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Amazing-isn’t it?? It seems lately if you are in the “arts” or a liberal politician you are untouchable. Do not dare to inspect or dig into one’s past, let alone demand a fugitive from jusice be apprehended to serve punishment for his admitted crime. Had Polanski been a conservative politician or other conservative figure, the outrage would be enormous. The moral compass and fortitude to do what is right in America is disapearing at an alarming rate. Why in the world is this tolerated?? Wake up people—he comitted a crime!!!

Comment by Renee Coakley on 9/30/09 at 12:52 pm

Switzerland, not Sweden.
But, anyway, good point

Comment by aurel on 9/30/09 at 5:06 pm

This is one of the few intelligent opinions that I’ve heard about that trash.

Comment by David on 10/01/09 at 8:36 am

What did I say? Good catch, Aurel.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 10/02/09 at 9:37 am

Jessica Alba approves of your Switzerland/Sweden confusion…

Comment by Troy on 10/02/09 at 2:39 pm

Yo,

Forget about Polanski! What about Yakov Solomon Ahmadinejad?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world hide an astonishing secret, evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows.

By Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat
Published: 7:30AM BST 03 Oct 2009

A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.

A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.
The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad’s birthplace, and the name derives from “weaver of the Sabour”, the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran’s Ministry of the Interior. Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad’s track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.
Ali Nourizadeh, of the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies, said: “This aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad’s background explains a lot about him.

“Every family that converts into a different religion takes a new identity by condemning their old faith.

“By making anti-Israeli statements he is trying to shed any suspicions about his Jewish connections. He feels vulnerable in a radical Shia society.”

A London-based expert on Iranian Jewry said that “jian” ending to the name specifically showed the family had been practising Jews. “He has changed his name for religious reasons, or at least his parents had,” said the Iranian-born Jew living in London. “Sabourjian is well known Jewish name in Iran.” A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in London said it would not be drawn on Mr Ahmadinejad’s background. “It’s not something we’d talk about,” said Ron Gidor, a spokesman.

The Iranian leader has not denied his name was changed when his family moved to Tehran in the 1950s. But he has never revealed what it was changed from or directly addressed the reason for the switch. Relatives have previously said a mixture of religious reasons and economic pressures forced his blacksmith father Ahmad to change when Mr Ahmadinejad was aged four. The Iranian president grew up to be a qualified engineer with a doctorate in traffic management. He served in the Revolutionary Guards militia before going on to make his name in hardline politics in the capital. During this year’s presidential debate on television he was goaded to admit that his name had changed but he ignored the jibe. However Mehdi Khazali, an internet blogger, who called for an investigation of Mr Ahmadinejad’s roots was arrested this summer.

Mr Ahmadinejad has regularly levelled bitter criticism at Israel, questioned its right to exist and denied the Holocaust. British diplomats walked out of a UN meeting last month after the Iranian president denounced Israel’s ‘genocide, barbarism and racism.’

Benjamin Netanyahu made an impassioned denunciation of the Iranian leader at the same UN summit. “Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium,” he said. “A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews while promising to wipe out the State of Israel, the State of the Jews. What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations.”

Mr Ahmadinejad has been consistently outspoken about the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jewish race. “They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets,” he declared at a conference on the holocaust staged in Tehran in 2006.

Comment by Gerald Goldberg on 10/03/09 at 7:11 pm

It is increasingly obvious that Thomas Reese et al are determining the content for various “Jewish” blogs in addition to everything else—-a bipartisan effort.  Can’t you and Michael Savage come up with your own material?

Comment by sammy on 10/04/09 at 1:07 am

Polanski is permited to get by with it in the minds of the Liberal elite and Hollywood precicely because htey like him and what he stand for. A Catholic Preists opposes them so must be torn down. Its simple.

On an aside, while interestging in its own right, I don’t see how Amadenajads Jewish Ancestory plays a role in Polanski’s case. Isn’t he Polish?

