1 - Polanski did not flee the charge of rape. Polanski fled when it became clear that the deal that had been reached with the authorities - a deal that was wholly legal within American justice - was going to be broken, and that he was going to be fed to the sharks for reasons best known to a corrupt and lying judge. This is known to everyone who looked at the case.
2 - The comparison between Switzerland and a corrupt cop fails a very, very important test. You are talking as though a European nation were a paid functionary of America. Switzerland is not a functionary; it is a sovereign country, a collectivity, a nation. As a nation, Switzerland, like France, had long given Polanski shelter, in the full knowledge of the facts. To betray him - and betray him in such a shoddy manner - is an ugly stain on national honour. But it is one I would expect from the most corrupt country in Europe.
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Date: 2009-09-30 09:07 pm (UTC)2 - The comparison between Switzerland and a corrupt cop fails a very, very important test. You are talking as though a European nation were a paid functionary of America. Switzerland is not a functionary; it is a sovereign country, a collectivity, a nation. As a nation, Switzerland, like France, had long given Polanski shelter, in the full knowledge of the facts. To betray him - and betray him in such a shoddy manner - is an ugly stain on national honour. But it is one I would expect from the most corrupt country in Europe.