost his religious faith, and twice suffered a fractured skull, once as the result of an assault in Poland, once after a car accident. It noted a first marriage in Poland, and a second to the actress Sharon Tate, who, it said, "was killed by members of the Manson gang in Los Angeles in the well-documented case in 1968."
Mr. Polanski's income in 1976 was recorded as being $60,000. His local residence was the Chateau Marmont. He admitted to smoking an occasional marijuana cigarette and to having used cocaine once, but was self-described as only a "social drinker."
According to the report, Mr. Polanski had no past criminal record, though the district attorney's office on Aug. 10, 1977, had rejected a complaint alleging grand theft property and misdemeanor assault and battery. The complaint resulted from a visit to the grave of his wife, Sharon Tate, in Culver City, Calif.: Mr. Polanski took the camera from a German photographer who tried to photograph him from some bushes, but the district attorney decided he was simply trying to "protect his right of privacy."
The report noted all of the assertions Ms. Geimer made in her grand jury testimony, along with the list of original charges, which included rape by drugs and sodomy. It also noted that a test "strongly indicates semen" on the girl's underclothes, but that vaginal and anal slides were negative, and there was no evidence of physical trauma…
Mr. Polanski, interviewed by the probation officer, said he had not realized that his request to photograph Ms. Geimer without a top was problematic. "Topless photograph is acceptable in Europe. I didn't realize it was objectionable here," he said.
According to Mr. Polanski, "the whole thing was very spontaneous. It was not planned," he told the probation officer. And, said the report, he "expressed great remorse regarding any possible effect the present offense might have upon the victim."
According to the report, a number of Hollywood luminaries submitted letters endorsing Mr. Polanski's good character. They included the set designer Richard Sylbert; the producers Howard W. Koch, Dino De Laurentiis and Robert Evans; and the actress Mia Farrow.
One psychiatrist who examined Mr. Polanski, Alvin E. Davis, found he was not mentally ill or disordered, and not "a sexual deviate." "He is of superior intelligence, has good judgement and strong moral and ethical values," the report said of Dr. Davis's conclusions.
"He is not a pedophile," Dr. Davis is quoted as saying. "The offense occurred as an isolated instance of transient poor judgement and loss of normal inhibitions in circumstances of intimacy and collaboration in creative work, and with some coincidental alcohol and drug intoxication."
Dr. Davis was also quoted as saying that "incarceration would serve no necessary or useful purpose." Another psychiatrist, Dr. Ronald Markman, was quoted as saying that Mr. Polanski was "not a mentally disordered sex offender, and therefore, not in need of hospitalization."
With that information in hand, the probation officer went on to describe a culture clash that occasionally occurred when creators from Europe fled the Nazis and Communism to reside in Los Angeles. "Possibly not since Renaissance Italy has there been such a gathering of creative minds in one locale as there has been in Los Angeles County during the past half century," said the report. "While enriching the community with their presence, they have brought with them the manners and mores of their native lands which in rare instances have been at variance with those of their adoptive land."
So, the report concluded, remorse, cultural differences, a certain permissiveness and provocation, and the unlikelihood of a repeat offense conspired to make probation without jail (beyond the 42 days Mr. Polanski served while being evaluated) an appropriate punishment for Mr. Polanski's actions toward a 13-year-old girl. But Mr. Polanski fled when Judge Laurence J. Rittenband indicated that more jail time and possible deportation were in order.
And, having been apprehended in Switzerland, Mr. Polanski is now up against the manners and mores of an era that often takes a harsher view of sex crimes.
What LA County Probation did is what probation authorities are supposed to do and that is to look at the individual offender and to reach a recommendation based on the specifics of the individual. Of course, what we find at the present time is a position advocated by many that Polanski's background, and prior traumas are simply irrelevant in terms of how he should be punished. These advocates have what apears to be a robotic view of justice. One looks at the specifics of the criminal behavior, and reaches a verdict based on those specifics; one does not look at background specifics of the offender.
Such represents a dehumanized form of justice. Even the victim is not deemed to play a role in determining the sentence. In the present case, the victim, who is now an adult, her feelings about Mr. Polanski are deemed to be irrelevant.
