Saving Gary McKinnon by Sharp Janis

Author:Sharp, Janis [Janis Sharp]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849546577
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2013-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

MAY DAY

25 December 2009 marked yet another Christmas spent wondering when this nightmare would end. At least the courts being closed over Christmas and the New Year meant that no one could come and snatch my son away during this time.

I thought about how our government was sacrificing its own citizens to the US, regardless of the ludicrous sentences proposed, and of what might happen to them once they were extradited.

Cyberspace is a creation of science-fiction writers and has no more legal existence than never-never land. If they really want to start targeting computer geeks, then surely they should start by embracing some very basic technology and try them by video link.

Stanley Tollman, an American-born citizen who was fighting extradition from the UK, was given a one-day suspended sentence when he pled guilty by video link here in 2007. So why does this not happen with British citizens fighting extradition? Are foreign nationals being given preferential treatment?

Our crusade continued and Melanie Riley from Bell Yard Communications organised a text campaign. It really took off after I did interviews with Talk Radio Europe and with LBC. Days later, after I did an interview with George Galloway on his radio show, we got over 1,000 texts in one night in support of Gary. They were automatically emailed to the Home Office with proof of the number of texts received.

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