Roman Polanski did a despicable thing when he drugged and raped a thirteen year old girl. It's not the worst thing one human being ever did to another but it's still pretty awful.
Still, he has suffered for his actions of thirty-one years ago and the victim — now grown — has asked that he not be prosecuted and there does seem to have been a double-cross in his trial and prosecution, and no reports of him molesting anyone since…
…and what we have here is a very annoying situation. I don't want to feel any sympathy for a guy who did what he did, but I do, at least a little. Somehow, this does not feel like justice to me…or the most important matter that the Justice Department had to pursue. You have to wonder how many other rapists and even murderers have not been pursued with this kind of unrelenting determination. If Polanski had just tortured the girl, they wouldn't be after him.