WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange has been granted asylum by Ecuador

[bobnot]

After claims from an embassy official earlier that UK police were threatening to raid the ecudorian embassy and remove Julian Assange there are reports police have forced a fire exit and entered the lobby of the embassy.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8JFH5K20120816

* Quito says it would see a raid as a "hostile and intolerable act" *

Live stream by someone outside the embassy is up now.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/OCCUPYNEWSNETWORK

The havent yet crossed into sovereign Ecuadorian soil within the embassy if they do it will cause a diplomatic crapstorm and be seen as a show of agression and an invasion into another country and possibly even an act of war.

It is also against u.n. law and the vienna convention.
UN Dec. 1967: granting asylum is a peaceful and humanitarian act that cannot be regarded as unfriendly by any other State.

They are trying their best to intimidate ecudor into handing him over it is pretty disgraceful behaviour.
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People at the embassy just filmed a pizza delivery guy go into the embassy wearing bike leathers and a crash helmet then walk out 5 minutes later unchallenged that would just be amazing if they really pulled the old switcheroo trick.

Personally i hope assange was smuggled out of the embassy days ago and is sunning himself somewhere nice by now.

[Novo]

That Assange guy has been accused of Assault and Rape hasn't he? the sooner he is Questioned about that the better

[Shaun]

Wow. :/

[Locke.]

Bauer is an expert at this sort of thing, call him up

[bobnot]

Originally Posted by Novo

That Assange guy has been accused of Assault and Rape hasn't he? the sooner he is Questioned about that the better

The complaint was thrown out as being unreliable over two years ago until America expressed a strong interest in extraditing him to question him about wikileaks then suddenly the complaint was revived and the swedish said they wanted to question him so he said yes sure come and ask me anything you want but they have refused to speak to him because once they have done that they have to charge him or drop it if they charged him he would have been extradited straight away but they wont charge him (because the case is rubbish)

The only law he has broken is breaking his bail.

Its a big pooey mess the Americans are just desperate to see him dead or in guantanamo bay.

If sweden manage to extradite him without charging him his arse will barely skim the tarmac before he is up in the air and on his way to America to die.

[Omah]

Not according to the BBC .....

[bobnot]

Originally Posted by Omah

Not according to the BBC .....

What the bbc say and what you can see happening with your own eyes are quite different.
Are the bbc streaming live? noop.

I have however changed the thread title to imminent the place was swarming with armed police earlier they are also on the roof of ajoining buildings.
They backed away once a police diplomatic team arrived.

New stream now up http://bambuser.com/v/2905636

story of police entering the building that houses the embassy http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politi...816-249pe.html (the link is new to me i watched them entering on the stream earlier)

Im suprised you rely the bbc for info omah
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Its clear that the show of force was just for intimidation purposes its my feeling that the uk wouldnt be silly enough to go any further than entering the lobby of the building and spark an international incident but wow what an interesting turn of events the sight of armed police on the roof of harrods was just quite frankly bizarre.
I believe a decision on the offer of asylum for Assange is due at 1pm.

[arista]

Sadly they did not Raid
at a sneaky time.


Is he in there?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Locke.

Bauer is an expert at this sort of thing, call him up

Now that would be fun

[Shaun]

horrifically embarrassing... ashamed that our country is capable of such tactics

[arista]

Originally Posted by Shaun

horrifically embarrassing... ashamed that our country is capable of such tactics

Shaun its Expected
Its our Laws.


Of Course at this time - its not Breaking Now
he is still in there or has gone down the tunnel.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by bobnot

What the bbc say and what you can see happening with your own eyes are quite different.
Are the bbc streaming live? noop.

I have however changed the thread title to imminent the place was swarming with armed police earlier they are also on the roof of ajoining buildings.
They backed away once a police diplomatic team arrived.

New stream now up http://bambuser.com/v/2905636

story of police entering the building that houses the embassy http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politi...816-249pe.html (the link is new to me i watched them entering on the stream earlier)

Im suprised you rely the bbc for info omah
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Its clear that the show of force was just for intimidation purposes its my feeling that the uk wouldnt be silly enough to go any further than entering the lobby of the building and spark an international incident but wow what an interesting turn of events the sight of armed police on the roof of harrods was just quite frankly bizarre.
I believe a decision on the offer of asylum for Assange is due at 1pm.

