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Updating my earlier post.

Can you believe this?

In Paris, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he hoped Polanski could be quickly freed by the Swiss, calling the apprehension a “bit sinister.” He also told France-Inter radio that he and his Polish counterpart Radek Sikorski wrote to Clinton, and said there could be a decision as early as Monday if a Swiss court accepts bail.

Polanski was “thrown to the lions,” said French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand. “In the same way that there is a generous America that we like, there is also a scary America that has just shown its face.”

Again: this criminal drugged and anally raped a 13 year old girl, then fled the country to avoid jail time. He's been hiding in France and Europe since 1978, and some people (many people, mostly 'artists') think he's been punished enough...

Polanski has already “atoned for the sins of his young years,” Jacek Bromski, head of the Polish Filmmakers Association, told The AP. “He has paid for it by not being able to enter the U.S. and in his professional life he has paid for it by not being able to make films in Hollywood.”

Uggggh. If this is settled, and he can start making films in Hollyweird, then maybe I should rethink my position. A lifetime of exile from the United States might be fitting, since that is considered 'punishment' by these effete 'elites'.

Let him rot in France for the rest of his life. They've obviously earned him.

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