Of course, what we are too often dealing with in the present case are those who are seeking vengeance. They are not interested in any dispassionate analysis of Mr. Polanski or even Ms. Geimer. They seek to inflame self and others by reviewing the details of Mr. Polanski's crime not with the goal of understanding but rather with the goal of getting their pound of flesh. They demean and discard persons who believe that Mr. Polanski should not be in jail or go to jail as persons who support rape and rapists and child molesters or our simply uncaring members of a so-called Hollywood elite.
I am not a member of any Hollywood elite. I am not supportive of rape and child molestation. I am supportive of a humanistic criminal justice system. And in regards to Polanski, I am supportive of the LA Probation Department's recommendations. Unfortunately for Roman Polanski, he would have had a much greater chance of justice in Los Angeles in 1977 than in 2009. Best for him and for us that he is not extradicted to the United States and be subjected to the wrath of the self-righteous.
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How many cubes can you stuff into a midyear Corvette before you say enough is enough? 350? 396? 454?
What if we let you in on the inside story of a red-on-red, previous NCRS winner '66 Corvette coupe that's now stuffed with 572 cubic inches of pure GM big-block power?
"I bought my '66 Corvette to go fast, but I was disappointed in its performance," Leroy Gonzalez, a shopping-center developer in Seffner, Florida, tells VETTE. "That's why it's now powered by a GM Performance Parts 572/620hp big-block."
The '66 Corvette was the fourth year of the marque's second generation. A total of 9,958 coupes and 17,762 convertibles were built, for a production total of 27,720 units. Of these, 9,755, like Leroy's, were optioned with the base-model 327/300hp Chevy small-block engine.
To transform his mediocre-mill midyear into a maniacally meteoric missile, Gonzalez put out a call to AntiVenom, a Corvette performance shop also in Seffner. "Leroy came to me and didn't know what he wanted to do with his Corvette," Greg Lovell, the shop's owner explains. "I offered to transplant a 505hp LS7 into the car, but he thought it wasn't impressive enough. He said that it had already been done many times in the hobby; instead he wanted something brutal, flashy, and intimidating."
After doing his research, Lovell decided the most impressive, yet streetable, crate engine offered by GM was the Deluxe 572/620. "When I saw it described in the GM Performance Parts (GMPP) catalog as 'the coolest collection of orange, chrome, and aluminum you've ever seen,' I knew it was the right motor for this Vette. The 620 hp and 650 lb-ft of torque sure didn't hurt our decision either," he says.
Dr. Jamie Meyer, GM Performance Parts Marketing Manager, agrees. "This is flat-out the baddest street Rat available that still happily runs on pump gas. Everything was designed to offer you the ultimate big-block experience. That's why we've given it the title 'King of the Street.'"
GMPP ships the Deluxe 572/620 crate engine turnkey, meaning it includes a single-plane aluminum intake, a Demon 850-cfm carb, Chevy-script valve covers, an electronic distributor, spark plugs and wires, an oil pan, and a starter. The buyer just has to add engine accessories, pulleys, and brackets. It features a cast-iron block with four-bolt mains, a 4.560-inch bore, a 4.365-inch forged-steel crank, shot-peened forged-steel connecting rods, and forged-aluminum pistons. It's topped with aluminum, rectangular-port heads with 112cc combustion chambers, 2.25/1.88-inch stainless steel valves, and 1.7:1 aluminum roller rockers. A 254/264-degree-duration hydraulic roller cam with 0.632/0.632-inch lift actuates the valvetrain, and compression sits at a premium-friendly 9.6:1.
To propel the transformation, Lovell removed the Corvette's original, numbers-matching 327/300 and bagged it for safekeeping. Then, confronted with the task of making the 572, its engine accessories, and the requisite cooling and braking hardware all fit within the close spaces of the Corvette's engine bay, he got to work.
"Physically, the 572 will bolt right into place in a midyear Corvette," Lovell says. "However, the factory-supplied oil pan comes extremely close to the ground; I swapped it out for a Milodon unit."
