Assange will be refused safe passage even if Ecuador grants asylum - Foreign Office

[ljm2002]

17. If G.B. goes so far as to revoke the embassy's status...

...so they can enter it, then I for one will be demonstrating in front of the nearest G.B. embassy. That would be an outrageous and unprecedented breach of international law and cannot be allowed to stand -- unless of course we are prepared for the world's legal underpinnings to change once and for all.

I say this as someone who recognizes that Assange is no saint. On the other hand, he has provided the means for people to reveal secrets that should be revealed -- not only war crimes by U.S. soldiers, but government corruption in several other countries as well.

Whatever one thinks of the Assange situation, revoking the embassy's status solely for the purpose of retrieving someone who was granted asylum there is illegal, immoral, untenable and intolerable.