Thread: Thank you, thank you Ecuador, for giving Assange political asylum

Now I'm just wondering what will happen next.

But I'm just so glad that someone is willing to see through the mindless bullshit that is the extradition for the political pussy-licking that it truly is. Sweden's got its nose so far up the US' ass for so long now (ever since they started turning more hardline conservatarded), that Assange would be extradited to the US within weeks after landing in Sweden. Ecuador indeed might not have a stellar record in the freedom of press department and I'm not entirely sure what their angle is here...surely they seek to gain something, but this gives the hero against tyrants and governmental terrorists (like those at the Pentagon) at least a fighting chance.

So now what?

Will Great Britain risk certain political strife to lift the politcal immunity of the Ecuadoran embassy and then storm the compound?? It depends what kind of relationship they have with Ecuador (tumultuous or fairly stable?). Ecuador is a small country indeed, but it would be quickly and efficiently backed up by many much more powerful South American countries if things escalated....and very rightly so.

I don't really think GB will take the political, possibly military risk that storming the embassy will result in. It would be an unprecedanted move of the highest order of douchebaggery if they did that. But who really knows what goes on in the minds of a country like GB that is so bent on an almost sociopathic level of mass surrveillance and 'thought control'? They literally lead the world in very smart, networked video surrveillance and bio-recognition systems on all public avenues and also of Echelon-tapping of public communication systems...so it seems they, like the US, have reason to be afraid of a organization like Wikileaks...and would probably rest easier if he was in a US prison.

It'll be interesting to find out what happens with this one.

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Let him go to Ecuador. Easier for the CIA to deal with this terrorist.

Fill me in on this. Can you be heli-lifted out? Or is he in UK airspace at that point? Would they shoot him down? or how would they know he was even in it?

Basically, he's just living in this place and can never leave?

AFAIK there is no way he can leave the building unless the UK Government is willing... which the 20 or so cops outside prove they clearly are not.

Originally Posted by Hott Butt Mud

Fill me in on this. Can you be heli-lifted out? Or is he in UK airspace at that point? Would they shoot him down? or how would they know he was even in it?

Dude. Who owns the Airspace around the Embassy? How the fuck is a chopper going to be allowed anywhere near that building, especially since it has no helipad? Who's gonna fly it - the Ecuadoran Military?

Why would they allow that - everyone else in that Embassy is free to come and go as they choose.

possibly military risk

I think a Latin American allied invasion highly likely.

I guess he better get comfy. He's gonna be "imprisoned" there for a while. Maybe he'll be able to bring in some Equador hookers.

Originally Posted by Tippster

Why would they allow that - everyone else in that Embassy is free to come and go as they choose.

Hmmm. I think that is the answer for him, then. No Saigon-like airlift needed. He will need to be spirited away in the most perfect disguise ever invented. In fact, he wouldn't even need to spirited away....he can then just walk out.....if the British police aren't taking retinal scans of everyone leaving the building, that is, and I don't really believe such would be allowed under international law.
They do AMAZING things with latex faces, etc these days!!

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Heh - they probably thought of that and likely check everyone's papers as they leave - especially the abnormally tall Ecuadorans...

Come to think of it the Brits probably could, if they wanted to, kick all the Embassy Staff out of the country. They could literally starve the fucker out. Probably take a couple months - those Embassies have some serious amounts of food stashed in them.

Interesting development. I approve.

Originally Posted by Tippster

those Embassies have some serious amounts of food stashed in them.

Ecuadorian embassy is a two room office in a ~Victorian era apartment building 50 yards behind Harrods.

We're not talking some huge compound.

Ah - I assumed it was the whole building. I only saw the footy of him speaking from the balcony.

Originally Posted by Tippster

Ah - I assumed it was the whole building. I only saw the footy of him speaking from the balcony.

One room contains a pale and slightly creepy looking Australian, attention seeking, ego maniac.... with somewhat good intentions about accountability of the world's policeman and rather nasty bedroom manners.

The other is full of unpaid parking tickets and congestion zone fines.

Oh man, he's fucked.

They could also 'smoke' him out somehow. Maybe the building will accidentally catch on fire?

Here is how he will get out:

http://articles.cnn.com/2002-06-17/w...?_s=PM:asiapcf

Maybe Argentina will re invade the falklands.

ecuador and third world countries only have "sovereignty" as long as imperialists old and new don't want anything they have.

Two words: Pussy Riot

Originally Posted by Tippster

AFAIK there is no way he can leave the building unless the UK Government is willing... which the 20 or so cops outside prove they clearly are not.

Dude. Who owns the Airspace around the Embassy? How the fuck is a chopper going to be allowed anywhere near that building, especially since it has no helipad? Who's gonna fly it - the Ecuadoran Military?

Why would they allow that - everyone else in that Embassy is free to come and go as they choose.

It's not about who "owns" what. (Clearly the U.S. didn't own the air space around OBL's compound.) It's might makes right. Which feels good when Seal Team Six or whatever the fuck they call it takes out a douche like bin Laden, but sometimes it comes back to bite you in the ass (Iran 1979) when the "little" countries want to take a shot at the Empire.

Yes, I'm sure the Ecuadorans are warming up their Helos as we speak to invade Britain for the sake of an Australian douchebag.

Originally Posted by Tippster

Yes, I'm sure the Ecuadorans are warming up their Helos as we speak to invade Britain for the sake of an Australian douchebag.

They are not, of course. That wasn't my point. I'm saying that when weaker countries feel--rightly or wrongly--that they are pawns, they on occasion fly an X-wing up the ass of the Death Star.

Originally Posted by timnormandin

They are not, of course. That wasn't my point. I'm saying that when weaker countries feel--rightly or wrongly--that they are pawns, they on occasion fly an X-wing up the ass of the Death Star.

I doubt the Ecuadorians have an X wing plane. The best they can probaly do is send a bad batch of Ecuadorian tomales laced with x lax to the PM...............

Originally Posted by OSECS

I doubt the Ecuadorians have an X wing plane. The best they can probaly do is send a bad batch of Ecuadorian tomales laced with x lax to the PM...............

Ecuador will likely do nothing if GB or the US subvert international law and diplomatic treaties to achieve their end. It's more the aggregate effect. Naked power politics while great for jingo-boners can engender animosity that sometimes leads the Davids of geopolitics down the asymmetrical highway.

Originally Posted by OSECS

I doubt the Ecuadorians have an X wing plane.

Yep

Nothing about x-wing planes on British cop's clipboard.





They wouldn't fuck that kind of shit up.

I am fairly certain a diplomatic mission has immunity where ever they are set up to do business. That means, in a building, in a car/limo on a plane. Hopefully they have an underground garage that can be closed off. Dood gets in car, is whisked away to waiting private plane where he hauls ass up the sovereign steps and by by UK.

Originally Posted by liv2ski

I am fairly certain a diplomatic mission has immunity where ever they are set up to do business. That means, in a building, in a car/limo on a plane. Hopefully they have an underground garage that can be closed off. Dood gets in car, is whisked away to waiting private plane where he hauls ass up the sovereign steps and by by UK.