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Hypocrisy is common. But Switzerland is a special case
I never did like the land of banks and... banks; tell me whether I have no reason. Everyone knows that Roman Polanski's conviction for child sex in 1978 was a scandal, arranged by a publicity-hungry, corrupt judge who connived with the prosecution in defiance of all law. Not that Polanski was an angel, but even prosecution lawyers have since admitted that the trial was what Bob Dylan would have called a "pig-circus", and that a much more lenient sentence would have been just. So when Polanski fled to France, the US authorities did not make any real effort to have him extradited. Everyone concerned with the trial was ashamed. Now, thirty-one years after the show-trial, the Swiss authorities, for reasons best known to themselves, have entrapped Polanski into visiting Switzerland for a cinema festival and arrested him on the 31-year-old warrant. I am no fan of men who have sex with minors, but this stinks. The Swiss would do better to arrest their own villains, like the filth who murders for hire in the so-called Dignity clinic. And let's not even get on their banking business.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/pivotal-player-in-polansk_n_305772.html
that a much more lenient sentence would have been just
More lenient than what? He wasn't sentenced. The only 'sentence' around is 90 days, which I think was actually a pre-sentencing psychological evaluation... and you think 90 days is sufficent punishment for sleeping with a 13 year old? Not to mention drugging and raping someone? What's appropriate for rape, a week? A fine?
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He confessed to a crime, then fled the country before sentencing. There's nothing unusual about long term flight notices and catching fugitives decades later. Why shouldn't he serve time for his crime -- and the additional crime of flight? The LA authorities finally got in sync with Polanski's movements, asked the Swiss to pick him up for extradition, and they did so. The only special treatment is that someone who wasn't a famous filmmaker probably wouldn't have been allowed to leave the country after raping a 13 year old girl.
Nice to see that "national honor" trumps justice.
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I will also remind you that you are a guest on this blog. You will not convince me to join the lynch mob, and the longer you go on trying, the closer you get to being seriously offensive. I suggest you stop before you try my patience too far. For your information, I have just had some truly appalling news, and I am in no mood to put with this on top of the crap in my private life.
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