No.10 Downing Street website petition - Gary McKinnon

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We did have quite a successful PledgeBank write in campaign, in May / June 2006, during the 6 week time period under the Extradition Act 2003 legislation, when the Home Secretary was legally obliged to consider "representations" made to him concerning Gary McKinnon's extradition case.

Nearly 750 people signed that pledge, and, more importantly, a significant number of them acted on it to write personal letters to the Home Secretary John Reid on Gary's behalf, so many, that the Home Office gave up replying to them individually.

See http://www.pledgebank.com/FreeGary

Several people have recently expressed interest in "signing a petition" in support of Gary's plight, and one such petition has now appeared on the Prime Minister's website:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/GaryMcKinnon/

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Stop the extradition to the US of accused hacker Gary McKinnon.

Submitted by Callum Guy – Deadline to sign up by: 27 August 2007 – Signatures: 16

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In the interests of justice he should be tried under UK law.

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You must be a British citizen or resident to sign the petition.

Or, if you're an expatriate, you're in an overseas territory, a Crown dependency or in the Armed Forces without a postcode, please select from this list:

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N.B. the recent anti-road pricing / snooping petition on the Number 10 Downing Street website achieved 1,791,942 signatures, but this has been rubbished and ignored by Tony Blair, so do not expect what will inevitably be a much smaller petition, to have any influence whatsoever with the current Government.

The High Court Judges who are currently deciding on Gary's Appeal, will not be influenced by this or any other petition either - if they were, then they would be unfit for office.