The "Rape" of Dakota Fanning
Part Two of a Multi-Part Series

by Paul Petersen
President & Founder, AMC

Hollywood…indeed the whole of the entertainment business…would like you to believe that they operate outside the boundaries of the Laws written for mere mortals. The evermore degrading images and content of entertainment "product" our culture, particularly our children, are subjected to is the proof of Hollywood's moral decline.

And now they're doing it to children…literally paying off naïve and inexperienced parents to accept the questionable employment of their children in projects that for the rest of us would result in criminal prosecution.

Dakota Fanning is the latest young actress asked to portray the victim of a sexual assault, but this time around, the rape is filmed graphically and features the fully naked 12 year-old being attacked.

There is no authority on earth, nor any relationship nor connection short of slavery, that permits an adult to offer up their child for such purposes. There is no intrinsic artistic "right" that allows an adult to employ a minor-aged child in the depiction of a sexual act, let alone a violent and depraved sexual act. "Informed Consent" does not extend to a Minor who cannot enter into contracts, cannot purchase property, cannot authorize medical treatment, and cannot even drive to participate in such a commercial enterprise featuring nudity and simulated sexual activity.

Where has this generation of filmmakers come from that thinks it's perfectly legitimate to pursue projects that require the employment of children to act out their questionable artistic pretensions?

Does the name Leni Riefenstahl ring a bell? If you don't know the name of Hitler's propagandist, let's try Frank Capra in his use of the same movie-making tools in his "Why We Fight" series assembled on behalf of the United States government during World War II. What do these two master propagandists have in common?

Both used the overt manipulation of the powerful tools of film making in the service of an agenda.

There was a time, and not so long ago, when a Stanley Kubric could film "Lolita" (1962), and through the use of subtle implication and orchestrated imagery tell even a controversial story of manifest pedophilia penned by Vladimir Nobokov (whose novel was literally banned from sale in America) and employ an actress under the age of consent (Sue Lyon) without asking her to take her clothes off or be seen "doing the deed" with a man in his 50's. Even so, the America of the early 1960's was scandalized by this movie…and the instant notoriety visited on the living, breathing 15 year-old girl-child named Sue Lyon was anything but positive.

The 1997 version of "Lolita" featuring Dominique Swain in the title role as filmed by Adrian Lyne, was shamelessly devoid of such subtlety and bluntly showed then sixteen year-old Dominique between the sheets with Jeremy Irons…a criminal act even if the sex was simulated…but not in Europe and North Carolina where this "Lolita" was filmed.

5,000 actresses younger than the age of consent auditioned for the '97 adaptation of "Lolita," driven to the sacrificial alter of Fame at any Cost by their parents who, like rabbits on a nighttime highway, were blinded by the bright lights of Hollywood.

To be Continued….