Hypocrisy is common. But Switzerland is a special case

[fpb]

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.

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No, you are not willing to listen. And every word you use convinces me more and more that your idea of justice has more in common with lynch law than with the rule of law.

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.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about that. Good luck.