Ecuador says it should be compensated for housing Julian Assange in embassy

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Agence France-Presse in Quito
Thursday 4 February 2016 20.22 EST

Ecuador has suggested it deserves compensation for housing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its London embassy ...

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1. Ecuador seeks compensation for holding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

By Vasudevan Sridharan
February 5, 2016 04:06 GMT

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has sought compensation for holding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for more than three years in its embassy in London. The south American leader's comments have come in the wake of a UN panel's imminent ruling on Assange's detention.

With the UN expert panel widely expected to rule in favour of the 44-year-old Australian, Correa told reporters: "That shows we were right, after so many years" ...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ecuador-seeks-compensation-holding-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-1542084

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. !!!

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6. ..."What are we going to do about the stone in the shoe?" ... "Not my stone, not my shoe" ...

Someone's leaving Ecuador's embassy... but it's not Julian Assange
Kevin Rawlinson
Saturday 8 June 2013
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ios-exclusive-someones-leaving-ecuadors-embassy-but-its-not-julian-assange-8650773.html

[Tarheel_Dem]

20. I have no doubt some will kick in to pay his bills. I'm always amused at what people are willing to

throw their money away on. As someone suggested downthread, "kickstarter" or go fund me would probably go nuts for Assange.

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3. By whom?

They made the choice. They did not have to give him asylum. He's their problem!

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7. +

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16. LOL!

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9. The Swedes will have to pay!

As soon as Mexico pays for that wall.

Jesus, they're all fucking crazy. Has Greenwald chimed in yet?

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12. Glenn and Julian may be studiously ignoring each other: I think they had a falling out

several years back

Julian Assange Is Angry At Glenn Greenwald And He’s Not Going To Take It Anymore
War of the whistleblowers.
posted on May 19, 2014, at 8:47 p.m.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamberger/julian-assange-is-angry-at-glenn-greenwald-and-hes-not-going#.kv4w6l5p32

The Wikileaks vs Greenwald Twitter Fight
http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2014/05/the-wikileaks-vs-greenwald-twitter-fight-julian-assange-threatens-to-reveal-deadly-nsa-info.html

[Cali_Democrat]

22. Good question.

LOL

[irisblue]

4. Send Assange the bill nt

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17. The least he could do is write a book

to raise some cash!

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21. Probably will.

Hey! If Andrea Mitchell can write a book...

[randome]

5. Kickstarter campaign!

Rich diplomats need compensation for their slavish devotion to J. Assange! Come on everyone, dig deep!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

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8. That would be justice, as Ecuador has stood up for democracy, unlike the USA, UK, Sweden.

Those nations I once considered at the forefront of human rights. Now they are singing the same "money trumps peace" and everything else song.

What Assange and WikiLeaks did was expose criminality on the part of the US government.

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13. Ecuador should obviously sue Sweden to recover costs associated with detaining Assange!

Crikey! Here Ecuador has been selflessly helping Sweden keep Assange in custody for three and a half years, and now Sweden ungraciously pretends CIA operatives in Stockholm did not trick Assange into staying at Ecuador's London Embassy Suite hostel!

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15. Who gets stuck with the tab for a war sold on lies?

How many dead? How many trillions?

And you defend those persecuting a journalist?

Jeez.

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10. Assange isn't paying them anything?

Suckers...

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19. BT, I just had to clean off my monitor. Your sig line....

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11. ...

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14. I always enjoy reading some humor on DU

among all the other serious and depressing news.

Ecuador chose to provide sanctuary to Assange, no less at no cost to him.

Too bad, so sad.

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18. Laughable n/t