I'll get on the Polanski train. Yes, he should be brought back to the USA to face his sentencing that he escaped 30 something years ago. Just because time has come between he and a conviction doesn't mean he's paid his debt to society. Why have so many people signed a petition to keep him from facing the charges? I don't get that. Is it the same mindset that celebrities are exempt from the standards of a so called civilian? As in, "everyone needs to go green and reduce their carbon footprint while I fly around the world in a private jet telling people these things? Because I make movies that people love, there are no rules, just glamor, freedom, fiends and friends?"
People who break the law and have had their day in court need to face the consequences. Come on.
I heard an author talk about Polanski's life, and traumatic it has been. He made a great life for himself in spite of the terrible tragedies he experienced. But he screwed up badly. He raped a young girl without a thought of remorse. Because people who have remorse face their punishment. Even people who don't have remorse experience their punishment. Polanski didn't. He's had a grand life.
I think our society needs to see that people are punished for their crimes. Isn't punishment supposed to be a deterrent? Doesn't punishment give pause for redirecting future actions?
As a society I think we are suffering from too much leniency. My small example is the simple school district and the students thereof. There used to be swats, and bad kids in the Principal's office in the corner on their knees, and students actually afraid of the authoritarians who ran the school. Now the bad kids get a pink slip and go home to their parents who have not a clue how to discipline their own kids. Thus we have bad kids.
Polanski is a bad kid, except he is an adult who victimized a kid.
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