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Would you be supportive, in writing, or just in words of support, or an applause, of a man who was convicted of, and admitted to, the rape, anally, vaginally and orally of a 13 year old girl, if she was:

1. Your daughter
2. A friend’s daughter
3. The daughter of an acquaintance
4. The daughter of a total stranger

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Below, I present the list of all the people who not only would, but have. For years.

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Roman Polanski

The criminal record, and a record of public support within the film industry

Primary source: the court record of the crime

The most direct primary-source documentation of the offence is the unsealed 1977 Los Angeles County grand jury testimony of the 13-year-old victim, Samantha Gailey (now Samantha Geimer), hosted by The Smoking Gun: The Smoking Gun — Roman Polanski Grand Jury Transcript

This is the verbatim transcript of the victim’s testimony before the grand jury that voted to indict Polanski. It describes, in her own words, how Polanski gave her champagne and part of a Quaalude during a photo session at Jack Nicholson’s Mulholland Drive home and then engaged in sexual acts with her despite her objections. It is graphic. The grand jury returned six charges on this basis.

Companion court documents (same archive):

• Plea transcript (8 August 1977) — in which Polanski acknowledges he knew the victim was 13: thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/roman-polanski-plea-transcript

• “Polanski the Predator” — The Smoking Gun’s summary of the unsealed testimony: thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/polanski-predator

A neutral factual overview with full sourcing and case chronology is also maintained at: Wikipedia — Roman Polanski sexual abuse case

Summary of the legal facts: On 10 March 1977, Polanski (then 43) was charged with six offences against the 13-year-old: unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, rape by use of drugs, perversion (oral copulation), sodomy, a lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. Under a plea bargain the five most serious charges were dropped and he pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. He served 42 days of a 90-day court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, then fled the United States in February 1978, the day before sentencing, and has remained a fugitive since.

2003 Academy Awards — standing ovation (23 March 2003)

At the 75th Academy Awards, Polanski won Best Director for The Pianist . He was not present (he was, and remains, a fugitive); Harrison Ford accepted on his behalf. Because Polanski was absent, the documented ovation is recorded through the broadcast camera and press reporting, which captured the following individuals standing and/or applauding. The ovation itself was near-unanimous in the room and lasted roughly 30 seconds.

Named individuals documented standing and/or applauding

• Harrison Ford — presenter who announced the win and accepted on Polanski’s behalf

• Martin Scorsese — fellow Best Director nominee that year

• Meryl Streep — filmed giving a standing ovation

• Jack Nicholson — whistled his approval

• Harvey Weinstein — stood and applauded

• Adrien Brody — lead actor of The Pianist, stood and applauded

Note: Beyond these named figures, contemporaneous reporting (Variety, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast) describes the applause as coming from “nearly everyone present.” The six names above are those specifically identified on camera or in that reporting; a complete attendee-by-attendee list of who rose does not exist in the public record.

2009 petition organised by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Following Polanski’s arrest in Zurich on 26 September 2009, the French writer-philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy circulated a petition (promoted in the industry by Harvey Weinstein) demanding Polanski’s release. It gathered over 160 signatures from directors, actors, writers and producers. The most prominent names reported by press and reference sources:

• Woody Allen

• Pedro Almodóvar

• Wes Anderson

• Darren Aronofsky

• Monica Bellucci

• Penélope Cruz

• Alfonso Cuarón

• Guillermo del Toro

• Harrison Ford

• Jeremy Irons

• Wong Kar-wai

• John Landis

• David Lynch

• Michael Mann

• Sam Mendes

• Salman Rushdie (writer)

• Martin Scorsese

• Steven Soderbergh

• Tilda Swinton

• Ethan Coen

• Emma Thompson (later withdrew)

• Natalie Portman (later withdrew)

• Harvey Weinstein (organiser/promoter)

Withdrawals and regret: Emma Thompson asked for her name to be removed after meeting a 19-year-old activist, Caitlin Hayward-Tapp. Natalie Portman later said: “I very much regret it. I take responsibility for not thinking about it enough.”

Public statements of support (did not necessarily sign a petition)

Meryl Streep

Gave the 2003 standing ovation. In 2009, after the Zurich arrest, she told an Italian reporter that she was “very sorry he’s in jail.”

Whoopi Goldberg

On The View in 2009, defending Polanski, she said the crime was not “rape-rape” — a remark that drew wide criticism.

Harvey Weinstein

Actively promoted the Lévy petition and publicly defended Polanski, arguing that “Hollywood has the best moral compass.” (Weinstein was himself later convicted of sex crimes.)

Kate Winslet

Worked with Polanski on Carnage (2011) and, in a later New York Times interview, defended her decision to work with him, calling him an extraordinary director while acknowledging the controversy.

Others who spoke supportively without signing – The politicians too.

Debra Winger publicly criticised the arrest while serving as president of the Zurich Film Festival jury at the time. The foreign ministers of France and Poland both urged Switzerland to release him, though the French government withdrew its public support on 30 September 2009, stating he was not “above the law.”

2009 SACD petition (full signatory list as of 29 September 2009)

A separate petition was issued by the SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques). It eventually drew as many as 850 signatures. They are listed below alphabetically, (by first name) individuals first, then whole organisations too. It’s a long list, feel free to scroll through it to look for your “favourite” actor/actress.

Many of these are French or European actors/Actresses so not as well known in the USA, nevertheless, we know how full of these types Hollywood is. The breakdown of names is roughly as follows:

Here’s the breakdown of the 840 individual entries:

• Men: ~546 (roughly 65%)
• Women: ~269 (roughly 32%)
• Multi-person entries: 8 — couples or groups listed as one line (e.g. “Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne,” “Pierre et Renée Lhomme”), which I didn’t split into individual counts
• Unclassifiable: 17 — initials-only, single mononyms, or names too ambiguous to call (e.g. “G.W. van der Meiden,” “Chagi,” “Robin Davis,” “Morgan Crestel,” “Carol Reid”)