There were other challenges, too. "There was no room left for a GM power-steering reservoir or vacuum-assist power brakes. I had to hunt for a junkyard-jewel reservoir that would fit, and extracted one from a Lexus. A Hydroboost system met our space requirements, but just barely," he laughs. "In addition, I couldn't locate any off-the-shelf headers to mate up to the 572. Luckily, I was able to modify a set of Stainless Works '63-'82 big-block headers for clearance around the steering box."
Though this Vette's owner could have chosen the look of a traditional V-belt accessory-drive system for the project, he felt a Billet Specialties True-Trac Serpentine System was better qualified for the job, and its polished looks gave the engine the flashy appearance he wanted. The kit included a 105-amp Powermaster alternator, an Edelbrock reverse-rotation water pump, a Sanden SD7 A/C compressor, Billet Specialties' patented A/C manifold, a Mavel power-steering pump, a billet-aluminum tensioner, a Goodyear Gatorback belt, and all the pulleys, covers, and stainless-steel hardware needed for installation.
Other mods include a Be Cool aluminum radiator, a modified Barry Grant thermostat housing to give the radiator hose a stock-looking routing, twin 12-inch Be Cool fans, and an MSD tall-deck tach-drive distributor and 6AL ignition box.
Though most people would be content with running the 572 with its factory four-barrel, Leroy had a very special request concerning carburetion. "He told me he had a passion for Tri-powers, and he just wouldn't be truly happy without three carbs instead of one," Lovell says.
Hence, AntiVenom installed a Barry Grant (BG) Six-Shooter system, consisting of an aluminum, dual-plane Triple-D Induction intake, three 250-cfm Demon two-barrel carbs, and a progressive linkage, which allows it to cruise comfortably on the center two-barrel, then become a fire-breathing behemoth when the secondary carbs are engaged. According to the company, "Compared to a BG Speed Demon 850, the Six-Shooter was good for about 39 hp and 22 lb-ft of torque more on a GM Performance Parts 502 engine, according to our tests."
Delivering the 572's massive power through the rest of the drivetrain was the next stage of this Vette's epic evolution. Concerned that the car's original two-speed Powerglide transmission would shatter under the merciless torque loads presented to it, Gonzalez suggested a Tremec TKO-600 five-speed manual-trans changeover.
"Keisler really makes a well-thought-out conversion kit," Lovell says. "It includes the transmission, bellhousing, billet-steel flywheel, clutch package, crossmember adapter bracket, driveshaft, factory shifter location, shift handle, and boot. It even includes reproduction C2 brake/clutch pedals and pads for a factory look."
The rearend remains stock with 3.55 factory gears, but the suspension received performance upgrades as needed. AntiVenom retired the stock front coils and rear transverse spring and replaced them with Vette Brakes & Products front and rear transverse leaf springs and rear offset control arms. Other than that, the ride and handling remain stock, with factory-style shocks at all four corners and a factory 7/8-inch sway bar in the front.
Braking, as expected, has been modernized to rein in the 572's potent personality; relying upon the factory's original four-wheel disc system would have been a losing proposition at each push of the pedal. Accordingly, Lovell modified the Vette's factory front and rear spindles to accommodate a set of bolt-on C6 Z06 brakes.
Exterior and interior upgrades are minimal, yet tasteful: a '66 big-block hood, new side-exhaust covers (housing Stainless Works 3-inch mufflers), and ZR1-style 20-spoke wheels (measuring 18x8.5 inches) wrapped in Michelin Pilot Sport rubber. The interior, meanwhile, remains factory stock down to its radio delete. (Sharp-eyed observers may notice the Keisler five-speed shift plate, which takes the place of the factory piece on the shifter console.)
Upon completion, Lovell had the honor of being the first person to drive the vicious, Viper-vivisecting Vette. "I tested it on a rainy day, so I had to gingerly apply throttle pressure and be very light on gear shifts. I've taken it out on dry days and blown the tires off in Third gear. At wide-open throttle, from 2,500 rpm up to a 6,000-rpm redline, the rear of the Corvette is enveloped in a huge cloud of rubber smoke until you let off of the gas-not that I ever do," he says.
