Ecuador grants Assange political asylum

Ecuador's staggering boldness and sheer insolence as she rustles feathers of Big Bird USA is shocking. 

We can state that there is a risk that he will be persecuted politically...We trust the UK will offer the necessary guarantees so that both governments can act adequately and properly respect international rights and the right of asylum.We also trust the excellent relationship the two countries have will continue.(Ricardo Patino, Ecuador Foreign Minister)

The United States of America is no doubt the world's most powerful socio-economic and military  country. It covers almost 10million km²   in land and has a population of over 314 million people; with a GDP of $15 trillion- ranked first in the world. No one can thus contest America's size as the world's leading giant (from XXL people to XXL houses, etc).

In comes the relatively unknown and inconspicuous South American country of Ecuador, to rustle the feathers of the world's longest standing and tallest giant. Ecuador dares stand in USA's way of War on Free Speech by granting Assange asylum. What are they thinking? Such insolence!. A country most degree educated Americans probably have never heard of (Unconfirmed sources say 1 in 4 Americans believe the world is made up of one continent call the U.S.A and  it's capital New York. It wasn't  until Obama became the first African American president, that most became aware of the possibility in existence of a non American).
Ecuador is 1/35th the size of the USA. Infact it is double the size of New York City at a rather modest size of 277,thousand km²with a total population of just over 15million.

It is almost unfathomable to believe such a tiny country stands in the way of the mammoth USA as she fights to silence Assange in the War Over Free Speech. (Think David and Goliath). This time, no weapons of mass destructions were found and no British bred lapdogs (think Tony Blair)  readily available to sex up dossiers in the premature claim for waging war on the wrong country (Iraq), whilst the object of their affection (Bin Laden and his school of terrorists) hid in much friendlier Pakistan- some thousands of miles away as the US & UK unknowingly helped Pakistan groom these terrorists through what we are told is aid (and millions of it too).

Temporal relief for Assange as Ecuador grants him political asylum.

The Lilliputian Ecuador granting asylum to  Assange- Robin Hood of International Diplomacy and Enemy of the West will no doubt irk our gargantuan English cousins over the pond. The next hurdle in this War on Free Speech is how will Assange leave his safety haven at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to fly to Ecuador? The police and Scotland Yard are on standby to arrest Assange if as much as his exhaled breadth strays 0.01mm away from what is considered Ecuador's diplomatic grounds in London.

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office did not welcome Ecuador's decision in supporting free speech and had this to say:

We are disappointed by the statement from Ecuador’s Foreign Minister that Ecuador has offered political asylum to Julian Assange.
Under our law, with Mr Assange having exhausted all options of appeal, the British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden. We shall carry out that obligation. The Ecuadorian Government's decision this afternoon does not change that.
We remain committed to a negotiated solution that allows us to carry out our obligations under the Extradition Act.