This whole sordid situation is an utter disgrace and emphasizes clearly what we have all known for ages: that fundamentally Britain is in America's pocket.
British citizens can be plucked from their home soil and extradited to the U.S. on nothing but suspicion alone, whilst American citizens are protected by their constitutional rights from ever being extradited to the United Kingdom.
McKinnon was clearly on British soil when he commited these crimes - if one could actually consider them crimes at all.
Internet security is the responsibility of all internet users. The fact that the most powerful nation on the planet didn't have the common sense to apply the most basic internet security to its most sensitive data is, quite frankly, an international embarassment if not a manoeuvre to deliberately entrap and make an example of someone as naive as Gary McKinnon.
I suspect he'll lose his case and be shipped out. Who needs passwords to protect sensitive data when you can simply apply fear and terror to diminish human curiousity?
The sooner Britain gets out of America's pocket and learns to stand on its own two feet again, like the powerful nation it once was, the safer all U.K. citizens will be (whether from terrorist threats, unnecessary extradition, or gung-ho, crazy Yank, retard-cowboy foreign policy). Sure, Britain would suffer financially (at least initially), but even temporary poverty is a small price to pay for true freedom.
Curiousity may have indeed killed the cat, but is it right that it should imprison McKinnon?
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