The Other Extradition Battle In Britain

Posted by: Linda Carbonell on July 24, 2012

Ever heard of Gary McKinnon? ... While Assange has captured headlines and wangled posh lodgings out of gullible idiots for two years while fighting extradition to Sweden to answer questions in two rape investigations – all the time insisting that the United States was behind the extradition and was going to kill him – there has been a six year fight to extradite a British hacker for breaking into our military and security systems in 2001.

McKinnon is charged with hacking into our military systems, shutting down hundreds of computers and causing almost $1 million in damages. He is also, inadvertently, the reason the United States doesn’t want Assange’s skinny ass. The protections put in because of McKinnon make it implausible that WikiLeaks hacked into our military databases and our State Department. Bradley Manning was able to download secret files to a Lady Gaga disc to mail to WikiLeaks because he was inside the system.

The six-year delay in extraditing McKinnon stem from his medical condition. He has Asperger’s syndrome ...

McKinnon isn’t alone. The autism defense has arisen in one of the Lulzsec cases in relation to whether or not the suspect would be extradited. In McKinnon’s case, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, is carefully reviewing the medical evidence, but at present is supervising the security for the Olympics, so it will be October before there is a ruling from her. McKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp, is complaining loudly, saying “If Theresa May had got an ounce of compassion she would make her decision now, before the Olympics, because she has any number of medical reports – these delays are destroying my son’s life” ... McKinnon, by the way, is 46 years old ...

http://lezgetreal.com/2012/07/the-other-extradition-battle-in-britain/