Stars sing for Gary

Pink Floyd front man David Gilmour, Chrissie Hynde, Bob Geldof and Gary McKinnon sing Graham Nash’s Chicago.
This is a plea to Barack Obama to come from Chicago and help Change the World and to allow Gary McKinnon to have his life back.
Thanks to the wonder that is Twitter, Gary’s mum Janis Sharp tells me that [...]

Gary McKinnon granted another judicial review

From The Register,
The High Court has granted a further judicial review of the Home Secretary’s decision to allow extradition proceeding against Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon to proceed. The move means the imminent threat of extradition against McKinnon is removed until at least April.
The latest in a long line of appeals by McKinnon will consider whether [...]

Shock as MPs talk sense (I’m not sure how to react)

The normally slippery character that is Keith Vaz has suggested that Gary McKinnon, who hacked into US Defense websites, should be given a job by the Government rather than be extradited.
The intelligence that enabled the Asperger’s sufferer to hack into American military computers could be put to good use, according to Keith Vaz.
Quite.
Mr Vaz, who [...]

Abu Hamza gets an early Christmas present

I just thought you’d like to know that we’ve spent £650 buying Abu Hamza nice new taps for his cell in Belmarsh Prison that he can operate with his hook.
Even though he could manage the old ones perfectly well.
A prison source said bosses at the jail were always bowing down to his demands. “It seems [...]

Gary McKinnon

For the benefit of my several overseas visitors, Gary McKinnon is a British man who has Asperger’s Syndrome and has been accused of hacking into Pentagon websites looking for evidence for UFOs. He is due to be extradited to the USA thanks to the unequal agreement between the two countries. If found guilty, he faces [...]