Re: There's some seriously twisted logic in this - Edit 1
Before modification by Brian at 29/09/2009 12:10:24 PM
I think part of the controversy is that it is not entirely clear whether he did what he confessed to.
Well I mean he plead guilty to unlawful sex with a 13 year old...that's pretty clear to me. I suppose the controversy is that he claims he had a plea bargain in place and that his time in the mental institution was sufficient to meet the terms of his bargain. The thing is a plea bargain is not final until one has actually been sentenced, and he was never sentenced for his crimes.
Also, rules and laws are not the same things.
No, but they do go hand in hand. They aren't always one and the same, but a country's rules tend to be their laws.
I suspect the "vengeful" comes from not having arrested him before, but grabbing him just as he is about to be honoured?
I could see that, but it was never America's choice as far as the timing to grab him. It took another European country to agree to actually nab him and subsequently extradite him. The way the arrest sounded to me (and I could easily be wrong about this), was that he was nabbed at the airport. Which to me sounds like he was flagged coming into the country and detained because there was an active warrant for his arrest out there. It is however very possible, and I'll even say likely, that the U.S. knew that he was going to attend the ceremony and requested that the authorities there arrest him when he arrived.
Again, there is a difference between a cult of celebrity and a cult of artistry.
I think they go hand in hand. People aren't going to think twice about some guy that paints bowls of fruit in his basement and sells them at a market being arrested for some crime, but they're sure as hell going to care if some well known artist is arrested.