... of Public Prosecutions and US Department of Justice, on the matter of whether McKinnon could be tried in the UK. Their preference for a US trial on the basis of cost ... gave no indication that the law as it stands might be failing McKinnon and other Aspergics, whose condition was yet poorly understood. Gary ... ;> US allegations against UFO hacker Gary McKinnon were 'over baked' >> ...

... balance of legal arguments need only have been provisional. Even if he had been advised that a decision to stay McKinnon's extradition was dubious - under the terms, let it be remembered, of the ... fortune in the wisdom of their founding fathers. Would that we had such protections. Instead, Gary McKinnon finds himself in the position of an inverted Don Pacifico, discovering that the blind ...

... an interest in little green men and flying saucers,” McKinnon said. “I believe that there are spacecraft, or there have been craft, flying around that the public doesn’t know ... ’s actions. Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, who diagnosed McKinnon with the condition, has said: “We should be thinking about this as the activity of somebody with a disability rather than a criminal ...

... when new medical evidence was submitted to Johnson regarded McKinnon's Asperger's Syndrome. However, after considering the evidence, Johnson ... rights. "Due to legitimate concerns over Mr McKinnon's health, we have sought and received assurances from the ... will be met," Johnson said. In an interview with the BBC, McKinnon's lawyer said his legal team would not give up ...

... , though. Alan Johnson has decided that he is powerless to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon. What nonsense. What he really means is that he considers the request of the United States to be more ... It horrifies me that the Government can hang a man like this out to dry. If they can do that to Gary McKinnon, then the human rights of any one of the rest of us are similarly expendable. That's ...

... to punish, or to reform, or to remove a danger from society? For Mr McKinnon it will serve none of these purposes. He does not understand the seriousness of what he has allegedly done and due to ... the host region but accessed by users where such activity is illegal, so there is some difference to the McKinnon case where the activity was illegal in both, but the question of judicial powers is the same ...

... opportunity to let the matter rest once and for all, by doing the humane thing and pardoning McKinnon instead of using him as a deterrent for other would-be hackers. Now is the time to raise some awareness on this issue here ... purposes of a PR demo on their tough stance on terrorism, for lest we forget, whatever McKinnon has done, he is categorically and unquestionably NOT a terrorist. Dejan Levi

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So Alan Johnson stills wants to extradite Gary McKinnon (interesting piece as well by Henry Porter). Where is the justice in extraditing Gary McKinnon, what purpose will it serve? McKinnon has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, and surely the terror and ... the state a right, in their eyes, to shed civil liberties and freedoms. And people like Gary McKinnon are collateral damage.

... Stillwell/PA Wire Alan Johnson, the UK Home Secretary, has decided not to intervene in the extradition of Gary McKinnon, the so-called ‘X-Files hacker’ to the United States’. Johnson had halted the extradition proceedings after coming under pressure to review the human rights implications of extraditing McKinnon. McKinnon’s legal team and supporters believe that his health