Julian Assange, prisoner

As you may know, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame took refuge in the British Ecuadorian embassy years ago and was granted asylum. He is wanted by the Swedish police to answer questions about rape allegations when he visited there several years ago.

He claims that it is a setup and is afraid to go. He suspects that the CIA will get their hands on him after the Swedish authorities finish asking their questions.

He thinks that he’ll have some (un)friendly conversations in a CIA black prison in the Middle East within days.

So he has been holed up in the embassy since June 2012, about thirty months ago.

Why the Ecuadorian’s haven’t smuggled him out in a “diplomatic bag,” is a mystery to me.

The BBC recently reported that the British government has confessed, and is embarrassed, that it has cost the British taxpayers over $14 million to station a police officer outside of the embassy, twenty four hours a day, for the first twenty-eight months, or slightly over two years!

That’s $497,000 a month, or over $16,000 a day. If each police officer had an eight hour shift, sitting on a chair, it means that each has been paid $5,300 a day to sit there!

Where do I apply for that job? This is the British government gone mad, same as ours. I suspect that if the same situation happened here, it would cost the American taxpayers twice as much.

Heads should roll. Will they? Not a chance. Corruption is rife, not only in our political system but in Great Britain as well.