President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, replied to the threat by granting Assange political asylum.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/world/amer\\... . The once law-abiding British government had no shame in announcing that it would violate the Vienna Convention and assault the Ecuadorean Embassy, just as the Islamic students in the 1979 Khomeini Revolution in Iran took over the US Embassy and held the diplomatic staff captive. Pushed by their Washington overlords, the Brits have resorted to the tactics of a pariah state.' . I think the aphorism is one of Mandela's. . http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/08/\\... Jon @ 12AM, 8/17 -- Someone seems have put a horse's head in whoever edits the The Guardian. Quite the good little fluffers of the current government they've become, at least re: foreign affairs and, of course, wars. . BTW, since many embassies have guards, with weapons I assume -- or is that forbidden in London?, or even military personnel posted as guards, could the London bobbies busting into the embassy be greeted with gunfire? "the rights of a man who has poked a gorilla with a stick and is complaining that it now wants to kill him." . You, Sir, are an American, and I claim my five pounds. Only Americans have this marked tendency to attempt to argue everything by analogy (and the analogy is almost never valid.) . Please return to your hole and await further orders. "This came about after the 1984 Libyan shooting." . That's a lie that's been repeated and repeated. Especially in the last year or