Comment by Zar on 10/06/09 at 11:44 pm

What Roman Polanski, writes in his statement that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley revived attempts to sentence him last year just to get political votes has a ring of truth to it.
ALL ABOUT STEVE
At these links the Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley is linked to corruption and retaliation.
http://www.fulldisclosure.net/Programs/515.php
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/03/judge-cooleys-retaliation-against-union-members-striking-and-rampant-.html
According to http://www.fulldisclosure.net Los Angeles DA Steve Cooley has refused to prosecute pedophiles and child molesters who work in the Catholic Church.
So here’s a BIG question – why is the Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley chasing across the world after Roman Polanski now, but yet will not go after the local California Church’s sexual molesting predator Priests and those Government Officials that cover up the sexual molestation crimes at California’s institutions?
Could it be if DA Steve Cooley receives political campaign money from the Church, that when the priests sexually molest their victims the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office might turn a blind cheek?
And does the District Attorney think that he can also use foreign celebrities like Roman Polanski – to fan the World media for Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley’s own personal campaign in seeking higher office in California.
And who would benefit from Steve Cooley becoming California’s Attorney General anyway?
The answer is – only those who are favored such as rich California institutions including churches, and their sexual molesting employees, who may be shielded from Justice if they come bearing gifts.
If the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office is going to hold people accountable for sexual crimes, then there should be no distinction or discriminatory measures where Roman Polanski is selected for prosecution again after 33 years, but not the local government & the Church’s sexual molesters, who get a free pass with the Los Angeles District Attorneys’ Steve Cooley turning a blind eye.
If this is what is happening, then isn’t this strategy only
all about Steve,
where it is only what a prosecution, or lack of a prosecution can do for Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley in advancing his political career?

Comment by Anon on 5/09/10 at 4:35 am

A close-up of the okey let me document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian –yeah a Jewish name

Comment by sikiş on 5/23/10 at 5:57 am

Where is or are the voice of anti-defamation Jewish organization while their Jewish fellows are arrested? Did Swiss government prejudice against the Jews?

Comment by djko on 5/24/10 at 7:00 pm

California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger could and should give Polanski a pardon after all Arnold also has slept with underage girls in California apparently and so there is a Double Standard in California in regards to sexual assault cases.



If you work in the movies based in California and later are California’s Governor you get a free pass to have sex with minors and sexually assault women with impunity, but not so for Roman Polanski.

Why is that pray tell?



See Below for links

 The Groping Governor


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-6270067-the-groping-governor.do



The Clinton Barbarian


http://www.liberty-ca.org/recallgraydavis/swartzenegger.htm


Comment by Max on 5/24/10 at 7:54 pm

Wild Child; Interview; Charlotte Lewis
Stuart White in Los Angeles
8 August 1999
The News of the World

I thought I was grown up at 14… but I fell into clutches of older men and almost ruined my life. Movie beauty Charlotte Lewis tells a harrowing tale every girl should heed.

FOR almost 20 years British Hollywood star Charlotte Lewis has been haunted by a secret past. She knew it would catch up with her one day. Now she is getting it off her chest. At 14 she slept with men for money. Quite simply, the girl who found fame and fortune with superstar Eddie Murphy in The Golden Child was once a call girl.

It seems impossible to believe, as we sit in the elegant surroundings of the Los Angeles Mondrian hotel, that this stunning English Rose could have stooped so low.
But she wants to tell all, how she went from hooker to Hollywood. She believes it will be a lesson to others, but more important a release for herself.

Her darkest days came at the ridiculously young age of 14. She was still at Catholic Secondary School in London, when she went through a rebellious phase, playing truant and chasing the night-time glamour of London’s West End.

Even now she finds it hard to face the truth. You suspect she has even lied to herself as a protective measure.

CHARLOTTE, now 31, says LSD and marijuana were at the root of her wild ways. She didn’t know what she was doing. Yet it is clear she went back for more time and again.

