While there may have been what you and the filmmaker have deemed a "witch hunt" the fact of the matter is we'll never know since he opted to flee the country instead work within the system. He most certainly had the funds to do so. And this was certainly not his
first "indiscretion", nor his last.

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If male sexual aggression weren't such a taboo in American culture, and victims by the very fact of their injury immediately imbued with sanctity, would there have been a story? Does the story exist in absence of our vicarious sodomization by the guardian/father? If the victim forgives offender (as happened in this case), what keeps the story alive if not our puritanical (and prurient) fascination with exceptional cultural figures' excesses? Why is male sexual predation met with such hysteria? As if it were the ultimate evil and not a by-product of our primate natures. As long as there is lust there will be opportunism and sneaky back-door break-ins.

What if victim had been male? It would have been a simple betrayal of trust. Media wouldn't have gone near it.

A certain amount of social deviance is to be expected from artist-geniuses. This is the man who gave us Chinatown, after all.

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The question here isn't whether what he did was right or wrong/illegal (It's certainly the latter), but in the disproportionate witch hunt Polanski suffered in comparison to other people involved in similar crimes. Equal punishment for equal crimes. Isn't that what this country is supposed to be based on?

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