Just a reminder that the 6 week deadline for sending any Representations to the Home Secretary on behalf of Gary McKinnon, expires this week on Wednesday 21st June.
After this time the Home Secretary can, if he chooses, legally ignore any Representations made to him, when considering his decision on wether to allow the Extradition of Gary McKinnon to the Uniited States or not.
First Class stamped letters posted today or, perhaps tomorrow morning, should still reach the Home Office by Wednesday.
Please write a polite one line "please do not allow Gary McKinnon to be sent to the USA" note or a lengthier letter with more detailed legal arguments, which may help to influence the Home Secretary:
Home Secretary Rt Hon. John Reid MP
c/o Direct Communications Unit
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
email: public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
(N,B. public DOT enquiries ....)
Leandro Sconzza
Ojalá lo liberen, de verdad. Todo el apoyo desde un g33k y un nerd de Argentina.
John Smith
why should any body care for a law breaker?
put him in jail.
bean
You pay for your crimes. Be a big boy and do just that. And don't be such a cop out!
mark
Gary should not be sent to prison. especially an american prison - they can only extradite if he has caused more than $5000 worht of damage - so wheres the evidence of this damage? why is gary a cop out and why should he spend the next 70 years in an american jail for an unlawful trial when he hacked for information and not for injustice.
Frank
If you break the law you pay the piper. So, if he is found guilty he pays the price for what he is convicted of---simple as that. You Brits taught us the legal system. We adopted it from you.
Thank you---and shut up.
Jim
Quote "You Brits taught us the legal system. We adopted it from you." end quote. No way on earth can you say the US legal system resembles in any way that of the UK. Power, corruption, greed the $ is your legal system. He broke UK law, in the UK, by a UK citizen, he should be tried in the UK. Just what is it that Bush has on Blair that lends itself to this one set of rules for the world, and another for the US. Look to Guantanamo, Iraq and your servicemen who have been on trial, or are about to be tried - that's a clear picture of how the US Legal system works.
Simon Brown
The Americans have never respected the international rule of law, why should they start now.
"He broke the law, he should go to jail" absolutely right.
That's not the issue here. The issue here is
1.) you are innocent until proven guilty
2.) there is no evidence against him
3.) we are expected to extradite him without any evidence
4.) you're lucky as Americans cos we can't extradite you without any reason, it only works one way because
5.) our government are patsies to the Americans and basically do whatever George Bush says, rather than what we say even though we elected them.
Now I know that you Americans don't understand innocent until proven guilty, I know you thought that it's innocent until cnn / fox / whoever says they're guilty but in real life people need proof. It's why you have a bunch of detainees in guantanamo - no evidence, found outside the US, dump 'em in cuba.
Seriously though, if you want him, show us the proof. And give us some idea that the punishment will fit the crime. I've heard people say he caused almost a billion dollars-worth of damage. In truth he caused about $700,000 of damage, if that. And in truth the computers he accessed had no passwords. Hell I know that you set up windows to just automatically log-in but you wouldn't expect the military to have that going on.
Still - lock him up, throw away the key, eh? Even better, execute him. It's the only thing these computer programerer types understand, eh? wibble.