Individuals

A Wolanin

Abderrahmane Sissako

Abner Pastoll

Adrien Brody

Agata Giovanos

Agnès Catherine Poirier

Agnès de Kergorlay

Agnès Wildenstein

Alain Berliner

Alain Cophignon

Alain Corneau

Alain Delannoy

Alain Gil

Alain Jessua

Alain Lenglet

Alain Martin

Alain Terzian

Alain Vorimore

Alan Fischer

Alberto Barbera Museo nazionale de Torino

Alejandra Norambuena Skira

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Alessandro Marcelli

Alessio Vannetti

Alex Cichy

Alexander Astruc

Alexander Payne

Alexandra Julen

Alexandre Arcady

Alexandre Babel

Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Martelin

Alexandre Thiery

Alexandre Tylski

Alfonso Cuaron

Allison Hull

Allison Michel

Anaïse Wittmann

André Buytaers

André Larquié

André Techiné

Andrea Concato

Andréa Picard

Andrea Sedlackova

Andreas Horvath

Andrzej Krakowski

Andy Whittaker

Angela Carlin

Angélique Prokop

Ania Zenowicz

Anita S. Chang

Ann Eyckmans

Ann Lemonnier

Anna Mikropoulou

Anna N.Levine

Anna Nordahl

Anne Baudry

Anne Burki

Anne Consigny

Anne Jeandet

Anne Pigeon Bormans

Anne-Sophie Dinant

Anne-Sylvie Bonaud

Annie Misserey

Anthony Byrne

Antoine Courtray

Antoine Silber

Antony Cordier

Ariel Dorfman

Arnaud Pierrichon

Arnaud Soulier

Arnaud Xainte

Arnstein Bjørkly

Arthur Joffé

Artus de Penguern

Asia Argento

Aurélie Fiorentino

Avital Ronell

Balthasar Thomass

Bania Madjbar

Barbet Schroeder

Bastien Brunel

Béatrice Lefoulon

Beatrice Sisul

Ben Omar Redouan

Benoît Delmas

Benoît Eliot

Bernard Anne

Bernard Mirgain

Bernard Stora

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernd Günther

Bertrand Mandico

Bertrand Tavernier

Betrand van Effenterre

Bill Darbyshire

Bob Fischer

Boris Loundine

Boris Shlafer

Bozena Psztyk

Brett Ratner

Brice Allavoine

Brigitte Chesneau

Bruno Coulais

Bruno de Almeida

Bryan Cassiday

Buck Henry

Cali Tosca

Carlos Marciales

Carlos Miguel Bernardo González

Carmen Bartl

Carmen Munoz

Carol Reid

Carole Laure

Carole Scotta

Caroline Brunner

Caroline Deruas

Caroline Veyssière

Catalina Lozano

Catherine Boissière

Catherine Chiono

Catherine Chouchan

Catherine Colassin

Catherine Doire

Catherine Gaudin-Montalto

Catherine Hargreaves

Catherine Legal

Catherine Rachel Loiseau

Catherine Reynier-Barateau

Catherine Sermet

Cécile Telerman

Cédric Bouchoucha

Cesare Petrillo

Chagi

Chantal Krakowski

Charles Andre Gordeaux

Charles Nemes

Charles Rubinstein

Charlotte Levy

Charlotte Silvera

Chris Devi

Christel de Wit

Christelle Didier

Christian Carion

Christian Gion

Christian Morel de Sarcus

Christian Mvogo Mbarga

Christian Rogler

Christian Szafraniak

Christian Texier

Christian Verdu

Christian Zeender

Christiane Courvoisier

Christiane Gehl-Gabadou

Christiane Rhein

Christiane Semczuk

Christine Bouthemy

Christine Freret

Christine Laurent-Blixen

Christine Mathis

Christof Berger

Christophe Barratier

Christophe Champclaux

Christophe Goumand

Christophe Sirodeau

Christophe van Rompaey

Christopher

Claire Chazal

Claire Dixsaut

Claire Tromeur

Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lelouch

Claude Miller

Claude Pinoteau

Claudia Bottino

Claudie Zehnacker

Claudine Lenoir

Come Caca

Cornélius Wiijgers

Costa Gavras

Cynthia Long

Cyril Thurston

Dabiel Chabannes

Daniel Champagnon

Daniel Edinger

Daniel Schmidt

Daniel Treichler

Daniel Vigne

Danièle Dubroux

Danielle Martinetti

Danis Tanovic

Dante Desarthe

Daria Vinault

Darius Khondji

Darren Aronofsky

David Charhon

David Heyman

David Lanzmann

David Lynch

David Ogando

Delphine Legros

Denise Stieglitz

Diane Kurys

Didier Martiny

Didier Roy

Didier Volckaert

Dieter Diependaele

Dimitri Haulet

Djamel Bennecib

Dominique Crevecoeur

Dominique Gadoin

Dominique Greusard

Dominique Hollier

Dominique Robert

Dominique Sels

Dominique Welinski

Dorna van Rouveroy

Dorothée Wiijgers

Dusan Reljin

Edith Van Her

Edouard Niermans

Edwin Brienen

Edwin Dervaux

Elbert van Strien

Eleonor Baldwin

Eliane Lacroux

Elie Chouraqui

Elis Semczuk

Elisabeth Kalinowski

Elisabeth Keplinger

Elisabeth Nègre

Elisabeth Roudinesco

Elizabeth Brach

Elizabeth Verry

Elrem

Elzbieta Kusak-Majchrzak

Emilien Lazaron

Emir Kusturica

Emmanuel Pollaud-Dulian

Emmanuel Sapin

Emmanuelle Jossifort

Eric et Veronique et Nicolas Jacquelin

Eric Gravereau

Eric Lagesse

Eric Le Roy

Eric Lecocq

Eric Miot

Eric Pape

Eric Watton

Erik Jørgensen

Erika Abrams

Erling Mandelmann

Ernest

Ernest Barteldes

Esmeralda Mattei

Esteban Carvajal Alegria

Esteban S. Goffin

Estelle Cywje

Etienne Boussac

Etienne Faure

Ettore Scola

Fabienne Chauveau

Fábio Leal

Fabrice du Welz

Fabrice Nordmann

Fabrice O. Joubert

Fabrice Ziolkowski

Fanny Ardant

Fanny Dollé-Labbé

Fatih Akin

Fausto Nicolás Balbi

Fernand Garcia

Fernando Trueba

Flore Luquet

Florence Bellone

Florence Joutel

Florence Nicolas

Florence Quentin

Florence Raphaël

Florent Guézengar

Florent Martinez

Florian Weigl

Fortunio Aflallo

Francesco Vezzoli

Franck Chevalier

François de Lamothe

François Duhamel

François Girault

François Margolin

Frank Roozendaal

Frank Segier

Freddy Bossy

Frédéric Aranzueque-Arrieta

Frédéric Bourboulon

Frédéric Damien

Frédéric Horiszny

Frédéric Mermoud

Frédéric Moreau

Frédérique Topin

Fritz Erik Hoevels

Fritz Urschitz

G.W. van der Meiden

Gabriel Auer

Gabriela Salazar Scherman

Gael Garcia Bernal

Gael Morel

Geert Heirbaut

Geoffroy Guerrier

Georg Schmithüsen

Georges Chappedelaine

Gerald Calderon

Gérard Lenne

Gérard Stum

Gerónimo Elortegui

Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne)

Gianni Amelio

Gilbert Primet

Gilles Behat

Gilles Jacob

Gilles Walusinski

Giuseppe Bertolucci

Giuseppe Tornatore

Gosia Plachta

Graciela Rosato

Grégoire Sivan

Greta Amend

Guila Braoudé

Guillaume Cousin

Guillaume D’Ham

Guillaume Pixie

Guillaume Stirn

Guillemette Trimech

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo Menaldi

Guy Courtecuisse

Guy Ferrandis

Guy Malugani

Guy Péchard

Guy Seligmann

Hanna Kudelski

Harmony Korinne

Harold Alvarado Tenorio

Harry Prenger

Helen Donlon

Hélène Bainier

Henning Bauer

Henning Carlsen

Henri Codenie

Henry-Jean Servat

Hervé de Luze

Hervé Philippe

Hubert Chertier

Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski

Hugues Fontenoy

Hutfer Teense

Ian Brady

Igor Hrovatic-Hanover

Ingrid Herbert

Irene Kuznetzova

Isabelle Broué

Isabelle D. Philippe

Isabelle Dassonville

Isabelle Gély

Isabelle Hontebeyrie

Isabelle Ruh

Ivan Vislen

J. Neil Schulman

Jacob Berger

Jacqueline Belon

Jacqueline Bouchard

Jacques Bral

Jacques et Françoise Lassalle

Jacques Fansten

Jacques Paratte

Jacques Perrin

Jacques Richard

Jacques Rozier

Jan Kounen

Jaques Vallotton

Jean – Marc Modeste

Jean Douchet

Jean Dusaussoy

Jean et Marie Prévost

Jean Francois Gaillard

Jean Labadie

Jean Piva

Jean Teddy Filippe

Jean- Pierre Clech

Jean-Baptiste Jay

Jean-Charles Tacchella

Jean-Claude Irving Longin

Jean-François Balmer

Jean-François Villemer

Jean-Frédéric Samie

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Jean-Jacques Rochut

Jean-louis Lemierre

Jean-Louis Milesi

Jean-Loup Hubert

Jean-Luc Touillon

Jean-Marc Benguigui

Jean-Marc Bloch

Jean-Marc Gauthier

Jean-Marc Ghanassia

Jean-Marc Loiseau

Jean-Marc Surcin

Jean-Marie Besset

Jean-Michel Carré

Jean-Paul Bertin

Jean-Paul Commin

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Jean-Paul Salomé

Jean-Paul Thaens

Jean-Pierre Berckmans

Jean-Pierre Marois

Jean-Pierre Vaucouloux

Jean-Pierre Vergne

Jean-Robert Franco

Jean-Yves Bainier

Jean-Yves Chalangeas

Jean-Yves Potel

Jeanne Moreau

Jennifer Augé

Jeremy Thomas

Jérôme Bourgon

Jérôme Cornuau

Jerry Schatzberg

Jo Reymen

Joaquin Sabina

Joël Farges

Joël Séria

Joffrey Louis

John Carchietta

John Landis

Jola Lech Slowianska

Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Klein

José Antonio Valdés Peña

Joseph Marin

Joseph Rassam

Joshua Highfield

Joshua Rout

Joy Fleury.

Juan Antonio Bayona

Judith Arlt

Julian Schnabel

Julie Lerouxel

Julie Turcas

Julien Doger

Julien Seri

Julien Veyret

Julieta Lencina

Juliette Nicolas-Donnard

Junille Le Pesteur

Just Jaeckin

Karen Stetler

Katarzyna Lipinska

Kathrin DiPaola

Katia Boutin

Katie Teece

Katylodola

Ken Seton-Vyhnal

Kenny Valdisserri

Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation)

