[QUOTE=Morris Vander;37254042]Lol holy shit the bias in that website is ridiculous
I'm not saying they're lying but christ, the little things at the bottom are so stupid[/QUOTE]
if you think that's ridiculous bias you must have a stroke when reading the ordinary news
I really want him to be extradited to Sweden just to see if he'll actually be extradited to the states from there.
This just came on BBC's ticker thing
[quote]Ecuador says the UK has warned that it will take steps to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has taken refuge in its London embassy[/quote]
[QUOTE=smurfy;37256254]Ecuador says the UK has warned that it will take steps to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has taken refuge in its London embassy[/QUOTE]
And in come the Navy Seals in arm locks with the MI6 hop skipping along.
Article on it now
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19259623[/url]
If the UK entered the Ecuadorian Embassy to arrest Assange, wouldn't that be considered an armed invasion of a sovereign nation? Aren't embassies considered territory of the nation that the embassy represents?
Ecuador now says they will be 'hella fuckin mad' if the UK enters their embassy, but afaik we don't have a direct quote of what the UK actually threatened. Publicly they are just vaguely saying they are determined to arrest Assange
[QUOTE=smurfy;37257115]Ecuador now says they will be 'hella fuckin mad' if the UK enters their embassy, but afaik we don't have a direct quote of what the UK actually threatened. Publicly they are just vaguely saying they are determined to arrest Assange[/QUOTE]
Quite ironic for a government that wouldn't even extradite a guy who [url=http://www.wbur.org/2012/05/18/ecuador-guaman-brockton]murdered a woman and her toddler in Massachusetts, stuffed their bodies into a trash barrel, and fled to Ecuador, [/url] because apparently their constitution forbids extredition of Ecuadorian citizens to the US.
[QUOTE=smurfy;37257115]Ecuador now says they will be 'hella fuckin mad' if the UK enters their embassy, but afaik we don't have a direct quote of what the UK actually threatened. Publicly they are just vaguely saying they are determined to arrest Assange[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/wikileaks-assange-ecuador-idINL2E8JFH5K20120816[/URL]
[QUOTE=Foreign Office Spokesman]"Under British law we can give them a week's notice before entering the premises and the embassy will no longer have diplomatic protection," a Foreign Office spokesman said.
"But that decision has not yet been taken. We are not going to do this overnight. We want to stress that we want a diplomatically agreeable solution."[/QUOTE]
What it's essentially going to do is not invade an embassy, just revoke its status as an embassy and then storm it - there's no precedent for this in history as far as I can find, and it's a dirty trick.
Also, their statement conflicts with the wikileaks facebook - Apparently there are police vans outside the embassy - 5 of them, and the police have blocked off a loading bay at Harrods next door, and taped off the area.
There's also this - [QUOTE]UK police have penetrated interior fire escape and foyer of Ecuador embassy building (but not yet the embassy, proper) [/QUOTE]
This was done in the early hours of the morning, when noone was around - middle of the night, hoping to avoid any publicity. However, a livestream was set up - but it's down now.
Worse/better still, here's the responding statement from Ecuador -
[QUOTE]"The move announced in the official British statement, if it happens, would be interpreted by Ecuador as an unfriendly, hostile and intolerable act, as well as an attack on our sovereignty, which would force us to respond in the strongest diplomatic way," Patino told reporters.[/QUOTE]
This is absolutely fucked. It shouldn't happen in a civilised society - an embassy is essentially sacred ground politically, it should not be violated. Wish I was in London, I'd go down there.
That is just sad. The way the UK and other governments are acting about this is immature. Oh no some of your secrets leaked out! Lets raid the EMBASSY of another country. Isn't that basically declaring war on another country as an embassy is technically part of said country?
[QUOTE=Morris Vander;37254389]open your eyes[/QUOTE]
you ever notice how the ones saying "open your eyes" are the ones that have them shut the tightest?
[QUOTE=mix999;37266612]That is just sad. The way the UK and other governments are acting about this is immature. Oh no some of your secrets leaked out! Lets raid the EMBASSY of another country. Isn't that basically declaring war on another country as an embassy is technically part of said country?[/QUOTE]
Ecuador is going to consider it a hostile act so pretty much, yeah
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