Not at all surprising. The Swiss have allowed him to live freely, attending film festivals and serving as a hero to Hollywood, for years despite his confession that he raped a 13-year-old. Besides, we have another European country now sending over representatives to make sure we don’t use evidence collected by their agents to prosecute the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

Are we really all that shocked that the same country that allowed a child rapist to live freely for years, from the same mindset that’s more concerned with making sure we don’t kill a mass murderer than we get to prosecute him, is now giving Roman Polanski the opportunity to flee once again?

A Swiss court has accepted film-maker Roman Polanski’s plea to be freed on bail from a Swiss jail where he is being held for a US child sex case.

Polanski has been wanted in the US since fleeing the country in 1978 after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex a year earlier with a 13-year-old girl. …

While on bail, Polanski would have to be kept under house arrest and electronic monitoring at his Swiss chalet, according to Associated Press news agency.

The ruling is not thought to affect the Swiss government’s ongoing assessment of whether it should extradite Polanski to the US.

If he returns to the United States he’ll likely spend the rest of his life in prison. He’s already plead guilty to drugging and having sex with a 13-year-old girl. He’s already fled prosecution, hence his current residence in Switzerland. And what do the Swiss do? Give him another chance to flee.

What could go wrong?