Polanski is now a free man

Good morning.
I saw this on the Miami Herald site this morning.

Check out Amazon. I copied my review of merlin's Charge over there.

Thank you - it looks smashing!

Hmmmmmm

I think he's a great director whose personal life is fairly bizarre. I'm not a big Woody Allen fan as far as his personal life goes, but he, too, is a terrific writer and director. If people knew more about the "classical" heroes in music and art, they'd be surprised to find how little history cares about the personal lives of creative people.

Woody Allen is a super creep, too!

Yeah, and Wagner was a super creep too, and Handel. But I still listen to their music.

Berlioz was an opium fiend and a psychotic stalker which produced one of my all time favorite pieces of music.

I loved Chinatown and The Pianist. Sometimes nasty people are capable of creating great pieces of art.

Sorry but when one of our felons commits a crime and then flees, we have a right to aprehend that person. When he alledgedly set foot in the American embassy, that was as if he was on American soil, which makes him fair game. He should at least come back to the states, do the sentence and then be able to leave the country if he chooses.

If he sets foot on American soil, he's still busted, I bet. But he's now free to go to many other places where he won't be bothered, now.

Well, this is a hard one. He had been charged and had escaped his court date, making him a fugitive, so, I am not really sure if there should have been statutes on this or not. I say, stay out of the USA for sure tho, because I am sure he would end up getting what he has coming. Who knows, maybe it is tooo late...33 years.....to try and rehabilitate him, huh? A tough call, but I think the victim should sue him like all the churches are getting sued by the victims there. At that point, maybe the USA will have more sway when they go after his assets and bank accounts. I guess I would have to say that the sytem failed here. We all know he is a rapist scum tho. Maybe someday he will say he is sorry. I doubt it tho.

If he hasn't at least said "sorry" from afar to the poor girl then he's super dooper stinky scum!

Apparently there are more victims out there. Another woman (French I think) has said he had sex with her when she was 15 or 16 too.

Great director, lots of sadness in his personal life. However, that does NOT excuse his behaviour or his visciously attacking a child, I don't care how long ago it was!

the victim stated many months ago that she just wants this to go away - she's tired of re-living it.
I think that's important...
I wonder, if Polanski goes to a country that might extradite him, if it'll start all over again.

What do I think? Had there been no trial, I would say I don't know. Since he's a convicted felon, he deserves what he deserves. Did someone drop the legal ball?

From what I heard this child was not his only victim. His behavior indicates to me that he is a predator. He set it up so she would be alone with him, he gave her alcohol and the rape was not vaginal. To do this to a young girl is obscene beyond words.

Just because he has managed to elude the American authorities for all these years does not mean it should go away, nor does it mean he didn't continue doing things like this. No matter how talented he is or how much the entertainment community supports his work, he ran.

Although his victim is now grown and doesn't want to go through it, the point is, he is still a wanted criminal.

It is amazing to me that Bernie Madoff did what he did, and destroyed people's lives financially and no one wants to give him a "free" pass because he is an old man. He may be one of the most hated men of our time, and justifiably so. Yet when it comes to Roman Polanski who stole a young girls innocence, something that can never be returned, some people say, "let it go"... Though Bernie had more victims maybe...both men as far as I know have never shown any remorse at their actions, and they did reprehensible things.... and yet so many will say leave Roman Polanski alone.... I doubt they will ever say that about Bernie Madoff...

He is a predator and it's too bad he isn't serving his time.

He was convicted in the states then they dropped the ball. Heck they let murderers go free on technicalities.

Should he be returned - well, I guess Switzerland doesn't think so. I do, because he is a predator and he will not change.

This isn't the first a celeb or rich individual has gotten away with rape and it won't be the last.

Just another injustice in this world. though I don't think I will ever buy anything made in Switzerland for awhile.