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Ecuador's Rafael Correa sends letter to WikiLeaks founder asking him to cease ridiculing Australian political figures
Kevin Rawlinson and agencies
Friday 30 August 2013 17.19 EDT
... The South American nation's president, Rafael Correa, chastised Assange after a video appeared online in which the WikiLeaks founder along with Juice Rap News ridiculed Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
"We have sent him a letter: he can campaign politically, but without making fun of Australian politicians. We are not going to allow that," said Correa, who is attending a South American summit in the Surinamese capital Paramarimbo ...
According to Agence France-Presse, Correa said: "The rules of asylum in principle forbid meddling in the politics of the country that grants asylum. But as a matter of courtesy, we are not going to bar Julian Assange from exercising his right to be a candidate. Just so long as he doesn't make fun of Australian politicians or people" ...
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/30/julian-assange-embassy
ProSense
(116,464 posts)uncomfortable knowing that a RW, Rand Paul supporting, anti-choice hack is hold up in your embassy.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Assange is a boring clown. It's only mildly funny that he's also acting like a typical colonialist shithead, now feeling he can use the embassy for whatever his personal purposes, as if Ecuador doesn't have specific interests and needs that it runs through its diplomatic institutions.
As my pops used to say, ma che cafone.
JI7
(89,173 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Well I guess he can continue his praise of Rand and Ron Paul.
Cha
(295,899 posts)They're off limits! thank you for speaking up, Rafael Correa!
thanks struggle
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Amazing. Please proceed, Mr. Assange and Mr. Greenwald.
Snowden. Gotta love his feeble reply with the news of what kinds of things he swiped from the NSA.
sheshe2
(83,324 posts)Julian Assange is an embarrassment and a joke.
Cha
(295,899 posts)doesn't want to be thrown out into the big bad world of wolves, she.
What a guy.. of course he wants rand paul in 2016.. he thinks he'll get a pass out of there.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Here's an article from The Graun about some classic stoushes
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/27/vicious-fights-australian-politics
If you read only one section, read Paul Keating v pretty much everybody else. He was brutal. And one of our best PMs.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)question or two tomorrow for you.
But yes Paul Keating sounds interesting. The Speaker falling down and dying is weird.
Good night my friend!
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)I imagine that the Ecuadorans are growing tired of their houseguest.
Sid
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Russia.