Julian Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassy

Wild Weasel

Unless they're going to smuggle him out in a diplomatic bag I don't see how they're going to get him out of the UK.

The Met have said they'll arrest him the moment he steps outside for breaching his bail conditions.

Plus the naive chumps who paid his [-]£200,000[/-] £240,000 bail must be regretting that now.

Danny2012

If not, then how about Dominique Strauss-Kahn: IMF chief on rape charges: From vroom to bust | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian

Strange how those in power tend to manipulate events to suit their own ends. Just goes to show that some animals are more equal than others. Hang on! wasn't that one of the objectives behind  WikiLeaks - to expose global corruption and coercion?

Danny2012

I notice everyone is failing to mention that disgusting video. What right did the United States have to murder those innocent people?

dc8900

It is the Labour and Conservative Party who are deluded. Tony Blair and all those MP's who voted for the Iraq war should be on trial as war criminals.

Dave

Guy this is real reason why he is seeking asylum:

                                                                                                                                               




(love, unintended headlines placement)

uzer

They're not though are they?

As for disgusting videos I can find a few of those to further a set agenda too. I could counter that one with many of the disturbing beheading videos we have seen from Iraq.

There's quite a difference between being mistaken in your selection of target and casually lopping off someone's head but clearly that doesn't suit your agenda does it?

EarthRod

Let me understand this.  You think that, arguably, the most powerful country in the world couldn't figure out any other way to get rid of Julian Assange so the CIA hired a hooker to claim rape?

I can't figure out if you really are stupid or just like the attention of being a tinfoil nutjob.

krish

So wrong in so many ways. You are deluding yourself.

You are talking about thousands of people from both parties who in your words 'are deluded', hundreds of whom are democratically elected and well educated.

Also people on these forums can read you like a book with your own obvious agenda.

travid

Well if that's true, Sweden could not extradite him if he faces the death penalty surely?

Lurking Lawyer

I think William Hague's suggestion that we could force entry is ill-advised, even if it might be legal (although according to Geoffrey Robertson QC on the Today programme on R4 last night, it wouldn't) given the ramifications for the general principle of diplomatic immunity and the impact on British missions around the world.

Assange has made his own bed (metaphorically and literally: Treadmill, sun lamp and takeaways – the life of Julian Assange - Telegraph) so it seems to me that it's far easier to wait it out for the authorities than for him.

I suppose the risk is that he gets smuggled out in a diplomatic bag, or similar, and he then crows from overseas about how he managed to cock a snook at the British legal system - but TBH, we're only involved because of the extradition request. He ceases to be our problem if he does manage to get to Ecuador.