John: Thus far, the media is treating Polanski with way too much defference for my taste. It will be interesting to see how this is covered over the next few days. As I said on another thread, the elite media has a penchant for treating the behavior of such "artistes" as if what most reasonable people consider criminal is simply an "alternative" lifestyle.

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."

—Margaret Thatcher

The liberal left worships any sex act, regardless of whom it is perpetrated on. We have a president, lying under oath, and their excuse is 'it's just sex'. We have a senator running a prostitution ring out of his basement and nobody cares. We have countless 'affairs' and most look the other way because its sexual behavior. We have a major push to legitamize homosex and push it as 'mainstream'. We have companies trying to get more homosex in corporations (www.boycottpepsico.c...). So why is this any different?

Some folks out there wondering if the Polanski arrest is part of a deal with the US, –we'll give you Polanski if you back off our banks. With the Swiss it's all about money and you know they would do it.

Maybe he should be the new Safe-Sex czar...

and as I understand it, the woman, who was then a girl, did not want him prosecuted then and does not want him prosecuted now.

Has he raped again?

I don't get the facination? The only thing he is known for other than this topic, was his his marriage to Sharon Tate who died at the hands of Charlie Manson's crew.

Let this scum bucket stay in Europe and let the taxpayers of California have some relief.

The Left also has difficulty seeing a sex act as abberant. That's part of why they're so okay with Planned Parenthood's routine coverups of statutory rape, and why they're not outraged that ACORN was coaching a pimp on how to import teenage sex slaves. To them, sex is just another bodily function, and to point out that what Polanski did is rape makes no more sense to them than saying that somebody made Michael Moore eat a donut. They just don't get it.

(Although, strangely enough, "sexual harassment" is real to them. Somehow it's a greater crime to tell a woman her hair looks nice than it is to drug and sodomize a teenager.)

he fled after pleading guilty. I do not believe there is a statue of limitiations on jumping bail.

You want to know what I think? I think if it were any other famous Hollywood director, say a Steven Spielberg or a Martin Scorsese or a Brian DePalma, I would say, "lock  em up and throw away the key." Roman Polanski, however, is a rather curious matter because of many bizarre factors involving his case:

Step 1.)  I've concluded that Polanski was mentally unstable at the time he committed the deed of child rape, an instability that was triggered by the domino effect of Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins brutally murdering his pregnant wife Sharon Tate (I don't want to get into this unborn baby being murdered business because this is a different argument.) Oddly enough, the timing of his arrest seems too convenient, as that Manson follower Atkins died in prison just two-to-three days before the arrest. Call me a tinfoil-hat wearer, but I smell a conspiracy here.

Step 2.) I know a little more about this judge that had a personal vendetta against Polanski than you think. That's because my father was sentenced to three years in prison by this same judge once on the count of attempted armed robbery (meaning he never harmed anyone, which is definitely a good thing, but he still did time in his youth in state prison.) I think that was a little excessive if I do say so myself. Apparently, this judge decided to renege on Polanski's prior plea agreements and that's what caused Polanski to flee the country even after doing 42 days in prison.

3.) This seems to be another symptom of that stupid Jessica's Law that was passed by 70% of the moronic public in California (I was part of the 30% of smart people that saw through the loopholes and headaches and bankruptcy this law was going to incur on us in California.) I find it abhorrent to waste the tax payer's time and dime on non-issues like so-called child predators and sex offenders because there is no evidence that a widespread predator epidemic exists.  There is plenty of evidence, however, that these laws are actually endangering our kids in ways the writers of these laws didn't have the precognition to sense. Even children who engage in that stupid sexting craze are eligible to be prosecuted as child pornographers and registered as sex-offenders with those shoddy ankle bracelets that are bankrupting California. We can't afford it because it doesn't exist.

So as far as I'm concerned, since Polanski did 42 days of time, pleaded guilty on one of the charges, and that his victim is willing to forgive him, the worst I think he should suffer is a massive fine and pawning his directing Oscar in order to pay for that fine. But that's just me.