[AbeKrieger]

Wow, even the French threw him overboard. No harbor for this sinking ship, I hope.

[TChris]

He added: "One can understand the emotion that this belated arrest, more than 30 years after the incident, and the method of the arrest, have caused."

Care to think on the "emotion" caused by the "method" of the CRIME!?

[frogjerk]

Maybe they actually read what he plead guilty to.

[Marie2]

Glad to see the French government can be shamed into something. What an appalling display of indifference to evil this whole episode has made.

[Marie2]

“”One can understand the emotion that this belated arrest, more than 30 years after the incident, and the method of the arrest, have caused.”

No, one can’t.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

A public service ad on the radio today asked, “If you don’t talk to your children about sex, who will?” All I could think of was “Roman Polanski.”

[frogjerk]

Whoopi is going to be pissed because it wasn’t “rape rape”!

[cripplecreek]

The idiots were so quick to oppose America that they didn’t stop to think about what they oppose. Given a few days to take a look at it and they apparently decided they didn’t need the PR.

[Integrityrocks]

I know its been said before, but it’s worth repeating. If Polinski’s name started with “Fr.”, all these hollywood sympathizers would be screaming for blood.

[VOA]

Sounds like Sarkozy and Co. understand Iran and Polanski MUCH better
than the current President of the USA.

How sad.

[Heavyrunner]

Ironically, the arrest would not have been belated if Frech extradition law had turned him over in 1978.

[slackerjack]

I don’t understand, don’t they watch “The View” over there? Whoopi Goldberg said it wasn’t “rape, rape” and that the case should be dropped. She should know all about dropping, Whoopi, the legal eagle dropped out of high school when she was 14.

[Nikas777]

The original California DA screwed up the case by grandstanding (celebrity trial is seen as a ticket to the big leagues even 30 years ago) and this gave Polanski the excuse and sympathy and support from abroad when he fled.

I am not supporting Polanski just stating that this perception of what the original DA did at that time is what allowed him to have avoided extradition all this time.

[The Louiswu]

"One can understand the emotion that this belated arrest, more than 30 years after the incident, and the method of the arrest, have caused."

Stuff that! Think about the pain and humiliation that (then) little girl must have felt at the hands of that creep, consider her for just a moment!!!

Stuff the rapist, he deserves to be in jail.

[eleni121]

Bravo! His film awards should be taken away too.

[supremedoctrine]

I had a feeling France would come around, eventually, to whatever degree they could. This Polanski case has really been polarizing, with more and more willing to let all those in the Entertainment Industry look like the jerks in this, and not willing to join them.

[Reagan Man]

Since the French threw Polanski under the bus, its “french frys” again.

[P-Marlowe]

Why did they grant him (a convicted felon and convicted child rapist) citizenship in their country if they aren't going to go to bat for him now?

Maybe someone in the French Government actually read the transcript where Polanski said he didn't think there was anything wrong with having sex with a 13 year old and that it is every man's fantasy to "do it with" young girls (only he didn't use the words "do it").

[GeronL]

Under the bus.

Only the far left in this country supports child molesters, Michael Jackson??

[cvq3842]

Interesting how the left is defending this guy. Probably the same people who act as if every Catholic priest is a dangerous pedophile.