Surprisingly, Lovell's favorite feature on this virile Vette is not its towering power, but its passionate sound. "The intense reverberation of the engine when the throttle activates the Six-Shooter's secondaries is awe-inspiring. It sounds like the carburetors are going to suck the hood in and expel it violently out the side pipes," he says.
Gonzalez, however, hasn't had many opportunities to enjoy his Vette yet. "He wants to find some time off just for him and the car, but until then, I'll just have to tell him how much fun it is to drive," Lovell says.
So are 572 cubic inches enough for this milestone-generation Corvette?
"There's no replacement for displacement," Lovell laughs. "Five hundred seventy-two cubes are just right . . . for now. As soon as GM comes out with a 632-cube big-block, you'll have to ask me the question again."


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owl canvas for baby reed...
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{thought it would be fun to have a name plaque in case they wanted to hang it on the door at the hospital or the front door once they got home...but then to be able to take it off and use as art in the nursery:}
{the super cute bedding my amazing friend, amanda, made! the inspiration patterned fabrics are shower curtains...is that not genius? I would have never thought to even look there!}
we used this canvas on the door for my sweet friend, brittany's baby shower. little reed arrived in october and is SO precious...can't wait to watch you grow, little man!
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Prince's untimely death is weighing heavily upon all the coaches on "The Voice."
E! News chatted with both Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera during "The Voice's" Karaoke for Charity event on Thursday, just hours after news broke about the pop star's passing, and despite the beautiful day and the awesome event, they couldn't help but get emotional.
"I got to meet Prince and have a relationship with him, and man, I'm just so sad," Levine told us. "I'm really, really sad. He was always so gracious and so cool and down to earth."
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In fact, Levine added, "[Prince] doesn't convey much, but if he were to convey something he would probably want people to know he was just the dude. Really good basketball player, super mellow, just wanted to hang. I think people have a weird perception of his public persona."
"The Voice" coach explained how Prince was always getting like-minded people together to enjoy life and celebrate music. "There's just no one like him," Levine continued. "There's no one who's occupied that space."
Aguilera also couldn't help but get emotional while talking about the pop icon.
"There is a heaviness in the air. It is a sad day, even though the sun is shining, we're all just thinking in our heads of what a loss, what a crazy loss. But what an inspiration," she said.
Aguilera noted that Prince had, and will continue to have, a huge impact on the music industry and future artists.
"All of us I'm sure at one point or another will do some kind of a tribute. We've already done tributes – he was a living legend!" she said. "Very sad day, but such an authentic genuine spirit and talent, and we'll remember him in the best of light."
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The OMNI sound system has 50 speakers, driven by 8 amplifiers that produce over 24,000 watts of sound through 6 channels and a giant sub-bass stack to give the audience that "you are there" feeling.
Innovation Studios is no place for the ordinary. A place to experiment. To create. And even to bend the rules. Let your spirit and imagination soar and who knows what you'll become?
We knew that Innovation Studios Gallery should send a bright signal, as a statement and foretelling of what this experimental new space for learning should be all about. And what better way to express that than DreamTime, an illuminated monument of items discarded, created specifically for the space by sculptor Warren Muller of bahdeebahdu.
Broken bicycles, old busted chains
Rusted handle bars, out in the rain.
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All these things that nobody wants anymore…
- Tom Waits
One day not long ago, Muller noticed an old broken tricycle, a cherished item of someone's childhood memory of the past, but now just a common item thrown away in a trash bin. "I wonder what I could do with that," thought Muller. Most of us wouldn't have given that junky old relic a second thought.
Muller's sense of wonder is always working incessantly. He is always on the lookout for objects most would consider abandoned and useless that he can transform into something glorious and zany. DreamTime is a great example. The sculpture is more than 40 feet long, 8 feet wide in some places, weighs nearly half a ton, and includes tricycles, rusted metal lawn furniture, old metal toys, chandeliers and even the grille of a jeep. "There is a lot of history in this piece," Muller explained, "as well as technology." DreamTime incorporates clear and multi-colored incandescent lighting, fiberoptics that slowly change color, and neon.
