The Swiss appear to be caving to the demands of award wining director and convicted child rapist Roman Polanski. While he awaits extradition to the United States for drugging and then raping a 13-year old girl in 1977, he will be allowed to post bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs ($4.49 million U.S.) and stay under house arrest in his chalet in the resort of Gstaad.

The Swiss have to know that the chances of him staying in his chalet while he awaits extradition is zero. He ran from justice once before and he will run from justice once again. It’s what he does.

The only thing I hate more than Roman Polanski are the people in the entertainment industry that defend Polanski because, well, he’s a good movie director. As if that fact could negate what he did in 1977. If there was anything we should all agree on, you’d think it would be that a 44-year old man drugging a 13-year old girl so that he could sodomize her, is wrong. That whoever did something like this should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

It seems insane to me that people can disagree on this.