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Monday, August 20, 2012

''The next neo-con/globalist target: the inviolability of embassies and diplomatic missions''

From Strategic Culture
By Wayne Madsen

''The forces of globalist neo-conservatism have now decided to attack another institution long-protected by international law: the extraterritorial diplomatic protection afforded to foreign embassies and diplomatic missions. Although WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a very unsympathetic figure – owing to his outlandish ego, attempts to extort money from donors and newspapers in return for releasing classified U.S. State Department cables, and his reported personal hygiene issues – the threat by the United Kingdom to forcibly enter the embassy of Ecuador in London to arrest Assange on an arrest warrant from Sweden is an attempt by a World War II-era five-nation intelligence partnership to flex its muscles. But the threats against Ecuador’s embassy could have tremendous blow-back if the protection afforded to embassies becomes yet another victim of the steady march toward global fascism.''

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