Gary McKinnon - Brian and Kerry Howes - extradition to USA

Gary McKinnon - Brian and Kerry Howes - extradition to USA

Gary McKinnon:
Gary McKinnon's lawyers, led by Karen Todner, have succeeded, despite fierce opposition from the UK Government (represented by a barrister working for the Treasury Solicitor) in getting a Court Date for the oral Judicial Review of the decision to extradite Gary to the USA - Tuesday 20th January 2009.

Now, I'm not saying Gary's innocent of any crime. He admits he hacked into some US government machines and saw some things he shouldn't. The claim is that Gary caused thousands of dollars of damage to hundreds of US government machines via his dial-up snooping. An extradition to the USA is generally only justified if there's unequivocal proof of the (damage) charges. In this case that's not so.

Try Gary in England and let him do his community service. Or better still employ him as a security officer to make government systems more secure. But this isn't really about Justice and the Letter of the Law. It's about a spineless, yes SPINELESS, kow-towing of the UK government to their USA overlords. All hail the New World Order.

Brian and Kerry Howes:
Brian and his wife Kerry have four young children and are facing extradition to the USA under this spineless extradition treaty. They face up to 95 years in a max-security prison and will never see their children again. Their crime? They had a LEGAL chemical sales company, but one US citizen found that one of the chemicals, legal in the UK, could be used to make "crystal meth". On that alone, they are being sought for extradition to stand trial in the USA.

The pair have already spent 214 days in prison, and during this time Brian spent 30 days on hunger strike. Their bail conditions mean they have to sign in at their local police station THREE TIMES EVERY DAY.

Kerry has vowed she will not go to America, and never see her children again, she has said she will commit suicide instead. Brian will join her in suicide.

The UK government offers NO PROTECTION of its citizens any more, and just like Gary McKinnon, these people are being thrown to the lions. A British passport used to mean something, we knew as citizens we could travel the world and be protected by our government and our embassies, but no longer it would seem!

The ironic thing is, we cannot get an American citizen extradited without him/her first being proven guilty through trial in their own country!