Muller's imagination is boundless. He takes what most see as junk and finds its hidden potential, puts it into a new context no one had ever considered, and gives it a brand new identity. Artists make it possible for us to reconsider the ordinary, and to go places in our minds that we've never been before. Let DreamTime open your eyes, your mind, and your spirit to experience and create your own new world of discovery today.


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Invited guest: Chris Zedano
Chris Zedano: STAPLE STREET
It's a bit cliché, I suppose, to talk about New York City's "characters," but arriving here from South America years ago, I couldn't help but be struck by them -- and drawn to them, performers in particular.
I was also, of course, seduced by the city's landscape, especially a small, quiet, sliver in the heart of TriBeCa called Staple Street, which I came across quite by chance one day.
There's something about Staple Street that I can't explain with words. Maybe it's the narrowness of the street, which makes me feel protected, cut off from the rest of the city; or maybe it's the arched bridge between the buildings, a sort of monument to urban connection; or maybe it's the dilapidated sidewalk that always seems on the verge of repair but never quite makes it, a little like some of the performers I met.
The street still has a grimy, industrial, and to me, romantic feel to it despite its proximity to the trendy, high-end real estate that has spread throughout lower Manhattan like an oil slick. The people I met and photographed have maintained a similar integrity, and thus for me, provided a similar romance.
I met artists and eccentrics of all stripes -- dancers, jugglers, actors, magicians, body painters, mimes, card sharks, singers, clowns. They were vibrant, defiant, shy, sad, sly, witty, odd, exuberant, angry, giving -- a perfect representation of the city itself, and of this tiny street that dates back to at least the early 19th century.
In Europe: at the Group Exhibition at AFF Berlin - Part of the European Month of Photography Biennial in November 2010.


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Another successful program at the SMU Tower Center for Political Studies featuring two prominent Mexico scholars and intellectuals on September 12th, 2013 – former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, the Honorable Antonio O. Garza, and Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Dr. Duncan Wood. The program was moderated by Tower Center Senior Fellow, Lee Cullum, noted international journalist, and offered a dynamic discussion about the current Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, and his reforms.
The discussion focused on a couple of major topics: energy and fiscal reform, the Pacto por Mexico, and the return of the PRI to power. Both speakers were candid about the problems and opportunities facing México and left the audience hopeful that the country is moving in the right direction with a more open economy and a more transparent political process. The current President is spearheading efforts to improve sectors of the Mexican economy, such as energy, telecommunications, … that were lagging but rule of law and corruption continue to hamper reform efforts.
— Luisa del Rosal, Program Director, SMU Tower Center
"What a first rate program! I scrambled to find my note pad and record the information and anecdotes the speakers shared. (And what they were hesitant to share, Lee managed to extract!) Well done, Tower Center!" — Pia Orrenius, Senior Fellow, SMU Tower Center


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Hi Everyone. I know this is a depressing topic (winter storage) for most of us. I live in Ontario Canada and the winters here can be pretty brutal and they put a lot of crap on the roads that's not good for any car. For the most part I'm comfortable with the winter storage procedure for my Corvette (2017 Z06) and I know what to do.
There is one item however where most forums I've visited the members had differing opinions. If possible I would like to keep this thread focused on this one aspect of winter storage, and that is, do I fill the gas tank or quarter fill the tank for winter storage?
The argument for the conventional "full tank" procedure is condensation prevention. This is what I've been doing for all my past cars (all non-Corvette).
There are many posts in other forums that cite a remark/quote from Paul Koerner that says you should quarter fill your gas tank. I believe this is for C7 Corvettes, but I'm not sure. The argument here is, when the tank is full, the lower positioning of the fuel gauge sending unit makes it vulnerable to sulfur contamination on the sending unit contacts which ultimately damage the unit causing inaccurate fuel gauge readings. As well, the quote goes on to say that for C7 fuel systems the condensation issue is not relevant based on how the tank and fuel system was engineered, and you can quarter fill your tank with no condensation worries.
Does anyone know where I can find this original quote from Paul Koerner, as I do trust his opinion. Are there any Corvette mechanics out there that have serviced/replaced sending units because of long term full tank storage? What is your opinion/recommendation?
