This blog post disproves its own premise…which is quite a feat.

Furthermore, the idea that elites are above the law has nothing to do with left versus right. It is simply elites versus the people. Look at how the right has decided that it would be “too political” to prosecute Bush administration officials for breaking American and international laws on torture.

Even *if* you believe that what they did was not torture, then that should be determined in a court of law and not in the media. But elites (right and left) have a different legal system than the rest of us.

I tend to the liberal political view. However, as a part of this view, I expect the government and its agencies to adhere to the law. In this case, good for the authorities to continue to chase Polanski over the years. While police may not be the brightest bulbs, they are tenacious.

Polanski should be returned to the US and face the sentence for his crime and for jumping bail. If the authorities want to cut him a deal on his return because he is an old man, so be it.

This idea of protecting Polanski because he is a talented film director is inane and stupid. That does not put him above the law.

I also look forward to the same philosophy being used to investigate and prosecute those who instigated these latest wars and those who profiteered. Would it not be interesting to see an investigation into the last few chairs of Haliburton?

Really? Far from uncommon, huh?

Let’s see . . . population in 1965 was roughly 195 million . . .
http://www.usi.edu/1965/retro/facts.asp
. . . so if innocent people getting dosed was “far from uncommon”, that means that it was prevalent, right? It happened all the time? If 1% of the population was getting dosed secretly, that’s almost 2 million people. And that’s just 1 percent, which is certainly uncommon. So what’s “far from uncommon”? 10 percent (approx. 20 million people)? No, that’s still pretty uncommon. So it was more than 20 MILLION people that Teh Hippies slipped drugs to?

Odd that kind of widespread mass dosings didn’t make the news, or were documented, or verified, or investigated, considering how massive those numbers are.

Either that, or you are just talking out of your backside. Free advice: don’t eat candy on Halloween — it’s all got razor blades in it. Well, it is “far from uncommon” to find them. Maybe Teh Hippies did that too?

The Salon piece that you heavily use is by someone who is a feminist and at least a moderate liberal. ” She’s also a regular contributor to Salon.com’s feminist blog, Broadsheet, and recently published essays in the anthologies Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, and Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image. A graduate of University of Toronto and the MFA in writing program at Vermont College…”

There is one other liberal quoted here who condemns the flakey Hollywood supporters.

Which reminds me of another evil: Back in the sixties it was far from uncommon for dopers to surreptitiously give drugs (marijuana, LSD, etc) to unsuspecting victims: After all, they were uptight straights who needed to have their minds expanded.

great caricature of common right-wing idiocy on homosexuality! spot on, man. spot on! wow.

Would that be the very same liberal, left-leaning, magazine with San Francisco based editor Joan Walsh? How then do you go on to state that there is a moral vacuum on “the left” when your own article contains evidence to refute this?