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UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange
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."
Is this really so complicated?
Julian Assange is a lowlife piece of garbage who uses and destroys other people for his own ends. His sycophant fans are as legion as stupidity itself.
So the guy is the biggest fucking attention whore on the Intertubes and I don't see why these officials can't comprehend one simple maxim:
Don't. Feed. The. Fucking. Troll.
It's not like this is a new concept, it goes back since small children have done stupid shit for attention, and parents waited for the tantrum to end.
It is that easy. Just let him fucking rot in obscurity.
And it definitely has nothing to do with having sex with a sleeping person (in violation of the terms set when they were awake, not like that matters), pinning down another and trying to force her legs open to have sex without a condom, etc. It's all about Assange. It's always all about Assange. After all, he's God. Actually, that's not my favorite of Assange's diary entries; that has to be the one where he says that there will be no great breakthroughs by women in the field of mathematics because " they need a male type brain to thrive in the existing mathematical world..", but he hopes that a (presumably male) neuroscientist will create a new "female" mathematics for them to help them out.
This. This right fucking here.
The downright worship of this attention seeking, egotistical and (possibly) rapist here and on other websites is just mind blowing. He didn't do a damned thing for the good of humanity and he never has. It has always been about attention for Julian Assange. People on here act like he's such a brave guy. Never mind all the people who may have been killed, directly or indirectly, by wikileaks blasting diplomatic cables all over the place. Never mind that he/they have only "over turned power and exposed secrets" when it negatively impacted the West and/or the US. Unless, of course we're supposed to believe that he/they were never handed any embarrassing information or secrets about China/Iran/Russia/whoever. Nope, just the US and the West. No agenda there, is there?
As Rei here said too, this isn't about making an example out of the douchebag. This is about him having been accused of a pretty serious crime, which many around here just want to say is no big deal, and him trying to dodge his day in court. Like a douchebag.
If the US, being the "super evil country" it is, wanted him gone they would have done it far more quietly than all this crap. Odd that never occurs to people...
I was raised on the command line, bitch
"Nemo me impune lacesset"
If Dick Cheney went to London and wasn't arrested,
1) it would be because he was being treated unusually lightly rather than because people like Assange are treated unusually harshly
2) he would probably be in the embassy to conduct business that requires being in an embassy, with evading the law being a side effect, rather than that being the sole reason he's there
3) the criminal charges against him are trumped up for political purposes in the first place. They wanted to create anti-US headlines, not to actually put Cheney in prison
4) the criminal charges were brought by a government, Malaysia, which is notorious for human rights abuses itself, so the UK has no reason to pay much attention to it
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