Roman Polanski, there ain't any trees in prison......

In the words of Strother Martin, the Warden known simply as Captain, in one of Hollywoods greatest movies, Cool Hand Luke, "What we've got here is failure to communicate." Stick with me for a minute, I'm actually going somewhere with this. We, us , the US of A, are Strother Martin. France, Poland , and most of Hollywood, are Luke, except they aren't cool, in fact they are mostly douche bags and shit heels. I already knew that the only good French were the ones who fled to Canada and Louisiana, leaving their pompous, smarmy, snail eating, beret wearing, countrymen behind for a better class of people. I am surprised that the Poles have decided to show their ass, must be the vodka.

Of course I'm off on this rant over the audacity of France and Poland to criticize and cock block the U.S. , in the wake of Roman Polanski's arrest on a U.S. extradition warrant. For anyone living in a cave for the past 30 years here is a Midtown Miscreant condensed version of the Polanski saga.

Polanski's mother is killed in a Nazi concentration camp.

Polanski makes a couple of movies. Sorry Chinatown blew.

Polanski's wife Sharon Tate is killed by Manson clan.

Okay, so far Roman Polanski has had some undeniably harsh shit take place in his life.

Then Roman decides to slip a 13 year old girl a piece of a Quaalude, washed down with champagne, a potentially deadly combination by the way. Once she is out of it, Polanski rapes her.

He cop's a plea with the Los Angeles District Attorney for time served, which amounts to a couple of months or so.

The Judge in the case says not so fast, I'm not going with the D.A.'s recommendation.

Polanski flees the U.S. before he is sentenced, and goes on to have a 30 plus year career, and live the high life in France, where it is apparently perfectly acceptable to drug and fuck children.

I say that because the French Foreign Minister has said this about Polanski's arrest in Switzerland , ""Frankly, it's all a bit sinister,". French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand told reporters, "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." One of these douche bags also accused the U.S. of having puritanical views or some such shit.

The victim reached a settlement with Polanski, and while she admits the incident occurred, she says she wants it to die. Polanski's lawyer says his client is in a fighting mood. That's good, in the event he is extradited, and in the unlikely event that he gets time, his fighting mood will serve him well in the pen. I think the term "Fight, Fuck, or Climb a Tree" was coined in San Quentin, and there ain't no trees in prison. Of course it's highly unlikely he will serve any time. He has money, he has the support of the ingrates in France and Poland. So most likely Roman won't be doing any time, and I'll be shocked if he gets extradited. There is already talk of bond while he fights extradition, never mind that he has been a fugitive from justice for 3 decades plus. So this post isn't about justice, either denied or served. It is about the attitude of the French. We are often called arrogant by the rest of the world, and we are. But in terms of arrogance we are small American fries compared to the folks in the land of mimes and clarified butter. This isn't the first time I've played the dozens with the French. I've said before that if it weren't for us, they would be eating Sauerkraut and Sausage, and speaking German. The fact that they are now trying to bow up on us over some elitist douche bag rapist, just adds insult to injury.

Now to that failure to communicate. Clearly the Frogs and the Poles don't get it. They don't understand the laws and social mores of this country.

In this country, if you drug and fuck a 13 year old girl in Jack Nicholson's hot tub, that's rape. If you plead guilty, the Judge isn't bound to follow the prosecutions recommendation. If you flee after the fact, the debt you owe doesn't disappear. Claiming the judge is a publicity whore is beside the point. France and Poland have the memory of flies, they owe us, they are perpetually indebted to us. They exist today because Americans laid down their lives to save their ungrateful asses. To take the side of an admitted rapist, regardless of the time that has passed, regardless of his citizenship, is tantamount to spitting in our collective American face.