Above the Law ?

Way back in 1977 the already well known movie director Roman Polanski fled the United States because he was charged with having sex with a 13 year old girl.

Polanski’s name first surfaced in my memory as the husband of actress Sharon Tate who was murdered in their home in 1968 by followers of Charles Manson. Polanski has been living in Switzerland, and living well by the sound of it, for all these years in his chalet in the Swiss Alps. The U.S. is trying to extradite him back to L.A. on the 32 year old charge and Polanski has been in jail in Switzerland while the Swiss authorities ponder whether to let the Americans have him. Now he’s been allowed, after he posted $4.5 million bail, to stay under house arrest in his chalet while he waits to find out what will happen to him. If he does have to return and face a trial, just watch the media circus begin.

There are already some Hollywood heavies who are saying that the poor 76 year old guy should be left alone and not prosecuted for something that happened so long ago. Most ordinary folks, including me, think otherwise. If nothing happens, it becomes another sad example of how fame and money can elevate someone to special status so that he or she can get away with things mere mortals can not.

These are areas in which I really find to be amazing with how sometimes things do work. That's if you ask me. I am nor ever have been a large fan of the media nor of all the news one sees. And really when it comes down to it no one should be able to be above the law if you ask me.