Julian Assange seeks political asylum in Ecuador

On Tuesday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sought political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, UK. At a press conference today in Quito, the forei...

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Comment by Nikki on August 17, 2012 at 3:23pm: The most despicable behavior in this has been from Australia. This is a good lesson for people who think their governments will help them if they get in trouble overseas.

Comment by Nikki on August 17, 2012 at 3:09pm: Thanks for all the links, Maria. Yes they gave him asylum but they can't get him out of the country. So it will be interesting to see what happens. I have RT on my cable and they are doing a great job with constant updates.

Comment by Nikki on August 17, 2012 at 2:44pm: Lol, Nathan, I do know a few Germans from Germany. They're great people but I do notice how they react to certain groups of people.

It's all political theater at this point with Assange, but it will be very interesting to see how it plays out.

Comment by Maria De Wind on August 17, 2012 at 2:37pm: Ecuador has already granted Political Asylum to Julian!

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Comment by Nathan on August 17, 2012 at 2:33pm: Julian Assange faces long stay in Ecuador's London embassy ... In the covert existence that Julian Assange adopted as founder of the secrecy-busting organization WikiLeaks, he made a lifestyle of sleeping on borrowed sofas and fostering a legend for himself as a man without a place or a country to call home. But now, after Ecuador's decision on Thursday to grant him asylum and Britain's vow to arrest him the moment he steps out of the sanctuary he has found in Ecuador's embassy in London, the Australian-born Assange seems at last to have secured a fixed address. Considering the diplomatic impasse and the vehemence of opinion on both sides, it is one that could be his for months, or even years, if neither Ecuador nor Britain relents. – Economic Times

Dominant Social Theme: This man, this great, blond lion of a man ... now he is cornered in an embassy, but yet uncowed. Hear him roar!

Free-Market Analysis: Having pretty much pioneered the idea that Julian Assange is a patsy of a larger power elite directed history, it is incumbent on us logically to continue to make this case or to apologize, but we are not ready to apologize.

http://thedailybell.com/4194/Julian-Assanges-Directed-History

Nikki,

I agree with you regarding speigel although, I would call it typical left/socialist dismissiveness moreso than inherently German.

Comment by Nikki on August 17, 2012 at 2:10pm: Oopsie, now I'll have to move there :0

I really don't like Spiegel's dismissive attitude towards Ecuador, typical German superiority complex coming through loud and clear.

Where's those James Bond types when you need them the most? Surely someone can figure out how to spring him from the embassy and get him out of the UK.

http://rt.com/news/ecuador-icc-assange-asylum-942/

http://jonathanturley.org/2012/08/17/could-ecuador-just-mail-assang...