Seriously? What about all the wide boys on the Costa del Crime?
Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassy, London
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Seriously? What about all the wide boys on the Costa del Crime?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
personally I recon it'd be great. Embassy food and surroundings is going to be 10x better than my current dwelling. And outside is over rated. He can sun himself on the balcony.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I just checked- blunkett signed an extradition treaty with el spanio in 2001. I'm not sure where that leaves the hard men of yesteryear though.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That's a mighty powerful helicopter.
And yes, all eu countries have the same warrant/extradition thing that he was got on. The idea of escape by helicopter is ridiculous. And he doesn't even have a diplomatic passport as asserted above.
Who said he had a diplomatic passport?
classicdish
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A typical helicopter can go about 400 miles before having to refuel.
The nearest part of Russia is their Kaliningrad enclave (between Lithuania and Poland) which is about 950 miles from London, so a helicopter would have to land and refuel in Germany and again in Poland to be able to get there.
You'd also have to sneak out of the embassy and onto the helicopter without being spotted. Landing one on the embassy roof might be a bit of a giveaway that something was going on.
Alright then, not a helicopter.
But still, I can't believe it's that difficult to sneak off to Moscow. George Blake managed it easily enough. Mind you, he did turn himself black with UV lamps. I wonder if that would work with Assange?
I doubt Assange wants to go to Moscow, if he did he could have just flown there instead of the UK.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
They could say they are having one of the ambassadorial rugs sent for cleaning, roll assange in it and ship him out to a canal. From there he has to dress as a washerwoman and take the Grand Union to the coast. Get on a P&O, head for spain and then the middle east.
But he didn't know what would happen to him in the UK.
Anyway, once in Moscow he can hop on a plane to Ecuador, Venezeula, Cuba and numerous other more inviting destinations.
The mans an ejit if he was ignorant of the EU arrest warrant and the chances of Moscow just waiving him through seem somewhat slim.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
do we even know if he's there? if he's clever he's already sunning himself on a beach somewhere whilst one of his acolytes sits in a embassy, wearing a shit wig, being anti-semetic, and making clumsy passes at the cleaners.
Very good point.
If I were him, I'd have immediately seized on the most traditional means of escape: a tunnel. Don't tell me they couldn't smuggle a couple of pneumatic drills in there. He could pop up in Regent's Park at 3am and be spirited off to a safe house. Then out with the UV lamps, in with the plastic surgeons. Give out a couple of false reports suggesting he's still inside the embassy--he's been taken ill, say, or been caught wanking in the broom cupboard. Faked passport, plane to Bogota in case they're watching the Quito flights, a midnight flit across the sparsely-guarded jungle border and Bob's yer uncle.
Child's play really.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Conspicuous by their practical absence thus far.
elbows
Well-Known Member
The stuff wikileaks released could cast a bigger blow when specific details were highlighted in the press. Assanges failure to maintain functional relations with media partners meant he already impeded wikileaks power just before his enemies weakened wikileaks in other ways.
For various reasons the wikileaks 'brand' has probably taken some knocks in the eyes of a group that really matter to their model of 'blows for freedom' - the would-be leakers of today and tomorrow.
The stuff Snowden leaked was important stuff that has caused a lot of problems. At least to me, it matches what wikileaks managed. To focus on Assange and make invisible the roles and potential sacrifices of the leakers, other wikileaks staff, and others who have nothing to do with wikileaks, is bad.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I'm pretty sure the embassy is on the upper floor of a building.
elbows
Well-Known Member
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Is that all the sunlight he gets? Is he allowed in the garden?
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
He chokes on pot noodle at 4 on a Sunday morning, when everyone is asleep and the office deserted.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
In that case I hope the office is deserted
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
That would be poor aeronautical etiquette.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
In a helicopter? They would still need traffic rights over the UK and France even if it had the range which it wouldn't. Also the operator and the crew would probably lose their licences and face criminal sanction. Second also: who's going to pay for it?
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Good arrows, DC.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
On that point at least St Julian will have no problems. In fact I bet those poor saps who got stung over his bail money would cough up again.
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