it will put at risk the life of every diplomat (along with every embassy staff member...) in every embassy, consulate and mission in the world... as well as massively damaging the long and noble tradition of one nation being able to speak and hear the truth directly -- and fearlessly -- to and from any other. AlexT, The legislation Billy fourteen pints is relying on is: diplomatic and consular premises act 1987 , This is bit of slight of hand, and is akin to getting into a contract (Vienna Convention) and then go back and prevaricate about the fact that you meant only to uphold the contract on every other Mourn day Thursday at half past six precisely, and the rest of the time you will consider the contract non binding. , , , , , , David Mills, , It is not a question of Assange, this now has turned into a manifest dick swinging contest, during which Ecuadorans endowed with minuscule dicks are bing slapped around with the well endowed Billy fourteen pints. I trust you discern that the physical sizes referred to are in fact the caliber of the Howitzers, and the population of bombs and their delivery vehicles at the disposal of each party, and not necessarily their genitalia, nonetheless this is as crude a contest as Billy fourteen pints pulling out his tackle and banging it on the Ecuadoran Ambassadors desk, who is representing the head of the Ecuadoran nation here in UK. , You