It seems to me that your "sources" are making mountains out of molehills .....

[bobnot]

Originally Posted by arista

Sadly they did not Raid
at a sneaky time.


Is he in there?

Hopefully not! I would like to think that he is miles away by now

Originally Posted by Shaun

horrifically embarrassing... ashamed that our country is capable of such tactics

It is shameful the scenes been streamed by people outside were horrific it was blatent intimidation on a huge scale there were shocking scenes being streamed live and yet nothing being reported by the uk mainstream.

If it wasnt for the advent of live streaming it would have gone almost unoticed it certainly wasnt televised.
A minor but amusing note was the slow but steady stream of taxis pulling up outside the embassy being approached by police to be told someone ordered a taxi for Julian heading to the airport. oh those wacky live stream viewers

Originally Posted by Omah

It seems to me that your "sources" are making mountains out of molehills .....

oooo it wasnt on the bbc so it didnt happen?

BAA BAAAA BAAA

[Omah]

Originally Posted by bobnot

oooo it wasnt on the bbc so it didnt happen?

BAA BAAAA BAAA

AFAIK, no credible source has reported the "drama" you insist happened - instead :

A small group of Assange supporters later gathered outside overnight and into the morning. The atmosphere was largely peaceful, although police briefly scuffled with a handful of people who refused to be moved. There was no sign police might try to enter the embassy.

Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press

[arista]

Its was just debated now on SkyNews.

He expected to go to that Nation

[bobnot]

Originally Posted by Omah

AFAIK, no credible source has reported the "drama" you insist happened - instead :



Copyright © 2012 The Associated Press

You stick to your spoon state sponsored fed media shtick theres a good citizen.
There are multiple news sources reporting the same thing just because the bbc isnt one of them is not suprising they are pretty crap.

[Livia]

The police are allowed to enter any embassy under the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by bobnot

You stick to your spoon state sponsored fed media shtick theres a good citizen.
There are multiple news sources reporting the same thing just because the bbc isnt one of them is not suprising they are pretty crap.

There is no need to be offensive .....

[arista]

Originally Posted by Livia

The police are allowed to enter any embassy under the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act.

Sure
but they do not want trouble.

[Kizzy]

Throughout the world, local police and security forces are not permitted to enter an embassy unless they have the express permission of the ambassador - even though the embassy remains the territory of the host nation.

This rule was set out in the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations which codified the "rule of inviolability". It is a rule that all nations observe because it is in their interests to do so - if they enter someone else's embassy, their own diplomatic missions are put at risk of similar activity elsewhere.

Therefore, the Foreign Office has said that by being at the embassy, Mr Assange is on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of police.

However, on 15 August, it emerged that the Foreign Office had reminded Ecuador that it had the power to revoke the embassy's diplomatic status under the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987.

This would potentially allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange.

BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall says she cannot recall a precedent in which the act has been used to revoke an embassy's diplomatic status.

She says if the law was challenged UK diplomats admit there would be a "range of legal arguments" that would need to be made to justify seeking entry.

[bobnot]

Originally Posted by Livia

The police are allowed to enter any embassy under the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act.

It would be the first time it had ever been resorted to it is a pretty desperate measure.
The real reason for the desperation to get their hands on him is pretty transparent and quite disgusting.

[arista]

They should sneak him out
and fly him to Ecuador


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[lostalex]

Assange is pathetic. HE is trying to use Wikileaks as an excuse to get out of his rape charges.

The women that he has allegedly raped have a right to their day in court. For someone who is supposedly so interested in the idea of justice and freedom it's amazing that he doesn't think these women have a right to justice.

The people protecting him are pathetic groupies that think he is some sort of God. They think he's incapable of any wrong doing and use pathetic conspiracy theories to justify their support.

[MTVN]

I'm glad they've granted him asylum

[lostalex]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I'm glad they've granted him asylum

do you honestly think that he's going to get to Ecuador and live out the rest of his days in that country? gimme a break. this is all just a publicity stunt from the attention whore Assange. If the UK said today he is free to go to Ecuador do you honestly think he'd go?? lol

He's just milking the media attention for all it's worth.