Assange is a FSB pawn used to discredit the West and its ludicrous "democracy." It is not surprising the useful idiots in the West are clamoring for Assange's "rights" to destabilize their very society. The West lost two generations to Marxist propaganda, and soon the wheel of the revolution will crush your brittle sociopolitical matrix. Your adolescent rebellion and juvenile freedom have shackled you to the inevitable Marxist colonialism. Ecuador was likely given assurances of economic and political aid by the Slavic huns and the Oriental despots. That Ecuador was willing to abide the preference of Kremlin and Beijing over that of Washington speaks volumes of current Western decay.