Julian Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassy

karkus30

Yes, quite probably, but then so are most of the people in Government and rock music, doesn't mean to say they are rapists. It's not a crime to be an egomaniacal ******** as yet otherwise we would have Gaols the size of a small continent. M'lud

Wild Weasel

Why Ecuador I wonder? Is that country run by a left wing douche or something?

krish

My comment is nothing to do with the rape charge, but with the OP jizzing himself over Assange

karkus30

No wonder he wants asylum.

dc8900

Yes: Rafael Correa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wild Weasel

Figures.

Can't we do what the Americans did when Manuel Noriega hid in the Vatican embassy in Panama City - Play very loud rock music outside 24/7 until he can't stand it any more and surrenders.

Including this track apparently:

                               

Who says American's don't understand irony.

MikeTV

This may have something to do with it:

"2011 April - Ecuador expels US ambassador after Wikileaks publishes diplomatic cable alleging widespread corruption in the Ecuadorean police force." - BBC News - Ecuador timeline

IronGiant

And: "2010 November - Ecuador invites Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to live there."

While Ecuador has an Extradition Treaty with the US, it doesn't apply in cases of political persecution.

Dave

       

I'm afraid calling Assange a hero simply reinforces my opinion that the OP is perhaps completely deluded. By anyone's standards Assange is an absolute throbber and hiding like a girl in the Ecuador embassy does little to change that fact.

Keep banging the drum Dan, your views would be funny if I didn't think you were serious.

Ed Selley

I'm wearing a good portion of my cup of coffee now, so thanks for that .

Leaving Assange aside, I have to confess that I still feel to an extent that Wikileaks has a purpose at a sub national level. Their circumnavigation of the Trafigura superinjunction was- for me at least- A Good Thing. The attempts to do so at an international level are flawed though. Unless you can release the relevant data from all major countries at the same time, the result is hopelessly lopsided.