Kirstin Schlotter

Kontochristopoulou Roula

Kristen Doty

Krzysztof Majchrzak

Ladislas Kijno

Larry Levine

Laura Metaxa

Laurence Guillat

Laurence Lustyk

Laurence Reymond

Laurence Roulet

Laurent Heynemann

Laurent Malet

Laurent Petitgirard

Léa Bloch

Léo Scalpel

Leopold van Genechten

Les Nanaqui

Lesly Hamilton

Likhem Young

Lilia Cohen Decerisy

Linda Lefebvre

Lindsey Pence

Lioba Wehinger

Lionel Cassan

Lionel Miniato

Liria Begeja

Litseselidis Charalampos

Lizi Gelber

Loïc Sorel

Lorenzo Semple Jr

Lorraine Lévy

Louisa Dent

Louise Anne Bouchard

Lubomila Bakardi

Luc Barnier

Luc Béraud

Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Luc Kinsch

Luce Jaccard

Lucien Blacher

Lucien Obellianne

Lucília Verdelho da Costa

Ludivine Sagnier

Luis Gustavo Sconza Zaratin Soares

Majka Elczewska

Marc Freycon

Marc Guidoni

Marc Latil

Marc Obéron

Marc Saffar

Marc Sandberg

Marc Thomas Charley

Marc Villemain

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Marcin Sokolowski

Marco Bellochio

Marco Cacioppo

Margarita Robski

Margot Meynier

Margot Wolfs

Marguerite Aflallo

Mariana Oliveira Santos

Marie Jergan

Marie-Ange Terrier

Marie-Christine Chesneau

Marie-Hélène Arnau

Marie-Hélène Raby

Marina Duarte Nunes Ferreira

Mario Martone

Mario Monicelli

Marion de Blaÿ

Marion Frelat

Marisa Lorah

Marish Lippi

Marks Blond

Marlène Bisson

Marta Gutowska

Marta Villarroya Estruch

Martin Gregus

Martin Ruhe

Martin Scorsese

Martine Dugowson

Martine Fitoussi

Martine Pagès

Maryana Vestic

Maryline Monthieux

Mathieu Celary

Mathieu Mercier

Matteo Garone

Matthieu Béguelin

Maud et Romain Ferrari

Maud Pommier-Samaan

Maurizio Trani

Max Brun

Merima Bruncevic

Michael A. Russ

Michael Flynn

Michaël Goldberg

Michael Louis Wells

Michael Mann

Michel Andrieu

Michel Chevalier

Michel Deloore

Michel Ferry

Michel Gras

Michel Kammoun

Michel Laigle

Michel Ocelot

Michel Piccoli

Michele Hababou

Michèle Henx

Michele Placido

Michèle Rollin

Michèle Rossi-Ducci

Michèle Seguin-Sirhugue

Michelle Géranium Melman-Gory

Mickael Tanguy

Miguel Courtois

Miguel Morales

Mikael Håfström

Mishka Cheyko

Miss Catadler

Mitja Tušek

Monica Bellucci

Monica Cannizzaro

Monika Weibel

Morgan Crestel

Morgane Caux

Muriel Cerf

Muriel Kintziger

Muriel Mercier

Nadia Paschetto

Nadine Fruchard

Nadine Trintignant

Nanan Sikki

Natalie Mei

Nathalie Geiser

Nathalie Kiener

Nelly Kaplan

Nelly Moaligou

Nelson Gonzalez

Nicholas Dubreuil

Nico Beyer

Nicola D’Ugo

Nicola Pecorini

Nicolaine den Breejen

Nicolas Fagard

Nicolas Kermel

Nicolas Mauvernay

Nicolas Mesdom

Nicole Herbaut de Lamothe

Nicole Lormeau

Nihad Christian Jarallah

Noel Simsolo

Olivia A. Bugnon

Olivia Janik

Olivier Assayas

Olivier Bonnet

Olivier Cohen

Olivier Dard

Olivier Debert

Olivier Jacquet

Olivier Jansen

Olivier Nolin

Olivier Père

Olivier Séror

Omayra Muñiz Fernández

Paola Jullian

Paolo Roversi

Paolo Sorrentino

Pascal Batigne

Pascal Berney

Pascal Kané

Pascal Thomas

Pascale Angelini

Pascale Castioni

Pascale Rocard

Patrice Bourbon

Patrice Chéreau

Patrice Leconte

Patrick Bouchitey

Patrick Braoudé

Patrick Conrad

Patrick Frégonara

Patrick Hirigoyen

Patrick Perlman

Paul Boujenah

Paul Rondags

Paule Zajdermann

Pauline Larrieu

Paulo Branco

Pawel Lech

Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Celestino

Peggy Carajopoulou-Vavali

Peter Josy

Peter Lucas Erixon

Peter Priskil

Peter Woltil

Petter Skavlan

Phil van der Linden

Philippe Garrel

Philippe Radault

Philippe Sisbane

Pierre Antoine Faure

Pierre et Renée Lhomme

Pierre Jolivet

Pierre Kalfon

Pierre Laville

Pierre Le Scouarnec

Pierre Schoendoerffer

Pierre Schumacher

Pierre Silvant

Pierre Somers

Pierre-Alexandre Schwab

Pieter van Hees

Piotrek Szymanek

Rachel Lowenstein

Rachel Noël

Radovan Tadic

Radu Mihaileanu

Raphael Rebibo

Raphaël Wertheimer

Redha

Reena Kanji

Régine Vial

Rémy Jouvin Bessière

Renata Bosco

Renate Jett

René Gainville

René Heitz

Richard Klebinder

Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY)

Richard Schlesinger

Robert Cohen

Robert Hossein

Robin Davis

Roch Stephanik

Roger Andrieux

Roger Kahane

Rolandas Rastauskas

Romain Desbiens

Romain Slocombe

Ronald Harwood

Rosalinde et Michel Deville

Rudolf van Maanen

Rudyard Cretenet

Rui Nogueira

Ruth Barensteiner

Ruud den Dryver

Sabrina Poidevin

Saïd Ben-Said

Sam Enoch

Sam Gabarski

Samuel Pinon

Sandra Nicolier

Sandrine Martin

Sara Gandolfi

Sarah Moreau-Flament

Sarah Vermande

Scott Foundas

Sebastian Fleischhacker

Sébastien Jimenez

Serge Grünberg

Serge Tosca

Serge Toubiana

Siegfried Hettegger

Sigrid Obellianne

Simone Audissou

Sissi Duparc

Sonia Rykiel

Sophie Bramly

Sophie Danon

Sophie Davidas

Sophie Deschamps

Sophie Sharkov

Souleymane Cissé

Spencer et Claire Mc Andrew

Stefanos Psaromiligas

Stephan Streker

Stéphane Agussol

Stephane Allagnon

Stéphane Arnoux

Stéphane Brodzki

Stéphane Gizard

Stéphane Lam

Stephane Lioret

Stéphane Pietri

Stéphane Pozderec

Stéphanie Arques-Voitoux

Stephanie Murat

Stephen Frears

Stephen Ujlaki

Steve Catieau

Steve Yeo

Steven Sedgwick

Suzana Peric

Suzanne Colonna

Sylvette Baudrot

Sylvia Kristel

Sylvie Bardet-Borel

Szentgyörgyi Ottó

Teco Celio

Terry Gilliam

Terry Zwigoff

Thérèse Saliceti

Thierry Boscheron

Thierry Chabert

Thierry Drean

Thierry Frémaux

Thierry Grizard

Thierry Mathelin

Thomas Desjonquères

Thomas Jahn

Thomas Pibarot

Thomas Vossart

Thoralf Herz

Tilda Swinton

Tim Malieckal

Tim Myers

Tom Tykwer

Tomas Arana

Tone Bay

Tonie Marshall

Tony Gatlif

Tristan Rain

Valentine Theret

Valérie Chemarin

Valérie de Saint-Do

Valérie Soulier

Vangelis

Vassilis Sourapas

Velipekka Makkonen

Véra Belmont

Verde Visconti

Verlaine Eddy

Véronique Gillet

Vincent Garreau

Vincent Pappalardo

Vinciane Lecocq

Virginie De Wilde

Virginie Thévenet

Viviane Decuypere

Vivien Villani

Vladimir Bagrianski

Vladimir Perisic

Walter Salles

Walter Toubin

Wendy Hudson

Werner Fraai

Wess Anderson

William Klein

Wim De Temmerman

Wim Wenders

Wong Kar Waï

Woody Allen

Xavier Beauvois

Xavier Berry

Xavier Dolan

Yaniv Elani

Yann Charbonnier

Yann Gozlan

Yannick Angelloznicoud

Yannick Bellon

Yannick Mazet

Yannick Rolandeau

Yannis Stavrou

Yasmina Reza

Yves Alberty

Yves Gasser

Yvon Marciano

Zbiggy Giovanos

Zdzicho Augustyniak

Zelda Tinska

Organisations

l’Académie des César

l’API (Association des producteurs Indépendants)

l’ARP

l’ARRF – Association des Réalisateurs et réalisatrices de Films – Belgique

Bund gegen Anpassung

la Cinémathèque Française

la Cinémathèque de Dijon / Cinémathèque Jean Douchet

le Festival de Cannes

le Festival des Rencontres internationales du cinéma de patrimoine de Vincennes

le Fonds Culturel Franco Américain

le Groupe 25 images

la SACD

Le Bureau National du SFA

le SPI

Le Syndicat National des Techniciens de la Production Cinématographique et de Télévision

l’Union des producteurs de films

L’équipe du dernier film de Roman Polanski « Ghost »

Pathé

Scott Foundas (LA Weekly)

Sources

Court record:

• The Smoking Gun — grand jury transcript, plea transcript, “Polanski the Predator”

• Wikipedia — “Roman Polanski sexual abuse case” (case chronology and charge list)

• ABC News / CBS News — reporting on the unsealed grand jury testimony

Petitions and reactions:

• Most exhaustive list is found at the wayback machine HERE .

•, “Over 100 In Film Community Sign Polanski Petition” (29 Sept 2009) — full SACD list

• Wikipedia — “2009 Roman Polanski Petition” / sexual abuse case (Lévy petition names, withdrawals)

• Variety, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Snopes — 2003 Oscars ovation and individual statements

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Like Sisyphus, I toil thanklessly. Unlike him, however, my work does have an effect in the long term. It might not be the same as Leonidas, Bohemond, Tancredi or le Valette, but one can hope. The previous 2 posts essentially only had ONE third worlder (who couldn’t read anyway) try to “complain” about “my” supposed evil hatred of THE WOMINS! instead of realising the “hate” is called simple reality, and comes from that evil incarnate, the objective universe we exist in, quite regardless of my existence or not in it.

