Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange

&quot;The estimated cost of the police presence is more than £12m.&quot;<p>So who should get fired for such a waste of police resources?

And from the Met Police&#x27;s point of view: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.met.police.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;covert-plan-at-ecuadorian-embassy-strengthened-after-removing-dedicated-guards-132799" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.met.police.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;covert-plan-at-ecuadorian-emb...</a>

It would be really funny to hire a bunch of Julian Assange impersonators to hang out in front of the embassy.

I really wish someone would come along and go, &quot;Aha! Assange has secretly been living in Ecuador this whole time. Fooled you, UK gov!&quot;<p>But then again, I like to see government incompetence used against itself rather than against innocent people, like what happens here in the US.

So here&#x27;s a question: why don&#x27;t the Swedish just do the common-sense thing, drop the political posturing and either:<p>A. interview him via Google Hangout &#x2F; Skype &#x2F; etc.<p>or<p>B. fly somebody to England to interview him at the Ecuadorian embassy?

It&#x27;s a trap!

Am I the only one who was reminded of the end of THX 1138 -- specifically when the droids stopped following due to exceeding budget -- while reading this article?

On mobile this redirects me to a bunch of spam somehow... Careful if you click through.

Have they checked out the tunnel?

Or are they? .. ta ta ta taaaaaa!