Well today's the big day. Little Julie is to be permitted asylum by the government of Ecuador and the UK law makers are up in arms over the decision. It will be several hours before Ecuador makes the decision official. But the behind the scenes dog fight has raised the hackles of the local authorities who have warned that they might just storm the embassy and take Assange into custody. This in itself risked a breaking of the 1987 accord that assures diplomatic immunity to staff and premises. Assange himself released a statement saying that any raid on the Embassy and his arrest went against a United Nations General Assembly which unanimously declared in Resolution 2312 (1967) that the grant of asylum. . . is a peaceful and humanitarian act and that, as such, it cannot be regarded as unfriendly by any other State. As this piece is posted, great numbers of professional protester are beginning to make their way to bolster the already present demonstrators on site, who claim that Assange will in time end up in the hands of the US government, where he faces life in prison or a possible death penalty for his Wikileaks releases. Some interesting questions are being raised about the possible arrest of Assange who has already broken bail conditions. Is there a legal way that the Ecuadorian Embassy can get Assange safely past the past the police cordon and onto a plane for transport to his new home country?
Assange is a dick but I respect everything he has done. I hope he manages to keep things going in Ecuador, would be a ****ing awesome place to run away to.
Yeah, he a bit on the creepy side. How much should we be allowed to know though? Can some of his releases be against a national interest?
Fight the power Assange. Oh and if two big blonde Swedish birds invite your ugly feeble self into a hotel and offer to have sex with you several times over several days - it might be a honey trap.
What power does the Embassy have to keep him in their hands once outside their front doors? Can't the police grab him? At least that way, he'll be in one of their cells while the **** hits the fan.
Exactly. Probably a case of when he arrives at the airport and tries to go from the vehicle to the plane would be a shout for them to nail him. Too many cameras and that anywhere else. Either that or he will die of a completely natural and not suspicious whatsoever cause of death at some point in the next 12 months in Ecuador. I predict cocaine overdose combined with doing a speedy.
Seems their is a decent old **** fight behind closed doors between the UK and Ecuador. The UK is threatening to suspend diplomatic immunity status to the embassy, allowing an arrest of Assange. The Ecuador government is offended by the threat and see it as a hostile act.
I've just read a piece where an international law expert is of the opinion that Ecuador has the right to demand the safe passage for Assange, from their front door to the airport, and then be allowed to board.
Yeah, a letter from the the UK government which was delivered to the Embassy, said that he will be arrested at the front door. It then becomes a question of which law will win out in the end. Will the UK enforce the threat?
They'd be ****in mental if they revoke Ecuador's diplomatic status and enter the embassy to arrest Assange. That would be a very very dangerous precedent to set. Canny see the international community liking that one little bit.
Announcement from the Ecuador Government due at 1 o'clock. Then we'll be seeing what's what. Send in the SAS.
