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On the show tonight, we talk to A Man about the extradition of Gary McKinnon

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CCTV Doesn’t Keep Us Safe, Yet the Cameras Are Everywhere By Bruce Schneier The Guardian June 26, 2008 Pervasive security cameras don’t substantially reduce crime. There are exceptions, of course, and that’s what gets the press. Most famously, CCTV cameras helped catch James Bulger’s murderers in 1993. And earlier this year, they helped convict Steve Wright of murdering five women in the Ipswich area. But these are the well-publicised exceptions. Overall, CCTV cameras aren’t very effective. This fact has been demonstrated again and again: by a comprehensive study for the Home Office in 2005, by several studies in the US, and again with new data announced last month by New Scotland Yard. They actually solve very few crimes, and their deterrent effect is minimal. Conventional wisdom predicts the opposite. But if that were true, then camera-happy London, with something like 500000, would be the safest city on the planet. It isn’t, of course, because of technological limitations of cameras, organisational limitations of police and the adaptive abilities of criminals. To some, it’s comforting to imagine vigilant police monitoring every camera, but the truth is very different. Most CCTV footage is never looked at until well after a crime is committed. When it is examined, it’s very common for the viewers not to identify suspects. Lighting is bad and images are grainy, and criminals tend not to stare helpfully at the lens. Cameras break far too often. The best camera systems can …

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Was Gary McKinnon the victim of a Russian hacking plot ? ComputerWeekly.com (blog) He talked passionately about his late night hacking episodes, discovering pictures of UFO's on military servers and evidence of a US space-corps. …

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Gary McKinnon’s mum Janis and Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg discuss the unfair extradition treaty via which Gary may be removed from the UK to the USA over the claims he “damaged” military networks. For full background on the case and media items see exopolitics.org.uk. Janis has registered to stand against former Home Secretary Jack Straw in the North West of England – see www.exopolitics.org.uk in-uk-elections/ -

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In advance of Monday’s MayDay event for Gary McKinnon: 3rd May, 12 noon, Westminster Bridge. Releasing 99 red balloons for Gary. Please come and make a stand against this gross injustice done by our corrupt and spineless Labour government. No to extradition without evidence. No to extradition for non-extraditable offences. Yes to a fair UK trial for Gary McKinnon. It’s not much to ask, is it? And yes, that is Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne in the video, standing up for justice, decency and common sense. Unlike Alan Johnson, Jack Straw and Gordon Brown, who continue to try and obscure the fact that Gary McKinnon has admitted only a non-extraditable offence, and that all other allegations have been laughed out of court. For real.

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From Wiki; Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish hacker facing extradition to the United States on charges of perpetrating what one US prosecutor claims is the “biggest military computer hack of all time, although McKinnon himself states that he was merely looking for evidence of a UFO cover-up, the suppression of Free Energy, and other technologies potentially useful to the public. Online Campaigners Show Support for Gary McKinnon Text GARY to 65000 to join petition Two major online campaigns a text petition and the Chicago song download – are being launched this week demonstrating continued, and widespread, public opposition to the extradition of Gary McKinnon. Time is running out for Gary as he nears the end of legal challenges in the UK courts. The text petition, spearheaded by Janis Sharp, Garys mum, and key supporters, urges voters to text Gary to 65000, by way of demonstrating their support. Evidence of petitioner numbers will be sent on a regular basis to the Home Secretary, as well as to the Conservative & Lib Dem Shadow Home Secretaries in this, an election year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Useful sites – freegary.org.uk en.wikipedia.org

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The Daily Mail reports some potentially good news::

New hope that Gary McKinnon can stay in Britain after Home Secretary agrees to reconsider medical case for extradition

By James Slack and Michael Seamark
Last updated at 12:03 AM on 20th May 2010

Gary McKinnon is to be saved from the threat of immediate extradition as early as today.

Home Secretary Theresa May believes a court case to send the vulnerable hacker to the U.S. – due to begin in a few days – should be halted.

