I hear that Julian Assange "Wikileaks"
has been at the Ecuadorian Embassy for the past 10 months executing
Political Assylum. Amesema hatoki ng'o! The UK has spent 3 million pounds on
"guards" who have been waiting for him to come out so that they can
arrest him.
Ecuadorian Embassy have refused to hand him over to
UK.
There are three things wrong with this whole
scenario.
- 10 months at the embassy? Where is he
sleeping? Who is doing his shopping? Hasn't he technically already served
10 months under house arrest?
- 3 million pounds on UK
"guards" at the embassy? What? Really? And there is no complaint
from the taxpayers? How many guards have they hired? Let’s do the math.
That comes to around 390 million Kenya shillings, which converts to 39
million Kenya shillings per month which comes to 1.3 million shillings a
day, which converts to 54 thousand shillings per hour. One question, what
kinds of guards are these? Considering that the embassy already has its
own guards? At this rate, maybe I should go become a guard in the UK.
- Ecuadorian Embassy has refused to
hand him over. They said, "However, we believe this expenditure
could be avoided if the UK government would provide the undertakings that
the Ecuadorean government has sought that there will be no onward extradition
of Julian Assange to the United States." If only our government
fought for our rights like this. Sigh...
What is the moral? Our governments have a bigger
problem when it comes to priorities than we would ever imagine. "In the
United States they spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and
$8,000 to educate each elementary school student. The prisons have counsellors,
managers, caseworkers, nurses, secretaries, assistants of many varieties, and
dozens of administrators who would be hard-pressed to truthfully explain how
they fill their eight hours each day." When we reach the point that we
spend more money to put people in jail than we spend to keep our children out
of jail, the system has terribly failed us.
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