oh, American (Swiss?) cruelty!

[intertribal]

The God Save Roman Polanski Movement is in full swing:

Jack Lang, a former French culture minister, said that for Europeans the development showed that the American system of justice had run amok.

While Mr. Polanski had committed “a grave crime,” Mr. Lang said, “he is a great creator and artist, and there’s a sentiment here that pursuing someone for a crime committed 30 years ago, in which the victim has decided to drop the case, is unreasonable, a kind of judicial lynching. In Europe, it would be unimaginable to punish someone in a situation like this.

“Sometimes the American justice system shows an excess of formalism,” Mr. Lang said, “like an infernal machine that advances inexorably and blindly. It sometimes lacks equity and humanity.”

And they're going to plead their case to Hillary?  This Hillary?  Good fucking luck.  I hope she roasts them like marshmallows.  And I don't even like Hillary.

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Gonna have to disagree there. Well, first, I don't exactly like the Amer. justice system, or probably any state justice system, but not knowing the details about how the case was dropped, I can't say anything about that.
And I don't think it does any good to punish him. Like, is he a danger to society? No.

As for “like an infernal machine that advances inexorably and blindly. It sometimes lacks equity and humanity,” I pretty much think that's true of bureaucracy and our whole fucking American post-modern mindset.