Julian Assange gets asylum

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President Rafael Correa has agreed to give Julian Assange asylum, officials within Ecuador's government have said.

The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up at Ecuador's London embassy since 19 June, when he officially requested political asylum.

"Ecuador will grant asylum to Julian Assange," said an official in the Ecuadorean capital Quito, who is familiar with the government discussions.

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President Rafael Correa has agreed to give Julian Assange asylum, officials within Ecuador's government have said.

The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up at Ecuador's London embassy since 19 June, when he officially requested political asylum.

"Ecuador will grant asylum to Julian Assange," said an official in the Ecuadorean capital Quito, who is familiar with the government discussions.

hmm...will this be the end of it all? That probably ends any chance of a kangaroo court in Sweden, and means we'll never know if the Americans had indicted him in secret. Though if he abruptly disappears after a kidnapping in Quito, we'll have to suspect something.

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Oh! You're back on that, huh?
I wondered how long it would take.


Chuck

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"Is that a drone I hear"?

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"Is that a drone I hear"?

Ya' just never know!


Chuck

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Good for him. Of course the British government has now mentioned the possibility of entering the Equadorian Embassy to arrest him, but I doubt they follow through. If they do, I'll consider it pretty solid substantiation of Assange's claim.

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/15/britain-threatens-to-storm-embassy-to-arrest-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-says/?test=latestnews

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UK's Hague says will not give Assange safe passage, despite Ecuado's granted asylum

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it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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time to stuff him into the diplomatic courier bag!

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time to stuff him into the diplomatic courier bag!

That is what I was thinking

That or a big steamer type trunk

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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Good for him. Of course the British government has now mentioned the possibility of entering the Equadorian Embassy to arrest him, but I doubt they follow through. If they do, I'll consider it pretty solid substantiation of Assange's claim.

The brits had an incident where somebody was shot from the Libyan embassy in London in 1984. THis prompted them to make a law allowing the Brits to enter foreign embassies under extraordinary circumstances in case embassies were being used for terrorist activities.

I agree with you that the brits acting on this would be pretty solid substantiation of his claims.

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Good for him. Of course the British government has now mentioned the possibility of entering the Equadorian Embassy to arrest him, but I doubt they follow through. If they do, I'll consider it pretty solid substantiation of Assange's claim.

The brits had an incident where somebody was shot from the Libyan embassy in London in 1984. THis prompted them to make a law allowing the Brits to enter foreign embassies under extraordinary circumstances in case embassies were being used for terrorist activities.

I agree with you that the brits acting on this would be pretty solid substantiation of his claims.

The Iranians would probably agree with you on last year's invasion of the British embassy in Tehran.

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Good for him. Of course the British government has now mentioned the possibility of entering the Equadorian Embassy to arrest him, but I doubt they follow through. If they do, I'll consider it pretty solid substantiation of Assange's claim.

Blues,
Dave

Maybe we should go in and nick him as a fuck you very much to all the banana republics of South America for blockading our ships from their ports in support of the thieving Argies idiotic claim to the Falkland Islands.

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the thieving Argies idiotic claim to the Falkland Islands.

How quaintly colonial of you.

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Kinnoch: With respect, Mr. Gandhi, without British administration, this country would be reduced to chaos.

Gandhi: Mr. Kinnoch, I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power.

Brigadier: My dear sir! India *is* British. We're hardly an alien power!

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-from the movie "Ghandi"

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Different time different situation entirely. The people of the Falklands are British because they want to be, if they wanted to be Argentine they simply have to say so. There is only one man on the Islands who wants to be Argentinian.

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Different time different situation entirely. The people of the Falklands are British because they want to be, if they wanted to be Argentine they simply have to say so. There is only one man on the Islands who wants to be Argentinian.

The British have moved populations bigger than the Malvinas many, many times previously.

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Its the Falklands, always has been always will be. Unless the islanders change their flag of course

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Its the Falklands, always has been always will be. Unless the islanders change their flag of course

Or the British decide to bring them home when they can no longer protect them. Threatening to storm the embassy seems to be backfiring.

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and the film script makes it historically and legally accurate? oh boy!

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Its the Falklands, always has been always will be. Unless the islanders change their flag of course

Or the British decide to bring them home when they can no longer protect them. Threatening to storm the embassy seems to be backfiring.

The guy is wanted on a rape charge in Sweden! His running and hiding isn't helping him any. Also, the fact he jumped bail just makes him look more guilty. All those awards and gold buttons he got don't mean squat, now.


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and the film script makes it historically and legally accurate? oh boy!

Yes, that's exactly my point.
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The guy is wanted on a rape charge in Sweden!

The whole story behind that is really not quite so simple. The Swedish authorities seem divided over whether/how he should be charged; the judges in the UK were apparently divided over his legal challenge to extradition; and there's a very reasonable suspicion that Sweden's actions are actually in collusion with US authorities so he can be turned over to the US, where he could face possible life imprisonment over his Wikileaks journalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_assange#Allegations_of_sexual_assault

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Thanks for that. I still think, he should face his accusrs. The longer he runs, the worse things get for him. The statement by his attorney that there is collusion between Sweden and the U.S. could just be a ploy on the part of his attorney. Where's his proof? Throwing in 'the death penalty' adds to the effect.


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Thanks for that. I still think, he should face his accusrs. The longer he runs, the worse things get for him.

Not from where I see it.

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The statement by his attorney that there is collusion between Sweden and the U.S. could just be a ploy on the part of his attorney. Where's his proof? Throwing in 'the death penalty' adds to the effect. Chuck

It's more than just a couple of people who suspect this. As for proof, quiet collusion between nations happens all the time, but the hard proof of it rarely is in the public light of day while the events are still in play.

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Thanks for that. I still think, he should face his accusrs. The longer he runs, the worse things get for him.

Not from where I see it.

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The statement by his attorney that there is collusion between Sweden and the U.S. could just be a ploy on the part of his attorney. Where's his proof? Throwing in 'the death penalty' adds to the effect. Chuck

It's more than just a couple of people who suspect this. As for proof, quiet collusion between nations happens all the time, but the hard proof of it rarely is in the public light of day while the events are still in play.

Maybe someone could uncover that quiet collusion with some sort of documents leak that would then be exposed publicly.

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Thanks for that. I still think, he should face his accusrs. The longer he runs, the worse things get for him.

Not from where I see it.

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The statement by his attorney that there is collusion between Sweden and the U.S. could just be a ploy on the part of his attorney. Where's his proof? Throwing in 'the death penalty' adds to the effect. Chuck

It's more than just a couple of people who suspect this. As for proof, quiet collusion between nations happens all the time, but the hard proof of it rarely is in the public light of day while the events are still in play.

Maybe someone could uncover that quiet collusion with some sort of documents leak that would then be exposed publicly.

You really think every phone or in-person conversation is memorialized in writing?