When I was a boy, England was still the Big Bully Nation around the
world. "The Sun never set on the British Empire!"
Today, England is a mousey old "Milk toast", with his head tucked
beneath his wing, meekly staying in the shadow of his Big Bully Boss.
How the "mighty" have fallen.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/12/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Absolutely unfair! Great Britain won't let Assange leave the embassy
without
arresting him even though Sweden dropped charges. England is acting on
behalf of the US government.
Miriam
Ecuador Grants Assange Citizenship, Seeks Solution With Britain
By Reuters
11 January 18
Ecuador has given citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has
been holed up in the country's London embassy for over five years, and is
seeking a "dignified and just" solution to his situation with Britain.
The British government said earlier on Thursday it had refused a request by
Ecuador for Assange to be given diplomatic status as part of the South
American country's efforts to resolve his dilemma.
Assange has been living in the building in Knightsbridge, London since he
was granted asylum there in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over rape
allegations.
Swedish prosecutors dropped their probe into the allegations but British
police said Assange would be arrested for breaching bail conditions if he
left the embassy.
Assange, who denies the allegations, feared Sweden would hand him over to
the United States to face prosecution over WikiLeaks' publication of
thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents in one of the
largest information leaks in U.S. history.
"Ecuador is currently exploring other solutions in dialogue with the UK,
like good offices of renowned authorities, other states, or international
organizations that could facilitate a just, final and dignified solution
for
all parties," Ecuador's foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa told a
press conference.
"There are well-founded fears we have about possible risks to his life and
integrity, not necessarily by the UK but by third party states."
She did not give details on how granting Assange citizenship might help in
avoiding his arrest by British police.
For some, Assange is a cyber hero for exposing government abuses of power
and championing free speech but to others he is a criminal who has
undermined the security of the West by exposing secrets.
"Ecuador knows that the way to resolve this issue is for Julian Assange to
leave the embassy to face justice," said a British Foreign Office
spokesman.
The former computer hacker enraged Washington by publishing hundreds of
thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables that laid bare often highly
critical U.S. appraisals of world leaders from Russian President Vladimir
Putin to the Saudi royal family.
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