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Ecuador’s Correa preparing the ground for his re-election bid in 2013
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said his family would support him if he were to run for re-election in 2013 and that his candidacy now rested on the “high chances” that he would be nominated as the ruling party's candidate. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI hope he gets re-elected; then Assange will get to serve at least another 4 years before any new president decides protecting alleged rapists is not in the interests of Ecuador and kick him out.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think Assange will be 'ill' very soon now.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the staff are drawing straws to see who wins doping his food with three times the dose of laxative (even that could kill him) just to get him into an ambulance.
End of problem!
....but they've claimed they would go as far as setting up an operating theatre if he were to fall ill. I'm guessing Assange will hope he gets a couple of weeks notice before he has a heart attack. Looking forward to seeing them try to squeeze a multi-million pound MRI scanner through the door.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 I still think the Penn Gillette podcast riff on what Assange is putting his hosts through is comedy gold and not all that far from the truth.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hypothesized goings in within the cramped office include,
- telling him to look at something going on outside and when he gets to the window shout “He's got a gun!!!!”.
- insisting that he helps with visa applications if he's going to be there.
- taunting him that they're going home and are going to “get some” tonight.
- repeated and increasingly annoyed requests to not eat their personal food in the fridge, keep his hygiene products off the bathroom and kitchen sinks, to flush and to stop playing slow “cool” jazz (of which there is no such thing) at ANY volume.
- a plan to tell him that the police are nowhere to be seen and ask him to go to the corner shop for some stuff.
- and my favorite, tell him that they are smuggling him out, give him heavy tranquilizers, tell him to get into a diplomatic box/envelope a la the Libyan sniper, and just leave him there for a couple days letting him think in his stupor that he's about to get away with it while all the time he's still there in the box in the office and they're just messing with him.
.... and he will win.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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