I don’t expect feminists or complete retards to change and evolve, but… Hundreds if not thousands of people have turned from their fake religion, and idiotic lies and ideologies they were raised on, to a better version of things in part at least thanks to the things I write. Many, have reached a certain level of reality-perception that finally allows them to experience a mental, intellectual, and spiritual sense of freedom, they did not have previously. The truth has that effect on you after the initial shock. In a few cases at least, some have even learnt the skill required to spot the incessant bullshit we are fed daily from pretty much every vector of the mass media we are surrounded by.

But you know who has done NONE of these things, and likely never will?

Yes, yes, of course, Calvinists, Radical feminists, Protestants in the vast majority of cases, and so on, yes, of course THEM, but… above all, who leads the charge in the Retard Olympics? That’s right, I sort of gave it away in the title didn’t I?

Flat-Earthers.

This started because I simply commented “Yup.” to this guy’s post:

Which of course, prompted the retards to come out from under their rocks:

Now, for the uninitiated, “Big Bear” is Owen Benjamin, an almost famous, C-list actor/comedian who was a bit of a flash in a pan some decade/s ago and then built up a community of “bears” (yes, it’s as gay as it sounds) that all pretty much believe whatever nonsense he spouts. He also had me fooled for a few minutes when I first encountered him, as he seemed a rather naive, but genuine, kind of guy. As I continued to listen to him over time, sporadically as time permitted, it became obvious he was essentially a grifter, pretending to be a homesteader. Who also pushed the Flat-Earth narrative. Along with many, many, many, other completely bizarre or insane concepts, like the Moon being a lamp, the stars all being just points of light on the inside of a globe, etcetera, etcetera. He also basically turned on everyone that did not provide him with some financial incentive, and when called out on his bullshit he tends to freak out. He also went full retard on things like the Trinity, and he apparently endorses drinking your own piss, and many other things. Whatever. The internet is full of morons, after all. I did a couple of videos years ago on his nonsense, and then moved on. But… apparently if someone I know, knows someone, that supposedly means I must agree with them. Or something…

And it could have ended there, but no… this idiot then decided to join in:

Now, how hard is it to figure out the Earth is not flat? Really not hard at all. You basically just need a pair of eyes, maybe a telescope if you want to see the hills on the Moon, but it really doesn’t take much. The ancient Greeks had figured it out. Without telescope (see near the end of this post). Columbus went looking for India because it was obvious the Earth was a globe, and forever slurred the poor redskins by somehow associating them with the street-shatters on the other side of the planet, and so on. 1

But let’s do this one step at a time, first that formula, which the idiots keep using when they literally cannot count to 20 without removing their socks.

Now, to be clear, not a single one of these Flat-Earth retard will be able to follow ANY of the following, but here it is for the few people here who can, and because no, I am not going to type all that out, here is Claude doing the same work anyone who understands basic geometry already knows:

But that’s only a small part of the issue.

The retarded don’t understand things like solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, the retrograde motion of Mercury, or anything else. Because if they did, they would realise two things:

1. The current (correct) model of the Earth being a sphere, can predict when and where the next one of such events will happen from the perspective of anyone on Earth with extreme precision.
2. The Flat-Earth model can’t even explain how we get day and night.

So here you go as for when the next ones are, both partial and full:

Next solar eclipse — 12 August 2026 (total). A total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. The path of totality crosses northern Spain from the Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean, including the Balearic Islands, with A Coruña, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Valencia and Palma inside it — but Madrid and Barcelona just outside. It’s the first total solar eclipse on mainland Europe since 1999. Outside that narrow band, a partial eclipse will be visible across much of the Northern Hemisphere — most of Europe, parts of the northern U.S. and most of Canada, and northwestern Africa. For you in Rome, this means a partial eclipse low in the western sky toward sunset (Italy lies outside the totality path); across much of mainland Europe the Sun sets while still partially eclipsed, giving a sunset-eclipse effect. Eye protection is mandatory except during the brief moments of totality, which only those inside the path get. NASA Science + 3

Next lunar eclipse — 28 August 2026 (deep partial). This is a partial, not total, eclipse — but a very deep one: just over 96% of the Moon enters Earth’s shadow, dimming and turning slightly reddish-orange, though it won’t be a true “blood moon” since the whole disc never falls into the umbra. It will be completely visible over North and South America, and seen setting over Africa, Europe, and the Middle East; the best views will be from the Americas. From Italy the timing is awkward: the eclipse happens in the early hours of 28 August with the Moon low and setting, so you’d catch the earlier partial phase before moonset rather than the full event. Greatest eclipse is around 04:42 UTC (06:42 in Rome). No eye protection needed — lunar eclipses are safe to watch directly. Space.com + 2

If by “full” you specifically mean the next total of each kind: the next total solar after August is 2 August 2027 (southern Spain, North Africa, the Middle East — again a partial from Italy), and the next total lunar (”blood moon”) is 31 December 2028 – 1 January 2029, which will be visible from Europe.

Why do I mention eclipses?

Because it’s the most obvious way of understanding the Earth is a ball in space, and so is the Moon.

If you watch a lunar eclipse and look at the shape of Earth’s shadow on the Moon, it is always a circle. As the Earth’s shadow creeps across the lunar disc you see a curved edge every single time. Regardless of the time of year, the time of night, or where the Moon sits in the sky. This is the argument Aristotle made around 330 BC, and its power is that it’s the one method no “perspective” or “refraction” objection can touch. A flat disc only casts a circular shadow when the light hits it face-on; tilt it and the shadow stretches to an ellipse and ultimately to a straight line. Only a sphere casts a round shadow from every possible orientation. Since Earth’s shadow is round in every eclipse ever recorded, Earth is a sphere. Conveniently, the partial lunar eclipse on 28 August gives you a chance to check this yourself, if you are in America, since that is where the best views will be from, and will show the curved bite of the shadow. The same applies to a solar eclipse, though you might go blind if you try and stare at it without some eye protection.

If you want something you can do solo on any clear evening without waiting for an eclipse, go to a flat western horizon (a beach or open plain works best) and watch the sun set while lying flat on the ground. The instant the last sliver disappears, stand up quickly — the sun reappears for a moment and sets a second time. Raising your eye by a metre or two re-exposes it because the surface between you and the sun is curved. On a genuinely flat Earth, lifting your head a metre could not bring back an object 150 million kilometres away that had already gone below a flat plane; nothing about your height would change whether it’s “down.” The same logic underlies the ship-disappears-hull-first observation.

Now, refraction IS A THING. And can affect this somewhat, but again, you can PROVE light doesn’t travel in straight lines when it passes through a transparent but denser medium than vacuum. Put a pencil in a glass of water and look at it from the side.

OH MAH GAWD! IS THE PENCIL BROKEN?!?!?

NO! IT’S MAGIC! WATER BREAKS PENCILS IN HALF BUT THEN THE AIR MAGICALLY FIXES THEM AGAIN!

That, ladies and gentlemen, is pretty much what I expect the retarded Flat-Earthers to say.

Of course, if you ever travel far north–south: the visible stars also change with latitude. Polaris sits high in the northern sky from Rome, drops toward the horizon as you go south, and vanishes entirely below the equator, where the Southern Cross rises into view. A flat plane under a single dome would show everyone the same stars; a sphere tilts your local horizon so different hemispheres see different skies. Eratosthenes turned this same principle — the sun’s angle differing between two cities on the same day — into an actual measurement of the Earth’s circumference around 240 BC, accurate to within a few percent, using nothing but a stick and its shadow.

But then the Ancient Greeks were not the mouth-breathing, oxygen thieves we appear to have filled the planet with as a result of not letting the only aspect of Darwinian Evolution that actually makes sense, and we should allow it to do its job daily:

The Darwin Awards.

You’re welcome. And remember the Kurgan motto:

Leave all retards behind.

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The post immediately before this one has a bunch of stats that make it absolutely unavoidable to understand that I was 100% correct when I wrote in this post that women will become increasingly miserable as time passes, and will ultimately settle into one of only four possible categories:

So… the upshot of this is really quite simple for women, and completely regardless of what any of them think, want, like, dislike, or agree or disagree with, they will fall into one of four, and only four categories:

1. Shrieking lesbian/cat-lady (often obese) – These are the unfuckables. Too ugly, embittered and driven hysterical from lack of male attention. borderline unemployable, living on benefits mostly (while those still last), likely to become homeless or live in a commune when financial crisis hits. Mostly childless, thank almighty God, as any offspring of these harridans would be suffering a Hellish fate. They are irrelevant as human beings, not even qualifying as NPCs. They are more like kobolds. Pointless speed-bumps on the highway of life.
2. Victims – unfortunately this is an increasing number of women and girls. Those rapefugees gotta rape and kill, don’t ya know? And without masses of native men willing to overthrow the pedovores in charge in every government in the West, and then return all those illegals to either their own lands or a shallow grave, this isn’t going to change.
3. Modern Chattel – some women, rather than be constant prey to a revolving retinue of rapefugees may select ONE (hopefully) with whom to pair up. Convert to their culture/religion, and become a fully submissive trophy-wife/concubine/side-piece of an imported invader.
4. Become proper wives – pleasant, obedient, loyal, and sexually and sensually available to their husbands for whom they will happily produce multiple children, and keep a pleasant and well-organised home. Now, to the feminists still in brainwashed mode this “feels” like 3. above, but it absolutely is not. I explain why below.

