I can't see the police entering the Ecuadorian embassy. Big mistake if they do.

Gilly wrote: His escape plan may have a flaw.
I tried to get cycling directions from London to Quito, Ecuador but Google maps failed.
"We could not calculate directions between London, UK and Quito Canton, Ecuador."

The Ecuador President is holding the UK to just about every International law, bill of rights and treaty.

As a country we are about to go the way of John Bolton.

andyh wrote: Ya think?

McKinnon admitted he was digging around for UFO/Alien records. It would be easy for them to dismiss him as "a bit mental", annoying security breach but not much fallout from his actions.

Assange and Manning however opened huge cans of worms and had them grovelling and scrambling for cover.
They'll want revenge for that big time.

feather wrote:
There's been other such people in the past who were dismissed in the way you mention.
It suggests McKinnon saw something or they wouldn't be interested imho. It might not have been about UFO's.

Granted by the President of Ecuador

mikey mikey wrote:
Britain has been circumventing International law and convention for quite a while.......
The time is now people. Time to ram it up their poopshutes.

andyh wrote: Aye true mate.
You'd think they'd just come right out and tell us .......

Ohh!

mikey mikey wrote: Now all they have to do it get him past all the police and ports to Ecuador.

Game on.

The UK is now in a position to put at risk many of their Embassies around the world.

International Law of the Viena convention trumps both our legal obligation to the European arrest decision and their own obscure Embassy bashing law (which was only used in cases of violence and terrorism) so the legal case is clear.

feather wrote:
If they had any sense they would have done it all already
I can't see how he's getting out unless they have scotty and a teleporter in there if he's not already gone

mikey mikey wrote:
Yes, it's an unbelievably stupid act that is bound to have repercussions for British embassies all around the world. And all for the sake of the one-way "special relationship".

Calls for the resignation of the Billy Hague the Foreign Sickratery

dreamweaver wrote:
It really makes the UK foreign policy clear:

@USA: anything you say.

@rest of the World: fuck you

mikey mikey wrote:
No disrespect to JA but those calls should have been coming last week at the latest.

agreed dub

andyh wrote:

"...Legal expert and former U.K. government lawyer Carl Gardner wrote on Twitter: "It's hard to think how Assange could leave the embassy, escape arrest and get on a plane. Except as Ecuador's new representative to the U.N."

Should Assange remain in Ecuadorian diplomatic territory, such as within an Ecuadorian diplomatic car between the embassy and an airport, Assange could potentially remain free from U.K. intervention. However, British police could still halt the vehicle to force him back onto U.K. soil.
Opinion is also split on whether the U.K. is duty bound under U.N. human rights legislation to allow Assange protected passage from the country if asylum is granted..."

"...The U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague can remove legal status from any embassy without needing to take the matter to Parliament, according to section 1(3) of the law, provided the U.K. complied with international law.
"We are in uncharted territory here," said Gardner on BBC's Radio 4 morning show."

news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57494222-38/w...d-asylum-in-ecuador/

Gilly wrote:
lol yeh they could give him a job and diplomatic passport that would actually be one way round it.

The alternative is to squeeze him into a diplomatic bag

UK government to block wikileaks

www.francisdavey.co.uk/2009/12/governmen...powers-to-block.html