maandag 28 september 2009

Repression of Roman Polanski continues at age

  Deutsch Version

Different press releases exist related to the arrest of Roman Polanski in Zurich. In europe it is suggested that the united states and the swiss confederation are responsible for years of secretly organized repression that the now 76 year old man has to endure.

French filmmaker Roman Polanksi is requested by the United States upon arrival in Swiss territory to be arrested on suspicion of having sex with a minor. Police in Zurich has taken him into custody. He was heading to the festival in that city, where he would be honored tonight for his entire oeuvre. In 1977 he had sexual contact with the then 13-year-old Samantha Geimer that did a photo shoot. He had already confessed sex in exchange for dropping more serious charges imposed when he lived in the United States. The victim made an arrangement with Polanski, it is unknown how much money is involved. During subsequent settlement by american justice he took the safe side and fled to France. It is unknown to which extend followers of religious groups are involved with the yearlong allegations that Polanski experiences.

Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate in better times

After his mother died in 1942, he escaped the Kraków ghetto at the age of nine. His father survived the Auschwitz Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Roman Polanski started his film career in 1953 as an actor.

After divorce of his first wife, he did not gain much success until januari 1968 when he married actress Sharon Tate. June 1968, the release of the ‘Rosemary's Baby’ caused discussion about secret religious contacts, interests and pressures that brand unborn children to be satans that are to be condemned. The story is about Rosemary, her struggling for work husband Guy and their neighbours, a traditional but seemingly friendly couple. When the woman gets pregnant she alieniates from her husband who is involved in his work and with the neighbours. Influenced by her neighbours and their relations, she is in unsafe situations and loses grip on her life when the child is born.

 

• Being 14 years old in the Netherlands we wondered what people wanted in the United States. At that time in the 1960s they let ask me to wish that rather the wife of Roman Polanski was to be murdered than someone of my family and friends. We did not know Polanski and his wife and why this was asked. We were anti-authoritarian at that age and did not believe these threats were genuine. I refused to wish any murder at all, it seemed bad people asking such things.

  Later on in 1968, Sharon Tate was murdered and we talked about it at school during math class. After gathering scarce information we asked the 'Rosemary's Baby' film not be released in the Netherlands until we had a clear view of what was going on and we could take position. At the age of 17 my father died. He may have lived many years longer when he had not been a guinea pig in open heart surgery experiments.

  Year later at the Social faculty of Utrecht University, we became aware that people that pose such a question are from religious and dangerous circles, fighting to keep traditional values in society. They apparently saw the Rosemary's Baby motion picture as a means for consultation a young counterparty that had modern visions in the 1960s about sex and friendship before marriage. They had imposed serious threats on a 14 year old boy and we see them as responsible for the murder on Sharon Tate and related with the dead of my father. Our view is that the film written and directed by Roman Polanski was no guilty and in 1973 the film was released in the Netherlands.

  We are aware that we have to do with severe opponents. Fundamentalists can bring you in unsafe situations. I will never forget what happened in my youth and am determined to tell the truth and survive.

August 1968 Roman Polanski's wife Sharon Tate was murdered by followers of Charles Manson, leader of a violent cult. The Rosemary's Baby film became an icon against repression of gossiped parents, because of the non-conformist work of the screenplay writer/director. Millions of parents experience traditional and fiction norms and values, for example to exclude fathers from parenthood when they live divorced from mothers. Even today these parents have to promote the attention of carelessly doctors and schoolteachers to protect their children against rage and hatred.

• Affected children may show psychosocial complaints outwards such as stubbornness, pressure, tough and aggressive or angry behavior, this is charging the environment. Also inward and silent complaints may occur such as lack of confidence, a retired life, eating disorders, bullying, attention and concentration difficulties in school, anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Also bedwetting is reported. All these complaints have a negative impact on their development. These children as they grow up often show difficulties and behaviour that can disturb social and economic aspects of society. Religious inspired youthcare and subsequent justicial psychiatric repression are spoiling even further and are a costly burden on villages, cities and governments.

  • In public opinion there is predominantly public support for non conformist people for whom financial gain is not the first priority in their active life and/or practice serial monogamy and/or have an international orientation as Polanski has. When government institutions regarding these parents will go along with public opinion, backbiting and repression on them will reduce. That will cause many to be able to lead a regular life of their own and bring up children to prosperity and happiness. Especially in education and healthcare there are opportunities to change the repression into effective support for parents at key moments, to allow them building up lives to their hearts desire.
    
    
  • Moreover, properly rating and respecting active and communicating people has tremendous worth for human capital on earth and will lead society out of the current social and economic recession with the speed of light. More sincere justice will benefit our natural habitat and environment…

He continued making films, such as in 1974 the Los Angeles murder detective screenplay ‘China Town’. In a 1979 film, a milkmaid at the countryside called 'Tess' falls after her father's dead upon desperately hard times. She faces starvation, eviction and homelessness and becomes a mistress of a would be aristocrat in order to support her mother and siblings. After rape and seduction she leaves pregnant, the baby is born sickly and dies. Tess escapes the neglectful father and finds true love in the arms of a missionary farmer that embraces her as his wife without passing moral judgement on her actions. This drama is dedicated to the memory of his beloved wife Sharon Tate and won three Academy Awards.

For decades now Polanski is widely considered one of the greatest contemporary film directors of art house and commercial films as well. In addition, with ‘The Pianist’ he got three Oscars in 2003, including best director. In his autobiograph film the story is about the brilliant pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew that witnesses the restrictions nazis place on jews. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.

The French minister of culture and communications Frederic Mitterand says to be ‘amazed’ about the swiss arrest. Mitterrand regrets ‘this new test for someone who has been through so much’ and promised to do everything to the director's release. France and Poland will request the United States to let release Roman Polanski. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner adds he has asked the United States to drop the charges.

We know that american justice has requested his extradition in europe since 2005. The documentary in which Polanski was called ‘Wanted and Desired’ stems from 1998. Against the decision by an american court to reopen the case, he appealed february 20th this year. The court said at the hearing that the case would be considered only when he would come back to america. Prosecutors in Los Angeles say the arrest warrant was submitted to the Department of Justice after they heard that Polanski would take the prize in Zurich. Justice in turn sent it on to authorities in switzerland. Whether the man is actually handed over to the united states, will depend on extradiction procedures that the swiss confederation is awaiting. Polanski's swiss lawyer Lorenz Erni will appeal against the arrest.

Roman Polanski waves goodbye

The woman named as victim wants the father of a child that never could see the light of day, not to be prosecuted. In a statement of four pages Samantha Geimer, the now 45 years old mother of four children, tells that it disappoints her that the regional prosecutor has not dropped the case. “The time has come to end this case, your honour” said her lawyer to the judge, “If Mr. Polanski was treated fairly, we would not be here 32 years later”. Samantha filed a request to have the charges against Polanski dismissed, saying “decades of publicity as well as the prosecutor's focus on lurid details continues to traumatize me and my family”. So lets do real justice and stop imposing this horror on Polanski.

Samantha Geimer then and now

Labels: International, Repressie