And then, I went on to explain what that Proper Wife category includes. And of course, about a dozen shrieking white knights and their hags got very upset about it. But, as usual, their shrieking means absolutely nothing. And look at this post, which by the way now absolutely also demonstrates that you should NEVER listen to what women say they want from men. Because the demonstrable reality is that they haven’t got a clue, and when they DO get what they SAY they want, they become only MORE miserable (see previous post for enough stats from enough repeatable studies, from around the world. In fact this is the one area of science where studies have been repeatable and give the same overall response EVERY TIME. In other words, it is actual real science.)

So here is an anecdotal version written by a woman who no longer gets the attention of she was accustomed to. And probably not solely due to her age, though that might be a mild factor.

She blames dating apps mostly:

What I see every day is that the effects of dating apps no longer remain confined to dating apps. They spill into real life.

Women, still perceiving an app-level abundance of interested men, often expect greater pursuit, effort, and distinction before extending interest themselves. Men, conditioned by years of rejection or indifference, become increasingly hesitant to pursue at all. The more men withdraw, the more women feel compelled to judge them. The more women judge, the less incentive men feel to initiate.

And she does pretty much say: please talk to me again!

My solution is pretty simple: get off dating apps, which have been proven to function with depressing slot machine-like addictiveness and are known to further the deep divide between the sexes.

If the problem is a distorted perception of reality, then the solution is not merely better dating behavior. The solution is returning to Reality itself. First, God. But also real people. Real conversations. Real attraction. Real discernment. The antidote to an artificial marketplace is not learning how to navigate it better. It is spending less time inside it.

Women, trust reality more than the apps. Trust that the men who approach you reveal something important: they are the men to whom you naturally appeal. If you’re hoping for a different sort of man, be willing to signal interest yourself. Smile. Start a conversation. Drop the proverbial handkerchief. And if they’re not interested, that’s a signal. But don’t dismiss good men simply because you think you know exactly what he should look like.

Men, first of all, we love you. Please holler back.

Now, this is precisely the type of wake-up call I discussed, and that I specifically stated at about age 16 would be required women. As usual, I am bout 30-40 years early in my understanding of things, but it’s starting to happen.

What I also found interesting is the sheer level of incel hatred and intense rage in her comments from obvious incels. If you have ever wondered why women avoid gamma males like radioactive serial killers, well… go read some of the comments on there… it’s because basically any one of them can literally become a serial killer. Possibly radioactive too.

None of this is news to me.

Before I got married (for the third and final time) I certainly enjoyed a lot of the female form, and it was absolutely clear to me that feminism was always a ploy but the fat, ugly, bitter, unfuckable harpies of life, pushed probably by their Jewish handlers (seriously, look at who started feminism, every single time) to reduce pretty, and normal women to their own level of misery.

I seriously did not encounter one hot woman that really believed in feminism other than cursorily. And I met more than one “feminist” that after a proper session in the bedroom, cried her little eyes and heart out and offered to be as submissive as I’d like if they could just carry on being the recipients of my, shall we say, physical attention.

My point is simply this: Yes I know that it’s all the rage to complain about the dating scene, and how bad things are, blah, blah, blah.

But honestly, if you have ears to hear, eyes to see, and an interest in finding a woman to be with seriously: Get your scared head out your. ass, take hold of your balls in one hand to make sure you still have them attached, and march yourself to the next pretty lady you see, say a simple hello, tell her you don’t want to intrude on her day but find her attractive and could not resist asking if there is a chance she might want to go on a coffee, date, dinner, marriage in Vegas, whatever. If she says no or that she’s taken etc. be good natured, say thanks anyway, and be on your way.

And for all the inevitable comments by the cowardly inches that “I will be filmed and I will be shamed in public! Arrested for sexual harassment and jailed!” … well, you know what? YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! never approach a woman again, lock yourself in a room with a VR machine and a sex doll and never come out again. The world ABSOLUTELY does NOT need your DNA.

For the rest of you, who still think it’s so bad out there, listen up:

YOU ARE WRONG! THE DATING SCENE IS AWESOME!

Better than it has ever been really!

And it’s good not just now but LONG TERM!

you see, before covid, before dating apps, before all the “social media” that is frying your brains, life was a series of Russian roulettes.

“Hey she’s pretty!” yeah, and. she’s also a borderline personality disorder bipolar schizophrenic.

“Hey she’s good in bed!” yeah, and she’s also a professional golddigger that makes streetwalkers blush.

You just didn’t know!

Now however, if you say hello and she gets her phone out and start filming you while blowing a whistle you KNOW! She’s fucking crazy’s and not just “yeah but she’s a fun stick-your-dick-in-her level of crazy.” You KNOW you dodged a bullet! So be bold buddy, because the people who will NOT get married, the women who will NOT become proper wives, the men who will NOT approach a woman they are interested in… all of those people will also NOT reproduce!

And that means the stupid weak ones are all soon dying out.

All that will be left will be the idiots that do breed (they are always the eternal majority, sadly) and then us! The smart, the brave, the few, the ones that create, change and build civilisation.

So be of good heart and cheer. Marry, make babies, build communities. City States are coming back. Oh and yeah, become ferociously religious.

Good luck out there boys. and girls, the future is awesome.

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So I have had a little rather amusing running commentary with an avowed feminist, and it’s been rather amusing. In fairness to her I have to say that she has managed to hang in there rather good naturally and has not run off in a rage-huff, but, as you will see, readers… there is a reason for that.

Anyway, let us start at the beginning, because it’s funny.

On the post that has gone totally viral , now heading towards 20k views, probably due to some messed up algorithm thinking I was talking about the tragedy of the plight of women or something, there have now been over 300 comments. Some are insightful, some idiotic, a few were so unhinged, or simply trying to farm my views to their substack with comments that had nothing to do with the post that I had several happy instaban moments, which I love doing to the morons that occasionally wander into my substack thinking they can say whatever without being immediately kicked out for good.

Anyway, here are the comments that are relevant to this post.

Which prompted Pythia to pipe up again… thus:

Now, you need to do one of those time warp things here and know there was a prior little back and forth between us, which you sort of need for context, so here it is:

So now, that you have the background, back to this:

to which I replied in kind, and wondered if she’d still carry on, or if she would go off in a red-faced and guilt ridden huff with her hand firmly lodged between her legs.

So, as I say, she has, in fairness, managed to keep a little humour going. I mean, yeah, we know she’s here for the tingles, and not the laugh, or the stats, but hey… educating people about how uneducated feminists are is sort of a Noblesse Oblige kind of thing, so….

Here you go, let’s look at some stats eh?

SO… who is it that doesn’t look at stats, ? Like I said in the original post, it doesn’t MATTER if you don’t agree. It doesn’t MATTER if you like it. It doesn’t MATTER how YOU feel about it. That is what is and will happen. And those four choices are essentially the four choices left to women in the West at the statistically significant overwhelming majority of cases.

But I can tell you ONE thing that doesn’t require any statistics, and does make me laugh, because we all know it’s true. Whenever Pythia next has sex, we know who she’ll be thinking about, don’t we? And it’s not her boyfriend.

Which is why I expect her to carry on commenting here possibly for weeks and months. If she keeps being at least a little entertaining I may keep her around for a bit. Knowing I am probably safe from her turning up on my doorstep requesting I ravish her to “prove her point”. Or mine. Or just “ANYTHING PLEASE! JUST DO IT!”

You know she’s reading this and getting excited with a smile on her face. You know it, I know it, she knows it.

So there may be hope for her yet. She MIGHT, in time, possibly, evolve into a good and witty wife. I mean we have no evidence she can make sandwiches, and roam around a kitchen properly barefoot and pregnant, as, of course, we manly men expect of them, but in time, she may realise her duty to the West, and the Patriarchy she so desperately wants to be “oppressed” by.

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PS: This is without a doubt the softest Kurganing I have ever done. Not a scalping at all, barely a bit of a hair pull and a light spanking.

DOWN Pythia! DOWN. No, not that way… oh dammit… it’s like an enthusiastic puppy. Luckily it’s only across the digital aether, because you don’t know what bunnies could be boiled otherwise.

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So Donald and I agree on this, but I want to go a step further! I am sure I am joined by the vast majority of American on this:

Stop spending money and sending bodies to man American military bases in Italy. Take them all back. Every single one, thanks. Take back all your equipment, your military machines, and all your servicemen and women. We don’t need them, we don’t want them here, and the “protection” of Italy is not and should never be anyone’s concern but that of the Italians.

