Ecuador says Britain withdraws threat to raid embassy in Assange standoff

[sabrina 1]

25. He didn't claim to be facing danger in Britain. He got asylum based on the danger he faces

from the Right Wing morons in the US calling for his assassination. Considering that some of them are, shamefully, elected officials here and no one in authority reprimanded them or apologized for their insanity, as the Canadians did with their lunatic, combined with the GJ struggling to find a crime to charge a journalist with, Ecuador, a sovereign country, believed that the threat of possible extradition to the US was enough to grant him asylum.

Correa, like Chavez and most of the new Democratic Leaders of South America are smart people. The old Colonialist racism of course cannot conceive of anyone from outside of Euerope or the US being smart, which in a way benefits them.

The huge support for Ecuador from the OAS shows how the world views the Western Colonialists. And how damaged the reputation of this country is by the war crimes, rapes and torture eg, that have gone unpunished here.

The world saw the treatment of Bradley Manning also, which as predicted by P.J. Crowley would harm the US. All in all we are feared more by the rest of the world than any terrorist threat.

I was hoping that in 2008 with a clean sweep of the old Bush regime, and Republicans in Congress, the US could begin to repair its image as a bad image weakens a country. Instead, the world learned that war criminals would not be punished, leading the world to believe that it was not just Republicans, that it is US policy now to torture, kill, assassinate without trial, whoever they feel like.

It would be wise for the US now to take a huge lesson from this incident. It was the world telling us we are viewed as untrustworthy, a violator of human rights who, rather than punish war criminals, protects them. What we do with that lesson is up to us.