France’s Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing intense pressure over a book he wrote that described paying for “young boys” in Thailand.
The book was written four years ago, before he joined the government, but is back in the headlines following his impassioned support for Roman Polanski.
Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on child sex charges.
Mr Mitterrand, nephew of late President Francois Mitterrand, is expected to defend himself on TV later on Thursday.
Mr Mitterrand has come under attack from right and left.
In his 2005 book The Bad Life, he wrote: “I got into the habit of paying for boys,” saying his attraction to young male prostitutes was not dimmed despite knowing “the sordid details of this traffic”.
“All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously… the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire.”
With people like Mitterrand high up in French government, its small wonder that a child molester like Polanski could be protected for decades.
But there is a larger issue, here: the complete break down of morality in elite circles has led to this sort of depravity. How many more are there like Mitterrand high up in government and corporations? Men who fly to poor nations and purchase boys and girls for sexual gratification? How can we have a moral society if the people who run it are grossly immoral, or even just willing to turn a blind eye to such abominations?
Hiding under the absurd “right to privacy”, protected by the cultural imperative to not be “judgmental” and ensconced in a world of wealth and privilege, we’re seeing the complete collapse of basic, human decency on a grand scale. Some one like Mitterrand would be lucky to escape with his skin a mere 50 years go – now, he might be forced out of government, but he won’t be forced out of the good life…and there could be rehabilitation for him, at some point…as long as he doesn’t offend the cultural elites, they’ll find it in their hearts to forgive…after all, to someone like Mitterrand (or Polanski), what is one, little boy, more or less? Its not like it was “rape-rape”, ya know?
We have to start insisting upon basic decency, again – no man or woman who breaks core, Judeo-Christian principles should be allowed power and privilege in our society. Its either that, or see this just get worse and worse.
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