keep tabs on what's happening throughout the city? They have their eye on every little sparrow. You can't go a half block without being photographed live and in color/facial identification/from several angles. They'd see people coming before they had an opportunity to "mass" in any way.
They'd simply stop the tube (or keep going well past Knightsbridge) and the buses ("We're so sorry, there's interference on the route, your patience is appreciated"
and no one would have any way of getting there. They'd block off the streets so no one could get close if a crowd started to form and move towards the area.
It's a "movie plot" plan, but that's all it is. Before the crowds got large at all, they'd be 'on' it and preventing anyone from getting anywhere near the place. They have some state of the art barricades, too--way better than the stuff the USA has.
Hell, last night there were a dozen to fifteen people, including a few drunks, in front of the Embassy at three in the morning, and the police had three vans with a dozen police in each of them (the vans, of course, would do double-duty as paddy wagons) "just in case."
Those guys know how to do crowd control.
In any event, I'm sure Mister Assange is dancing for joy at his (perhaps temporary) reprieve:
Maybe Correa will make him a citizen and a diplomat--he could leave if this were the case, but Correa would do irreparable damage to his own reputation, diplomatically speaking, if he did do that. Already he's feeling some blowback, the only love he's getting is from the usual crowd that dislikes America's interventions in South America.
I hope he likes Ecuador should that be the case, though, because it's unlikely he'd leave for a long, long time. At least so long as Correa is in power...!
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