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if the actual issue at play in this thread keeps moving off what it actually is--a flight from justice---and back onto the action for which polanski was already convicted, then it's pretty clear that there's not much black-and-white about the situation, isn't it?
personally, i dont doubt that what happened happened, and dont doubt that the conviction was correct in that plea-bargain kinda way--and i also dont doubt that had the same thing happened in 2009, it would have been defined differently. but the fact is, like it or not, it didn't happen in 2009 and the issue now is not really what people in 2009 think of what happened in 1972, but rather that he was arrested in a fucked-up manner for a flight from justice warrant. *that's* the center of this empirically.
the other center is the complexity of the situation created by the arrest itself. what i suspect you're seeing from sarkosy's administration follows from not inconsiderable pressure from the united states to back down. because unless the resistance to this calms, anything that happens---anything at all, no matter which way things turn out---will be a debacle.
i find all of this surreal.
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