Posts by Chris Northcott

ASSANGE GRANTED BAIL

It was £200k

according to Heather Brooke, a journo in the courtroom at the time and the said person who was tweeting the extradition hearing.

http://twitter.com/newsbrooke/status/14707133744418817

Home Secretary unmoved by last-ditch McKinnon protests

*sigh*.

I don't dispute for one second that GMcK is guilty of his crimes. He should do time for it, of course, he broke into US Govt systems without authorisation and that contravenes laws in both countries.

But, to me the unfair part of all this is that he's being tried by a system that has repeatedly been shown to be open to abuse and lobbying power. It's ultimately corrupt. I'm not saying the UK is all that much better but our courts system is a f--kton fairer than theirs. He's probably going to be sentenced to life, or holed up in Gitmo after being found to fall foul of some little caveat of the Patriot Act and the US media will make a total pariah out of him.

This whole case proves two things; that Labour don't give a flying monkeys about the citizens it's supposed to be serving, and that the US government will do anything to silence anything embarassing to them in the name of terrorism.