Polanski
Polanski
Out of context: Reply #41
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I think its easy to allow the fact that he's been on the run from US justice for 30 years to feel like he's been a free man for 30 years and therefore somehow less culpable than if he had been arrested back when the warrant for his arrest was issued.
It isn't the case that he's been allowed to roam free without punishment and now, for reasons unknown, someone has decided to bring him down, possibly for other political reasons. Its simply that he was rich enough to flee justice, and smart enough to studiously avoid entering any territory that was within reach of US law for 30 years. Now he's fucked up by going to Switzerland to receive his lifetime achievement award. Ego got the better of him no doubt.
- he just didn't expect the swiss to arrest him, he visited S. before. Don't think it's an ego thing.jimbojones