Ecuador grants Julian Assange political asylum

[JayL]

The Ecuadorian diplomats have granted Wikileaks' Julian Assange political asylum, however UK has already protested they will not allow him to leave the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19281492

[Zaila]

It's definitly gonna be interesting to see how this situation will end.

[JayL]

inb4 Ecuador is accused of harboring terrorism by the same usual people and who knows end up being our very South American Iran, or maybe even South American Iraq

[Wolfe]

inb4 Ecuador is accused of harboring terrorism by the same usual people and who knows end up being our very South American Iran, or maybe even South American Iraq

We always have to go down this road with ya, don't we ?


Seriously, you love to say how the "capitalists countries" like the USA love to shit on everyone else, yet on every topic you manage to shit on such countries.

[JayL]

We always have to go down this road with ya, don't we ?


Seriously, you love to say how the "capitalists countries" like the USA love to shit on everyone else, yet on every topic you manage to shit on such countries.

Point out another country besides USA (for obvious reasons), UK or Sweden (for being their [euphemism]ally[/euphemism]) which would have a reason to bark at Ecuador for giving the guy political asylum.

[Gabriel_VogelBR]

I think that Unfortunately, Assange will end up being killed by MI-6 or the UK police.
Either that or something huge will happen, like Assange epicly leaving the country James Bond Style.

[Reece]

I think that Unfortunately, Assange will end up being killed by MI-6 or the UK police.
Either that or something huge will happen, like Assange epic
leaving the country James Bond Style.

Poor trolling. 0/10

Why on earth would we shoot him? That would likely spark a majorly international incident....

[Patton]

We always have to go down this road with ya, don't we ?

Why? It's very reasonable to consider JayL's scenario.

[Exterminator]

Poor trolling. 0/10

Why on earth would we shoot him? That would likely spark a majorly international incident....

Not if its an "accident".

[Taylor_P]

The US loves to shove its nose in other people business and for this discussion the UK is acting much like a puppet, maybe because of the Olympics the UK must think its still has some power over the world, hell it cant even take on  the EU and can barely keep its on currency in check with other nations. However I doubt the UK will go to war with Ecuador, but if it does it proves there is no more democracy in the world and Im moving to Canada where it's less likely to get a direct nuclear attack.

[Reece]

The US loves to shove its nose in other people business and for this discussion the UK is acting much like a puppet, maybe because of the Olympics the UK must think its still has some power over the world, hell it cant even take on  the EU and can barely keep its on currency in check with other nations. However I doubt the UK will go to war with Ecuador, but if it does it proves there is no more democracy in the world and Im moving to Canada where it's less likely to get a direct nuclear attack.

WhAt did I just read? Assange is wanted BY SWEDEN NOT THE US. HE HAS  nOT BEEN IDICTED BY THE US YET.

Most countries have agreements with a large number of other countries to extradite criminals under certain conditions.

Clearly we won't go to war over it but assange has broken the conditions of his bail by entering the embaccy so once he leaves the embaccy or their property he will be arrested.

Currency has no relevance to this discussion in any way

[Dolfagr]

He is wanted by the CIA though.

[JDC]

If someone in power really wants to dispose of Assange, then it is most likely that the means used will not be bullets once an agent of that official gets close to Assange.

You are more likely to read the story of some tragic accident, suicide, death by 'disease', et cetera.