Lilliput Silences Resident Ghost: Will Julian Assange Leap from Ecuador Embassy's Balcony? (fingers crossed!)
Julian Assange resembles nothing if not a specter out of one of Wes Craven's B-grade horror flicks. With his spookily white mane, bloodless complexion and lispy speech as life-deprived as the great Australian Outback, the guy simply gives one the creeps. This is what happens when your hippy mom yanked you from pillar to post as a kid, when your off-putting manner made you no friends and you spend your days and nights in a deep masterbatory funk haunting cyberspace avidly making enemies in a quest to destroy the established social order. Not to mention resorting to rape because you lack the social graces to court the opposite sex. And, dear readers, this is why the Grand Duchy of Ecuador has had it with the pallid misfit that has been shamboling around their tiny London embassy going on now for six years. The Ecuadorans have cut Assange's internet access out of pique with his online political activities. This is like Dracula being deprived of blood to feed on. It's enough to make a person want to jump from a balcony.
The Ecuadorans cite the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations for their severing Assange's wi-fi:
"The premises of the mission must not be used in any manner incompatible with the functions of the mission as laid down in the present Convention or by other rules of general international law or by any special agreements in force between the sending and the receiving State."
Quito furthermore issued a statement: "The Ecuador government warns that the conduct of Assange via his messages on social media puts at risk the good relations that Ecuador maintains with the United Kingdom, the European Union and other nations."
Oh, puh-leeze! Or, as they put it in Spanish, O, puh-or fuh-vo-or!
This is the same government that has allowed their "guest" to deliver anti-UK and anti-American rants from the embassy balcony - befitting the kind of tin-pot political behavior of a torpid tropical micro-state. This is the same government that has given Assange free rein to act as a one-man cyber-blunderbuss to launch repeated attacks on multiple nations from their diplomatic mission. And this is the government that tolerated Assange's faustian pact with Moscow to weaponize emails hacked by Russia's intelligence services to steer voters in the U.S. 2016 election away from Clinton and to Trump. Message to Quito: in English, the "h" in hypocrisy is pronounced, just in case you were wondering.
This isn't the first contretemps between Assange and his hosts. There are reports of physical altercations with embassy staff and of Assange going on rampages knocking down office furnishings. Can't really blame a guy for losing it after residing in a converted women's toilet for years on end. The Ecuadorans cut his internet access in October 2016 after he released the emails hacked by his Russian partners. But they restored it not much later. They've tried a couple of tricks to try to free their resident ghost, including granting Assange Ecuadoran citizenship and toying with making him one of their diplomats - as if by waving a magic wand they could provide him with immunity from prosecution from the British and Swedes.
Oh, yes, Assange's supporters among the anarchist and airhead glitterati communities will yet again express their outrage over his freedom of expression being quashed. They can direct their outrage to Donald Trump, whom their darling helped win election.
Should the Jacob Marley in their midst prove to wear out the welcome mat, the Ecuadorans might well consider what is more important to them: restored relations with Britain, Sweden and the U.S., or protecting an alleged sexual predator and colluder with Vladimir Putin - Democracy Slayer.
And then, of course, there's the balcony. It's only a floor up, but accidents can happen...
Just sayin'.
See also ~
Assange Case: Can the British Storm Ecuador's Embassy?
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