Depravity: follow up
Posted By Russ Emerson on October 8, 2009 at 3:27 pm
A week or so ago, I quoted an article on CNN, and commented:
The French culture and communications minister, Frederic Mitterrand, said he “learned with astonishment” of Polanski’s arrest. He expressed solidarity with Polanski’s family and said “he wants to remind everyone that Roman Polanski benefits from great general esteem” and has “exceptional artistic creation and human qualities.”
There’s nothing wrong with backing Polanski’s family. And yet there is nothing — including “great general esteem” or “exceptional artistic creation and human qualities” — that mitigates the crime. Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13 year old girl. Mitterand (gee, that name sounds familiar) is another depraved government functionary… and a terrific example of why Europe is dying.
I could not, sadly, have been more right about Mitterand’s depravity. At Patterico’s Pontifications, via Ace of Spades HQ:
When Roman Polanski was arrested, none was more critical than French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand:
Mitterrand said, “To see him like that, thrown to the lions because of ancient history, really doesn’t make any sense.”
Mitterrand continued with a jab against the United States: “In the same way that there is a generous America that we like, there is also a scary America that has just shown its face.”
Now it’s clear why: Mitterand is also a pedophile:
France’s new culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, who has defended the filmmaker Roman Polanski against extradition charges for statutory rape, was attacked on Wednesday for his admission in a 2005 autobiography, “The Bad Life,” that he “got into the habit” of paying “young boys” for sex in Southeast Asia despite “the sordid details of this traffic.”
The mind boggles.
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