thought it would happen. The Swiss were not going to give into an ambitious LA DA trying to make a career out of this case.

Whatever you think of Polanski's original actions all the hypocritical moralists were ignoring the original complainant's request for it to just go away.

All they wanted was to serve him up on a platter as Polanski claimed.

meanwhile another 18 year old US girl gets busted for distributing child porn because some of the pics she sent out of herself , she may have been 17 when they were taken.

But if the pictures perpetuates the crime and she is a 'victim'..as claimed..where does that leave someone who was happy to give out pics of herself ??

is she the perpetuator of the crime and the victim of that crime at the same time ??

veritas wrote:
The Swiss were not going to give into an ambitious LA DA trying to make a career out of this case.

Good for the Swiss !

Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of the original case, it's about time someone stood up to the USA's constant demands that people be shipped off there for lengthy sentences (far longer than would be received anywhere else) when the USA would NEVER extradite one of its own citizens for whatever reason.

Excellent news; it really is about time we sorted out the mess our laws and morals have become.
A good story and lots of nastiness is dominating good sense.

Thanks veritas, you write:

"meanwhile another 18 year old US girl gets busted for distributing child porn because some of the pics she sent out of herself , she may have been 17 when they were taken."

This really is intriguing. I can't let it go without asking for the link, please.

Best Wishes,
Jim

Jim wrote:
Thanks veritas, you write:

"meanwhile another 18 year old US girl gets busted for distributing child porn because some of the pics she sent out of herself , she may have been 17 when they were taken."

This really is intriguing. I can't let it go without asking for the link, please.

Best Wishes,
Jim

despite my unique ability to be correct 100% of the time -I got this slightly wrong. It wasn't the USA where teens have been arrested in the 100's for texting pics of themselves..it was Japan where a girl was selling pics on-line.

Japan seems to have very odd laws. But it still raise the question ; is she the perpetuator of the crime and the victim as well? (I don't know the answer-this time)

www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/1...tos-of-herself-naked

ps: Polanski's full quote was they "wanted to serve him up on a platter to the media". I've had arguments with friends who are anti or pro Polanski but I find the legal angle the most fascinating.

veritas wrote:
but I find the legal angle the most fascinating.

Isn't the Swiss position that the USA failed to provide the correct Court documents ?

In The Know wrote:
veritas wrote:
but I find the legal angle the most fascinating.

Isn't the Swiss position that the USA failed to provide the correct Court documents ?

the Swiss probably 'mislaid' them.

First of all it is fantastic news that Polanski is free. No civilised country in the world should ever even consider sending a European citizen to a justice system as corrupt as Americas. A country where judges recieve backhanders from private companys for jailing 13 year old kids. A prison system in which male inmates are routinely raped. A country in which sex offenders can be held indefinately AFTER they have served their sentance.

A truly backward country in which teenagers are jailed as sex offenders for uploading pictures of themselves naked.

Actually, it's very disturbing that Japan is being forced down the road of America. They've recieved incredible pressure recently from the American government and 'child protection' groups to copy our draconian laws on teenage porn and teenage sex. So now it appears they've gone from having schoolgirl worn panty vending machines at train stations to arresting 18 year old adults for what amounts to 'self abuse' - all in the space of a decade or so.

It will be interesting to see how much Japan's teen pregnancy rates, youth crime, teen obesity rates etc slowly increase to civilised Anglo-Saxon levels over the next few years. Thanks America.

Meanwhile the Japanese prime minster was under pressure to resign because he couldn't force the US army (seen in Japan as rapists of 12 year old girls) to quit Okinawa.