So kindly go home.

And my American friends, make some noise, we don’t want your tax dollars and military to be spent on us or in our country at all.

Tell Don to take it all back!

Thank you for your attention to this message:

The Kurgan.

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The very first law of human stupidity is that there are always more stupid people than you can assume.

Professor Carlo Cipolla, who wrote possibly the most important piece of real science concerning the human condition, in fact possibly the ONLY real science concerning the human condition , defined the five laws of human stupidity in a succinct, scientifically unimpeachable, perfect way.

And as often is the case with natural laws, there seemed nothing one could do about this unfortunate state of affairs.

I think the good professor wrote his piece with humour as a sort of salve for the soul of those few who did have the capacity to understand the abysmal reality and consequence of his discovery, which is, of course, the tragic realisation that one will forever be surrounded by idiots.

This of course was not news to me at age sixteen, in English class, I had already adapted a famous short poem written by a shipwreck survivor I think. The original:

Water, water,

Water everywhere,

And not a drop to drink.

My version:

Idiots, idiots,

Idiots everywhere,

And not a brain to think.

However, the era of COVID, and everything that happened since and continues to happen daily since then, has brought upon the world, possibly since the time of ancient Rome, the only slight reprieve from the brutal, and constant, tsunami of idiocy.

While even back in ancient Rome or feudal Japan it was still somewhat frowned upon if done in excess, beheading an irritating idiot that got in your way was a real possibility. This allowed the few non idiots to reproduce and thus advance civilisation. Unfortunately, as the idiots inevitably always outnumber us by orders of magnitude, we have now reached epic proportions of idiocy so overwhelming that people are no longer able to define what a woman is, believe “men” can get pregnant, or that faggotry is not a mental deformation or illness, that as with many other unfortunate afflictions, generally shortens lifespans, and causes all sorts of harm; especially to little babies “adopted” (trafficked) by such faggots.

But here is the slight ray of light in the eternal gloom of the stupid that darken the lives of those few, those brave few, that have to exist on this accursed planet:

You can really see them advertising their stupidity in so many ways now that it is actually much easier to spot the rare few who MIGHT not be complete, drooling retards.

And this is a good thing.

You see, stupid people think that life is harder now, because of the degeneracy and hook-up culture, atomisation of people, and “social” media making everyone an insulated, isolated, incel with zero friends.

Well… sure… that’s what all the idiots are doing.

But the few… well, you can see them far easier than ever before now.

You think now it’s harder than ever to find a woman that is not a stupid, money-hungry, illogical, cheating, gold-digging whore, or, conversely, a man that is not a lying, cheating, fuckboi, or secretly gay, metrosexual dolt. But what you don’t realise is those were ALWAYS the odds.

The proportion of idiots didn’t suddenly increase. See law one right at the top of this post. They merely REVEALED THEMSELVES!

To percentages, numbers, and levels never before seen!

You now stand a REAL chance to spot that lone sailor out in the distance who is a very good fit for your very rare non-idiotic brain to finally team up with.

But the same is true of all situations, not just intimate relationships. You can see the stupid so much easier; as if they had dumped buckets of fluorescent paint all over themselves.

So, fellow traveller… do not waste this opportunity!

Find a suitable mate and reproduce! While the idiots continue to inject themselves with murder-serum and buy into the various narratives designed to keep them into the same eternal stupidity to which their lot takes like a duck to water.

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So, the wife has twisted her ankle pretty badly. It happened before when she was pregnant with I think the 5 year old. Anyway, laid up in bed today, I immediately set to work to make sure she would be able to get about as comfortably as possible.

Notice the detail!

The comfortable and stylish under arm padding.

The bespoke non-slip accoutrement!

Now, I know what the bitter feminists would TRY to present this as, trying to cheapen the clear message this sort of dedication sends. They would try to say that a “proper” crutch, from like a hospital or something, would be better, little understanding that this is an artisanal, fully hand-made, specific to measurement crutch. One of a kind, as any connoisseur of bespoke medical appliances would instantly recognise.

There is also absolutely no truth whatsoever that this is just a way to ensure she remains busy in the kitchen, barefoot, and pregnant. 1

Just all lies from jealous women, clearly.

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This video, of that ubiquitous guy (who I am sure is a pushed narrative guy) Chase is interesting, because although I am fairly certain he, along with probably most if not all of so-called “famous” YouTubers is a pushed for “influencer” as in, narrative approved (it’s a subtle one with him and all the more efficient because of it) artificially promoted guy, there is still, one important truth revealed in the very first few minutes of this video . And it’s really the only part that really matters.

Transcript is below and more useful for those who can still do that vanishing art: Reading.

I have bold and italicised the most relevant passages.

Chris (Host): “Who are you? How do you describe what you do for work?”

Chase (Guest): “It’s so hard. But if I’m talking to somebody that’s boring, I’ll just tell them I teach psychology stuff. But if I want to get into it, I’ll say, you know, I teach everything from brainwashing to interrogation — apply it on yourself and other people. And most of what I do is train sales teams nowadays. Sales has gotten really addicted to this stuff. But I’ve studied neuroscience for a long time. And I spent my life trying to figure out how the brain works and how to shift human behaviour. Not just like to get someone to confess to something in an interrogation, but how do we modify our own behaviour and what are the mechanics that make that possible?”

Chris: “Do you think we’re living in the most psychologically manipulated era in human history?”

Chase: “Yes, hands down. But I mean, you go to ancient Rome, some shit would happen and they would say, ‘Hey, do the lion fighting thing with the guy, let’s distract everybody.’ So I don’t think it’s new. I think it’s a lot more pervasive though.”

Chris: “Is that because of it being facilitated through technology or is that because of a requirement for control? What’s the motivation for that?”

Chase: “I think it’s the digital media. If you think about what is the number one fear of human beings — like every psychology class talks about it — it’s public speaking, but it’s never public speaking. It’s ‘I don’t want to be judged. I don’t want to be ostracised,’ because our brain that’s 200,000 years old — getting kicked out of a tribe means I’m dead. Not going to have sex, I won’t have babies and I’m going to die. It’s a mortal fear of dying. But if you go back to the 1980s, if I did something stupid in high school or even as an adult, I have to worry about 30 or 40 people judging me and maybe really kind of kicking me out of a social group. And now with social media, you’ve got to worry about five or ten million. So the consequences of doing something wrong are unbelievably exponentially increased, which has made us a whole different society. And this is the origin of this pandemic of loneliness that we’re in right now, where everybody will agree that we’re in pandemic levels of loneliness and nobody — you don’t hear anyone saying ‘I’m lonely’ — which is a deeper root of this exact problem.”

Chris: “What’s happening then?

Chase: You ever study the French philosopher, this guy named Sartre?”

Chris: “I’ve [snorts] read a little bit of his stuff, but I just — single quotes.

Chase: He had this play. It was called Sartre’s Hell, where three people are locked in a room basically like this. And it’s a play, but the room’s not totally locked. Every couple of hours the door opens and you can leave if you want to, but nobody leaves. And they’re all desperate to be seen a certain way by someone else. This one guy — I’m paraphrasing — but he wants to be seen as a good person. So he asks this woman in there, ‘Please tell me I’m a good person, please.’ And she says, ‘Yeah, you’re a good person.’ But he knows she doesn’t mean it. So he stays. The door opens, nobody leaves, and they stay because they’re waiting for this confirmation from other people of who they are. And in this world today, with how performative and artificial everybody has become — I’ve got to show my best self, I’ve got to hide shame, I’ve got to conceal all this guilt and the stuff that people carry around — [coughs and clears throat] the reason that somebody can feel lonely in a room full of people, and I’m not just talking about on Facebook, I’m saying like in a real room full of people, is because no matter how many times your friends come over and pat you on the back and say, ‘Oh Chris, you did a great job, we love you, you’re a great guy,’ your spouse might say, ‘We love you and you’re a great person,’ in the back of your mind you know you’re faking it. And you know that none of them really like the real you. And at the end of the day — and I’m not saying this is you — but at the end of the day you’re lonely in a room of 150, 200 people because you know that none of them know you and you haven’t ever really been seen by anybody. So increased fear of judgment because of social media equals increased performance, equals I’m wearing a costume almost all the time and nobody has ever seen me. Nobody really knows me. So even if they claim to like me, in the back of my brain there’s this little reminder mechanism that says they don’t like the real me, and nobody ever has. Nobody’s ever seen me. This is my opinion, but I think that’s the root of the pandemic that we’re in right now of loneliness — we’re more connected than ever and more performative than ever at the same time. So we can’t really connect, and our brains are wired for a 120 to 130 person tribe, and we start getting over that and we have massive issues.”

Chris: “It’s interesting that a lot of the time the person has been subsumed by the persona, the role that people are playing.”

Chase: “Yeah. But the persona is incapable of receiving love. It can only receive praise at best, and it feels like a pat on the back. The same as people don’t love Chris Hemsworth, they love Thor. They don’t love Russell Crowe, they love Gladiator. So how can you be surprised if you don’t genuinely, existentially feel the connection with your pursuits and your successes and the people around you — you know that they’re just applauding the role that you play as opposed to seeing who you are truly.”

