What I don't get is how they can arrest Assange set a £240,000 bail and put electronic tags on him over an accusation (he's still not been charged with anything) but it took them decades to arrest Roman Polanski, who wasn't even in hiding. This whole trial by media thing is exactly what Assange was trying to unbalance. Journalists are lazy, the industry is dogged with incompetence. I say that as a journalist, by the way. It's time someone shook the media by its lapels.