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House of Lords agrees to hear Gary McKinnon's appeal on one point of law

John Leyden reports in The Register:

McKinnon earns Lords appeal
Pentagon hacker in legal victory
By John Leyden
Published Tuesday 31st July 2007 10:30 GMT

Gary McKinnon, the British hacker facing extradition over allegations he broke into US Military and NASA sites, has earned the right to take his case to the House of Lords.

The law Lords agreed to hear arguments that US authorities acted in an "oppressive" and "arbitrary" manner during plea bargaining negotiations, for example by allegedly threatening McKinnon over the loss of rights to serve part of his sentence in the UK unless he submitted to voluntary extradition.

The House of Lords was not bound to consider McKinnon's final appeal - for example it declined to hear the appeal of the NatWest Three bankers, so the Lords' decision is a significant fillip for McKinnon and his legal team.

Gary's lawyers were allowed to petition the House of Lords (not all the hundreds of Peers of the Realm who sit in the upper legislative chamber of Parliament, but the half a dozen or so Law Lords, the most senior Judges in the United Kingdom) on two points of law.

The legal Question which appears to have been rejected, is the same point which Babar Ahmad's legal team were trying to make about the dubious unsigned Diplomatic Notes issued by the US Embassy, promising a Federal civilian trial, rather than a Military Tribunal, even though it is plain that only the US President can make such a decision, and he can change his mind at any time, regardless of what the US State Department promises.

"Gary McKinnon is delighted to learn of this important development," his barrister, Ben Cooper of Charter chambers, told The Guardian.

McKinnon is fighting against extradition to the US on hacking offences after losing an appeal in April. Only the Law Lords now stand between the Scot and a US trial for allegedly breaking into and damaging 97 US government computers between 2001 and 2002 and causing an estimated $700,000 worth of damage, in what US authorities have described as the "biggest military" computer hack ever.

The former sys admin, who lives in London, admits he infiltrated computer systems without permission but disputes the seriousness US authorities attach to his attacks.

The 41-year-old has said he gained access to military networks - using a Perl script to search for default passwords - but describes himself as a bumbling amateur motivated by curiosity about evidence of UFOs rather than a cyberterrorist.

McKinnon and his team have consistently argued that he ought to be tried in the UK. No date has been set for the House of Lords hearing. In the meantime, McKinnon remains on bail.


Comments

That's great news! Fingers crossed it all works out


Good news! Best of luck, Gary. And even if you are extradited I think you can also appeal to that over there. Best of luck to you :=)


Best of luck hands & paws crossed. I wander why this site is using micro$oft evil software. IIS on Windows 2000


Good luck Gary, there are serial killers out there being treated more fairly


even if the United States wins out, there are a great many people here who would rally for him.


Good luck.


Good luck...........GM
,Freedom of Information Act
in the USA? and Uk!,Civil liberties of uk Citizen?
European human rights?
International Treaties etc Internet ratified law? (at time of offence and in context,not post facto)
Subject:UFO (if true) New technologies,impact on worlds Economy,and Human race ecosytems,Global warming e.g.

Survival of Future security for the Human Race........within context of long term view regardless of short term
social,political,organised religious views and without as in this case Prejudice.......with intent!

in Hindsight we found out about
the Atomic race of the second world war!....what if?
if you read this:
which LEVEL of awareness are you on...

the world is flat and will remain so until
someone finds out the truth...
which cannot be denied and the question is?

dont Ask!

Close encounters of the idiot kind
the next chapter!!!!

bill


Whats the latest? Any news?


@ Stu - no real news, except that the Law Lord'schedule for the Michaelmass Term i.e. Monday 1 October to Friday 21 December 2007,does not include Gary's case.

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/JudicialCurrentSitting.pdf

Probably not even the Law Lords' legal bureaucracy knows yet exactly when in 2008 it might be heard.



I've tried posting to the website several times since early today but it seems that none of the postings are reaching the website. Thought I should let you know and try again with this one.
NB:Important link below.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece

Jay


@ Jay - your posting was falsely trapped in the spam filter


good news mate, we are praying for you here in australia. let the truth be told, dont let these scum supress the truth from the public and get away with restricting our freedom.
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"you keep secrets, so why wouldnt they"


Saludos de Tijuana Mexico Gary.
You already won!
if i had a chance to become inmortal by discovering something like that.
My friend, I woul'd trade places eaven whit Pancho Villa
We have time to do some things in life, but to awake te human race, that's something that only few people can do.
The Gringos (Goverment)(not the people, I have some gringo friends) think that we are stupid.


Gary, are you still there? I just received two books, PSI SPYS and PSIENCE about obtaining secret information from the Pentagon and NASA.

You don't need a computer to enter Pentagon Cyberspace. Some foreign agent and\or agents in London covertly influenced you to do what you did. After absorbing these books and following the steps outlined in them for Remote Viewing, I entered D.O.D. records. You were manipulated.

Here's something else. The U.S. military officers and other psychic spys waited for other military and private research facility personnel to confirm what they saw on Mars and inside U.F.Os. But, there's enough information in the public domain that you can get confirmation yourself.

Gary, I hate to see you do anytime in an American prison for your unnecessary use of hardware. You unfortunate bloke.


