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

[riderinthestorm]

38. Whatever the truth is about these allegations, they don't rise to the level of this kind of reaction

by the UK. This kind of international incident is unprecedented. The UK is basically willing to overthrow centuries of diplomatic law and tradition over these "allegations" which are by no means as clear as the court docs imply. The women did not want to press rape charges (in fact they bragged about sleeping with him, continued partying with him days later, have publicly said they don't believe Assange is violent nor do they fear him), the case was initially dropped but was resurrected after Wikileaks published US war crimes evidence.

This "outrage" is akin to Henry Hyde's "outrage" over Clinton's "perjury". The impeachment was about the perjury, the perjury, the perjury instead of what everyone on the planet could see - it was about taking down one of the most effective presidents on the face of the planet.