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Originally Posted by Derek
Why? It's not a citizen of Ecquador who is hiding out. It's someone trading on the fact the President of Ecquador was slagged off by the US and is willing to let him kip on the couch in their embassy as a GIRUY to the USA.
He was also happy to grab money from supporters to get bail and leave them hanging in the wind when he went running for cover.
Let him sit there as long as he wants and lift him the second he comes out for air. That said it would be terrible if there was a fire alarm there causing the building to be evacuated...
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Because The UK would (seemingly) be the only country in the world that seems willing to not respect the international convention that Embassies are part of the territory of the country in question. In doing so, the UK is sticking two fingers up to the rest of the world, and saying 'We don't care about diplomatic convention'. If we want to invade your embassy we will.
The fact that this case happens to be about Assange is neither here nor there. I'm not a great fan. In fact, I think he's an irresponsible moron. I just think that diplomatic convention is there for a reason, and we should not pick and choose when we do and don't follow it.
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Originally Posted by Derek
AFAIK the rules allowing revocation of status were put in place after PC Yvonne Fletcher was murdered and the killer fled justice. It's not a new law they have just come up with and I believe it's only been used once before.
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I might be wrong, but there's no mention of it ever being used on
Wiki, so my guess is that it would be a first.