{"id":1220,"date":"2009-09-29T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2009-09-29T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T10:20:33","slug":"what_should_be_done_with_roman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"What Should Be Done With Roman Polanski?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/28\/AR2009092802403.html\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;has an Op-Ed piece by Eugene Robinson today on the subject of what to do with Roman Polanski.&nbsp; Without going into gory details, the question is what do you do with a 76-year old man who raped a thirteen year old when he was in his 50&#8217;s.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Polanski fled the United States after his trial (where he pled guilty) and settled in France.&nbsp; The extradition treaty we have with France evidently did not cover his particular crime.&nbsp; So he has lived there peacefully for the past thirty years.&nbsp; He was arrested Sunday in Switzerland where he had traveled to accept an award.&nbsp; Evidently our extradition treaty with Switzerland covers child molestation.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like to see a 76-year old man go to prison, but I don&#8217;t like to see a person who raped a thirteen year old girl escape the consequences of his actions.&nbsp;&nbsp;If his name was John Smith instead of Roman Polanski, what would his fate be?&nbsp; Do we need to take another look at the concept of equal justice under the law regardless of money or status?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Post&nbsp;has an Op-Ed piece by Eugene Robinson today on the subject of what to do with Roman Polanski.&nbsp; Without going into gory details, the question is what do you do with a 76-year old man who raped a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}