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In reply to the discussion: Vivienne Westwood uses London Fashion Week to declare support for Assange [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)The U.K.'s back-pedaling doesn't make it not a threat. All of Latin America was up in arms about it! It was as plain a threat as it could be.
And now the U.K. is acting just like the communist dictatorship of Hungary did, when they denied Cardinal Mindszenty passage out of Hungary, after the U.S. embassy granted Mindszenty asylum. They kept him holed up in the U.S. embassy for 15 years!
You think that's a good model of behavior for the U.K.?
It does tell us something, though, about the dictatorial mind-set of those who desperately want Assange in custody and the poodle mindset of those who tried to contrive it.
Bloody disgusting, is what it is. The set-up: not questioning him (repeatedly), not charging him with anything, telling him he could leave the country then pursuing him with a warrant "for questioning"; the U.K. court buying this crapola, then the U.K. threatening to storm the Ecuadoran embassy when Ecuador, very appropriately, granted him asylum and now the U.K. essentially holding him prisoner in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, just like Cardinal Mindszenty!
You gotta wonder what the political powers-that-be in Sweden and the U.K. got in exchange for running rampant over Assange's rights and dumping this bomb into the diplomatic community, that they might just storm and grab this man that they so desperately wanted in custody, who was not charged with any crime. Did they get their payoff? Was it withheld because they didn't succeed? What was the pay-off?