Polanski wasn’t home when the beautiful Sharon Tate was brutally murdered by Manson Gang because he admitted in court he was across town F’ing another actress while he had left his pregnant girlfriend to be butchered deep in the secluded rural canyon home! Upstanding guy living with another 14yo child in France when a trip to Switzerland got him jailed on old warrant! Swiss got scared that hidden $billions$ in their secret NAZI famed accounts might dry up and released him to slither back to Child Rapist Lovin’ FRANCE!
BTW: AGAIN, IT IS RICH MONEY HIDING MALES IN SWITZERLAND JUST WANTING HIM TO GO AWAY!

CHILD RAPE APPOLOGIST!
…AND LIAR!
POLANSKI ADMITTED THAT HE KNEW SHE WAS 13 IN HIS OWN F’IN BOOK HE PUBLISHED; YOU PAID ARONOFSKY LOVIN’ RAPIST HACK!

As uneducated about the law as you seem to be, you can still read transcripts of the case, not to mention excellent articles in the NY Times, Washington Post, New Yorker etc. explaining the legal situation here. Your assertions are inaccurate and irrelevant to the extradition.

And, The Playlist, while the original details of what happened between Polanski and the girl are enough to bring out some strong opinions out of most people, you guys do understand that the angry crowds are only growing louder and and angrier because of idiotic comments like the one made by Tate's sister and the anon on this page that pulled the victim blaming card (with made up facts on top of it)? Most of Polanskis defendors are really doing him no favors – the Hollywood petition included, because c'mon "We demand the immediate release of Polanski"??? Really Hollywood? Even you guys have to know that it comes off a little presumptuous.
This is an ugly case where people on both sides are seemingly losing all common sense.

I say to all take the position you guys took originally: don't try to whitewash what he did and focus instead on the legal aspects of this.

I don't remember "The Pianist" oscar. Was the coverage afterwards "Director doesn't pick up Oscar because he's on the run for raping a 13-year old girl"?

How about you sign a petition for a public option?

They mention the plea bargain was to plead guilty for sex with a 13-year old but drop charges of rape and sodomy. I don't know how long his sentence would have been then. And they didn't mention if this was what the then girl and her family wanted.

It is sad that film festivals and national culture ministers are upset that a man who escaped sentencing for a crime can not pick up an award. (The crime being sex with a minor if the plea bargain deal is accurate, whether it was unknown to Polanski or not, and that is pretty doubtful, or rape).

And I'm interested why so many Hollywood directors, executives, etc, even if they're friends of Polanski's, would vehemently stand by him and ignore that he's due in court.

Even if the girl, now a woman, forgave him (to move on) he needs to be tried doesn't he? Couldn't an incident like this happen again? If he wasn't wealthy and famous he wouldn't have been let free to film a movie during the trial (and party at Oktoberfest) justice could presumably have been served (even with a dubious judge or poor handling by questionably LA lawyers).

There is unfinished business, whether he's tried in the US or pleads guilty from Oktoberfest 2009in Zurich he should be in a court.

Also, I think quote seems to be more pro-ugliness.

It may take longer than I originally suspected (or not), but I don't think he'll ever be sent back to America.