This Roman Polanski Thing is Going to Go On Forever
Forget pollution, debt, war and all the other miserable legacies passed from American generation to generation. My children's children will be blogging about Roman Polanski's legal team stonewalling the director's extradition. I'm serious! How else are we supposed to take the latest news reports from L.A. and Switzerland?
Team Polanski isn't even pretending anymore. Its new statement Wednesday explained that, "If, after a fair hearing in Switzerland at which the entire record of this case is truthfully presented, the Swiss determine that extradition is justified, Mr. Polanski will of course comply with a lawful extradition order and return to California to litigate the issues of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct and be finally sentenced under the law." Oh. Ah. "Of course." This came after another hearing in which an L.A. judge declined to unseal that Super Secret OMG Bombshell Prosecutor Testimony that will confirm said misconduct once and for all.
So to recap: An outraged Polanski has vowed to fight on, and his lawyers are essentially pledging he'll be taken to California over their dead bodies. Well, yes -- because it's going to go on forever. Will you just get on the goddamned plane, Roman? Or can we drop it? No one cares either way at this point, just do something. The world doesn't need Bernard Henri-Levy Jr. running editorials from Polanski's kids about how even their father's corpse will kick and scream all the way back to the West Coast. It doesn't need Zombie Polanski grunting variations on "I can remain silent no longer!" while noshing on organic brains in his cushy Gstaad chalet. You just know this will happen before he is ever sentenced, and it's no legacy we want, people. Who will fix this?
· Polanski Legal Team Says He Will Continue Court Fight [NYT]
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Punchline is that he'd be through it and could enjoy his life if he had faced it head-on -- now instead he has sentenced himself to a lifetime of grief. Thanks to his own choice this will haunt his every moment until his dying day.
He should have just made a deal, did 6 months and then put it behind him.
Who wrote this crap. Its a lot of gibberish. This writer must be high on something. What he wrote doesnt make any sence and is all garbled nonsence. Dont give up your day job.
I know, right?
I mean, coming from someone who's an authority on the subject. The subject being ''sence '' of course and that someone being you.
Just to be clear!
Yeah, I'm high. I'm high on another 16-hour day punctuated by a fucking illiterate like you. Off you go, back to The Huffington Post.
He is a pedophile!This behavior involves a brain dysfunction and is not treatable!If it had been your daughter under the same circumstance how would you feel about it?They are trying to get him off on a technicality,not even denying what he did and now someone else has come forward.Why do rich people get baby sitters to keep them out of trouble and in spite of his handlers he still repeated his behavior.