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08-02-2009, 10:02 PM

House of Lords AND/or Euro Ct of Human rights

Different (older) source -

What they are saying about Gary McKinnon
FIRST POSTED JULY 27, 2009
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/51271,...-united-states

If the appeal is rejected, his lawyer, Karen Todner, plans to take the case to the House of Lords and/or the European Court of Human Rights...

Gary McKinnon, defending himself on BBC Radio 5's Victoria Derbyshire show: "I'm not blind to criminality but I was on a moral crusade at the time. There was good evidence to show that certain secretive parts of the American government intelligence agencies did have access to crashed extra terrestrial technology which could... save us as a form of free, clean, pollution-free energy. I thought if someone was holding on to that, that was actually unconstitutional under American law."

Andrew MacKinlay, Labour MP for Thurrock, who has vowed to quit the Commons at the next election in protest at the recent Commons vote supporting McKinnon's extradition: "I believe it's the role of backbenchers to probe and criticise. In instances like the McKinnon case, which relate to people's rights and liberties as well as commonsense, you should just spurn the diktats and the Whips. I was really frustrated by the vote. Many of my colleagues had expressed their sympathy for Gary McKinnon. But when the crunch came, they just went tribal and followed the diktats of the party."

Mayor of London Boris Johnson: "There are a number of serious flaws in the Extradition Act in its current form. In the case of Gary McKinnon it is brutal, mad and wrong to consider sending him to the US. Gary's case is just one high-profile case we are aware of, but a number of other UK citizens are also in similar positions and are currently awaiting their fate."

An anonymous military officer at the US Pentagon, interviewed by the Sunday Telegraph: "US policy is to fight these attacks as strongly as possible. As a result of Mr McKinnon's actions, we suffered serious damage and lost a lot of time and money. This was not some harmless incident. He did very serious and deliberate damage to military and Nasa computers and left silly and anti-American messages. All the evidence was that someone was staging a very serious attack on US systems."

Anita Coles of Liberty, in the Guardian: "Gary McKinnon's fight to be prosecuted in the UK casts a stark light on our extradition arrangements with America. US prosecutors are threatening him with up to 70 years in a "supermax" prison * and this a man with Asperger's syndrome who could hardly be less suited to such punishment."

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no caste Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Brit Hacker Fights Extradition To America House of Lords AND/or Euro Ct of Human rights Different (older) source - What they are saying about Gary McKinnon FIRST POSTED JULY 27, 2009 http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/51271,...-united-states If the appeal is rejected, his lawyer, Karen Todner, plans to take the case to the House of Lords and/or the European Court of Human Rights... Gary McKinnon, defending himself on BBC Radio 5's Victoria Derbyshire show: "I'm not blind to criminality but I was on a moral crusade at the time. There was good evidence to show that certain secretive parts of the American government intelligence agencies did have access to crashed extra terrestrial technology which could... save us as a form of free, clean, pollution-free energy. I thought if someone was holding on to that, that was actually unconstitutional under American law." Andrew MacKinlay, Labour MP for Thurrock, who has vowed to quit the Commons at the next election in protest at the recent Commons vote supporting McKinnon's extradition: "I believe it's the role of backbenchers to probe and criticise. In instances like the McKinnon case, which relate to people's rights and liberties as well as commonsense, you should just spurn the diktats and the Whips. I was really frustrated by the vote. Many of my colleagues had expressed their sympathy for Gary McKinnon. But when the crunch came, they just went tribal and followed the diktats of the party." Mayor of London Boris Johnson: "There are a number of serious flaws in the Extradition Act in its current form. In the case of Gary McKinnon it is brutal, mad and wrong to consider sending him to the US. Gary's case is just one high-profile case we are aware of, but a number of other UK citizens are also in similar positions and are currently awaiting their fate." An anonymous military officer at the US Pentagon, interviewed by the Sunday Telegraph: "US policy is to fight these attacks as strongly as possible. As a result of Mr McKinnon's actions, we suffered serious damage and lost a lot of time and money. This was not some harmless incident. He did very serious and deliberate damage to military and Nasa computers and left silly and anti-American messages. All the evidence was that someone was staging a very serious attack on US systems." Anita Coles of Liberty, in the Guardian: "Gary McKinnon's fight to be prosecuted in the UK casts a stark light on our extradition arrangements with America. US prosecutors are threatening him with up to 70 years in a "supermax" prison * and this a man with Asperger's syndrome who could hardly be less suited to such punishment."