by Vincent R. Caravan

If a mature gentlemen (no respect intended) violates a 13-year-old girl, then skips the country for three decades to avoid a court trial, should the passage of time make the crime less serious?

Returning to the United States from sanctuaries in France and Switzerland, skillful film director Roman Polanski now has the American public divided. Is he still guilty or should he be exonerated and allowed to return a free man?

Movie stars, would-be-movie stars, and used-to-be-movie stars all would like Mr. Polanski to return and put his talent to work again. Some liberal fans share that sentiment, as well.

People who believe a crime does not fade away with time, if the person who committed it still is alive, would want Mr. Polanski arrested and made to stand trial.

Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), was unsympathetic to Polanski’s plight. “He’s a criminal,” she said. “He is a convicted criminal pedophile.”

She continues with her scorching discourse, “How dare Roman Polanski think he could get away with this? I believe he has banked on men—powerful decision makers—who are more intent in protecting rapists than children. This is the world Polanski is expecting. It’s outrageous.”

I wonder how Terry and her NOW comrades feel about the 11th anniversary celebration of the premier of the play, “The Vagina Monologues.” Some of the celebrants were ultra-feminists Jane Fonda, Oprah Winfrey, Susan Sarandon, Glenn Close and Winona Ryder—or as the phrase goes, “the usual suspects.”

Beverly LaHaye, founder of Concerned Women for America (CWA), says, “This performance includes a scene in which a 13-year-old girl becomes intoxicated by a 24-year-old woman and sexually assaulted.”

“One scene in the script about the rape scene," added Ms. LaHaye, “has the 13-year-old proclaiming her very explicit lesbian experience as a ‘good rape’.”

Ms. LaHaye is appealing to men and women in New York State and across the country to help keep filth that passes for art from being funded by public money. I wish her luck.