“One morning I woke to find a pile of Pounds 50 notes next to the bed,” she says. “I couldn’t remember quite what had happened, but when I saw the money I knew what was going on and felt sick.” The older man who had just left her bed assumed she was an experienced vice girl. Charlotte insists she was drugged and had her drinks spiked by an older woman she thought of as a friend, not realising she was a cunning madam who pandered to perverts to feed her own drug habit.

Yet even AFTER she discovered this, young Charlotte ‘entertained’ a succession of other men through that ‘lost summer’ of 1982.

“I don’t how many men might have had sex with me for money,” she finally admits. “I was in a permanent haze. I was 14 and looking for excitement, yet I was so naive. I’d go out with my so-called friend to a nightclub then everything would become blurry. I’d have a vague notion of talking to some man, and my friend saying, ‘You HAVE to be nice to him’.

“Obviously she was making deals with these people, taking money off them so they could have sex with an underage girl.”

Charlotte rushed to confront her ‘friend’ But, she says, the 22-year-old woman convinced her it was a mistake, just a gift.”

It is hard to believe anyone could be so gullible. But now Charlotte was left open to the most terrifying experience of her life. After a visit to Stringfellows club in London, she and the woman went to a Thames-side apartment. Inside were a number of Arabs.

Thousands of pounds were laid out on a table and Charlotte was told she could have it all if she agreed to go to Saudi Arabia with them. “I kept asking why?” she said. “Why would they give me money to go to Saudi Arabia? They kept promising me a fabulous education, great accommodation.

Then my so-called girl friend said, ‘Of course, if you go there you’ll have to grow up VERY quickly’. And she looked at me in that nudge-nudge, wink-wink way.”

THIS was too much even for a rebellious teenager. “I could see these men eyeing me hungrily, like meat,” she shuddered, “and I thought, ‘My God, I’ve got to get out. They’ll kidnap me, take me out of the country’.

“It was like an Alice in Wonderland house with long corridors and door after door. I made an excuse, then ran.

“The men came chasing me, but I managed to escape. I still believe to this day that if I’d not got out I would have been kidnapped and smuggled out of the country to end up as a sex slave.

“I went home to my mother and told her everything. She was marvellous about it.”
In fact, her mum had been going frantic with worry. Charlotte had been spending such long periods away from home that the social services were on her case.

“Perhaps I should have realised what was going on, but I didn’t,” Charlotte continues to insist. “I craved excitement and I liked men. “And although I knew sex was illegal because I was under-age, I didn’t consider it a crime.

“What happened to me is an object lesson to girls not to play truant and think they’re grown up when clearly they’re not.”

HER rollercoaster life of sex was far from over. “I’ve been at the top of the world, and I’ve also been to the edge and looked over into the abyss,” she said. “It wasn’t pretty.” In a no-holds-barred interview Charlotte also confessed how she seduced kinky director Roman Polanski when she was a nubile 17-year-old then slipped between the sheets with Warren Beatty.

Later she bedded Charlie Sheen and Mickey Rourke and in a drunken brawl kicked Kiefer Sutherland in a very tender place! She also made love to British video producer William Annesley, found Liz Hurley’s pyjamas in his bed and mailed them to Hugh Grant.
In a film career littered with failed romances she also romped with rock wildman Michael Hutchence and chatted up superstar Jack Nicholson on his way to the loo then whispered: “Can I come too?”

She was also romanced by Dodi Fayed, Mick Jagger and Jim Carrey, and weaned off drugs with help from Eric Clapton.

Charlotte said wistfully: “Someone once told me, ‘You can always find a friend to party with, but it’s harder to find people to help you afterwards’.”

The daughter of an absentee Iraqi father and a half-Irish half-Welsh mother, Charlotte explained: “I had a taste for acting from drama lessons in school.”

SHE spent every spare moment watching movies. “I remember gazing at Brooke Shields in Blue Lagoon and thinking, ‘I want to be her’,” she sighed.
When Charlotte was 15 she was spotted by a photographer who suggested she try modelling, so she joined an agency called Bookings.

