Pardon My Polish-French

Sorry American Government, but pardon my Polish-French: Spare us the brutal agony of yet another ongoing, absurdly drawn out celebrity scandal in which a single crime is turned into an unnecessary Hollywood bloodbath right out of a Quentin Tarantino script. Let us not go through another George Michael, Michael Jackson or Kobe Bryant. Let the man walk. Don't you have real bad guys you should be targeting? Because even the victim this time doesn't even want to go through it.

After a collaborative 31-year-long witch hunt by U.S. authorities for having sex with then 13-year-old Samantha Gailey, Academy Awarding winning director Roman Polanski was unnecessarily captured and arrested by Swiss authorities ironically on his way to the Zurich Film Festival to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. Obviously, he never had his moment and now maybe will be reveling in any creative and artistic achievement behind bars undeservedley. Authorities couldn't have committed a bigger party foul. Seriously, talk about a buzz kill.

On two different occasions Samantha Geimer has made clear that there's no need to waste any more time and energy on Polanski's mistake.

In 2003, Geimer said, "Straight up, what he did to me was wrong. But I wish he would return to America so the whole ordeal can be put to rest for both of us."

Then very recently in 2008 she even asked for forgiveness.

"I think he's sorry, I think he knows it was wrong. I don't think he's a danger to society. I don't think he needs to be locked up forever and no one has ever come out ever - besides me - and accused him of anything. It was 30 years ago now. It's an unpleasant memory ... (but) I can live with it."

Are you listening you big bad power tripping people with badges? You've taken your eye off the ball. Maybe you're just mad he got away and that Martin Scorsese didn't want the award for Best Director in 2002.

"In the same way that there is a generous America that we like, there is also a scary America that has just shown its face," rightfully said French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand. Yes, and that face is foaming at the mouth for the big bad director once and for all.

Don't get me wrong: no one is above the law but it's not as if Polanski has never been through his fair share of punishment. He's been fugitive for years and fleeing for his life sure as hell isn't something new to him. He escaped the Nazi persecution, but others in his family weren't as lucky. In 1942, his mother was killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In 1969, Charlie Manson and his deranged followers brutally took his wife Sharon Tate and soon to be child and in 1978, Polanski actually spent 42 days in prison during this crime. He made the daring flee into France in a small window of opportunity while the judge at the time was considering sentencing him to more time. Since then, he has been exiled from the United States and hasn't been truly allowed to film movies on American soil or accept his deserved Oscars. Remember the victim here America. It's seriously time to bury the hatchet.