Ecuador grants citizenship to WikiLeaks founder Assange

Let him stay in his cupboard and rot.

Been there long enough. I’m sure though, he’ll be looking over his shoulder constantly. It’s not like he’ll be going out and partying all the time. He knows he has a target on his back.

Jules baby, you made your bed and now you must lie on it. In my country, (and I suspect the rest of the world,) changing your nationality won't get you diplomatic immunity for something you did in the past. Secondly, stop being such a wuss and come out of the cupboard would you please?

Now that he is a citizen, Ecuador could make him the ambassador to England. As such, he could catch a taxi to the airport and fly away. As an ambassador, he would have full diplomatic immunity. Regardless of the crime, when it occurred, or any other factor, the government of the UK could not so much as serve the arrest warrant on him. Funny gambit if they actually do that. Doesn't change the fact that he is a wanker.

I'd like to say "Man up and do the right thing, Julian".

But I won’t.

Now that he is a citizen, Ecuador could make him the ambassador to England. As such, he could catch a taxi to the airport and fly away. As an ambassador, he would have full diplomatic immunity.

That's pretty much what Ecuador was trying to do, but the UK rejected it. Assange's best bet is to sneak out in disguise one day and see how far he can get. He should have done it during one of the terrorist attacks last year when the police were distracted.

Now Ecuadorian Government is a desperately to rid off Julian Assange from its Embassy.

As Scrote says, disguise. It would have been dead easy, (I know how I would have done it) but for some reason this guy has his own internal wiring.

Assange's best bet is to sneak out in disguise

In five years, he could surely have dug a tunnel to the nearest tube station.

I think the UK and Sweden have handled this badly. The UK for not requiring assurances that he wouldn't be extradited to a third country (i.e. the USA) after extradition to Sweden. Sweden for not offering such assurances. Even tossers such as Assange deserve that much.

Jules is living the life he chose, his own little ME-ME-ME reality show gone horribly wrong. And then Wikileaks became a Kremlin stooge. I have no idea whether he committed the sex crimes he's accused of, but it's clear he's one creepy fella around the ladies.

Why would anyone say this man doesn't deserve to face his accusers in court? He's a charlatan.

He's a Russian shill. He deserves bad things.

He's seen as a Hero to many, and as a Villain to others. I have to feel sorry for the guy being hounded from all quarters, it's surely not a pleasant life. If he can be granted safe passage to Ecuador, then it will be a lot cheaper for the UK public, since the problem has now gone, and we can then move on to some more pressing matters.

He is not really a problem for the UK he can stay in the Embassy for the rest of his life as far as we are concerned, he is a problem of their own making for Ecuador. There is a simple solution either they eject him or he leaves voluntarily whereupon he will be arrested to face charges in a British court for failing to surrender to a court after violating bail terms. He will get a fine, a criminal record and that will be that. But he is so lost in his own James Bond fantasy that he can't and so he will stay there (there is no statute of limitations in the UK).