Polanski in Swiss jail until at least Friday

He deserve to get JUSTICE, his mother was removed and killed in a concentration camp, lets call it Death Camp. His wife and unborn child were also killed horribly! He deserved compassion a long time ago beginning with the sadistic Nazi and their inhumane ways and we all know that he suffered, as a child. If only humans had been more compassionate to his plight? As for the teen he took advantage of, she also needs to be compassated some more. The point here is that using unfairness and inhumane methods by the Nazi has caused all kinds of problems to the present and hell to the past. It is time to be more compassionate and less judgemental to the ones that have suffered unecessarily. One act of sadism (in fascism) leads to another and we all pay.

loving-1439973, have you lost your mind? This convicted pedophile ran away to avoid a sentence to a crime that he agreed with. You can thank the President of France the acceptance of child rape while plying drugs for criminal purposes in that wonderfully open country for his house arrest. Expect Polanski to magically appear in France to eliminate any chance of extradition so he can face justice in a California court.

It is outrageous that this man has avoided extradition for so many years, there is certainly something terribly wrong with the international justice system.

And have you lost your heart? Your argument can be used about the Nazi criminals that get on TV with their mahogany furniture and flowers and tell us "they got away with it", they were responsible for torture, for using skin of victims for lamp shades and other unbelievable uses. The Nazi did horrors of torture and then death, that it is difficult to ever understand, and remember; to children! They did it, and now they sit back and if ever criticized they tell us we are hateful....the hate is with them and they set the pattern and now it seems acceptable. As for Africa, it has been exploited since the beginning of time....on and on and on.

DePaul....at age 3.5 I had a Nazi hold a gun to my head, ready to send me to a Death Camp but help came hours latter, from that day on I was basically without country and all that entails. Repeat Death Camp and it wasnt just death, it was torture beforehand. Some of the ones involved in this horror are still alive and free and are not judged as you have done to me. But worse, their ideas of grand immorality are still propagated and by the way Germany and Japan are now countries that we still have to reckon with, they are the 2nd and 3rd more powerful economic powers in the world. The bigger question than Polanski crime who did go through hell and back during the Holocaust and we should naturally have some sympathy for him, the question is have these two cultures changed in their primary idea that it is ok to gather people they feel are supposedly inferior and deserve to be eliminated. That is the primary question; have these two cultures changed or will they still be a problem for all of us to gain a caring world.

loving-1339973, I am truly sorry for the trauma you have suffered in your past but what do Nazi's and the Nazi Europe nightmare have to do with Roman Polanski facing sentencing before a California Court for sex crimes he committed against a minor?

The horrors that we as humans inflict upon one another is a good subject to discuss but not on this thread. Try writing and posting an article addressing your concerns, I would enjoy reading your views on this subject.

Lilith41

I've read a lot of the things you've written, and we don't always see things the same way. In this case though I believe we are seeing what is occuring nearly identically.

(by the way I've seen people who failed to appear for a speeding ticket with a maximum fine of $150 ordered $500 bail for a failure to appear, so ordering him held without bail would nto have seen unreasonable to me, but I won't even pretend to know the laws over there)