Gary McKinnon Case Is Dropped
This is reported on the BBC.
All I can say, is this is about time too!
Theresa May Does The Right Thing
Theresa May has done the right thing in my view and also that of several eminent legal minds. Read about it here on the BBC’s web site.
Especially, as it appears it is all covered by Article 3 of the much-derided Human Rights Act.
But why did Gary McKinnon have to endure ten years of hell?
Only because Tony Blair was sucking up to Dubya.
Will Theresa May Do The Right Thing Over Gary McKinnon?
Theresa May is due to announce today, if Gary McKinnon is to be extradited to the United States. The decision is laid out in detail in this article on the BBC.
She is also due to announce different procedures for extradition to the United States. As I said here over three years ago, it’s about time we normalised our extradition arrangements with the United States.
What puzzles me most about the McKinnon case, is that a man in his bedroom working alone was able to hack into the Pentagon’s computers. How many others have done this, but with more sinister objectives. I would argue that McKinnon has done the American military a service by showing that their computers were built by the Colander Corporation.
Sad to say, but there is an awful lot of the Monty Pythons about this case.
Gary McKinnon and Aung San Suu Kyi
In Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi is being tried on a trumped up charge, that will probably put her out of the limelight and into a dark and brutal prison for ever.
Today, Gary McKinnon has been allowed to be extradited on a fast-track process to the USA, where if found guilty, he will probably be consigned into a dark and brutal prison for ever.
Nobody should be extradited from this country without a full hearing in the British Courts. And if the punishment that is likely to be imposed on conviction, is much higher than that in the UK, then the extradition should not be allowed.
But then Blair signed those rights away! And the United States have not kept their side of the bargain.
The Anonymous Widower 