Is the UK going to invade..........

[eddie]

Ecuadors Embassy? The President of Ecuador says the UK threatened to do just that,lol Just to get at Julian Poor old Julian thinks the embassy can get him out of the country, just drive to the airport and he will be free! Doubt he will get that far, so has he moved into the embassy for good?

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2...f-embassy?lite

[CaptainHaplo]

No - they won't. They didn't do so when a police office was shot from the Libyan embassy. To do so is - under international legal standards - an act of war.

[Catfish]

Breaking into an Embassy would indeed be an act of war, however i am sure England is capable of generating enough pressure to finally make Ecuador kick Assange out. And if not, some bully will find a way to deport or abduct him later, or plain kill Mr. Assange. Certainly, he is now well-known, so they have to make him a villain first.


A bit OT:

I stilll wonder where the outcry is, about what has leaked out. I mean there is enough stuff to fire high brass and topple governments, from atrocities against international law to secret plans violating everything a "democracy" stands for.
Instead it has become a man hunt trying to shoot the messenger


Also if you speak the truth because you think you have to, they will call that treason, and for them it certainly is. But most whistleblowers did not want to speak out against America, but for the America they think it should be, based on law and own national claim, following the constitution.

This witchhunt against anyone daring to say that a government uses illegal methods violating international law, is just the bullying reaction of a bunch of criminals caught in the act, red-handed, and has not much to do with military secrets. "Retaliatory punishment" itself would also be illegal b.t.w..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...?newsfeed=true

https://docs.google.com/a/firedoglak...WmM/edit?pli=1

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Isn't it amazing how tolerant we become of the "West's" actions.

If Assange is residing in the British embassy in China, asking for asylum from the Chinese, and the Chinese say they are going to intercept him and even threaten to revoke the British embassy's diplomatic protect on short notice, it'll be considered an atrocity w/o debate.

[antikristuseke]

Objectivity is a rare thing, always has been.

[TarJak]

From what I've read the UK can use the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 to legally enter the embassy and arrest Assange.

Whether they will or not is debatable. Whether Ecuador can move him out of the UK without him getting arrested on the way is also debatable.

The whole thing stinks and has done from the start. Even the Swedish sexual assault allegations are a bit suss.

It does make interesting watching to see the machinations though.

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Catfish

I stilll wonder where the outcry is, about what has leaked out. I mean there is enough stuff to fire high brass and topple governments, from atrocities against international law to secret plans violating everything a "democracy" stands for.
Instead it has become a man hunt trying to shoot the messenger

You know about our beautiful word "Nestbeschmutzer". I think it was Dieter Hildebrand who said: "In Deutschland zeigt man mit dem Finger nicht auf denjenigen der das Nest beschmutzt, sondern auf den der darauf aufmerksam macht" - guess this goes not only for Germany

(Rough translation: In Germany people don't point their finger at the one who crapped into the nest, but at the one who mentions it.)

[Jimbuna]

"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.

The most likely outcome I would have thought.