UK threatens to assault Ecuadorian Embassy, lulz ensues

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08...of-embassy?lite

We won't actually do anything like that.

It's probably to maintain face with the US before we let him quietly slip away in a suitcase.

I hope we do let him slip away.

It'd be a shame to see the US swoop on him.

Why? This is a man who has decided that the informants whose names he failed to redact 'deserve to die'. This is a man who is so keen on 'truth and justice' that he has simultaneously endangered thousands whilst deciding himself to be above the law.

If so innocent, why hide?

He's also a paranoid anti-semite who has turned on the newspaper that supported him

He's also stupid if he thinks going to Sweden puts him in greater risk of being bagged by the US than staying in Britain.

Best thing he could've done was to hire the best lawyer money can buy and then turn up at court in Sweden.

Assaulting embassies should remain privilege of primitive middle eastern cesspools.

And of course students...

The US will "swoop in on him" as you put it, no matter where he goes. I'll sure as hell shed no tears when he shows up in a US courtroom and is found guilty in a court of law. The bastard deserves to rot in jail for publically displaying information that could get service members killed. I hope that they give him solitary confinement for life.

Some fairly important allegations came out of it, and US forces realised how crap their monitoring of supposedly classified data was, which is a security leak which has surely now been plugged, which can only benefit them in the long run.
Plus the diplomatic embarrassments from the wikileaks scandal will hopefully encourage governments to tread more lightly.

He's an attention whore. Notably if you pay attention, he's also been subject to a bit of harassment by the US government (ranging from Wired's announcement of Wikileak's second release first), but that's to be expected. You don't mess with the government.

I anticipate this: http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_323_29629.php

Why? This is a man who has decided that the informants whose names he failed to redact 'deserve to die'. This is a man who is so keen on 'truth and justice' that he has simultaneously endangered thousands whilst deciding himself to be above the law.

If so innocent, why hide?

He's also a paranoid anti-semite who has turned on the newspaper that supported him

Because Samo is a Eurotrash cunt who would see a guilty man go free because he risks the lives of Americans, and give the US government a black eye, so to that end he couldve been eating babies and clubbing old grandmothers to death for lunch and Samo would still jerk off to him not going to trial...Eurotrash Cunt.

My money is on him not slipping away, since Britain itself hasnt yet been reduced to a nation full of simple minded twaddle.

Not to mention I seriously doubt the Brits will sit by while fucking Ecuador thumbs their nose at them. Now that may very well mean that simply they will wait him out...he cant stay there forever.

Why? This is a man who has decided that the informants whose names he failed to redact 'deserve to die'. This is a man who is so keen on 'truth and justice' that he has simultaneously endangered thousands whilst deciding himself to be above the law.

If so innocent, why hide?

He's also a paranoid anti-semite who has turned on the newspaper that supported him

Because Samo is a Eurotrash cunt who would see a guilty man go free because he risks the lives of Americans, and give the US government a black eye, so to that end he couldve been eating babies and clubbing old grandmothers to death for lunch and Samo would still jerk off to him not going to trial...Eurotrash Cunt.

My money is on him not slipping away, since Britain itself hasnt yet been reduced to a nation full of simple minded twaddle.

Not to mention I seriously doubt the Brits will sit by while fucking Ecuador thumbs their nose at them. Now that may very well mean that simply they will wait him out...he cant stay there forever.

Would just like to point out that America wasn't the only nation exposed in the cables.
Though it obviously came out worse from it, as they were largely from US sources and because there was clearly so much classified that probably ought never have been done.

Like, for example, the allegations of fudging civilian casualties in Iraq into enemy combatants, including the infamous Reuters journalism killing, continued prisoner abuse post-Abu Graibh and that the Obama administration supposedly sweetened the nuclear treaty with Russia by allowing the Russians to track all Trident missiles that were issued to the British forces.

