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lol govt is buttmad right now
Ecuador will grant Julian Assange's request for political asylum. An Ecuador official told The Guardian that the country's president, who earlier indicated his decision would arrive after the Olympic Games, will approve the request Assange made in June.
"Government sources in Quito confirmed that despite the outstanding legal issues Correa would grant Assange asylum – a move which would annoy Britain, the US and Sweden. They added that the offer was made to Assange several months ago, well before he sought refuge in the embassy, and following confidential negotiations with senior London embassy staff. The official with knowledge of the discussions said the embassy had discussed Assange's asylum request. The British government, however, 'discouraged the idea,' the offical said. The Swedish government was also 'not very collaborative,' the official said. The official added: 'We see Assange's request as a humanitarian issue. The contact between the Ecuadorean government and WikiLeaks goes back to May 2011, when we became the first country to see the leaked US embassy cables completely declassified ... It is clear that when Julian entered the embassy there was already some sort of deal. We see in his work a parallel with our struggle for national sovereignty and the democratisation of international relations.'"
lol govt is buttmad right now
Excellent news.
Go Julian Go, kick some ass.
lol Good for Ecuador.
His 15 min are over
humanitarian asylum givin to a ruthless tyrant who never gave a bout humanism when he was in power
who was he a tyrant of, rogue? he never ruled any countries
I'm sure the US will respect Ecuador's sovereignty and the rule of law.
sorry i just looked dumb one more time i thinkbut how come an Australian journalist & talkshow hosts needed to seek asylum? so people outside of china/russia also getting prosecuted for telling the truth?
^he pissed off the american govt that's why
the assholes who hijacked our country love the commie model so much that they are trying furiously to imitate it i think. power hungry tyrants are still tyrants no matter which country they are in tbh.
If they really wanted that guy dead, he would already be dead
wrong. means wikileaks has a safe home now.
really?
WikiLeaks suffers weeklong denial-of-service attack
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/08/14/w...ervice-attack/
and Julian, when you sleep with a lady, try to assure she isn't working for the CIA next time.
What does Guatemala get from this BS,they are just agitating the countries with actual pull in all of this.
He could shack up with this guy.
old news. it's over now.
I had forgotten wikileaks until this thread. SNL hasn't spoofed him for over a year.
Kind of like old ST threads -- forgotten until winehole bumps them
you hate updated threads for some reason?
history is continuous, not atomistic.
besides, you don't even read the goddam threads, Darrin. there's no goddam difference between new and stale if you don't read em to begin with.
This guy is committed too. We will hear from him again.
The world is safer and smarter and wiser with guys like him.
checks and balances on a whole new level.
He is so dangerous to the govts of the world, I wouldn't be surprised if they try.
Well there's one thing that is much better than dead - it's complete discreditation.
wikileaks has been discredited? do tell.
update:
QUITO, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Ecuador denied a report on Tuesday that it had granted amnesty to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the country's foreign minister said only he and President Rafael Correa could make the decision.
Assange has been taking refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for the past eight weeks to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on sex crime allegations.
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