“I remember with my first pay cheque I bought two steaks for me and my mum and she cooked them,” she said. “Money had been short and she’d sacrificed a lot. A model friend asked me if I’d ever thought of going into films. She turned out to be a friend of Roman Polanski, who was living in Paris. “We bought a cheap rail and ferry ticket, went to Paris and met him. I think he was entranced with me because I looked like Nastassja Kinski, who he’d directed in Tess.

“I knew Roman had done something wrong in America (he was wanted by the police for sleeping with an under-age girl) but I wasn’t too sure what. Anyway, I was fascinated by him, and I wanted to be his lover.

“He’d already cast me in his film Pirates, so it wasn’t like it was a casting-couch thing where you HAVE to sleep with someone to get the part. I wanted him probably more than he wanted me.”

She was 17 when they first had sex. They remained lovers for six months. “It ended when we went on location to Tunisia. I was one of the few females there. I was far from home, lonely and a little afraid.” And into her insecurity, Polanski lobbed an off-hand, cruel remark that was to bring lasting unhappiness. Charlotte recalled: “Roman would say, ‘You’re gaining weight’. It was ridiculous-I was a thin teenage girl, but I took it seriously and stopped eating. Then I’d overeat, and for years I suffered from bulimia. I know that was the start.”

CHARLOTTE also discovered how inexperienced starlets are often treated like a sexual version of pass the parcel. At the time, Warren Beatty was visiting Tunisia to scout locations for his movie Ishtar. Polanski bet him that he couldn’t get Charlotte into bed. “Roman didn’t think Warren could do it,” said Charlotte, “but the fact is I seduced Warren, not the other way around, so I don’t feel I was misused. He’s a married man now so I’ll draw a veil over it.”

When filming on Pirates was over, Charlotte had more money than she’d ever seen in her life. She bought clothes, shopped, nightclubbed and treated her mother. The casting director for Pirates recommended her for another upcoming film, The Golden Child, starring Eddie Murphy. At last the girl from Finchley was going to Hollywood, and she was still only 19.
“It was dreamland,” she smiled. “I’d never been to America, and suddenly I was in the first-class compartment of a 747 heading for LA with a limo to pick me up and take me to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

“The Golden Child was set in Tibet, and I actually thought I was going there.
“It was my first lesson that so much of Hollywood is illusion-Tibet was to be a set at Paramount, with a little location shooting at a ski resort called Mammoth Mountain five hours from LA.

“They spent so much money re-creating Tibet in California it would have been cheaper to actually fly to the country.”

Suddenly Charlotte had ‘arrived’. Everbody wanted to know her and, apparently, everyone was her best friend. She was still only 19 and about to meet Charlie Sheen, one of Hollywood’s great lovers. “It started with an amazing coincidence,” she said. “On the flight over to LA I’d been reading US magazine, and there was Charlie listed as one of Hollywood’s 20 most eligible bachelors. I said to the flight attendant, ‘I think I’ll go out with him when I get there’.”

Roman Polanski and Charlotte Lewis at Cannes
THREE days later she was at a party and in he walked. She recalled: “I said to him, ‘I’ve never seen the sea. I understand you live near the sea. Will you show me?’ He did and we became lovers.”

Charlie, she said, “was like a child when he made love, sweet and sensitive and very anxious to please. But after a while he began arriving home late. His brother had told me Charlie was an alcoholic, but I didn’t believe it.

“Once Charlie and I got drunk together while he was making Young Guns. We had a storming fight. I was being restrained when I accidentally kicked his co-star Kiefer Sutherland in a very painful place. It hurt! And it took quite a few years before Kiefer forgave me.”One day Charlotte phoned Sheen’s home and a girl answered. “I realised he was cheating on me,” she said simply. “It broke my heart because I truly loved him.”

Charlotte was paid 150,000 dollars for The Golden Child. But taxes and a bit of extravagant living soon ate that up. Soon she found herself virtually broke and down on her luck back in London-until Eddie Murphy came to her rescue.