Further not denying the risk and possible deaths that come associated with release of information like this, but as I keep saying - if security really was lax enough for Manning to have not only acquired the cables in the first place, but in the way he had done it (inserting blank CDs into a computer and downloading them), it was an accident waiting to happen, whether Assange had ever picked up on it or not.

I don't see him any different than any other whistleblower, only he had more information which was more damaging and carried far more risks in its publication.
I don't believe Morland was incarcerated for attempting and subsequently successfully publishing nuclear secrets (namely the Tellar-Ulam bomb design, or his approximation to it, which is still regarded outside the actual field as one of very few detailed sources), though Vanunu was. Vanunu however tried publishing the actual nuclear programme of Israel, which is probably made worse for him as Israel has its policy of neither confirming nor denying nuclear arsenal.

Legally the UK can storm the embassy after a weeks notice as per the 1987 act. Since Ecuador obviously doesn't want to co-operate, you can put coin on the fact that the Met Police will definitely be in there next weekend.

Regardless of his past; he's been charged with rape. No matter how bs the charges are, he needs to put on a suit and face trial. Maybe the women are lying, maybe they aren't. Claiming unlikelyhood of a fair trial is something that needs to be declared in a legal defence to an impartial judge and not by refusing to face court.

Agree with Lamoni and Mikedor. He isn't a whisteblower or a champion of free press, he's a giant douche who posted classified information for the sake of doing so without caring as to the consequences. No amount of "good" that came from his actions will ever justify what he did.

Why? This is a man who has decided that the informants whose names he failed to redact 'deserve to die'. This is a man who is so keen on 'truth and justice' that he has simultaneously endangered thousands whilst deciding himself to be above the law.

If so innocent, why hide?

He's also a paranoid anti-semite who has turned on the newspaper that supported him

Because Samo is a Eurotrash cunt who would see a guilty man go free because he risks the lives of Americans, and give the US government a black eye, so to that end he couldve been eating babies and clubbing old grandmothers to death for lunch and Samo would still jerk off to him not going to trial...Eurotrash Cunt.

My money is on him not slipping away, since Britain itself hasnt yet been reduced to a nation full of simple minded twaddle.

Not to mention I seriously doubt the Brits will sit by while fucking Ecuador thumbs their nose at them. Now that may very well mean that simply they will wait him out...he cant stay there forever.

Would just like to point out that America wasn't the only nation exposed in the cables.
Though it obviously came out worse from it, as they were largely from US sources and because there was clearly so much classified that probably ought never have been done.

Like, for example, the allegations of fudging civilian casualties in Iraq into enemy combatants, including the infamous Reuters journalism killing, continued prisoner abuse post-Abu Graibh and that the Obama administration supposedly sweetened the nuclear treaty with Russia by allowing the Russians to track all Trident missiles that were issued to the British forces.

Further not denying the risk and possible deaths that come associated with release of information like this, but as I keep saying - if security really was lax enough for Manning to have not only acquired the cables in the first place, but in the way he had done it (inserting blank CDs into a computer and downloading them), it was an accident waiting to happen, whether Assange had ever picked up on it or not.

I don't see him any different than any other whistleblower, only he had more information which was more damaging and carried far more risks in its publication.
I don't believe Morland was incarcerated for attempting and subsequently successfully publishing nuclear secrets (namely the Tellar-Ulam bomb design, or his approximation to it, which is still regarded outside the actual field as one of very few detailed sources), though Vanunu was. Vanunu however tried publishing the actual nuclear programme of Israel, which is probably made worse for him as Israel has its policy of neither confirming nor denying nuclear arsenal.

Like I said.

Rape is okay, so long as its a black-eye for Americans.

Whistleblower? Im sorry I was unaware he worked in US intelligence, or in the Military. Oh no he illegally received classified information then made it public. Thats not a whistleblower.

But you are still Eurotrash.

Assange is a first class shitbag, and Wikileaks is better off with him out of the picture.