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From Real News: Ecuador Defies UK/US Pressure, Gives Assange Assylum (Original Post) geefloyd46 Aug 2012 OP
Good for Ecuador and Assange magic59 Aug 2012 #1
Britain and Sweden are disgracing themselves. sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #2
 

magic59

(429 posts)
1. Good for Ecuador and Assange
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 12:26 PM
Aug 2012

Its about time a country has the balls to tell the biggest bullies on the block to kiss my azz!

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
2. Britain and Sweden are disgracing themselves.
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 04:23 PM
Aug 2012

Pinochet was not extradicted by Britain to Spain to face actual charges of genocide. I guess merely being wanted for questioning, even when there are no charges, if you commit the crime of Journalism is far more serious is a far worse crime than genocide, in the eyes of Sweden and the UK.

Thanks Ecuador, for demonstrating the right of all persecuted human beings, people under threat of imprisonment or their lives, to seek asylum. The UK appears to have forgotten those rights.

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