UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange 1065
paulmac84 writes "According to the BBC, the UK have issued a threat to storm the Ecuadorian Embassy to arrest Julian Assange. Under the terms of the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 the UK has the right to revoke the diplomatic immunity of any embassy on UK soil. Ecuador are due to announce their decision on Assange's asylum request on Thursday morning."
Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... (Score:2, Funny)
Dont worry, I'm sure the US will come to Ecuadors defense!
Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:He REALLY pissed off governments.... (Score:5, Funny)
It depends on how equador wants to play.
Situation 1)
The cave to the UK, and hand over Assange. They do this because of international pressures and the desire to play with the big boys.
Situation 2)
They staunchly refuse to hand over Assange, ad either keep him in the embassy indefinately, or concoct a wild plan to get him out of the UK. They do this because they are tired of being bullied, and want to flip the dirty dealers the bird.
Situation 3)
They refuse to give up assage, and the UK jumps the shark and makes good on its threat to smash the embassy. Equador retaliates on the world stage with a major smear campaign.
Situation 4)
Equador expects the UK to make good on the threat, hides or sneaks assange out of the country, and the UK invades the embassy. Equador shows that assange is not in the country, (Either using false footage, or real footage.) And has not been for some time, and declares the UK's actions unwarranted, and decries their intelligence agencies, and their legitimacy as a peaceful and law abiding nation.
Personally though, if I were an equadorian diplomat, here is what I would do:
Situation 5)
Fabricate a story of helping assange leave the country, and arrange the expected limo trip to an international airport. Place a costumed mannequin in the back seat with darkened windows on the limo. The UK bobbies will attempt to stop the driver. The driver avoids capture, and causes a scene, with the police escallating response. (Think "OJ simpson car chase"). The embassy plays along with the charade, deploring the UK's behavior in the matter. Once a significant portion of the local police force is engaged in the farce, load assange into the back of a delivery lorry, and discretely drive him nonchalantly to france via the chunnel, and evacuate him via plane that way. When the UK storms the embassy, they will not find him.
Ecuador should invade the Falkland Islands... (Score:5, Funny)
... then hand them over to Argentina. Then send the Brits a diplomatic cable: "Fuck me? Well fuck you too."
Mess with state department AND Clinton? Bad. (Score:2, Funny)
The real moral of this story is: Never cross a Clinton, or anything they may be in charge of.
Re:An Ugly Precedent (Score:5, Funny)
Well, that should get you on some interesting lists.
Re:Hmnnn (Score:4, Funny)
Hewlett-Packard makes ammunition? I thought they only made cheap printer ink and sold it in expensive half filled cartridges.
I wouldn't buy ammunition from HP though, it wouldn't work with your gun unless you bought a special chip, and then while the clip looks like it's full, the gun will tell you it's empty half way through so you have to go buy more ammo.
Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog (Score:4, Funny)
hahahaha, you think your measly vote is going to change anything when you have a choice between dick head 1 and dick head 2.
Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog (Score:5, Funny)
>Perhaps it does, but whenever I read something about the NHS, its a sad story in the Daily Mail about some doctor making a silly mistake that takes a way a father or mother from their children, or vice versa..
The DAILY MAIL. You get your news from the Daily Mail. OK, then.
Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, you read it in the Daily Mail ! It *MUST* be true then :-).
See here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI [youtube.com]
for details...
Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog (Score:5, Funny)
I'd also have to wonder how many >67 yr olds are commenting on slashdot.
You insensitive clod. Haven't you seen how many references to Unix there are here!