Malice in Blunderland or Who Stole the Tarts?

“Will you walk a little faster?” said a



whiting to a


snail,

“There’s a porpoise


close behind us,



and he’s treading on my tail.

See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!

They are waiting on the shingle—will you come and join the
dance?




Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the
dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the
dance?

(The Lobster-Quadrille by Lewis Carroll)

(From the article)
Lawyers for a Briton accused of hacking into secret military and Nasa computers are asking the home secretary to ensure he is not jailed in the US.

Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon, 42, who last month lost his appeal against extradition, could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 computers. His lawyer Karen Todner said his human rights would be breached if he did not return to the UK after a trial.

The Home Office said his case was "receiving consideration". A spokesman said: "Further representations have been received today from solicitors against Mr McKinnon's surrender to the USA which are receiving consideration."

Ms Todner said she had written to the Home Office asking for an intervention on her client's behalf. She said: "We have requested that the home secretary obtain an assurance from the United States government that Mr McKinnon be returned to the UK immediately on receiving a sentence in the US, should he be extradited.

"It is standard practice for both the Dutch and Israeli governments to seek this assurance on behalf of their nationals who face extradition to the United States.

"In light of Mr McKinnon's being diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, it would seem to be highly appropriate that the home secretary obtains this assurance."


BBC NEWS | UK | Hacker appeals to home secretary

Well what do you think? Think Jackie is going to help out Gazza? Or is there a hand basin anywhere handy?

“Chorus again!” cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of “The trial’s beginning!” was heard in the distance.

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Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe and the geek who hacked Pentagon computers to look at UFOs: So who goes free? | Mail Online

Gary McKinnon, an amatuer Ufologist and ex-hairdresser, defeats might of USA military!

Yes I can see why they would be pissed!

Taken from article:

'In the pantheon of the American military's Most Wanted list, McKinnon must rank some way below Osama bin Laden. Yet while the Al Qaeda leader remains elusive, a vengeful Pentagon is inching ever closer to the capture and high-security imprisonment of an unemployed British hairdresser with a potentially disastrous interest in UFOs.'

I mean it is one thing to lose against an elusive, international criminal mastermind living (debatable) in immense fortified bunker-caves.......

(Even though it may read like something out of James Bond, these claims, after much TV coverage of bunkerbuster bombs, were found to be not true. All they discovered was a few dead goats and some small arms in a few small, rock-strewn recesses in the mountains)

......it is quite another matter to lose to someone who might be too stoned to give you a decent hairdo!



There has even been the suggestion - from one rather excitable New Jersey attorney - that in an ideal world they would like to see him 'fry'.

Right! Err..? Do you need a sanity test to become an attorney?

If not why not? and if so..it doesn't seem to be working.

'McKinnon's story is both fascinating and disturbing. It raises a number of unsettling questions for us all, not least about the porous nature of the U.S military's cyberspace security.

The others concern our one-sided relationship with a post 9/11 American judicial system that has produced Guantanamo Bay and Iraq's Abu Ghraib, as well as secret rendition flights to facilitate the torture of 'war on terror' suspects.

Should we really be handing over our nationals, without conclusive evidence against them? And how do we square it with this week's freeing on bail of the Islamic radical Abu Qatada - said by some to be bin Laden's ambassador to Europe - whose extradition to Jordan was thrown out by a British court at an earlier stage than the McKinnon case has so far reached?'


And why our government is going along with this fiasco is because when they say jump, our leaders say how high sir?


Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe and the geek who hacked Pentagon computers to look at UFOs: So who goes free? | Mail Online

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