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In UK, Hacker Demands New Government Block Extradition

Posted by kdawson on from the holding-out-for-regime-change dept.

Stoobalou writes "Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon has called on the newly elected British government to put its money where its mouth is and tear up his extradition order. US prosecutors have been trying to get McKinnon before a New Jersey court for seven years after they caught him hacking into US military and NASA computers looking for evidence of UFOs. David Cameron, the newly elected prime minister, and Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, had both voiced their support for McKinnon's campaign against extradition. Other ministers in the coalition government had branded the extradition unjust. Clegg had even joined McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, on a protest march."

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  1. Re:But now by evilandi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Countries can't own anything. The Queen does all that, don'tchaknow?

    Your obedient subject,

    --
    Andrew Oakley - www.aoakley.com
  2. Re:A little perspective from the UK by tehcyder · · Score: 2, Funny

    A French person with a rifle shoots across the France/Germany border and kills a German. In which country did the murder occur?

    The US?

    --
    To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it