to hell with international OR domestic law. . Sky News cut off the Ecuadorian minister's press conference and went to ads, on the basis that "he was taking too long to get to the point". F them. . Craig's article was re-tweeted lavishly on Twitter and this site went down. Probably because too many people were seeking to access it at the same time. I doubt if it was anything more sinister. . Apparently also the UK has told Ecuador that "it might still revoke the diplomatic status of Quito's embassy in London to allow the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder." http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16\\... The liberal impact on Government policy is, of course, the same as Reverend Blair's impact on American policy, namely that things would have been even worse without it. Whatever may happen to British diplomats, be they hindered, harassed, kidnapped or strung up by the thumbs, no doubt Nick Clegg will be there to remind us that respect is a two-way street, and that much greater evils would have occurred had international law been allowed to prevail in its fiendish course. Thank you so much, Craig... and also those who have commented... for publishing such a clear and informative account of just why storming the Ecuadorian embassy to arrest and remove Julian Assange would be such a terrible, terrible mistake. I am shocked that a democratically elected British government would ever even contemplate, let alone plan and carry out, such an action. It Assange's arrest and removal goes ahead,