There are an increasing number of eminent people who are coming out in public support of Gary McKinnon.
The Mail on Sunday reports Pentagon hacker faces 70 years in US jail - because CPS won't try him in Britain
Support: Mr McKinnon now has the backing of Sting
Sting told The Mail on Sunday: 'It's a travesty of human rights that Gary McKinnon finds himself in this dreadful situation.
'The US response in relation to the true nature of Gary's crime is disproportionate in the extreme. Gary is even contemplating suicide because of his fear of incarceration as a terrorist in a US jail.
'The British Government is prepared to hand over this vulnerable man without reviewing the evidence.'
Sting pointed out that Mr McKinnon faces extradition under an Extradition Act signed by Britain but not Washington - which means Britain does not have reciprocal rights.
The successful entrepeneur Karl Watkin MBE has also written to the Prime Minister:
Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA27 February 2009
Dear Prime Minister
Re: UK Extradition Legislation
I have been an international business man all of my life and, as such, have taken an extremely keen interest in the insidious and unbalanced extradition treaty your government agreed with the United States of America in 2003.
I have always believed that the primary duty of any government is the protection of its citizens. I would hope that any Member of Parliament would share this belief, especially its Prime Minister. Sadly however, it seems you do not, since the protection of British citizens was thrown out of the window when your government agreed the unfair US extradition treaty.
The changes to the UK's extradition legislation in 2003 were said to protect us from terrorists. Yet whilst we protect foreign nationals, accused of terrorism from the dangers of torture if returned to their home countries, there are no longer adequate safeguards to protect our own vulnerable citizens from the treatment they may face in the United States - a country whose tarnished reputation is not limited to the horrors of Guantanamo Bay.
Both Gary McKinnon, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, and Ian Norris who suffers from prostate cancer are vulnerable citizens. Here in the UK we have the necessary powers to prosecute them but we declined to do so, thereby compounding their suffering. Does the British government's humanity only extend to fellow politicians, not citizens?
The bottom line here is that with Gary and Ian, and countless others who follow them, you have the opportunity to reassure your electorate that your government has not abandoned its primary duty.The principles of fairness and decency should be the backbone of any government, not least a Labour one. It's not too late to do the right thing.
Yours faithfully
Karl Watkin MBE
cc: Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP, Secretary of State for the Home Department
Home Secretary, Home Office, 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF
james
Nice one Sting.
Should be sir gordon sumner
JonRay
Good to know that Gary has the support of Sting,but where are the other stars/media? Our dumbed-down docility and unwavering, cringewothy support of American foreign policy including, torture and intimidation should make us all feel totally ashamed.Unfortunarely Gary's current situation is the result of that spineless attitude and policy;begun by Blair and faithfully continued by Brown
While Gary may not have suffered the physical torture we now know has seen regularly meted out to opponents of US foreign policy and war ,he has however been subjected to many years of unremitting and debilitating emotional and mental pressure to comply or give in to US unprecedented and outrageous demands.
He is also suffering from an illness which can only compound his condition given his present unjust circumstances.Has he not more than suffered enough for what is after all, an essentially unproven misdeamenor,and one which is regularly carried out by individuals and govenments(yes against its own citizens whose e mails are continually hacked into-shock!horror!) and does not bring forth this kind of wrathful revenge?
Gary has been in a legal limbo for many years now, with all the anxieties and worries commensurate with that.And for what reason? We simply do not know because our own government has not tried to find out from Gary himself, or more tellingly, in any way tried to defend him as a British citizen.So much for the Magna Carta and the protection of our British liberties.
Simply ask yourself what the American government would tell Brown to do if we made an extradition request for a US citizen on similar grounds to be shipped out to the UK with a possible life sentence.I will spare yours and my blushes with their answer, but it would not be pretty I can assure you. Unlike ours in the form of
Smith most recently, which has been craven and kowtowing ; lacking in any basic citizen resposibility, protectiveness,courage or morality.
