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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:07:05 +0100
Subject: [Autism-Risk-Safety] AS hacker due to be deported to the States, miscarriage of justice likel
At the risk of sounding too much like Colin Revell (and Colin I hope you are reading because I give
you full permission to copy this to anyone you think may be able to help) I have already written to
Ari Neeman, and my MP Bob Ainsworth about this issue.
It is not the rights and wrongs of hacking here which concern me, the guy did wrong and should be
tried for it, however it is where he should be tried and where he is likely to meet with the better
justice and undestanding of the mitigating circumstances which his AS brings to the question here.
I believe there has been political manipulation and pressure brought on the prosecution service in
the UK not to prosecute him for an alleged offence he committed on UK sovereign territory, in order
for the US government to 'hang him out to dry'
I do urge anyone who can do anything about this in the States given the inevitablity that he will
end up there to ensure that he is not persecuted as a scapegoat but is accorded his full human
rights as a disabled person.
It is lynch law of a guy who is not terrorist or I suspect friend to them, but who is obsessed with
the notion that the US has been covering up Alien encounters. Meanwhole the real computer criminals,
the people who peddle porn with seeming immunity across jurisdictions, who invite us all to extend
our members and enjoy the facilities of 'Canadian pharmacies', who tell us we can share in some late
African dictators ill gotten gains, and who scam us out of our bank account details, get scant
attention.
As usual it is an autistic who is the fall guy because he is an easy target.
If there is any American Justice I appeal to you in the US to make sure that this guy if he is found
guilty is allowed to serve a just sentence in his home country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7585861.stm
'Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon was said to be 'distraught' after losing the appeal to the European
Court of Human Rights. He faces extradition within two weeks.
The unemployed man could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 US military and Nasa
computers.
The 42-year-old admitted breaking into the computers from his London home but said he sought
information on UFOs.
Mr McKinnon asked the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to delay his extradition pending
a full appeal to the court against his extradition but his application was refused.
He claimed the extradition would breach his human rights.
'Absolutely devastated'
His solicitor Karen Todner said this had been her client's 'last chance' and appealed to Home
Secretary Jacqui Smith to intervene.
Our client now faces the prospect of prosecution and imprisonment thousands of miles away from his
family in a country in which he has never set foot Solicitor Karen Todner
'He is absolutely devastated by the decision,' she said. 'He and his family are distraught.
'They are completely beside themselves. He is terrified by the prospect of going to America.'
She added Mr McKinnon had recently been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and would ask for the case
to be tried in this country.
'The offences for which our client's extradition is sought were committed on British soil and we
maintain that any prosecution ought to be carried out by the appropriate British authorities,' she
added.
'Our client now faces the prospect of prosecution and imprisonment thousands of miles away from his
family in a country in which he has never set foot.'
Larry
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