I am waiting for the day when Europeans are being extradited to the USA for doing something in Europe that is perfectly legal in Europe, but considered a crime in the USA. How about a family being naked at the beach? Or parents being imprisoned for incest because their kids have been seen playing doctor games in their backyard?

McKinnon may be guilty, but that should be determined by a court in the UK.

How many US soldiers who raped Japanese women have been on trial in occupied Japan? Things got so bad in Japan that the US Navy had to move an entire base.

" @ amanfromMars, Careful, you're actually sounding coherent. Before we know it, Drashek will be stringing two contextually relevant words together. .... posted by : bluesxman, 16 January 2009

Either that or we're finally enabled to listen and comprehend, bluesxman. :-)

Maybe IT's the Medication?

Lets not forget he was looking for little green men. He found the door wide open on several computer systems, I'm sure China and Russia etc were also having a look.

What happened when the US spy plane was forced to land in China a few short years ago? The US crew were "questioned" and the hi-tech super secret airplane was stripped down, cut up and offered back after China had "questioned" it.

Lets not loose sight of reality here, the people who were in charge of computer security are the one's who should be charged or sacked.

If I turned up at the Pentagon, bluffed my way in and started looking through filing cabinets for info on aliens, I'd expect to be told off and sent to see a doctor. And I would expect the security staff to be reprimanded or sacked.

WMDs - These are same "experts" who told us there were WMD's in Iraq, and that's why 300,000 people have been murdered there since the invasion.

We'd be better off investigating the banks and the bankers, and those dodgy accountants. I wonder if Andersen/Accenture are involved in any of this, they were last time!

McKinnon is certainly entitled to hacker's rights. He has the right to kiss his worhtless ass goodbye. He has the right to spend 20 years in prison. He has the right to be charged for all costs incurred to convict and incarcerate him. He has the right to have daily "meetings" with cellmate Bubba. He has the right to electrical shock therapy to treat his medical problems. He even has the right to bemoan prosecution for his crimes.

Careful, you're actually sounding coherent. Before we know it, Drashek will be stringing two contextually relevant words together.

With the sudden economic collapse there are waves of prison furloughs of non-violent offenders planned for this year as a means to save money and reduce budgets. He might have gotten off with relatively little prison time here.
On the other hand, admittedly for all of our claims of humane prisons in America, it is not entirely true. My father was a prison guard for over 15 years and some of the things he told me went on there horrified me. It is well known and pretty much ignored by most of society that most prison officials often turn a blind eye to rapes of prisoners by other prisoners. It is pretty much dismissed as a fact of prison life no matter how horrific it is in reality. For that reason alone I hope Mr McKinnon can find a safer alternative to serve his punishment. There are very few crimes that deserve a prison term that includes the rape or even the strong possibility of rape of the person imprisoned as many face here in our prison system. Unless he's a large, strapping lad and able to well defend himself, he's bound to wind up as somebody's pet - especially with his Brit accent. I certainly don't believe his crime warrants that. Do you?

"This is especially true since the decision to extradite Gary, as the CPS spokesman told the INQ, was taken in meetings with US prosecutors in 2002, the details of which it refuses to disclose."

Surely that is also grounds for non compliance, for the implication is that the details would render the reasons dodgy ....... and we all know of the lies and spin which have led us to the present Crisis of Failed Global Man Management.

And National Security is a Misnomer to Permit Rape and Pillage with Immunity and Impunity except that it doesn't and can't and IT Stores the Evidence for Prosecution of the Perps as they scurry around trying to hide their tracks, whilst still being listened to in Lame Dead Duck Administrations