And what about the next time they want another one of us taken from the safety of our home and family for reasons which they consider 'illegal'? Will we just bend over backwards again, and let more of our citizens be sent thousands of miles away and tried in potentially hostile conditions
with the cards probably stacked against them in the name of 'security' and/or 'terror'.
We cannot let this happen to Gary.Continue battering away at Smith and this ineffectual,uncaring government and let them know that they cannot allow even one of us to be taken away from our family,home, and country of birth so easily and for so little.
AUDEBERT ALEXANDRE
I just can' t say anything..
It's quite clear for me that the only goal for the man was the truth.OK he had no right to do what he did, but if the US gouvernment knows something about a "new revolutionary energy", and if they keep it secret, it' s revolting.That idea really fucks me up.US gouvernment (otherwise)really sucks.
What they call transparency is a wall of rocks,and this wall is consciously build.In the name of the death on a large scale for this case.
I think everybody must dig,at their own scale,this fucking wall.I would like to help but i think i can't here cos i don't have any power,and it's so frustrating.I make music but it can't help here,so i will go sign all the petitions right now,and think about all this shit.
I just send you my love,and i'll be aware of what will going on for Gary. Refuse/Resist
Dan
I am hope when the judicial review goes ahead in london that the judges will if they have any sense too let gary stand trial in the uk because gary won't have a fair trial if he is exderdited to the states like many I would fear for garys safety too while in us custody like many know people with autism can only cope with having a stuctured lifestyle and cannot cope with any sudden changes in which this clearly show with the accessment thats been carried out on gary with him suffering from autism I hope the judges will realise it would be catastopic if gary goes and properbly mean a high risk suiside happen if he is sent there I hope they will refuse to send gary via the extradition order that the states have made for him and then put him under a tagging order because of his incapability of coping with a prison envirament when the judical review has happened to reconmend to scap the aggrement that we have with rhe states as the aggrement is unsafe as it stands in my opinion
Honeybear
Maybe the only reason that GARY is in trouble is that he is an eyewitness who provided evidence
of an Extraterrestrial origin of some U.F.Os. - The picture of the mother ship that he tried to
download.
Within the last two weeks there was a show on the Discovery Channel about World War Two
German flying wings. According to the show, all U.F.Os. have a human origin. In fact it
said that whoever invented the Little Green Men explanation should be given a medal for
successfully enabling the cover-up of the U.S. government's development of modern
technology such as Stealth and other, all of which is based upon the German flying wing.
It also said that some German scientists escaped to Argentina and that any U.F.O.
phenomenon that can't be explained away by American-German technology can be
laid at their doorstep.
The Secret Government does not want the public to believe in Extraterrestrials. People
such as GARY who provide evidence of Extraterrestrials are gone after with a vengence.
That's what's going on with GARY. Not only that, but as most people know, in order to
unite citizens in unthinking support of their government, they need an external enemy.
With modern advances in public communication and open technology, everyone can
tell the difference between human engineered flying wings and Stealth and on the
other hand, Extraterrestrial orbs and mother ships. So, now the renewed effort to cover
up Extraterrestrials and explain away everything that we don't or couldn't have, onto
German technology in Argentina.
This very morning (Tuesday 5 May 2009) at 11:20 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, I put on
channel 39 (Spike) and watched an episode of Unsolved Mysteries hosted by Dennis
Farina. The story about an American woman who had filmed a U.F.O. had already
started. It said that a bright flash that was filmed in just one frame was actually
several streaks of light. As you can see if you go to the web-site, they form several
4 digits. The woman who is somewhat famous in the U.F.O. community said that
the Extraterrestrials are sending us a message. The message, that GARY affirms
is that they are real and from the planet Reticulum-4.
Shasiti
He did the crime know stand up LIKE A MAN, we have real men in the US and take your medicine, stop being a P***Y!!! Do your time and then get your ass home!!
Honeybear, ZR-4
Jan, Jay, and fg,
Years ago, I posted a message on this site that I thought that the Secret Government (the U.S. Military Industrial Complex of President Eisenhower) might bust a cap in G-A-R-Y's head or put a couple of .22s in the back of G - A - R - Y's head. A few days ago, I read your warning:
"You would be very wise to read the small
print of the Internet Acceptable Use Policy
applied by your Internet Service Provider,
company or educational institution etc. and
refrain from threats or libel or expressions
of hatred etc. against Gary, his family or
supporters, or even against people or
organisations in the United States of
America etc."
