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Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil'
The Daily Mail reports that Julian Assange seems to have yet another foe (or at least friend of a foe) watching persistently while he stays put in the Ecuadorean embassy in London: Harrod's Department Store. The Metro Police, according to Assange, have developed a relationship with the store, and are using that relationship to facilitate their full-time observation of his roosting place in the embassy. When the founder of Wikileaks says, "We have obtained documents from Harrods [saying that] police have people stationed 24 hours a day in some of the opposing buildings Harrods controls," it seems likely that those documents actually exist.
That's what he wants you to believe.
Every time I grow concerned that I've gone from skeptic to cynic something inevitably vindicates my position.
This situation with Mr. Assange is strange enough that I'm simply going to watch what happens. I also have a hard time believing that there is no way for him to leave the Embassy if Ecuador wanted to get him out of the Embassy. I have no doubt that they have either diplomatic means to move him or they have the ability to smuggle him in a way that the Brits could not investigate without causing a major diplomatic incident. If that's true then a lot of what we're seeing is theatrics on both sides.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Given that several of his leaks were ABOUT people being whisked off without bothering over any sort of trial nonsense, I have to wonder why you don't?
But I'm sure they just mobilized all those police outside the embassy to ask him about wearing a condom that night and the breakfast she made him after.