Polanski's arrest

If you hadn't heard about it before, Roman Polanski recently got arrested for the crime of raping a minor. He was arrested in Switzerland for a crime he had committed in the early 1970s. France and Poland have expressed outrage at the arrest. They are shocked that their famous citizen was arrested for raping a minor and then fleeing before being sentenced for a crime he doesn't deny having committed.

I was going to write my general reaction, but here is an article that does it way better than I ever could. Every time someone laments the issue, remind them please that Roman Polanski raped a minor child, and not a technical rape because she was minor, but he had sexual intercourse despite her lack of consent. He pleaded guilty and then fled the US because he didn't get a lenient plea deal, which in itself is a crime.