Comments on: Johnny Depp: Roman Polanski “is not a predator”

By: sally

sally — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:36:51 +0000

um to all those who are bashing depp, i just want to say that johnny HASNT defended polanski for the crime. He did not say that it is okay to rape a child. He said WHY NOW, which i totally get because this could have happened a long time ago. Also johnny said that roman polanski is not a predator NOW. He didnt say anything about his previous behaviour and i think ke knows polanski a lot more than we do, so he has probably never seen that side of him. However, i think polanski has comitted a horrific crime and he should be in jail for that. But stop bashing JD because he hasnt said anything for polanski or anything against the girl.

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By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:40:56 +0000

Doesn’t he have a little girl? I’m sorry, but if someone did the things that Polanski did to my little sister, I would be ready to kill him. I can’t even imagine if it were my own kid. And as someone who is notoriously so protective of his children! I can’t believe he would say something like that! Can’t he put himself in the shoes of the parents.

And even if he can’t, he should just shut up. I hate it when celebrities try to tell us little people how to think.

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By: me

me — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:30:25 +0000

When this happen. The girl was still a young child. In my eyes 13 don’t know who they are and still learning who they are. They still learning and growing. The comment about a child getting married at age 13 is wrong. In so many levels. Back in the day it was expected to get married and raise a family. So you think that a 13 year old judgment taking a pill is right. Who is the adult in this. Maybe in her mind she saw it different. Than adult would! So I guess you going to say it is OK to drug anyone? Or that man can married more than one woman. Don’t matter if these men try to marry underage girls. Yes some woman are at the legal age but what about the ones that live the life style and learn the only experience from their family! That comment is from back in the day. When Men think it is OK to married young girls! This girl got drug and got rape. This girl is grown but didn’t have a voice at the time to say no because she was drug.Do you think she wants to relive this nightmare and she might have doubts about going through such a public display.

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By: Jenna

Jenna — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:32:07 +0000

P.S. To all of those people saying, “Johnny- what if this was YOUR daughter?”

You know what that sounds like to me?

“Johnny, you said something that I don’t agree with, so I think your daughter should be drugged and raped so you understand my point of view!”

You people are disgusting.

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By: Jenna

Jenna — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:13:49 +0000

For one thing, Johnny was saying that he sees Polanski as completely harmless. He’s not condoning child rape.

Two, I think he’s correct in asking, “Why now?” Obviously someone let it out that Polanski would be in Switzerland or set it up. Otherwise, Polanski wouldn’t be in jail.

Three, have any of you people even listened to the girl who was raped? She hates that this is constantly being brought up, and she said that she feels that Polanski has served his time.

Four, Polanski only fled from the US because he entered into a plea bargain, and then the prosecutor illegally spoke to the judge about giving him more time. Furthermore, Polanski DID serve time, but he was released sometime during the sentencing, and that’s when he fled.

Finally, whoever made the comment about John Wayne Gacy needs to take some psychology courses or something. Roman Polanski is NOT a sociopath!

If you knew ANYTHING about sociopaths, you’d know that they have families and the like to appear normal.

Of course, I know someone’s going to be like, “Well, then how do you Polanski’s not a sociopath trying to be normal?”

Because he doesn’t act anything at all like one, and he especially doesn’t act like John Wayne Gacy. He raped a 13 year old girl, he didn’t rape and murder like 20 teenage boys.

And perhaps the biggest reason why comparing him to some sociopath pisses me off is because another sociopath KILLED his wife and unborn child (y’know- Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca murders? Sharon Tate was his wife).

Yes, I think that Polanski should serve some more time, but I think it shouldn’t be so publicized, and I think it’s rather ridiculous to go off and hate someone just because they don’t completely agree with you.

Furthermore, to say that a celebrity should shut up about controversy, or to shut up and stand there looking pretty, is degrading. Johnny is a human being too, and if he wants to say something controversial, then he can.

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By: missy

missy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:59:00 +0000

johnny stay in france!!!!

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By: TaylorB

TaylorB — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:29:14 +0000

She was 13 years old, drugged, plied with alcohol, and above all she said ‘no’ several times (though once should be enough), even pretended she was sick to get out of the situation.

I have a question for those who say ‘well she was physically mature looking’ would you feel the same way if he had done the same thing to a 13 year old that had not yet developed, flat chested, no hips, no pubic hair? Does this mean that if a girl develops early (through no fault of her own) she is ‘fair game’ and the laws don’t apply? I have to wonder if JD’s daughters develop early if his opinion about them being sodomized by a 35+ year old man at 13 will be acceptable. Perhaps, but somehow I doubt it.

As for the ludes, well she was 13, and at 13 I suspect we all wanted to ‘be cool’ and if someone asked us if we wanted to try something be it a smoke, pot, booze, lude etc. many kids try and ‘be cool’ and say they have done it before, kids do that… that is a horrible defense for Polanski and that lawyer should be ashamed… for multiple reasons.

The only reason I can possibly understand anyone saying that Polanski isn’t a predator is because his pervey old butt is in a walker and he couldn’t catch up to a snail. He still needs to pay for his crime, and not in some Swiss chalet. Even if it only for a month, he needs to go to jail and show that he is sorry.

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By: Blint

Blint — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:49:04 +0000

I don’t have fantasies about anyone I don’t know. But since public exposure of personal details, even at the sacrifice of children, is a way to stay relevant and create a fake intimacy with the public, I can applaud celebs who choose not to do it. Not all choose the same way, or put their careers on the line. But I never harbor the illusion that I really know someone from a distance.

Disappointing is not the same as crushing.

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By: kermit

kermit — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:52:31 +0000

@Blint point well taken. Here’s the thing. We don’t know any of these people personally and what we get is an image of them. A public persona. Johnny has cleaned his act up and avoids scandals but perhaps his Polanski take is more the real Johnny than the image projected. Some of us may not want to deal with good-imaged people as friends if you really knew them. I see past image and the allure of good looks. Limit it to a fantasy, fine, but that’s as far as it perhaps should go.

My second thing though is judging the young star/starlets of today. In today’s ridiculous level of exposure, the net, the blogs, the cameras everywhere and it’ll get worse as cameras get smaller and attached to more devices, young people given too much money and probably too much praise, put on pedestals and sometimes without any proper mentoring or parental guidance, will act like fools. That doesn’t mean that they are necessarily. And, in the end, when and if they mature, they may turn it around and have fine public images a la Johnny. That’s why I say cool it with judging the Miley Cyruses, Taylor Momsens, and indeed the Lindsay Lohan’s out there. They are YOUNG, and many people famous and not do not get it together until their late 20s and even older. Some young folks have it together, some can seem to and are image savvy, some have no clue. Some behave, some don’t, some get seduced and pulled in destructive directions that they either get out of later or ruin their lives staying in. That’s the way it is in the world regardless of fame or wealth.

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By: Blint

Blint — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:29:02 +0000

Sorry but there are reasons people like JD so much and that’s in no small part because of his acting (BEFORE the Pirates franchise). He also identified he was turning into a mess and left Hollywood (the industry-mill not the location entirely), putting his career on the line.

All of this is widely known.

He did have a string of girlfriends, some co-stars but the glare and tinsel made it a struggle. According to him, after he left, he was able to fall in love and live a better more rewarding life. How often do you see him in phony candid shots or hear about him at splashy events, unless it’s directly related to his work obligations? He’s admirably private and protective of his kids keeping them out of the limelight. In the past 12 years there’s rarely a dopey tabloid story about him or his family, although they live most of the year in LA. There’s a reason for that.

All of that is why this is so disappointing, not because people thought Depp was a perfect human being in every way.

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