At that time, I made the mistake of assuming that the U.S. government employees who have been threatening my life from the early '70s after I had witnessed a U.F.O. at Fort Campbell, Kentucky would treat G-A-R-Y the same way that they have been treating me - death threats, intimidation, physical assaults, thefts, agents provacateurs (they badly want to frame me on drug charges, sex with a minor, and homosexuality).
But, now I know that the British government will never allow any harm to come to G * A * R * Y.
My life is still under threat by the U.S. goverernment. Those men with shot-guns and pick-up trucks who stalked my dogs and me one day were trying to kill me, I now know.
But, if anyone in the U.F.O. community comes to harm, we must consider the following:
Intelligence agents try to recruit or "turn" members of local law enforcement, politics, and religion, in the areas in which they operate. Well, New Mexico, is where Roswell is located. The Secret government that is operating in New Mexico must have recruited New Mexicans in the state and local governments here. Intelligence agents do this all over the world. I now realize that those men with shot guns were, just as I has speculated, connected with the New Mexico state police, but, they were acting as agents of the Secret government.
Before going off half-cocked, we should put a lot of though into who to blame.
John M Brooks
Oh dear another ignorant macho yank. Mcarthy lives on * well in the USA.
Barbara Richards
I have written to Alan Johnson twice about Gary McKinnon. The first time to plead for him, the second time to query to death threats to his supporters.
I will show you the letters, you can post them onto your blog if you like.
It is wrong to extradite this man, he is no threat to the US at all. The US ought to be pleased that at least they know where the weak spots in their computer system are now.
Aspergers people are very obsessive and so clever, but they need a lot of love and care and stability. He won't last long if they put him in prison. Aspergers is genetic in my family as well, that is how I know so much about it.
Kenyon
I am here in the US, and nobody even knows about this case. The only one that interests people is Amanda Knox, with millionaire Donald Trump coming out in favour of her...after she was found guilty of the brutal murder of her UK roommate.
However, it appears someone cares enough to make death threats to Gary - see above letter - I might note I have another source for this information, so this is not just a repeat of Ms. Richards post. Years ago there were death threats to Oxbridge faculty and students from a deranged American who the Yard could not even question, let alone extradite. And one large US org, the Lyndon Larouche group, seems to have it in for Brits (and Jews), if they did not in fact kill a British student in Germany a few years back.
Crazy world! If you threaten or kill British students, you get immunity from questioning,immunity from extradition, and support from millionaires. What is the moral of that story? And what are British policians doing about this? Or a better question is, what is the voter in the UK doing about it to get in real pro-British politicians who care? We'll see in the next election. I hope a regime change gets Gary free and just maybe goes after people who make death threats to other UK citizens. Is this not the least they can do?
Speaking of death threats and UK politicians, I recently recorded a Nigerian terrorist/criminal who not only had massive financial fraud schemes, which he claimed, and I do not disbelieve him, were part of an inside UK gov job in which they 'lost' CDs with banking details so as to cover their tracks - but plans to murder UK diplomats. Both the consulate in NY and Lab MP Glenda Jackson paid no heed whatsoever, despite having numerous witnesses and the tapes in hand to back me up. Jackson is one MP I can live without, she is a rich movie star who in my opinion is just playing another part - but there are hundreds of others, and you all need to start doing your jobs. It is nonsense that you are willing to exradite a non-violent person like Gary but you cannot defend Oxbridge students of your own diplomats. Like Jackson, many of you are rich. Not that that makes you guilty, but it does exacerbate the situation when your consittuents are threatened, ripped off and/or extradited and you just sit back and watch movies (porn movies, bought at the expense of the taxpayer in the case of former HO Sec Jacqui Smith).
But again, it is the voter who must act, so I ought to address this right to all of you and ask once again, what are you doing to support the UK?