Chris: “Yeah.

Chase: Have you seen the movie Pig with Nicolas Cage?”

Chris: “No.”

Chase: “You’ve got to watch it. Even if you just watch this one scene, it’s like five minutes long. Nicolas Cage plays this guy who’s just kind of had enough and he stopped performing forever. Like he doesn’t care. He’s not mean or anything, just doesn’t perform. And he goes to this restaurant — he’s a famous chef and he’s exiled and stuff. And this other chef is just pretending to be a certain type of person so that his restaurant is more successful. And Nicolas Cage basically says, ‘None of this is real. You’re not real.’ Which means they’re not real. And none of this — everything’s fake. Everything here is completely fake. And you’re going to wake up every day and there’s going to be less of you and less of you until there’s nothing left that you will ever recognise again. [gasps] And it’s this massive awakening scene for this guy. And it’s beautiful. And I think when people watch it they assume, ‘Oh, I’m in the Nick Cage role here.’ And maybe sometimes in our life we are, but I think in other times we need to be kind of shaken awake and somebody grabs our little camera and changes our camera angle to look at a situation differently. I want to be woken up like that in every possible way. And I think that’s what we all need.”

And here is basically why I have never cared really much about how anyone else sees or thinks of me. Because in the first place, 99.999999% of all the people on the planet, at any one time literally don’t matter or make any difference to my life. On current global population of about 8.2 billion, , that percentage leaves about 82 people that do make a difference or matter to me. And that’s probably 50 people more than really do. After I count family, close friends, and maybe work related people I “need” in my life, and perhaps some random strangers that MIGHT affect my life because of some bureaucratic process (that I have no knowledge about anyway so how COULD I care even if I wanted to?) I estimate I’d still have at least a couple dozen people left over.

So… why bother worrying about it at all?

As for those I do care about… well… with most of them the caring is reciprocal.

If you are the kind of friend that would help me move, not just furniture, but bodies, then I will care about you that way too. And if you don’t I won’t. The only people that are SOMEWHAT (but not completely) exempt from this are my children. Even if they turn out to be real assholes, I will probably always care about them. That’s a pretty small subset of people.

AND… even if I DO care about them, it in no way means I will compromise my personal integrity for them. And if they don’t like me as I am, well, that’s fine. And if they can’t respect how I am, well, I guess there will be distance between us then. So be it.

The Second point is that I think this specific issue affects and afflicts Americans FAR MORE than it does anyone else on the planet. I was just discussing with an English friend yesterday, how different the English and Italian cultures are on some of the most basic things. And yet we both felt the Americans were of almost an entirely different species altogether, and a lot further away from either of our cultures.

It was quite a funny conversation really. Part of it is below. It had started with questions about how a man would or could know what actions or behaviour or attitudes could be right or wrong for himself.

FRIEND 2: Funnily enough, I heard about a podcast on masculinity by [REDACTED OUT OF KINDNESS] and their take was about as cringeworthy as you could guess. Being around [REDACTED]’s people has given me an uncanny [WELL KNOWN AMERICAN CONTRARIAN INTERNET PERSONALITY] feeling a couple of times.

KURGAN: I can see that… Protestant-legalism, secularisation of everything into materialistic mechanism… Americanism basically

FRIEND 2: Yes. The way they think about things (like Italian culture for example)

KURGAN: When my family first encountered Americans we called them “plastic people.” As in artificial constructs.

I’d be interested in your view on that… in what they think of it I mean (Italian culture)

FRIEND 2: Best way I can try to put it is: it’s as if they’ve read a textbook or encyclopaedia about real culture but never actually lived the real thing and so their entire interaction with it is almost completely “academic” like reading a textbook about horse-riding and thinking you understand cowboys

KURGAN: Hahahha that is an awesome description.

I find the English interaction when it crashes into Italian culture is just funny.

Sort of bowler hat wearing Englishman going “but! But! THIS IS NOT PROPER!” And the wop looking at him like “eh? What? Have a bombolone! Relax.” But then the wop meeting a Spaniard’s culture is sort of like “look, relaxed is one thing, but this is just fucking not doing shit at all!”

And no one likes the French. Or the Germans. Nothing more needs saying than that.

FRIEND 2: Ironically, Americans are English+French+Germans, so…

KURGAN: Hahhaha the worst part of them all! Brrrr… shivers

FRIEND 2: Indeed

And really, I think it’s the shared sense of humour that allows English culture to be compatible with Italian culture. The two places seem to think quite highly of one another. I’ve heard many more Italians speak positively about the English compared to praising the French or Germans

KURGAN: Oh, without a doubt.

We find the English concern with “properness” and the absurd way they are “shy” in contexts that don’t require it at all, and absolutely embarrassing in the ones that do, quite hilarious.

FRIEND 2: I have to explain to most Italians why I say “grazie” and “scusa” so habitually

KURGAN: Or that thing of calling or texting after a dinner or whatever to say thanks for the invite. We’re like… WTF?

Why are they thanking me? Are they assuming I had them over against my will and it was a chore?

If a wop doesn’t want your company he won’t ask you over. Pretty much no “social contract” will make us do that.

FRIEND 2: Ha, yeah which shows the difference in psychology and perhaps the English pessimism versus the Italian optimism.

For an Englishman the psychology of “thank you” is: “You could have been an absolute cunt in this situation. Every human has that option. You have chosen not to be an absolute cunt today. And I commend you for it. Thank you.”

KURGAN: So weird.

FRIEND 2: Eh, seems quite natural to me. Not only that, but it’s something I quite like about our culture. It’s almost like the Italians say : “we are made in the image of God.” and the English say “we are descended from Adam”. And so, for the Italians you expect the good and hit the exceptions, whereas the English expect the bad and commend the exceptions.

KURGAN: Accurate summary. You are indeed quite a misreable people. Hence the drinking! Ha!

FRIEND 2: Washed down with a nice pie and a can of beans.

Life isn’t good.

But it could be worse.

KURGAN: HAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!

His last line really does sum up the English, except for one more thing, if things are actually really good, like money coming in, sunny weather, it’s like they get almost uncomfortable. They need to try and find some problem with it all.

The point wasn’t to rag on Americans, but it really is fairly obvious to pretty much the entire rest of the world that Americans are the most atomised, and the least in touch with human aspects of life. I put it down to really one simple thing, which has, of course, endless ramifications but it really boils down to just one thing:

The abandoning of Catholicism.

Even the so-called American Catholics, even the supposedly quasi-sedevacantists, end up becoming secular in their thinking. Materialism before all.

It’s why people like Sanborn are worried about money and their position in the scheme of things (pride) instead of the good of the Church.

Every American I worked with was more concerned with margins, the bottom line, and profits than almost anything else. Only one thing was more important. Their own self-perceived idea of “status” (in their own mind) which usually just made them look like even bigger dickheads than everyone already thought they were.

The abandoning of Proper Christianity was, of course, inevitable. As my friend rightly said, the colonies were primarily composed of French (French Enlightenment anyone?) English and Germans, which were all Protestant or at least heavily Freemasonic pushed (the French in particular). The American revolution was literally pushed and financed by French money and Freemasonry. America was founded on completely Freemasonic principles, which is why their entire legal system is completely Talmudic, and their “culture” is equally extremely shallow and materialistic.

Contraception was started in the Protestant branches of “Christianity”. Which naturally leads to sex before marriage, which naturally leads to sport-fucking, which naturally leads to divorce, and then that naturally leads to murdering babies by ripping them apart limb from limb, because babies get in the way of sport-fucking. And literally every other thing follows the same mechanistic path. The Industrial Revolution, was about making human beings into replaceable cogs in a machine.

Infuriating as the Catholic “eh…I’ll do it properly, (and when I feel like it)” attitude to work, the fact is that the human aspect is alive and well still; even in ex-Catholic countries like Brazil or Italy and so on. Yes the Anglos are more efficient and effective. But at what cost in humanity?

And no one can touch a Catholic with a passion when it comes to quality. Just look at Catholic Churches compared to Protestant ones. There is a reason why not just in cars, motorbikes, fashion and even construction industry details the Italians dominate the bespoke and aesthetic market. Because Catholic reality is BEAUTIFUL. And yes, also functional and awesome and effective. Does it take more care? Sure. Longer? Sure. Harder to do? Sure. Not as scalable? Sure.

Now ask the average woman if all other things being equal she’d rather be made love to by an Italian or an American. Or who is more likely to paint a beautiful painting. Or make an awesome sculpture. Or be better able to truly enjoy a sunset, or a dinner with friends.

The point is, my American friends, not to make you feel bad.

It’s to make you see.

Profits are not the most important thing. And everyone can see the mask. Drop it. It’s ok. And above all, remember that the character you’re acting us is not real and can’t be loved nor feel loved, nor indeed give love. Because he’s an actor. He’s not real.

Drop the act. Be real.

Scary? Sure.

But you literally have NOTHING to lose.

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As is The Way with Demons, when you get “attacked” by them, fire back 100 times harder. Lets them know each fight they start will have casualties on their side.

