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Polanski free, Swiss reject US extradition request
AP via Breitbart ^ | 7/12/10 | Bradley Klapper and Frank Jordans

Posted on 07/12/2010 5:49:41 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

BERN, Switzerland (AP) - The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss mostly blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony about Polanski's sentencing procedure in 1977-1978.

The Justice Ministry also said that national interests were taken into consideration in the stunning decision.

"The 76-year-old French-Polish film director Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the USA," the ministry said in a statement. "The freedom-restricting measures against him have been revoked."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; hollyweird; judicialactivism; polanski; raperape; robertwolf; switzerland; ubs
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To: Haiku Guy
BERN, Switzerland (AP) - The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with brutally raping a 13-year-old girl.

There. Fixed it.

21 posted on 07/12/2010 6:26:47 AM PDT by Hoodat (.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: mick

The funny thing is that the Swiss really think they saved face on the UBS deal by freeing Polanski. Typical idiot socialist Nazi collaborators.


22 posted on 07/12/2010 6:27:04 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: pnh102

Do you know where you are posting? Stop making sense right now!


23 posted on 07/12/2010 6:29:19 AM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: Haiku Guy

Just send a hit team in and cause him to have a fatal “accident”...


24 posted on 07/12/2010 6:34:19 AM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Haiku Guy
The Swiss won't extradite a convicted pedophile convicted of drugging and raping a 13 y/o girl? Even for Switz., that's disgusting.

But was it "rape rape"?

25 posted on 07/12/2010 7:08:58 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

You forgot Rolex but I have no plans to avoid Swiss stuff for the moment.


26 posted on 07/12/2010 7:29:24 AM PDT by xp38
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To: jimbo123; All

Yes, let us not ignore the reference that US authorities did not provide sufficient information to Swiss courts. US should have re-indicted RP for interstate flight to avoid prosecution, “escape” for failure to appear at sentencing hearing, etc. The Feds have sat on this case for years, not really pushing it. Now it is a “selective” non-prosecution case (ala Black Panthers voter intimidation) led by Holder and Obama who are tying to keep the good relations with Hollywood, Woody Allen-types, etc.

Sickening


27 posted on 07/12/2010 7:36:45 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Haiku Guy

Wasn’t it just yesterday the Bammy administration was telling us that the world loved us now because Bammy is just a warm and lovable fuzzball?


28 posted on 07/12/2010 8:20:30 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Unemployment has DOUBLED since the Democrats took control of congress)
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To: Haiku Guy

I have given up on the Feminists and the “Minorities”...its all about ‘gimme’ but they are the only ones that are the victims: upper middle class white females and of course, ANY Black or Latino,


29 posted on 07/12/2010 10:25:11 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok, joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

I am already boycotting the banks which decided to violate Swiss law by caving to US government’s extortionate demands for legally protected bank records (you knew it was coming, BP).

I have also placed Switzerland on my “do not travel” list, next to France. I think the population will understand as polls show they are generally sympathetic to US concerns about child rapists. Unfortunately the Swiss and Franch leadership do not appear to see the problem.


30 posted on 07/12/2010 10:48:53 AM PDT by KingofZion
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To: muawiyah

this is racism straight up.


31 posted on 07/12/2010 10:52:28 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.)
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To: KingofZion

All of the libs who are boycotting Arizona need to be asked if they will boycott Switzerland after this decision. Of course, their answer will be no. And that will expose them as being supporters of both illegal aliens as well as rapists of children. They must be dancing in the streets of Hollywood tonight.


32 posted on 07/12/2010 10:23:38 PM PDT by billclintonwillrotinhell
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