(London, UK) British autism campaigners have launched a new online petition in support of Gary McKinnon. The petition has the full support of Mrs Janice Sharp, McKinnon’s mother. UK autism charities are now supporting the petition and organisers hope that thousands will sign it.
Gary McKinnon recently lost his appeal in the High Court in London and his legal team have 28 days to take action. Gary McKinnon is fighting extradition to the US. He had hacked into US military and Nasa computers between 2001 and 2002. Campaigners however point out to the fact that he was looking for evidence for UFOs and he was not a spy or a terrorist.
McKinnon is attracting huge support in the UK. Leader of the Opposition David Cameron, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg, Leading parliamentarians Dr. Vince Cable, Lee Scott, Mayor of London Boris Johnson and author Nick Hornby are among those supporting McKinnon. Over 100 British MPs have supported him in the House of Commons.
Leading musicians Sir Bob Geldof, Chrissie Hynde and Dave Gilmour have released a song ‘Chicago’ in support of Gary McKinnon.
Autism campaigners Ivan Corea of the UK Autism Foundation and Kevin Healey who has Asperger’s Syndrome and chairs the Staffordshire Adults Autistic Society have appealed directly to President Obama urging him to show compassion and allow McKinnon to be tried in the UK.
Several British newspapers such as the Daily Mail are running front page campaigns in support of Gary McKinnon. Recently Peter Hain, the Welsh Secretary became the first Cabinet member of the Government to speak out in support of Gary McKinnon.
The online petition is the brainchild of Kevin Healey of SAAS and it is gaining support. SAAS is backed by the UK Autism Foundation, Autism Trust and other charities.
The Gary McKinnon online petition:
http://signup4garymckinnon.yolasite.com/
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackGary you have my utmost support. Since George Bush days the British Government is determinded to make itself look increasing stupid & bordering on incompitant when it comes to foreign affairs. They really can’t help themselves, poking their noses in other peoples business. Now call me a cynic, but if i were them the last thing i would do would willing hand you over to the bully in the playground! Sorry Mr Obama, but that’s how it was. Suffice to say the Russians have more integrity than the Bush administration.
Gary, the British Government should give you a job. What upsets me more is the fact that the British can do this to one of their own.
I am just an ordinary person, but i know of the existance of extraterrestrials, because i am an abductee, as they say in the states! I don’t need any convinceing. Fortunately for me, mine are friendly – or as friendly as they can be! You did what any curious intellectual would do. If i had your knowledge i probrobly would have done the same, because i am always looking for answers. My question would have been WHY ME?
Gary keep your chin up mate! Things could still change, Mr Obama is a nice man…just a shame the Americans are in denial with all this alien stuff. As for their national security…what a joke?, they should be concentrating on their natural desasters,the enviroment, poverty & their own human rights, nevermind what else everyone else is doing!
Plus sort out all the rich bastards that have orchestrated all this fearmongering! My sincere best wishes to you Gary & to your family. Stay strong!xxx
The following appears on the Wired Magazine website for July 31, 2009:
“’U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days,’” McKinnon wrote on a hacked Army computer in 2002. ‘It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year … I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.’
In interviews, McKinnon has admitted a hacking spree, which he says was a ‘moral crusade’ in search of evidence of a military UFO cover-up. He has long denied doing any damage, but his lawyers recently said that McKinnon intended to cause ‘temporary impairment’ of U.S. military computers.”
In light of this, the question of intent becomes paramount. I take McKinnon at his word as he left it on the computers that he hacked. He intended to “disrupt” and to “continue to disrupt.” To claim now that he shouldn’t face the consequences of his actions, when he obviously knew what he was doing, is to say that no law should be enforceable if you don’t like the victim of the crime. It also, to me, raises the question of whether the claim of UFO research is the response of a child who has been caught doing something wrong, claiming, “I was only trying to . . .”, when what the child was really trying to do was what he was caught doing.
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