http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/lifestyle/people/roman-polanski-arrest-sparks-shock-outrage-20090928-g7x0.html
Whose idea was it to persecute him?
What has happened to Switzerland?
Even the Swiss have gone cuckoo.
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
Orson Welles invented these lines for Harry Lime in The Third Man:
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Well, now the Swiss have surrendered one of the Borgias to be tried & hanged.
Or imprisoned at least.
No "benefit of clergy" for the fair-minded Swiss.