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From: Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:36:12 -0700 (PDT)
John Wesley <godisamethodist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Let's not forget that there is another precedent for Britain's
> violating of diplomatic immunity where improper disclosure of state
> secrets was involved.
> >
> > In 1940, Britain did just that in the case of Tyler G. Kent, a code
> > clerk at the US Embassy in London.
Not quite the same: the American ambassador waived Kent's diplomatic immunity so the Brits could arrest him at home.
In the Assange case, the Brits would apparently have to violate the embassy's extraterritoriality, which would be a Big Deal, though at this point, no gangsterish imperial enormity on the part of America's Favorite Lapdog could possibly surprise me.
The whole business ironically reminds me of that Hungarian cardinal -- Mindszenty? -- who spent decades in the US embassy in Budapest. Sovs never went in and pulled him out; but they were relatively civilized people, unlike the Brits and their masters.
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