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In reply to the discussion: UK 'threatens' to raid Ecuador embassy over Assange [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)So the U.K. can threaten to invade another country's embassy in order to retrieve a person who has not even been charged with a crime (and whose crime, if true, would barely rise to the level of a serious misdemeanor) -- and you're okay with that? YOU are the one cheerleading the opponents of diplomacy here.
If you cannot see how serious a breach it would be for the U.K. to invade the Ecuadorian embassy, or to revoke the embassy's status just so they can retrieve someone who was granted asylum -- well then your vision is clouded indeed. I get that you have a different opinion of the Assange case than I and many others, and that is well within the bounds of our discourse here. But to advocate this sort of illegal action by the U.K., that would fly in the face of hundreds of years of international law, is simply stunning.