In a new book:

CAPTURED!: THE BETTY AND BARNEY HILL UFO EXPERIENCE THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD'S FIRST DOCUMENTED ALIEN ABDUCTION, Author: Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden, ISBN: 1-56414-971-4, 320 pages, 6 x 9, Paper

on about page 170, as I recall, a woman named Swan (Aphrodite, correct me on this if I'm wrong), during the late 50's and\or early 60's claimed to be in direct psychic contact with extra-terrestrials. The U.S. government proved that she was telling the truth about her contacts (read a few pages beyond). Then U.S. Airforce personnel successfully channelled the space aliens. At that time, the U.S. was highly interested in their power sources and knew that it involved magnetic fields.

Fast forward to about 2005 C.E., around 40 years later, and Gary. The evil (there is no other word to describe the) U.S. government and its "greys," who abducted the Hills, who Swan wouldn't come near because of their evil, had been trying to lock-up Gary for 70 years or at least destroy the rest of his life, where ever he is, and is still going after him, for seeking alternative energy sources and downloading a picture (using the primitive means of communication of a 58Kb modem and a telephone-line), of a cigar-shaped craft -- both of which the Hills and hundreds of other contactes have already put into the public domain.

The "greys" left the door open in such an outrageous manner, that even if foreign agents hadn't in the flesh, influenced Gary in London, it would still be "entrapment."

The U.S.-E.B.E. government denies the existence of "grays' and claims to not know anything about alien power sources. Yet its former members and employees confirm that it had possessed this information from as long ago as 40 years.

Does it seem to you that Gary was set up, in an attack on the Internet as well? That the E.B.E.\U.S. have run out of ways to suppress this information and attacking Gary, the Internet, and national sovereignty is their last desparate attempt to suppress the truth and control human curiosity?

If you want to know, then read the books: PSI SPYS and PSIENCE and follow the easy seven (help me Aphrodite) steps to Remote Viewing into the U.S. Department of Defense and N.A.S.A. There's no physical path between you and the Pentagon that the E.B.Es can trace back to you.


Being a seeker is natural as are the aliens. Well done the truth will out


If you google - space aliens, greys, etc. you'll learn that at the time of Roswell, the U.S. government began cooperating with "greys." According to Lt. Col. Corso, who was murdered soon after the publication of his book: THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL, the "greys" are Engineered Biological Entitiies (E.B.E.). The Extraterrestrials who engineered the "greys" are the bad guys. That explains the evil of the U.S. Military Industrial (Espionage) Complex today.

Gary ran afoul not only of the U.S. government in the ordinary sense of it being hated all over the world for its crimes against humanity and the environment, but Gary also pissed of the "greys."

None of us homonids can beat the "greys" at their own game involving technology and psy-ops. But, we can protect our selves through our psychic abilities. Remote viewing (Clairvoyance) and others. Through these means, we can also contact the good Extraterrestrials. But, we have to save ourselves through our own efforts (psychic). Billy Meiers people won't do it for us. They're not allowed to.

The U.S. government took me off the Internet for awhile and they also took my book: PSY SPYS. I'll eventually get another copy, but Nephertite, if you're still there, you could do us all a favour by posting the seven easy steps to developing our remote viewing facilities.

One interesting thing, the good ETs use the names of animals, for example: Swan in the book about Betty and Barney Hill and also in Psy Spies. They're real and they're out there.


Someone left the draw down. When fg wakes up tomorrow, he can clean up the pending posts. I had trouble with my Internet connection (the Men in Black????) yesterday and therefore, copied the post below into notepad so that I wouldn't lose it.
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If you search the web for space aliens, greys, etc. you'll learn that at the time of Roswell, the U.S. government began cooperating with "greys." According to Lt. Col. Corso, who was murdered soon after the publication of his book: THE DAY AFTER ROSWELL, the "greys" are Engineered Biological Entitiies (E.B.E.). The Extraterrestrials who engineered the "greys" are the bad guys. That explains the evil of the U.S. Military Industrial (Espionage) Complex today.

Gary ran afoul not only of the U.S. government in the ordinary sense of it being hated all over the world for its crimes against humanity and the environment, but Gary also pissed of the "greys."

None of us homonids can beat the "greys" at their own game involving technology and psy-ops. But, we can protect our selves through our psychic abilities. Remote viewing (Clairvoyance) and others. Through these means, we can also contact the good Extraterrestrials. But, we have to save ourselves through our own efforts (psychic). Billy Meiers' people won't do it for us. They're not allowed to.

The U.S. government took me off the Internet for awhile and they also took my book: PSY SPYS. I'll eventually get another copy, but Nephertite, if you're still there, you could do us all a favour by posting the seven easy steps to developing our remote viewing facilities. The book is by Jim Marrs (just a coincident, yah sure).

One interesting thing, the good ETs use the names of animals, for example: Swan in the book about Betty and Barney Hill and also in Psy Spies. Swan appearing twice, makes what's known as a "pattern." They're real and they're out there.
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Update: Sun. 24 Feb. 08. How can the "greys' get away with breaking the "Prime Directive" of non-interference with us Earthlings.

The bad-guys, on Zeta, Reticuli, who engineered the "greys" (Engineered Biological Entities) and sent them to us, are still on their planet. They didn't come here, their E.B.Es. did. So, they aren't technically guilty of interfering on planet Earth. Their "greys" are. Zeta Reticulians would make good lawyers.


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