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The Polanski Arrest

Posted on September 28, 2009, 10:46 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under I Read The News Today.

            This effort to try to extradite Roman Polanski seems like a bad idea.  However bad what the Polanski of 1977 did may be, you cannot punish him.  He no longer exists,  worn away by half a lifetime of subsequent experiences and choices.  Moreover, at least one of the traditional reasons for imprisoning people, to […]

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