Gary McKinnon

[StevieG]

It is apparent from the latest statement from the Home Secretary that they are seriously looking into this debacle regarding this young man after a certain Mr Johnson of the NuLabour party shied away from making a decision so when a person in the UK can be extradited by the the Yanks and this only works one way ie; the authorites cannot extradite a person/s from the USA to answer a case against them in this country, to say it smacks of buttering up to the Yanks says it all !!!!
The evidence that has been revealed regarding the medical problems that this man has speaks for itself but there again, politicians are not doctors or they ignore the advice of the so called experts they pay thousands for from the public funds so will very interesting in the outcome of this case.

[dutchman]

A UK-born Australian man Hew Raymond Griffiths was also deported from Australia to the USA to face trial for sharing commercial software free-of-charge over the internet despite never once having set foot in the USA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths

[PoundShopPeter]

The "Special Relationship" ... it's great isn't it?

[StevieG]

Peter, my definition of the "Special Relationship" label is that the Yanks do not give a as long as they are o.k.and I have experienced this criteria on my visits to the States and it makes me mad as there is nothing worse than the way they treat the coloured population but they were more than happy to draft them into the Yankee Army in WW2 and I saw personally,,although young, the way they treated them and even to this day, it makes bad memories but now they can hold their heads high as they have one of their own gender in the White House and by golly jimminy,, it sucks .