Emma Thompson Drops Support of Polanski

I'm not familiar with the support Thompson originally expressed ... and could not care less. The Hollywood types who jumped out front on this issue and supported Roman Polanski did him no favors. Thompson's turn about may ultimately help Polanski by focusing attention on the legal issues. The Swiss were hypocrites to act at the time and in the way they did. The sooner the perpetrator is brought back and this matter is disposed of the better. The media circus around the story has been disgusting, and we've seen nothing yet, of course. There are far more important issues facing the American people which are not getting the attention they should have. Justice should be blind and Polanski should be treated no better or worse than anyone else who entered a Guilty Plea based on the kind of agreement which he had reached with the LA Prosecutor's Office. Polanski was held without bail until the agreement was reached, and it was in the interests of everyone because it dispensed with the need for a public trial. The fact that he fled the country and exiled himself from America when he believed the agreement had been broken is of very little relevance. He paid compensation to the victim of the crime, and to the mother of the victim (who unfortunately aided and abetted it.) The judges should not play politics, but should abide by the agreement, in the absence of any compelling societal interest in doing otherwise. And for the life of me I cannot see what that societal interest could be.