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Ecuador President Rafael “We Are Not A Colony” Correa Stands Up To The Jackbooted British Gestapo
Paul Craig Roberts ^ | 8-16-2012 | Paul Craig Roberts

Posted on 08/17/2012 10:08:44 AM PDT by Renfield

A coward dies many deaths; a brave man dies but once.

The once proud British government, now reduced to Washington’s servile whore, put on its Gestapo Jackboots and declared that if the Ecuadorean Embassy in London did not hand over WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, British storm troopers would invade the embassy with military force and drag Assange out. Ecuador stood its ground. “We want to be very clear, we are not a British colony,” declared Ecuador’s Foreign Minister. Far from being intimidated the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, replied to the threat by granting Assange political asylum. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/world/americas/ecuador-to-let-assange-stay-in-its-embassy.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&emc=na

The once law-abiding British government had no shame in announcing that it would violate the Vienna Convention and assault the Ecuadorean Embassy, just as the Islamic students in the 1979 Khomeini Revolution in Iran took over the US Embassy and held the diplomatic staff captive. Pushed by their Washington overlords, the Brits have resorted to the tactics of a pariah state. Maybe we should be worried about British nuclear weapons.

Let’s be clear, Assange is not a fugitive from justice. He has not been charged with any crime in any country. He has not raped any women. There are no indictments pending in any court, and as no charges have been brought against him, there is no validity to the Swedish extradition request. It is not normal for people to be extradited for questioning, especially when, as in Assange’s case, he expressed his complete cooperation with being questioned a second time by Swedish officials in London.

What is this all about? First, according to news reports, Assange was picked up by two celebrity-hunting Swedish women who took him home to their beds. Later for reasons unknown, one complained that he had not used a condom, and the other complained that she had offered one helping, but he had taken two. A Swedish prosecutor looked into the case, found that there was nothing to it, and dismissed the case.

Assange left for England. Then another Swedish prosecutor, a woman, claiming what authority I do not know, reopened the case and issued an extradition order for Assange. This is such an unusual procedure that it worked its way through the entire British court system to the Supreme Court and then back to the Supreme Court on appeal. In the end British “justice” did what the Washington overlord ordered and came down on the side of the strange extradition request.

Assange, realizing that the Swedish government was going to turn him over to Washington to be held in indefinite detention, tortured, and framed as a spy, sought protection from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. As corrupt as the British are, the UK government was unwilling to release Assange directly to Washington. By turning him over to Sweden, the British could feel that their hands were clean.

Sweden, formerly an honorable country like Canada once was where American war resisters could seek asylum, has been suborned and brought under Washington’s thumb. Recently, Swedish diplomats were expelled from Belarus where they seem to have been involved in helping Washington orchestrate a “color revolution” as Washington keeps attempting to extend its bases and puppet states deeper into traditional Russia.

The entire world, including Washington’s servile puppet states, understands that once Assange is in Swedish hands, Washington will deliver an extradition order, with which Sweden, unlike the British, would comply. Regardless, Ecuador understands this. The Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced that Ecuador granted Assange asylum because “there are indications to presume that there could be political persecution.” In the US, Patino acknowledged, Assange would not get a fair trial and could face the death penalty in a trumped up case.

The US Puppet State of Great (sic) Britain announced that Assange would not be permitted to leave Britain. So much for the British government’s defense of law and human rights. If the British do not invade the Ecuadorean Embassy and drag Assange out dead or in chains, the British position is that Assange will live out his life inside the London Embassy of Ecuador. According to the New York Times, Assange’s asylum leaves him “with protection from arrest only on Ecuadorean territory (which includes the embassy). To leave the embassy for Ecuador, he would need cooperation that Britain has said it will not offer.” When it comes to Washington’s money or behaving honorably in accordance with international law, the British government comes down on the side of money.

The Anglo-American world, which pretends to be the moral face of humanity has now revealed for all to see that under the mask is the face of the Gestapo.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: assange; blindmisleadingblind; britain; johnanthonywest; morethorazineplease; paulcraigroberts; spotthelooney; tyranny
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To: Renfield

Renfield is spot on with Assange, he is a tool of control/propaganda by the powers that cannot be named. The prick should be water boarded to be sure though.


21 posted on 08/17/2012 12:01:48 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: varyouga

You said it even better than I could...a succinct post.


22 posted on 08/17/2012 3:03:12 PM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: Renfield

Here’s the Ecuador connection:

Correa has expelled three of our ambassadors since he took office in 2007.

We became aware of massive corruption by Correa and his henchmen. Many secured emails were sent by our embassy back to DC with details and those emails named our sources within the Ecuadoran government.

