Do You Agree With Ecuador’s Decision to Give Political Asylum to WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange?

Thank you! Yes! Ecuador wants more transparency and less secret government in the USA.

I grew up on Ecuadorian money. Five Ecuadorian Sucres were equal to $1 dollar in 1958, in Ecuador.
Five Sucres lasted me all week, 20 reales bus fare 60 reales lunch, 5 Sucres was my allowance. So therefore its hard to believe that today the Sucre no longer exists. In 1982, Ecuadorian President Jaime Roldos saw that Ecuador had a great future, it had beautiful Galapagos islands, our Amazon Oriente which was producing oil and Ecuador was an OPEC country.

Jaime was offered a World Bank Loan. A loan from the Friendly Bank of the Yankis who just wanted to help us. How nice! The loan even came with a few secret Swiss bank accounts for those friendly service fees!
Jaime turned down everything! Next thing you know his plane comes crashing down right near the US Airforce base and friendly Yankis got there/their first and cordoned off the scene. A few years after the loan was approved the Ecuadorian economy cashed! The Sucre is worthless. The Ecuadorian Amazon is a toxic dump with 22 times the amount of oil spilled than the Exxon Valdez in Alaska.
Ecuadorians are no longer slaves of the USA. Ecuadorians are happy people but they have been wronged and ripped off. Especially after finding out the USA paid Peru to invade Ecuador in 1941. For oil of course.

Since the USA told us to make hemp illegal in the 30's Ecuador has also made it illegal.
I will be meeting with the Minister of Agriculture soon so we can grow hemp again.

(I was extradited from Ecuador to the USA in 1975 for selling two ounces of hashish. I spent a year in jail after fighting extradition for six months. So this is a personal mission I am on)

I think you'd better read this article about the impact of WikiLeaks and then get back to me...

http://www.worldaffairsjourna...

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"Almost two weeks before the desperate young fruit-seller Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire on a street in Tunis and a full month before the uprising that ensued, touching off the “Arab Spring” that is still unfolding, the rationale for revolution appeared on the Internet, where it was devoured by millions of Tunisians. It was a WikiLeaks document pertaining to the unexampled greed and massive corruption of Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and all his money-hungry family.

"The most memorable details were in a dispatch written by Robert F. Godec, the US ambassador to Tunisia, who had dined a year earlier in the lovely seaside resort of Hammamet. His host was Mohamed Sakher El Materi, the prosperous son-in-law of Ben Ali. The luxurious appointments of the Materi mansion, its lavish display and flaunted wealth clearly struck a chord in the American. Roman columns and ancient frescoes adorned the cream-colored home; an infinity pool shimmered beneath a 50-meter terrace, its constant supply of water pouring liberally from an ancient lion’s head, Godec reported in a passage subheaded 'Al-Materi Unplugged.' And that wasn’t all:

“'Al-Materi has a large tiger (‘Pasha’) on his compound, living in a cage,' Godec wrote. 'He acquired it when it was a few weeks old. The tiger consumes four chickens a day.' As for the family itself, its members gobbled their own gustatory treats—fish, turkey, steak, and octopus were followed that night by ice cream and frozen yogurt freshly flown in from Saint-Tropez. The talk on the night Godec was present, however, focused less on the gourmet items than the cash required to keep them coming. The already wealthy son-in-law wanted to acquire a McDonald’s franchise in Tunisia, and he needed help from the US.

"Tunisia happens to have the highest percentage of Facebook users in the world—'Something like two million among ten million people have their own Facebook account,' Radwan Masmoudi, president for the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, told a British newspaper. Since the information on the site is constantly being passed along, it is almost inconceivable that the fruit-seller Bouazizi, a frustrated university graduate of twenty-six, didn’t know the contents of Godec’s leaked report. On November 28th of last year, a TuniLeaks site was created—the very day the New York Times began posting the materials it had received from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

"Al Jazeera, too, which enjoys tremendous popularity in Tunisia, had drummed the WikiLeaks revelations into the consciousness of disgusted citizens. When that brutal policewoman told Bouazizi that his cart would be confiscated because he didn’t have a proper license, the contrast between the fruit-seller’s own shabby, miserable existence—an existence that allowed the policewoman to slap him around and spit in his face—with that of Pasha, the pampered tiger munching four chickens a day, must have been unbearable.

“'Whether it’s cash, services, land, property, or (yes) even your yacht, the Ben Ali family is rumored to covet it, and reportedly gets what it wants,' read the ambassador’s cable. 'Quasi-mafia' is how he described the clan.

"And the very fact that this frank assessment of their arrogant leadership appeared in an American cable intended for an American government exacerbated a nation’s embarrassment. Humiliating, the thought that Yankee infidels were passing judgment on a Muslim nation’s conscious passivity, its submission and calm acquiescence in the face of undisguised corruption. Humiliating that the entire world now knew what these Americans had once quietly told each other. Humiliating above all that Tunisians themselves were not exactly ignorant of what the Ben Ali family had been up to—long before WikiLeaks had published a single syllable—and had done nothing about it.

"In the Muslim world, in other words, it is not just women who often, traditionally, go about veiled. It is—or rather it used to be—information. In Yemen, Egypt, and Syria, in Bahrain and Libya, that veil has now been lifted, for better or for worse, not only by fruit-vendors or Muslim extremists or courageous lawyers or even youthful rebels—but by WikiLeaks."


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