I was reading this morning again in the press about all of the support for Gary McKinnon from actresses, politicians, musicians, models and just about every other corner of society except for..... wait for it!.... other computer geeks!

I was reading about the Marillion keyboard player Mark Kelly putting a petition up on the bands' website and how it angered lots of U.S of A(rse) fans... Why should they get angered? Did Gary fly the planes into the World Trade Centre buildings? Did Gary blow up the London tube stations? Did Gary start the illegal war in Iraq? Did Gary terrorize you little children? - Answer? NO.  The great American public have no right getting bent out of shape because as far as extradition laws go, the U.K and it's citizens get shafted everytime.  The Americans need 'probable cause' for extradition of one of their citizens but in return only need 'reasonable suspicion' for extradition of a U.K citizen.  Where's the fairness there?

There isn't any.

I think that this country we live in used to have more balls than this.  A country where our grandfathers fought two terrible wars on a cup of hot tea and a few soggy biscuits.  If we as a nation had half the backbone those men had we would fight this extradition and simply tell the U.S of A(rse) bugger off!

Or better still, if their looking for hackers, maybe a call to HACK THE PLANET or at least HACK THE U.S.A should be shouted out around the U.K and the rest of the world... see how many people the U.S can extradite then...

We live in a society that shouldn't need these types of rallying calls but it's about time that the people in this country stopped being so complacent and realised that we are supposed to be living in a democratic society where the Government are supposed to be scared of the people, not the other way around. 

It's time that this country's goverment started to listen to it's people, after all it's us that pays their wages and keeps them in jobs.

Great Britain eh? Where's the 'Great' in it now when they let people like Gary be extradited for being curious.

Sheesh

HoHum..