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"Could you please not tell anyone about this?"
iPromise Not to Tell is the twelfth episode of the first season of iCarly.
PlotAfter Carly gets a B+ on her history paper because her teacher, Mr. Devlin, doesn't like "3-hole punched" paper, Carly is distraught because now she won't get straight A's on her report card. After overhearing Principal Franklin's username and password to the school's network, Sam hacks in and changes Carly's history paper grade to an A+ (which gives Carly straight A's for the semester as she deserves). Sam also changes two of her own grades and one of Freddie's grades (to avoid paying him $40 she owed him). Before she tells Carly about what she's done, Sam makes Carly 'ankle swear' not to tell anyone.
Carly is horrified that Sam has changed her grade, but refuses to break her promise to Sam. Carly does tell Freddie and makes him promise not to tell by pinning him to the ground and holding him down. Freddie (with Carly's help) hacks into the schools computer network with his laptop and tries to change all the grades back and Instead change the cafeteria menu to something that would be 'yummy' to eat but before they could catch up on what they really had to do, the Computer Security Agency (CSA) bursts into Carly's apartment and catches them hacking. The guilt eventually gets to Carly and she confesses to Spencer and then to Principal Franklin. Freddie also tries to take the blame.
Sam, feeling bad that she hurt her friends, shows up at Principal Franklin's office and confesses that she was actually the guilty party. Freddie and Carly are not punished, but Sam receives multiple detentions. As soon as Principal Franklin leaves the room, Sam gets right on his computer and tries to reduce her number of detentions, but Carly pulls her away by the hair before she can make the changes.
- In a blooper seen in iBloop, Miranda Cosgrove fools around and eats one of the cereal pieces from Jennette McCurdy's bowl.
- Principal Franklin's username, BigTeddy, and password, Corncake21, are revealed in this episode.
- The end credits clip that features Carly & Sam to talk about the #1 webshow, was reused in iCarly Saves TV. Except the tones are different.
- In this episode, Carly pins Freddie down twice, easily. There is a reference to this in iThink They Kissed, where she tries to pin him down again but Freddie easily reverses the pin, prompting Carly ask why he's so strong.
- This episode reveals that Sam's last name is Puckett (it was shown on the computer when Sam was altering her detention).
- This is the first episode to air in 2008.
- The B on Carly's report is never clearly shown, though it is seen for a brief moment when Mr. Devlin hands it to her.
- Carly reads that she has to say "RAMPU" to turn on the lamp. But Japanese has its own letters, so it would be impossible for her to read it, unless there are English letters in the instructions to show how the words are pronounced. Also, the "R" letter in Japan is pronounced as an "L," so it is pronounced "LAM-PU (ランプ)."
- As Freddie enters while Spencer and Carly are talking to the lamp, it can be seen that the chain is missing from the chain lock on the front door.
- When Sam told the truth about changing Carly's grades, Principal Franklin gave her detention. In reality, she would be arrested for it. Though it is likely he went easy on her, because in iOwe You, Sam said that he goes easier on her when Carly is around.
- Spencer assembles the Japanese lamp in this episode, but it was seen long before that in iPilot - it is therefore likely that Spencer is installing a new fitting in an old lamp.
- When Carly comes downstairs to confess to Spencer about changing her grades, she turns in both directions and it is clear she has no letter A stuck to her butt. After that she did not sit down, go anywhere near Spencer's A sculpture or even touch anything until she leans over the back of the couch, so there is no way she could have gotten the A on her butt.
- In this episode Carly gives away their microwave oven to Principal Franklin. However in subsequent episodes what appears to be the same oven is back in the Shays' kitchen. This means either (a) Spencer and/or Carly scoured all the stores in Seattle to purchase a new oven which is the identical make, model and color as their old one, which seems improbable, (b) a member of the crew simply put the same oven back where it was before, or (c) Principal Franklin decided to give back the microwave oven before the next episode.
- In this episode (also in "iThink They Kissed") Spencer brings out a "banjo" - but the instrument has six strings, so technically the instrument is a banjo guitar, not a banjo proper. In "iSell Penny Tees" he has a proper 5-string banjo.
