Foreign Embassies are not, contrary to popular belief, small parts of foreign soil in the land where they are situated, but are places where the law of the host nation does not run and where the police of the host nation cannot enter. This is a rule of international law and one which every nation exploits. For example the United States of America refuses to pay its diplomats’ congestion charges, claiming that the London Congestion Charge is a Tax. Throughout the world, for good or evil, embassies have shielded persons of interest to the police, for better or worse, whether they be political opponents of a regime or whether they be plain murderers.
Diplomacy must always act like this. It would be impossible for diplomats to conduct business otherwise. Mr Julian Assange has taken advantage of these rules of diplomacy by seeking sanctuary and obtaining it, like some medieval person suspected of crime. But Mr Assange could not in modern times obtain sanctuary in Westminster Abbey. He found sanctuary in the small embassy of the Republic of Ecuador and I have nothing but praise for Ecuador in providing Mr Assange with sanctuary.
Mr Assange is suspected of crime – some kind of sexual molestation- in Sweden. An arrest warrant was issued and upheld by the courts of England, which Mr Assange applied to set aside and failed. The arrest warrant required Mr Assange to go to Sweden and be interrogated about the allegations. He ultimately skipped bail and hid in the Ecuadorian Embassy. So far this sounds simple but the case has many political connotations that go beyond the simple accusation of crime. Mr Assange has caused the publication of many secret communications particularly those of the USA, many of which exposed the callous and illegal abuse and war crimes of the USA. Mr Assange got the information from Bradley Manning, a serving soldier.
Mr Manning was arrested in the USA and now faces trial for his crimes. He claims that he has been abused in prison awaiting trial. The evidence seems overwhelming and if you want to read how it is alleged that the USA treats some of its accused awaiting trial you can do so at http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/
Mr Assange suspects that his arrest warrant in Sweden has been engineered by the USA who wants to get him to Sweden and thence seek his extradition to the USA where after a long trial they can put him in prison and throw away the key for exposing, courtesy of Bradley Manning, the USA’s war crimes in Iraq.
If the sole motive for the Swedes requiring Mr Assange was to interrogate him then there would be no need for Mr Assange to go to Sweden. The Swedish prosecutors could have interrogated Mr Assange in England and no doubt could also interrogate him in the Ecuadorian Embassy. The Swedish Government could also rule out the further extradition of Mr Assange to the USA and then the allegations of sexual molestation could be properly investigated and justice done, whatever justice may be in this case.
However the Swedes have many reasons, none of them to my mind persuasive, why their prosecutors could not travel all the way to London to question Mr Assange. Certainly that would be the speediest and cheapest way to investigate this matter. The USA remains silent. It would love to prosecute Mr Asssange for publishing its secrets, notwithstanding that as I understand it, the publication and all of Mr Assange’s involvement with it, was conducted outside US territory. The USA however regards the whole world as its fiefdom as far as its laws are concerned, as we have seen from many recent events. Mr Assange is rightly concerned that he will be treated like Bradley Manning should he end up in the USA.
We would do well to remember that.
This matter of Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and the extradition proceedings brings shame on the USA, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, all of whom run away from the pursuit of justice, just as Mr Assange is seeking to run away from justice. Ecuador has provided a haven, and has acted with courage that seems curiously lacking in the much larger nations involved in this case.
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someone needs to dig a hole and get him out of there
After being injected with the flu jab, the recipient is then highly contageous during an incubation period of up to a week afterwards.
Assange is a flu boy releasing after the fact, facts to a public in complete confusion, war creates hideous crimes no matter what the theatre, the secret is not to have wars, direct or indirect.
Live and let live, share with all alike, but not an indirect flu type violence to make the problems worse.
If one did some figures on lost earnings due to this negligence of injecting the sums will be astronomical indeed.
Everyone I know who has had the same injection were quite ill and those including my self who came into contact, a bed.
Nice picture of plastic and paper.
Further reading.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex.
A freindly warning way back.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CFoQtwIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8y06NSBBRtY&ei=rSEuUO-PFM-ChQe0m4DgDQ&usg=AFQjCNHIi12c-uMqSShOLfQaZP_Xip8IIw
The real damage done long before this was aired of course.
Smoke and mirrors Rob. Those who get to write history and make the laws to suit future crimes are predominantly immune to suit, as many who have studdied history already know.
Now and again certain scape-goats funded by the same cabal, I might add, are lured into a false term of security and invited to dip into the funded and neutral diplomatic pot, and like all imaginary expences as a political pawn are eaten whole by the funders, for over stepping the mark.
However,
It is know by millions today that how their well being is being secured is for the majority of global souls residing in their countries of real resorces are suffering in their name using the tokens of the same people.
These people have been de-skilled and de-willed, and on the vidual wilfully turn a blind eye in order of their very survival continum. What they have gained in the moment is now coming back to haunt them, cheap proles as chips on their own plate, legs eaten away by themselves, now working their way torsal towards their own hearts.
Assange is the strawman and distraction away from the real problems, David Icke is one of many telling one where to look for the answers to the problem makers sollutions a plenty.
Our freedoms are being erroded from birth and an electronic institutionalisation and new religion in the clouds, once it has been accepted, bought and paid for by the majority, it will be a future where one can cheque out any time you want, but one you will never be able to leave without the knowledge or skills we leave of them.
It has long past Rea’s useless bits of paper flying away from you, but all jammed up with credit debt.
Assange used the information and oldest trick in the book that the pied magpies put there for him. I do the same but have never been paid by those who want a result in a ways as it matters.
From the cradle to the grave, free your minds and do what you know is right, interim, it could just save what is left of humanity.