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• #16227
The threat was based on a law introduced after the Libyan embassy siege.
What does the Act allow?
The Act was passed in the wake of a government review of the law around diplomatic premises following the 11-day Libyan Embassy Siege of 1984. In that case, a gun man who killed WPC Yvonne Fletcher was able to evade prosecution, using diplomatic immunity to avoid arrest by staying in the Libyan Embassy before fleeing the country. The Act says that the Government can revoke the diplomatic status of a building, meaning that British law would apply there.In which case the passing of the law would be the main precedent, not necessarily the threat, with diplomats being aware of the law.
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• #16228
The Ecuadorians could fashion a trebuchet, and fire Assange into the back of a pickup trunk with CD plates, which would then race to the Thames to meet the Stealth Ekranoplan, pride of the Ecuadorian navy.
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• #16229
My ex stopped taking the pill with out letting me know and deliberately got pregnant knowing I was not wanting children at that time. Does this constitute rape?
Potentially, yes, I believe that it could do. You'd have a tough time of getting it taken seriously though. As, sadly, lots of rape victims do.
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• #16230
Is there anywhere else that Assange is safe from arrest?
Diplomatic immunity applies to an embassy's means of transportation as well as its building, meaning Assange could be transported to the airport safely by an official Ecuadoran car. But British police could intervene legally if he steps foot on the pavement to get from the Embassy to the car, or walks from the car through the airport to a plane. There have even been suggestions that Assange could be transported over these short distances using a diplomatic bag, which are also safe from interference by a home nation.It's like a game of dungeons and dragons. "Oh no, he's got the diplomatic bag!"
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• #16231
In the bag, fired from a catapault
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• #16232
So if I wanna do a bit of raping I'll be alright cos I can just fuck off to Ecuador??!
The world's gone mad!
But I'm assuming you don't
Commit rape or go to Ecuador? Or commit rape in Ecuador?
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• #16233
I want them to stick him in the diplomatic bag and get a particularly brawny Ecuadorian to carry him out past the police line.
This is just going to keep getting weirder and weirder, isn't it? I'm leaving work soon, think I might spin past to see if there's still a crowd.
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• #16234
In the bag, fired from a catapault
But shot down by Olympic missiles....
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• #16235
By the way, the "diplomatic bag" doesn't have to be a bag: it can be an envelope, bag, box or even the back of a lorry - as long as it's labelled as the diplomatic bag. So they could easily get him out of there in it.
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• #16236
I had a similar experience when I discovered my great uncle was in the Irish Brigade who fought on the side of Franco in the Spanish civil war.
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• #16237
My ex stopped taking the pill with out letting me know and deliberately got pregnant knowing I was not wanting children at that time. Does this constitute rape?
I thought that post would have made it clear that I'm not an expert on the matter, but it definitely sounds like unconsensual sex
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• #16238
Christy Moore - Viva la Quinta Brigada. Live at Barrowland Glasgow - YouTube
I think neu is talking about the Irishmen on the other side - the ones fighting for God and fascism
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• #16239
Isn't Christy Moore the bloke who painted with his foot?
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• #16240
^ I thought that was Stella Vine
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• #16241
Potentially, yes, I believe that it could do. You'd have a tough time of getting it taken seriously though. As, sadly, lots of rape victims do.
I thought that post would have made it clear that I'm not an expert on the matter, but it definitely sounds like unconsensual sex
Do we have the notion of conditional consent in this country?
Where would / should the line be drawn?
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• #16242
I have a hard time caring about all this Julian Assange stuff. I don't understand it fully but it seems a bit... silly.
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• #16243
Rape (even if it is alleged) isn't a subject to treated in such a cavalier fashion.
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• #16244
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• #16245
Has Julian been resolved yet? I thought the US could just bag and tag him in a black ops stylee.
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• #16246
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• #16247
there in the wrong place
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• #16248
Rape (even if it is alleged) isn't a subject to treated in such a cavalier fashion.
very this.
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• #16249
there in the wrong place
Are They?
Why?Two years, what a bullshit "trial".
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• #16250
Are They?
Why?Two years, what a bullshit "trial".
This is Russia my friend
The threat may be hot air, but to the the rest of the world it looks like the government is willing to ignore some of the basic principals around diplomacy and embassies, which is not great.