Mahatma Gandhi once said: “A society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable”. This week, 42 year-old Aspergers hacker genius, Gary McKinnon lost permission to fight his ‘extradition’ to the United States to face a grueling 55 months in prison. I feel I need to qualify the phrase extradition, because the UK is the one of the only countries in the world who would export a vulnerable member of society to a foreign country. Do you think terrorists in the middle-east are extradited by their governments? No. Do you think America would extradite one of it’s own citizens to Europe if the situation were reversed? Of course not. In fact, it seems to me that this whole sickening deal was struck in the same manner of mutual information ‘sharing’ that saw America drag us into the Iraq war. Sharing is generally considered to be a two way process, and I can think of no single tactical reason why we should co-operate.
I cannot pretend to know everything about Aspergers Syndrome, but I know enough to understand how much more difficult this ordeal will be for Garry and how much more sickening it must be for his mother. My blood boils to think that our country would willingly abandon one of it’s more vulnerable members in this way.
Last night, Garrys mother Janis Sharp was quoted saying in an interview:
When we vote someone in to protect our rights, we don’t expect this to happen.
French stand up for the French, Americans stand up for Americans.
No other country in the world would so readily offer its citizens to the US as sacrificial lambs to safeguard a ‘special political relationship’.
To use my desperately vulnerable son in this way is despicable, immoral and devoid of humanity. I’ve fought for five years to protect him and I’m not about to give up.
My heart goes out to her because I realised that this is no ordinary extradition, but that Gary simply got too close to the truth. That the same secret international clique who maintains control over Britain and American politics, the same clique that lead us to War in Iraq, this same clique who organize extraordinary rendition, while our politicians tell us no such thing exists, this same clique who arrange cover-ups of excessive expenses in by British Members of Parliament, that this very same clique that is in place to keep people like you and me from realising what is actually happening, is now coming for Gary.
Were this any ordinary situation, the logical course of action would be to get Gary on the payroll of Scotland Yards Computer Crime Division.
But then, this is no ordinary extradition.
