The extradition treaty is a betrayal of british people
Mckinnon is a test case so that America can feel free to extend its jurisdiction and extradite any web designer/ blogger/ hacker who does not fit in the American Global Picture'. Be very very clear you could next.
The inhumanity of the McKinnon case is obvious to anyone sane and knowledgeable enough to care. But the underlying problem is that as a treaty, it allows governments to evade the most basic legal protections citizens have by asserting blandly that very different legal systems are so similar that no injustice can arise. That is eminent twaddle.
McKinnon acted in the UK based on a lifetime in the UK. He assumes people are logical. They are not. He is being sacrificed to appease a 'special relationship' which apparently guarantees only that British citizens will be denied standards of justice and fairness which we take for granted. That treaty is unconscionable and must be amended. It would not take a major change, merely a requirement that the courts asess a prima facie case. Our government owes us that much if it has any respect for ancient British traditions of justice and fairness.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
