coz birdy is bored TLC is birdimized tonight...

 Ouh!  That sounds like something bad

Roman Polanski  was detained 

Mr Polanski, 76, was detained in Zurich on Saturday as he travelled from France to collect a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival.

He is being held under a 2005 international alert issued by the US.

Mr Polanski has been to Switzerland before, but this time US authorities apparently knew of his trip in advance.

That gave them time to prepare the groundwork for his arrest and send a provisional arrest warrant to Swiss authorities, judicial officials said.

A Swiss spokesman said the US would now have to make a formal extradition request.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8277886.stm

The strange thing is France is defending him at highest level!!!!I wonder if he will be extradited..

You know what gets my goats about it? Were he a regular John Dąbrowski, he´d have been imprisoned 31 years ago. Since he´s Mr Important Director he spends these 30 years going to film ceremonies, making movies and living his life to the full. For f****´s sake! He had sex with a 13 year old girl. He should be punished for that. Watching Polish tv news and debates (sic! there are numerous debates about whether Switzerland should have arrested him) one may get the impression that it´s an innocent man that the Evil States of America decided to persecute. They say that the girl, well...now a woman...has forgiven him and doesn´t want to press charges, they say that it happened 31 years ago so it should be forgotten, that Polanski had a tough life (spent the WWII in the ghetto and his wife, Sharon Tate got murdered by the Manson´s gang) or that he´s not a regular Dąbrowski but an artist and they have a different sensitivity. Finally, that the girl wasn´t raped because she consented to it.

I can´t believe my ears. The girl´s consent had nothing to do, she was underage and thus it was a rape. She may not hold a grudge agains him but still, it´s a prosecuted crime! Polanski´s tough life is no excuse for what he did and his being an artist is even less important - Hitler was a painter, right? Yet somehow we don´t try to justify him.

My opinion is that he should be handed over to the US judicial system, tried and sentenced not only for the rape but also for escaping the States 31 years ago (he was arrested and then they gave him 3 months or weeks to finish shooting his film. He used this opportunity to flee the country)

I don´t know Daydreamer. I am not sure about the way most countries are run today. With leaders like Berlusconi, Sarkozy or Mitterand in power such news do not sound abnormal at all.

A while ago a similar incident happened in Turkey that linked a well-known Islamist columnist with the molesting of a young girl. There was a huge support behind the guy. Luckily, the guy is now in jail now.

That speaks really well about the Turkish Court. I hope it´ll be the same with Polanski.

It is horrible that although all people are equal, some still are more equal than the others

 I have just two words to say: MICHAEL JACKSON...

Well, it is a tad different, Michael Jackson never admitted that he´d molested these kids. With Polanski the matter is not whether he´s guilty or not but whether he should be sentenced for that

 I agree with you about Polanski, but am also slightly bemused by the way that people very quickly forgot that there was overwhelming evidence of child abuse linked to Jackson, who had paid off the kid´s parents with millions, has attorneys CONVINCED of his guilt ....but hey?...he was a legend right?  Grrrrrrrrrr!

That´s true...oh well, Orwell´s truth still holds

I must say that I completely agree with you..

A rapist is a rapist and he is worse I guess because of the girl´s age..

If you can bare, read the girl´s testimony:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion..t-polanski-did-1794717.html