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synsei
16-10-2012, 15:38
At long last we have a Home Secretary with a backbone. For 10 years and seven months Gary McKinnon has almost been a non-person as he waited to learn what his fate would be. The US prosecutors painted Gary as a dangerous criminal and accused him of causing millions of dollars worth of damage to US military computer networks. What they have not been saying is that many computers on these networks were not protected and in fact many of them had not even had a password set to deny entry. The real criminals here are the network administrators who failed in their duty to protect sensitive systems.

Contrary to the opinion espoused by the prosecuting legal team across the Atlantic, Gary's soul mission was to look for and record evidence of the existence of UFO's. Now, whatever your view on this subject, looking for evidence of UFO's would not be considered a national security issue by many, which begs the question: Why have the US authorities been so agressive in their pursuit of McKinnon? Those of a consipratorial nature might suggest that they have been attempting to hide something.

Wakefield Turntables
16-10-2012, 15:49
Im not a political animal but I think that this was the best thing to do.

Beechwoods
16-10-2012, 16:46
An excellent result for UK sovereignty and civil liberties. The only question is why it has taken so long, and why we ever signed the current exceedingly one-sided Extradition Treaty with the US, whereby our citizens are extradited with minimum burden of proof on the US authorities, while theirs are protected such that extraditions the other way so rarely happen.

It's a shame the reason for the UK's volte-face is McKinnon's health. It should have been his citizenship.

sq225917
16-10-2012, 19:43
Excellent news, now she can throw out the request for that young student who set up a film links site.

walpurgis
16-10-2012, 20:51
Bloody good job too!

As I said on the Julian Assange thread a couple of weeks ago,
McKinnon may well be an idiot, but he's our idiot! And no terrorist!

John
17-10-2012, 04:46
The right decision

MartinT
17-10-2012, 06:16
It's an excellent decision. I've not been impressed with Theresa May in the past, but kudos for doing the right thing here.