Her intervention gives Gary – who is backed by the Daily Mail’s Affront to British Justice campaign – a vital new chance to plead the case for being dealt with in the UK.

Without it, the Asperger’s sufferer would have been extradited within weeks to a foreign jail, where it is feared he would be almost certain to take his own life.

Gary faces up to 60 years imprisonment on charges of hacking into U.S. military computers.

Psychiatrists have warned that the 44-year-old – who was looking for evidence of ‘little green men’ – will kill himself if sent to America under the ‘lopsided’ Extradition Act 2003.

A succession of Labour home secretaries had abandoned Gary to his fate despite the desperate warnings about the state of his mental health.

But after the Mail’s vigorous campaign, which was launched ten months ago and is supported by civil liberties groups, autism charities, celebrities and scores of MPs, Mrs May is understood to want a rethink.

She will now reconsider the medical case for keeping Gary here, where he has agreed to be tried for his ‘crimes’.

This reflects a request made by Gary’s legal team last week for the new Government to look at the case afresh.

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Mrs May’s decision will be formally put to Gary’s legal team as early as today, under a process which requires them to agree to adjourn the court case.

The judicial review of former home secretary Alan Johnson’s refusal to intervene had been due to begin next week and was virtually a last throw of the legal dice.

If it is adjourned Mrs May can then begin formal consideration of the mountain of medical evidence that Gary is unfit to be extradited.

If it is established that he cannot be allowed to go, it opens the door to a prosecution in the UK.

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Last night Gary’s mother Janis Sharp said: ‘Obviously, the Home Secretary reconsidering the case would be good news but we will only be happy if we are told it is all over.’

His solicitor Karen Todner, of Kaim Todner, said: ‘The legal team is extremely pleased that the Home Secretary appears to have appreciated that she is able to exercise discretion in relation to Mr McKinnon.

‘We will make further representations to her in the hope that she will stop this extradition.’

Lawyers are not the only people who can and do “make representations” to the Home Secretary.

When John Reid was Labour Home Secretary, so many of you kindly wrote to the him on behalf of Gary, that the Home Office had to stop sending out individual replies.

Please write to the new Conservative – Liberal Demetrius coalition government Home Secretary on Gary’s behalf:

Home Secretary
Rt Hon.Theresa May MP
c/o Direct Communications Unit
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF

Home Office Contact Us page

Telephone: 020 7035 4848 (09:00-17:00 Mon-Fri)

Fax: 020 7035 4745

Minicom: 020 7035 4742 (09:00-17:00 Mon-Fri). Please note that this service is for members of the public with impaired hearing.

Email: public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

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A long night in Blackburn as the votes were counted. Janis Sharp, mother of Gary McKinnon, stood against Jack Straw to raise awareness of civil liberties and her son’s plight. Janis did several media interviews over the course of the evening and got a good reception. She was not allowed to stand as “Mother of Gary McKinnon – fighting for Justice” merely as ‘independent’ www.janissharp.com

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Tom Bradby mentions that the new coalition government has to decide on Gary soon

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Th Register reports:

McKinnon gets a date for ‘final’ appeal

May appointment with destiny

By John Leyden

Posted in Law, 22nd February 2010 09:54 GMT

Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon and his legal team have been given three months to prepare for a judicial hearing on whether the Home Secretary proceeded correctly in allowing extradition proceedings to proceed in spite of dire medical warnings.

A judicial review will consider the strength of medical opinion that the Asperger’s Syndrome sufferer was likely to crack under the strain of a US trial and likely imprisonment.

The date of a two day hearing before two senior judges has been set for 25 and 26 May, McKinnon’s mum said last Friday. A ruling can be expected to follow two weeks or so later, by which time a general election will almost certainly have taken place. If opinion polls are to be believed, this is likely to leave Britain with a new government, a factor that may well play to McKinnon’s favour. The opposition Tories have tabled debates against the US-UK extradition treaty calling for its reform, in support of McKinnon.

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Remember that this Judicial review will not cross-examine any of the allegations, including the vastly over-inflated claims about “financial” damage, or any actual witnesses or evidence against gary.

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