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my initial point was going to be simply to marvel over the fact that such a seemingly simple administrative request could have been made over into such a bollocks.
the reason i wondered if it was a face-saving thing is the amount of pressure from european governments--like almost all of them, but france in particular--that the us came under to not pursue the matter. there was no way to stand down. so it appeared to me that this was a face-saving way out.
and for the record, i don't have a particular position about roman polanski's 1972 actions.
i was much more curious about the process that extradition efforts put into motion and the way the debate played out, such as it has been.
i don't see myself as an apologist for much of anything.
but hey, what do i know?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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