Today on the May Day bank Holiday, supporters of Gary McKinnon's legal struggle against extradition to the USA, will be releasing 99 Red Balloons at around 12 noon
Bridge Street / Westminster Bridge outside Portcullis House and the Houses of Parliament.
This protest is inspired by the lyrics to the song 99 Luftballons / 99 red Ballons by Nena. The lyrics of the song portray Cold War trigger happy military over reaction to a harmless event.
See the Google Street View map and location photos.
Depending on where they are pointing at the time, you might perhaps get a glimpse of the balloons and the protestors on the BBC Jam Cam traffic camera feeds.
N.B. these camera feeds are likely to be censored with the false message "temporary fault", as they have been in the past, if and when the various anarchist May Day processions and demonstrations approach Parliament Square , supposedly around 2 or 3pm.
If you find one of these Red Balloons, please contact us via email or in the comments.
You can send us a digital photo (or a link to a photo sharing website etc) of it, with details of approximately where you found it.
UPDATE:
Here are a couple of photos from this May Day event in support of Gary McKinnon:
Elle Hart
Aside from the unfair and extremely biased and one sided Extradition Treaty that is being used in Gary's case - is the unfair sentencing...
* a harmless directory traversal that Gary made seeking only concealed info on extraterrestrials = a sixty year sentence.
* a malicious hack by David Kernell whose aim was to destroy a political career of the victim = a 5 year sentence.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9116606/Tenn._student_indicted_for_hacking_Palin_s_e_mail
Elle
Interesting information ::
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/ptech/03/24/secret.service.hacker/index.html
So, my question is...
...he was working for the government during the hack, in a position of trust, gained millions personally doing this malicious hack AND his sentence was 25 years max...
...Gary McKinnon was not working for the US or a spy ,walked a directory tree in an unprotected pc with no malicious hack, gained nothing financially AND his sentence is 60 years in Guantanamo...
...how is this fair?
david miedzianik
dear gary: i got back from the USA 20th april 2005: when i arrived back at MANCHESTER AIRPORT: EMGLAND: i overstayed a USA 90 day VISA WAVER: bob dylan and his band turned up at THE FILLIMORE: COLFAX AVENUE: DENVER: COLORADO: just a few days after this 90 day USA VISA WAVER expired: dylan even did 2 nights running there too: these last 5 years i've had nothing but blame for one daft thing after another: A NOISE in my house not hardly ever using it much in about 20 odd visits to the USA after anoth