One of life’s great pleasures aside from hanging lawyers & burying members of Greenpeace in the concrete foundations of a new bypass that is being built across a nature reserve is watching the liberal left getting itself completely arse about face over an ‘ethical dilemma’ ...

Roman Polanski's wife said today she was “outraged” by his arrest and vowed to fight American attempts to extradite him. Actress Emmanuelle Seigner is said to be “fearful and angry” at the Oscar-winning director's arrest in Switzerland on a 1978 warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. The 76-year-old faces weeks in prison while France and Poland fight his extradition.

Seigner, 43, who has been allowed to speak to Polanski in his cell, was today rallying fellow film stars to try to prevent his extradition. A friend of the couple, who live in Paris with their children, Morgane and Elvis, said:

“Emmanuelle is fearful and angry about what has happened, and is devastated by the effect Roman's arrest has had on their family. She was outraged by his arrest and is pleading for his release, and rallying friends and colleagues from many years in the film industry to express their support. Seeing Roman disappearing to the United States and a possible life prison sentence would tear their life apart.”

So here we have an actress asking ‘Hollywood’ to oppose the extradition of someone who has been convicted of sex with a minor – no more, no less. The argument about this is a Frenchman being arrested in Switzerland for a crime committed in the USA is completely fatuous: To put it another way, would the liberal left of California be up in arms about if this case wasn’t about a film director, but your average Jean-Pierre?

Let’s hope that there is a happy outcome to this unfortunate situation in the very future – if half of what I read is correct, there are certain penal institutions in California where sex offenders can expect to receive a very warm welcome from other inmates