McKinnon heads for the last chance saloon Accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon is approaching his own D-Day, with his fate due to be sealed in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The Court represents McKinnon's last chance of avoiding extradition to the US to face charges of hacking into military and NASA systems, following the rejection of his appeal …
"US authorities have been seeking to extradite McKinnon since June 2005."
or to put it another way, McKinnon's being fighting extradition.since June 2005. If he hadn't, and plea bargained, he might have served his sentence by now.
Mine's the one with arrows all over it..
I remember when this story first hit there was a bit of a kerfuffle among the alien conspiracy theory set. The general feeling seemed to be that he must have found something otherwise the feds would not be trying to extradite him.
Surely if they had the alien technology the feds would just teleport him to the US.
Why is there no black helipcopter icon?
On the BBC news site this story is listed next to the one of the guy convicted on converting replica firearms to fire real rounds and he also gets life.
Ironic as McKinnon's life will probably end meaning life (or most of it) whereas Grant Wilkinson will be "sentenced to a minimum term of 11 years" for provinding guns that have been linked to murders.....
So you hack some computers and you get life, you create weopons and provide them to people who use them to kill people and you get a poxy 11 or so years.
When is our law system going to dish out realistic sentences instead of the feeble excuses they do now.....
Mines the coat with the baseball bat in the inside pocket ready to administer some street justice
...he might get off more lightly than anyone thinks; a federal judge recently refused to send a guy to jail for building pipe bombs because he had Asperger’s.
But that aside, don't we have some kind of rule about sending people abroad for trial if they stand a chance of facing cruel and unusual whatever? Or does that only apply to terrorist suspects?
he was breathing oxygen at the time as well.
I have done extensive research and have come to a rather grave conclusion, every act of human criminality, every war, every man made weapon of destruction, each have one thing in common, the person or persons involved with these most heinous of activities, each of them without fail, and incontrovertibly were all inhaling oxygen at the time.
Shocking I know, most of us thought oxygen was harmless, just a thing to sustain life, but I am sorry my friends, we have to face up to the fact that the terror of oxygen - also linked tightly to cancer - is something we may have to wean ourselves off. Won't someone think of the children.
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