Thread: Julian Assange is made an Ecuadorian citizen in effort to resolve impasse

Originally Posted by OhOh

Care to list the countries with such laws? Care to post a link regarding Ecuador, in particular, having such a law? To add some substance to your posted assertions.

As is required by the "Rules Based System", here on TD?

Well you're the fucking expert on The Lord HoHo.

Have you never heard of "The lord giveth, the lord taketh away"?

This ought to clear things up.

https://www.cancilleria.gob.ec/comun...ulian-assange/

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

https://www.cancilleria.gob.ec/comun...ulian-assange/

As you are undoubtedly aware English is the language, according to the "rules", here on TD.

Originally Posted by OhOh

^^ Nothing in your link suggests he has been stripped of his Ecuadorian citizenship.

I never said he was.

I just said that would be the easy solution.

After all the fucker's run up horrendous phone bills, irritated the Ecuadorians by meddling in Spanish affairs, and stinks like a fucking badger's arsehole.

Translation:

The blonde rapist has outstayed his welcome.

Damn historic muckrakers and whistleblowers...

Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the U.K. What Comes Next?
Glenn Greenwald July 21 2018

ECUADOR’S PRESIDENT Lenin Moreno traveled to London on Friday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the 2018 Global Disabilities Summit (Moreno has been using a wheelchair since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt). The concealed, actual purpose of the president’s trip is to meet with British officials to finalize an agreement under which Ecuador will withdraw its asylum protection of Julian Assange, in place since 2012, eject him from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and then hand over the WikiLeaks founder to British authorities.

Moreno’s itinerary also notably includes a trip to Madrid, where he will meet with Spanish officials still seething over Assange’s denunciation of human rights abuses perpetrated by Spain’s central government against protesters marching for Catalonian independence. Almost three months ago, Ecuador blocked Assange from accessing the internet, and Assange has not been able to communicate with the outside world ever since. The primary factor in Ecuador’s decision to silence him was Spanish anger over Assange’s tweets about Catalonia.

A source close to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the president’s office, unauthorized to speak publicly, has confirmed to The Intercept that Moreno is close to finalizing, if he has not already finalized, an agreement to hand over Assange to the U.K. within the next several weeks. The withdrawal of asylum and physical ejection of Assange could come as early as this week. On Friday, RT reported that Ecuador was preparing to enter into such an agreement.

The consequences of such an agreement depend in part on the concessions Ecuador extracts in exchange for withdrawing Assange’s asylum. But as former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa told The Intercept in an interview in May, Moreno’s government has returned Ecuador to a highly “subservient” and “submissive” posture toward western governments.

It is thus highly unlikely that Moreno — who has shown himself willing to submit to threats and coercion from the U.K., Spain and the U.S. — will obtain a guarantee that the U.K. not extradite Assange to the U.S., where top Trump officials have vowed to prosecute Assange and destroy WikiLeaks.

The central oddity of Assange’s case — that he has been effectively imprisoned for eight years despite never having been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime — is virtually certain to be prolonged once Ecuador hands him over to the U.K. Even under the best-case scenario, it appears highly likely that Assange will continue to be imprisoned by British authorities.

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/21/...at-comes-next/

Of course the US aren't involved in any of this.


Assange must be wishing he picked a decent government to protect him like Snowden did.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

and then hand over the WikiLeaks founder to British authorities.

My S-I-L told me about this yesterday evening. So what will the British authorities do with him?

Originally Posted by foobar

Of course the US aren't involved in any of this.


Assange must be wishing he picked a decent government to protect him like Snowden did.

FFS you shouldn't nick OhOh's lines.

Originally Posted by SKkin

My S-I-L told me about this yesterday evening. So what will the British authorities do with him?

As far as I know, the scandyhooligans don't want him anymore, so do him for jumping bail and let him go.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

so do him for jumping bail and let him go.

Will they give him a bath first?

Originally Posted by SKkin

Will they give him a bath first?

A fucking good hose down might be a better idea.

would you mind if the Americans offed him on British soil...?

It is interesting that neither the UK nor Sweden could guarantee he wouldn't be extradited to the US.

What kind of democracy persecutes, prosecutes and refuses to protect journalists who expose war crimes?

Originally Posted by foobar

It is interesting that neither the UK nor Sweden could guarantee he wouldn't be extradited to the US.

What kind of democracy persecutes, prosecutes and refuses to protect journalists who expose war crimes?

Journalist.

Hahahahahaha.

Will the Americans arrest him?

I'm Betting if they charge him,we will see files they've been holding back just for this event.

Originally Posted by Neo

would you mind if the Americans offed him on British soil...?

Novichoked...and then blame it on the Russians.

Originally Posted by foobar

It is interesting that neither the UK nor Sweden could guarantee he wouldn't be extradited to the US.

That's what I was thinking the UK will do...send him directly to the US...or ship him off to Gitmo.

Originally Posted by foobar

It is interesting that neither the UK nor Sweden could guarantee he wouldn't be extradited to the US.

"Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt"

Roberet De Niro, in Ronin.

Originally Posted by SKkin

My S-I-L told me about this yesterday evening. So what will the British authorities do with him?

Depends which of its strings are pulled.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The blonde rapist

It was never "rape" as you and I usually define it. It was an allegation of unpermitted ejaculation during consensual sex.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

It was never "rape" as you and I usually define it. It was an allegation of unpermitted ejaculation during consensual sex.

I only call it how I see it.

However, a lawyer representing the woman who made the allegation of rape described the decision as a “scandal”.


“It is a scandal that a suspected rapist can escape justice and thereby avoid the courts,” Elisabeth Massi Fritz told Agence France-Presse in an email. “My client is shocked and no decision to [end the case] can make her change [her view] that Assange exposed her to rape.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...-investigation