Assange and Wikileaks obtained about 1,500 of our secret emails on the subject of corruption but only released one that got our ambassador Heather Hodges expelled in 2010.

Now Assange gets arrested and ordered deported to Sweden. Assange has offered the rest of the emails to Ecuador in return for citizenship.

As soon as Assange is an Ecuadoran citizen, Ecuador plans to make Assange a diplomat and he would then be free to travel to Ecuador under diplomatic immunity.

If Ecuador get those emails, there will be a purge of Ecuadoran officials that informed on Correa or are working for us as agents. They will likely be executed or murdered.

This is a deadly business Assange is playing in.


23 posted on 08/17/2012 3:05:27 PM PDT by gandalftb (The art of diplomacy says "nice doggie", until you find a bigger rock.)
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To: FredZarguna

Wake up. PCR is doing his best work now.


24 posted on 08/17/2012 3:05:42 PM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: Renfield; Nachum; Cindy; G8 Diplomat; AdmSmith; Dog; nuconvert; Straight Vermonter; dervish; ...

Here’s the Ecuador connection:

Correa has expelled three of our ambassadors since he took office in 2007.

We became aware of massive corruption by Correa and his henchmen. Many secured emails were sent by our embassy back to DC with details and those emails named our sources within the Ecuadoran government.

Assange and Wikileaks obtained about 1,500 of our secret emails on the subject of corruption but only released one that got our ambassador Heather Hodges expelled in 2010.

Now Assange gets arrested and ordered deported to Sweden. Assange has offered the rest of the emails to Ecuador in return for citizenship.

As soon as Assange is an Ecuadoran citizen, Ecuador plans to make Assange a diplomat and he would then be free to travel to Ecuador under diplomatic immunity.

If Ecuador get those emails, there will be a purge of Ecuadoran officials that informed on Correa or are working for us as agents. They will likely be executed or murdered.

This is a deadly business Assange is playing in.


25 posted on 08/17/2012 3:06:20 PM PDT by gandalftb (The art of diplomacy says "nice doggie", until you find a bigger rock.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
"I've even visited one or two Fourth World nations"

So tell me, how was Dallas?

The Kenyan must go.

26 posted on 08/17/2012 3:51:28 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: Renfield
Most students and critics of art agree that Van Gogh's work improved as he got crazier.

But what works in art doesn't pass for reasoned analysis.

Ecuador is a cesspool and Julie has access to US sources harmful to their kleptocrats. This little pervert is trading their lives for his freedom. He's a worthless puke, and so is anyone defending him.

27 posted on 08/17/2012 4:02:32 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Paul Craig Roberts: now with 50% more Crazy.)
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To: gandalftb

Anybody who infuriates politicians and diplomats like Assange should be regarded as a hero.

All he has done is release information.

He has never fired a shot in anger, nor started a war. You cannot say that about his vile enemies.


28 posted on 08/17/2012 4:24:57 PM PDT by Bon mots ("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
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To: gandalftb; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks gandalftb.


29 posted on 08/17/2012 4:26:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.theamazonpost.com/)
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To: Renfield

Paul Craig Roberts is a lunatic. He is supporting a communist government aiding an anarchist because Roberts hates American foreign policy.
PCR lost his mind on 9/11


30 posted on 08/18/2012 3:53:51 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Bon mots

He released unredacted information naming informants working with US and allied forces in Afghanistan amongst other things, for which they and their families have been put at risk of torture and/or death at the hands of the Taliban. For that reason alone he deserves an ignominious fate. He is no hero to anyone except the forces of chaos and evil.


31 posted on 08/19/2012 10:36:29 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: bkepley

The “rape” is what’s known in espionage cirlces as a “honey trap.” Someone as morally loose as Assange would fall right into such a trap. But if it’s really rape, then Joy Behar will be the next Miss Universe.


32 posted on 08/20/2012 4:09:50 PM PDT by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: Bon mots

Assange a hero?

Correa stopped allowing us to use any Ecuadoran airfields for drug interdiction because Correa is in bed with the drug cartels.

Assange was given secret US embassy emails regarding what the US was doing to protect its own citizens.

Those emails named Ecuadoran citizens helping to stop the drug trade. How do you think they will live if Assange gives those emails to Correa who will give them to the drug cartels?

Assange will be directly responsible for the deaths of others by pointing out their identity to people that will kill them.

Do you propose that we publish the locations and new identity of those in the witness protection program?

After all, it’s just information.


33 posted on 08/21/2012 11:47:40 AM PDT by gandalftb (The art of diplomacy says "nice doggie", until you find a bigger rock.)
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