Ecuador is not a colony of Great Britain. Tonight at 10.
The story of the attempted extradition of Julian Assange has grown larger than just the one about the persecution of lifesaving whistle blowers by the United States and its imperial allies. It's also about the autonomy of nations on the globe that don't control the world's financial markets or military firepower. According to officials in Ecuador, the British government has threatened to invade the Ecuadorean embassy in London in order to arrest Assange. The WikiLeaks founder is receiving political asylum at the embassy in order to be protected from a United States government that issues official legal arguments in support of its right to torture political opponents, and, according to Amnesty International, executes more prisoners annually than all but four other countries on Earth-- China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq.One has to wonder if the British government, the fading colonial power, with its threatened actions to assault the sovereignty of the South American country, has been actively considering the fact that it has embassies of its own in almost every country on Earth. Do you suppose military officials that invaded any of those embassies would be labeled terrorists?
posted by CM @ 6:28 PM
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