Spencer: Lamp. Lamp. Lamp!
Carly: I think it knows it's a lamp.
Spencer: No, I want it to turn on...Lamp!
Carly: Let me see the instructions.
Spencer: Good luck, they're in Japanese!
Carly: On. Well, did you try saying lamp in Japanese?
Spencer: I did not! What's the Japanese word for lamp?
Carly: It looks like...Rampu.
Spencer: Rampu. Rampu. RAMPU!!!!!!!!!!
[Lamp turns on]
Spencer: It worked!
Carly: Yeah, you just gotta say it like a really angry Japanese man!
[Carly sits down next to Spencer and they take turns screaming at the lamp]
Carly & Spencer: RAMPU! RAMPU! [and so on]
[Freddie walks in and stares at them for a moment, then walks back out slowly]
Carly: Then just let me reprint for you on paper that's completely hole-free!
Mr. Devlin: Reports can only be submitted once. Silly little truffle.
Sam: Tell you what. On the next iCarly, we tell everyone to go egg Mr. Devlin's house!
Carly: Nah, he'd probably like it, 'cause eggs don't have three holes!
Freddie: Mr. Devlin is, like, the strictest teacher in school.
Spencer: Yeah I know...he used to be the lunch monitor. He gave me detention.
Freddie: What for?
Spencer: Playing with my fruit.
[after Carly pinned him down]
Freddie: Oh, and for the record, the only reason you pinned me down was 'cause I wasn't ready.
Carly: Are you ready now?
Freddie: Yeah, why you--
[Carly tackles him and pins him down easily]
Freddie: Can we please not tell anyone about this?
[Carly smiles contentedly]
Principal Franklin: Good morning, Sam.
Sam: Mornin', Ted.
Principal Franklin: Sam...
Sam: [falsely cheerful] Good morning Principal Franklin!
Principal Franklin: That's better. Now, what trouble have gotten in over the past week?
Sam: Uh let's see, I got yelled at by Ms. Briggs for getting an F on a quiz.
Principal Franklin: Why did you fail the quiz...?
Sam: I didn't know the answers...
Principal Franklin: Right. Next?
Sam: Uhhh, OH! I got kicked out of the cafeteria for slapping Gibby with a piece of pizza...
Principle Franklin: Why did you slap Gibby with a piece of pizza?
Sam: I found it on the floor; I wasn't gonna eat it!
Principal Franklin: Sam, just sit quietly and try not to break anything.
Sam: No promises.
Mr. Wimley: Please complete exercises 7 and 9.
Carly: What about number 8?
Mr. Wimley: [whining] I'm in charge!
Security Officer: We need to speak to a legal parent or guardian.
Carly: Spencer!
Spencer: [from the bathroom] I AM IN THE BATHTUB!
Freddie: [to the security officers] Are we under arrest?
Carly: Are you going to take us to juvie?
Freddie: [crying] I don't want to go to juvie!
Carly: They're gonna take us to juvie!
Carly and Freddie: [cries]
Spencer: Hobos can't afford cable!
Sam: HAIR, HAIR,HAIR, HAIR,HAIR?
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If the window glass is broken, I suggest you take it to a trim shop as it is quite complicated to install a new glass. If the window just won't go up and down, you need to take the trim pannel off and check out where it isn't getting voltage. It probably is the motor though which is kind of complicated to replace but you can get a factory shop manual from MOTORLIT.COM to show you how but it is pretty expensive.
It is impossible. Buy a new one. Don't waste your time! I found a good fix @ http://www.findonefindall.com/toyota-sienna/ Please contact Toyota (phone number in your owner manual) to document this defect, the more complaints they receive, the better the chance of a recall. A more complete URL to the page referenced in the second answer is ... http://www.findonefindall.com/toyota-sienna/siennareardoor.htm I used that successfully to repair the broken rear door latch on my 2000 Toyota Sienna. ("Buy a new one" is ~$65. I made the repair with tools and screws lying around the house in about an hour's time. Repair at the dealer reportedly is ~$300.)
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