Roman Polanski Denied Reinstatement to Film Academy by Judge
https://www.thewrap.com/roman-polanski-denied-reinstatement-to-film-academy-by-judge/
shareFrankly the DOJ should take action against the distributors of every film he ever made to insure he never gets single cent for residual for those movies until such time that he returns and stops being a fugitive from justice. The fact is if a studio sends him anything they are aiding and abetting a fugitive which is a felony. Hell if a studio sends a residual file criminal charges against the studio and shut it down.
shareNot saying you're wrong here, at least so long as Polanski is alive, at any rate, but what about books written by Henry Kissinger or Dick Cheney, say? Or does causing chaos and pain on a mass scale count less than an individual action (which was bad in Polanski's case)?
shareProblem is neither Henry or Dick were convicted of anything, if they were then they shouldn't make money on what they did as well. If you are going after people who somehow kill millions then skip Henry and Dick and go after Rachel Carson for getting DDT banned and dooming tens of millions of babies and children to death via mosquitoes that would have been dead if DDT was still around but otherwise was able to spread malaria like the plaque for decades.
shareStatesman have traditionally been deemed "untouchable", regardless of what they do (even when caught are often pardoned). Many people in the arts like Weinstein and Polanski (and of course the Catholic Church) were fairly untouchable until quite recently as well. The "great men of history" argument is what's being challenged here. Little surprise that the pols throw the more expendable of the elite to the wolves and yet always seem the last to be judged - or judged at all.
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