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Are there any circumstances where its OK for local police to enter another countries Embassy?
Julian Assange again. The latest news is that the UK have threatened to enter the Equadorean embassy to secure Assange. To me this suggests that all the surmising about US involvement might actually be true as I find it very hard to believe that a country would breech diplomatic immunity agreements over a sexual assault. If that is normal why doesn't it happen all the time?
Closing Statement from peter lindsay
Closing statement. I think the majority of us are greatly concerned about any threat to diplomatic immunity and the ability to seek asylum. As an update as requeated by Debra since the UK gave assurances that they had no intention of invading Equador's embassy the silence in both the Australian and UK press has been defening. We get daily BBC news here and even they haven't mentioned it for over a week. Perhaps they are preparing a large box with confidential stamped all over it to go in the express post to Equador. As long as the box doesn't say "ouch" every time they drop it the story could end here.
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Debra Smith 200+
http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_assange_why_the_world_needs_wikileaks.html
Here is a related talk WHICH provides some context;
http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_four_principles_for_the_open_world_1.html