So we now look at Judaism as it is. And anyone who says he or she is Jewish can now go ahead and try and “explain” how the plain words below don’t “aaaakkkssshuuaaallyyy” say exactly what they say.

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The Talmud permits sex with children 3 years or younger and doing is so is considered a legitimate way to acquire a “wife”.

As I know this will be labelled as “anti-semitism”, you can verify for yourself the entry in the Talmud at these archived pages 54a and 54b here: https://archive.is/2lojg where you should in particular read footnotes 24, 25 and 26, and page 55a and 55b here: https://archive.is/VWHM8 . Where on page 55b it clearly states a girl that is 3 years and a day old is assumed to be able to be acquired into “marriage” by being raped by an adult; since supposedly women are sexually mature at age 3 and a day according to the wisdom of the Talmud. These are official English translations of the Talmud Sanhedrin in Chapter VII, done by H. Freedman under the editorship of Rabbi I. Epstein.

Some screenshots below in case the archive suffers a meltdown or dies of “suddenly”.

You’ll note raping a young boy is less of an offence than bestiality with a young animal. God save the Sheep, Gerbils, Chickens, Horses and whatever else! And note the Lawyerly way in which every sentence is phrased. Because a child cannot willingly engage in sexual intercourse the rapist can’t be guilty of raping them. How Lawyerly. Much Jewish. Let us carry on to note when such “sexual maturity” is reached according to the unholy Talmud.

8 years old and under is fine to have “sex” with. i.e. rape for boys. But for girls it’s 3 years old. Because according to the Jews, a girl of 3 and a day is sexually mature and able to have sex. Hey, don’t look at me, read it. It’s THEIR religion.

Ah, the sacrament of Jewish marriage: rape a 3 year old and it’s all legit! So much so that if someone else rapes her, then they incur the penalty of adultery!

And any time one of you lying, pedophile Jews (hey, you say you have this religion, I’ll believe you and I’ll assume you know your own religion, which makes you a pedophile) and their Zionist retarded supporters try and say how I am an “anti-semite” I will bring this post and these screenshots up. Because I am not an “antisemite”. I have zero problem with Christian Palestinians, and they are semites.

You know what I am “anti” though? Completely? What I think should be completely wiped out from the face of the earth? People who say it’s ok to rape little kids.

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Read the immediately previous post and understand: idiotically ignorant comments on this post will get you permanently banned with zero warning. Read, comment intelligently and cogently and there is no problem. Try to say ANY of the things I am saying here are wrong or a lie or “not AKKKSHUALLY” how Catholicism works and you will be banned.

No, I am not wrong about anything at all in this post, and I have written a 530 page book 6 years ago that explains why, in language even a Protestant could follow, that has had ZERO refutations, and will continue to have ZERO refutations, because Catholic Canon Law is all written down, so it’s easy to find out who is right, (me and the Totalists) who is wrong, (all the “nominal” “Catholics” of the Novus Ordo, every single “Sedeprivationist”, and all the other assorted “Recognise and Resist” types like SSPX) and who is lying (Bishop Sanborn). There are also some brainwashed under each of the NOT-right categories, especially the Sanbornites, who are basically in a personality cult driven by ego and greed.

Alright then, with that little introduction of my usual genteel persuasion and overflowing charity, let us begin.

The Catholic Premises

1. The Church cannot defect or cease to exist at least until the return of Christ
2. The Magisterium of the Church is Infallible (not its Popes or anyone else) and not by virtue of anything other than the supernatural protection from error granted to us by Christ who said he would be with us until the End of Days. If you believe otherwise, you believe Jesus is a liar. And if you believe that, then you are almost certainly a Protestant. Since Protestants have no magisterium, and no rules at all beside the very same one even Demons recognise (Jesus is King) they certainly cannot claim any sort of infallibility. Only the Catholic Church’s Magisterium can claim that, as it has from the very beginning.
3. An interregnum (time between Popes) has no specified limit of duration.
4. Non-Catholics (heretics, apostates, heathens, pagans, and other never-were Catholics) are, obviously, not Catholics. Ergo, can’t be Popes, Priests, or anything else Catholic. The entire Vatican has not a single Catholic clergy in it today and we have not had a valid Pope since 9th October 1958, when the last valid one died.
5. Only the Church can elect a new Pope. The Heretics, sodomites, communists, Freemasons and satanists in the Vatican (their names are Legend), being non-Catholics and enemies of God and the Church clearly do not, cannot, and never will, have that ability. People like Bishop Sanborn who states only the “Cardinals” of a fake Church, composed of Non Catholics are the only ones who can vote in a valid Pope are irredeemable morons or intentional heretics trying to destroy the last remnant of the Church. In Sanborn’s case, either is possible. He certainly is not very smart, and he is extremely arrogant. He has already:
   1. Broken Canon Law, by blackmailing congregants with the sacraments if they didn’t accept his non-existent authority (no Pope means NO jurisdictional authority).
   2. Told people injecting themselves with genetic serums made in part by using murdered baby parts is just fine. And more.
   3. Telling people complete nonsense, literally saying one thing and seconds later the very opposite of what he has just said (see videos at the end of link in a. above.

Now, he is also saying that if any of “his” Bishops sign up to attend the efforts of Bishop Roy to have a meeting to DISCUSS the problems of the Church, he will “can them” . So as usual, it’s either do whatever this arrogant money-hungry fool says or get kicked out of his organisation.

Personally I hope the entire retinue of the RCI Sanborn controls walks out on him, but that’s unlikely because the brainwashing there is strong. Then again, God acts in mysterious ways. I have been praying for ONE Bishop with enough courage to call an Imperfect General Council, which Canonically is how you elect a new and VALID Pope in the current situation. This obvious and clear to ANYONE that understands the basic principles of Roman Law on which Canon Law is based, but the arrogant fool Sanborn is dim, and American, and he tries to “interpret” Canon Law as if it was an American legal document, and American legalism is completely Talmudic in nature and has absolutely nothing to do with Justice, Law, or even logic. But that’s what we have, a guy who think Genetic Serums are “Vaccines” raised on TV shows like Matlock, thinking he is the AUTORATHA! On Canon Law he can’t even grasp the basics of.

And people, all around the Sedevacantist and Catholic world are finally starting to see this fraud of a Bishop exactly for what he is. And if you read the links above, you’ll see I kept my peace for years on it. But no more. This idiot is now straying deeply into heresy, and as a Catholic it is my absolute duty to call him and his nonsense out. I did it privately years ago. I offered to humbly apologise if he simply reversed his errors. Instead he has delved deeper and deeper into error and now, ultimately, heresy.

Because his nonsensical position is that a Satanist can just apologise and become a Catholic Priest, Bishop, or Pope. And he has also stated he would accept a position as “Cardinal” in the fake Church if it was offered. In other words, he is absolutely, a wolf in idiot’s clothing (I don’t want to be rude to sheep, they might be dim, but not at fault for it, unlike Sanborn).

“Oh, oh… but G! You’re going in a bit strong on a (GASP!) BISHOP!” Say the scandalised effeminates.

No. I am not. Back in the day when I could have, I would have kicked that fool out of his own buildings for heresy. Admittedly I would be a while, what with having to clean out the Vatican first, and hunting down all the heretics pretending to be Catholic clergy, but as Pope Paul IV stated absolutely clearly:

that all such individuals also shall be held, treated and reputed as such by everyone, of whatsoever status, grade, order, condition or pre-eminence he may be and whatsoever excellence may be his, even Episcopal, Archiepiscopal, Patriarchal and Primatial or other greater Ecclesiastical dignity and even the honour of the Cardinalate, or secular, even the authority of Count, Baron, Marquis, Duke, King or Emperor, and as such must be avoided and must be deprived of the sympathy of all natural kindess.

What Sanborn is saying is heretical nonsense. And it’s time for mealy-mouthed cowards to get out of the way. The Church was nearly destroyed precisely because snakes in the grass like Sanborn were allowed to spout their “conciliar” bullshit. So let there be no doubt of where I stand. And you pick a side too. Because there are no fences on this.

In the meantime, I have tried to find just how many real, valid Bishops there are in the world, and while I have attempted this before, it seems I may have missed a few.

Now, you can go see how many Bishops and Clergy and Religious (that’s sort of like monks, not random laymen) have agreed in principle to merely DISCUSS the problems, not actually have an imperfect General Council, and Sanborn is already panicking. The lay Catholics that have signed the open letter now number over 2,300. That’s a far larger number than anyone would have suspected a few months ago. And I am certain that for everyone that signed on there are friends, family and relatives that would also go along with it.

So it’s a real movement. Spread it.

The Arian heresy had 99% of Bishops converted to heresy. We are not even that badly off. The total number of properly Sedevacantist Bishops in the world is probably around 20, and that means a majority are already on board. Bishop Roy appears to be rather open to having more or less even clearly non Sede Bishops like maybe the SSPX and so on attend, which is, of course, a charitable and wise way of doing things, but I hope that certainly all the Proper Sedevacantist Bishops do sign on. And if the Sanbornites want to keep playing at their little heretical game, let them do so. They are not needed, and for my count, not even wanted. Let’s start with a clean church free of pollution this time.

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