Polanski was a hebephile, not a paedophile. His victim has forgiven him and that should be the end of the matter.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskicover1.html

I cannot see why people keep interfering in this matter that should be between Polanski and Geimer only. The only person whose opinion we need take into account is that of the victim's and the victim has decided to forgive him.

That should be the end of the matter, but no, we have all these people thinking that punishing Polanski would somehow discourage paedophiles and "send the right message" when we keep having it confirmed again and again that Britain is a nation of paedophiles. There is even a paedophile "tax" of £64 per paedophile for those who want to visit schools and chauffeur children around.

This country is divided between two kinds of people, ie those who are convicted paedophiles, and those who have not yet been caught.

Isn't life in Old Blighty Grandy and Dandy?

One small step for over-regulation, one giant step towards Big Brother

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Volunteer_parents_face_paedophile_check&in_article_id=736326&in_page_id=34

Someone with whom I am on friendly terms stated that he thought that if teachers had to have CRB checks, then school visitors such as writers should be subjected to the same indignity, in order to pursue his twisted idea of equal opportunities government persecution, for he is a very Politically Correct Man indeed.

The most important thing for him is that something must be seen to be done, even if it will do no one any good, for the sake of the kiddywinks.

I have a rather controversial theory that female promiscuity that is the result of feminism is in fact responsible for paedophilia, but women, because they are malicious as well as stupid, blame men.

Men, because they have allowed themselves to become as stupid as women, and are reluctant to give up their access to easy sex, take the blame.

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2009/04/louis-theroux-place-for-paedophiles.html

http://thebattlefieldoflove.blogspot.com/2009/05/feminism-promiscuity-and-paedophilia.html

Disenfranchise those who do not get George Orwell's ANIMAL FARM

I am having a very exasperating discussion with a teacher who actually approves of CRB checks on writers. What makes them so special, he asks?

His motivation seems to be: "If we teachers are subjected to these checks, then it is only fair that everybody else should be subjected to the same bureaucratic claptrap that neither protects children nor effectively vets adults."

This suggests malice and class envy.

If you find shit on the floor do you clear it up, or do you spread it around so everybody gets a bit of it, so that equality of misery is more equally distributed? Is that his twisted idea of social justice?

He reminds me of a certain character in George Orwell's Animal Farm, which he has not read, you will not be surprised to hear.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/sep/05/schools.childprotection

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8153251.stm