She explained: “He’d asked me to come and visit his family in New Jersey, and I started to cry on the telephone and said, ‘Eddie, I’m totally broke, I don’t even have enough money to buy food’.

“He told me I HAD to go back to Los Angeles and restart my career. He sent me a one-way first-class plane ticket to LA, had a car meet me and take me to an apartment he’d rented for me.

“I was instructed to go to a local bank where I found an account opened for me with 50,000 dollars. Let me emphasise that he and I have never been lovers. It was just a generous Eddie Murphy gesture.” Charlotte bounced back in the film Dial Help. Since then she has appeared in movies such as Excessive Force, Men Of War, The Glass Cage,
Mutual Needs, Navajo Blues and Legion. She has also appeared in several TV shows, including a small part in hit comedy Seinfeld. With the string of films came a string of lovers.

MICKEY Rourke had a passionate night with her, then rudely didn’t call and she refused to have anything more to do with him.

Although she does say: “Sometimes he’ll come up to me if I’m eating with someone in a restaurant, and say, ‘I slept with Charlotte when she was very young, you know’.”

Then there was British video producer William Annesley.

“William was the love of my life and is now my closest friend,” she smiled, “though once he got a little kinky, brandishing a whip and suggesting I use it on him. But I’m not into sado-masochism.” Hollywood had toughened Charlotte and she was furious when she discovered Hugh Grant’s girlfriend, Liz Hurley, had been sleeping with William.
She grinned: “I found her silk pyjamas so I sent them by Federal Express parcel to Hugh Grant with a message saying, ‘These are your girlfriend’s. I found them in my boyfriend’s bed”. I wanted Hugh to know Liz was cheating on him.”

It was a little unfair, because Charlotte had a roving eye too. At one party she bumped into Jack Nicholson on his way to the bathroom. She recalled: “Cheekily I said, ‘Can I come with you?’ His eyes lit up and he said, ‘Sure’. I think he imagined I’d have sex with him. When I got in there I said, ‘I’ve always wanted to kiss you’.

“He said, ‘OK’ and we kissed passionately. He was a GREAT kisser, and it went on a long time. We might have gone further but, as it was, my boyfriend William was on the other side of the door.”

Charlotte started an affair with the late INXS singer Michael Hutchence after seeing him in a bar with Patsy Kensit, Titanic star Billy Zane and his wife. “Michael was a beautiful and sensitive lovemaker,” she sighed. “INXS was a good name for his band-he liked excess. He suggested we have group sex. He was happy for there to be me and two other women or maybe even another woman and another man. I couldn’t do that.”

DODI Fayed was the next man to woo Charlotte. He flew her to the Cote d’Azur and took her on his private yacht as he later did with Diana, Princess of Wales.

“I was living in the lap of luxury,” said Charlotte. “But I wouldn’t sleep with Dodi. I didn’t find him sexually attractive. I actually fancied his British SAS bodyguards more than I did him.”
Mick Jagger was another who pursued her, intrigued that she wouldn’t sleep with him because he was famous. And she never did, although she says: “I saw Mick recently. He looked incredibly sexy.”

Then came the drugs. In a city where party hosts put out the cocaine along with the drinks and snacks, it was all too easy. “I was never an addict,” Charlotte said firmly. “I was never in the gutter and it never affected my work.

“Sure cocaine, sure Ecstasy, and of course marijuana. Then one day I simply realised I had to sort myself out, deal with my eating disorder, quit the drugs, stop smoking.

“Eric Clapton, who is a good friend, advised me to go into the Priory clinic in Britain and I did. I haven’t touched any kind of drugs for more than two and a half years.”

She returned to LA in January and immediately began to date movie idol Jim Carrey. “He was kind, charismatic, funny and unbelievably gorgeous,” she laughed. “But I wouldn’t sleep with him.”

Nowadays Charlotte drives an old Volvo and shares a little bungalow with a female costume designer who has a young baby.

“My life is better now,” she said. “Of course, this isn’t living my dream, but I’ll tell you what is.

“It would be to have a husband I loved and who loved me, to have babies, lots of them.”

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