Hypocrisy is common. But Switzerland is a special case

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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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3 - Another thing. You may not understand this, but, to me, murder is worse than rape, and systematic murder for gain infinitely worse even than the rape of a minor. The Swiss filth have legalized euthanasia and now their clinics carry out a brisk business murdering sick or depressed persons who have been convinced by rapacious relatives or criminal therapists that their life is no longer of any use to anyone. You may think this tolerable; I regard it as beneath vileness, and find it wholly appropriate that these preyers on human flesh should have sold Polanski to the Americans for another show trial. And this does not even tackle the matter of their banking business, which, as an Italian citizen, I have every reason to regard as an international plague.