>From Remi Cornwall: > Dear Vortex, > > I unsubscribed in the past because I simply disagreed with many of the > opinions and science that goes on here, to me there is no point in arguing > anymore. > > I would like to use some of the 'cache' I have in Vortex to ask British > citizens to lobby their MPs/home secretary/Euro MPs in their own words (and > with their own postcodes/emails to avoid being SPAM-handled) on the matter > of Gary McKinnon. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7831481.stm > > http://freegary.org.uk/ > > This is the story of a British man being crushed by the USA for 'hacking' > into their unprotected computers and allegedly finding stuff about 'UFOs'. > He did no criminal damage, made no real risk to national security. > > All he has done is commit the misdemeanour of trespass and this is not a > felony warranting 70 years in a US maximum security jail. > > It is cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the American constitution > anyway. > > One should fear that US law can usurp British and European independence. > > Remi. > > This is my letter, please use your own words. > > To: > > Home Secretary > Rt Hon. Jacqui Smith MP > c/o Direct Communications Unit > Home Office > 2 Marsham Street > London SW1P 4DF > > On reading the BBC news item about Gary McKinnon and taking the suggestion > of his support campaign I write to you as follows: > > Gary McKinnon has committed no felony. He has caused no criminal damage. He > has not threatened national security. > > He has merely trespassed and it is a misdemeanour. > > His sentence bears no relation to this misdemeanour. We see child abusers, > murderers, rapists get off with trivial sentences of a few years or other > legal technicalities. > > Under the USA constitution his punishment is cruel and unusual and thus is > unconstitutional. > > 70 years in a maximum security prison bears no relation to the offence. > > This disproportionate crushing of Gary must show that they have a conspiracy > to hide. > > I also object to the usurping of British justice by the USA. The > misdemeanour was committed on British soil so he is subject to British Laws. > > Gary was and still is a man of exemplary character. > > Please support: > > Early Day Motion 2388 sponsored by David Burrowes MP > > I support Gary. > > Remi Cornwall.
I would concur with Remi's assessment. I'm not in a position to assess, nor agree or disagree with what Gary presumed to have uncovered while he was hacking into certain USA government web sites. If Gary uncovered anything of interest, perhaps it it may have been more of an embarrassment rather than exploiting actual national security issues. Below is a link to an on-line video interview of Gary conducted back in 2006 by Project Camelot. http://www.projectcamelot.net/gary_mckinnon.html Excerpt from web page link: ************************************************ Gary McKinnon : Hacking the Pentagon London, June 2006 I (Kerry Cassidy) caught up with Gary McKinnon in North London on my way back from safari in Kenya. The interview was shot using a hand-held camcorder and uploaded at 4 am UK time, making use of a wireless connection outside of an office building in downtown Birmingham. This is what is known as guerilla filmmaking... We sat in the back of his local pub, in a garden in the late afternoon. Gary is lucid, eloquent and extremely intelligent. He made it clear that the real reason the Americans want to extradite him is not for any damage he has done, for in fact there wasn't any. They are pursuing him is because of what he might have seen. Specifically, documents revealing a list of "Non-terrestrial officers" and off-world cargo operations somewhere out in space, hinting at the real possibility of military activities taking place in relation to other planets. Such a possibility has got to be mind-blowing to the average person who barely grasps that there might actually be aliens from other worlds interacting with earth and governments in the vicinity of our solar system. Key to the whole extradition matter is the issue that there were NO passwords required in order to access this material... and that a relatively unprofessional hacker, self-taught albeit brilliant, would be able, using a dial-up modem, to gain top secret access to NASA files and places as sacrosanct as the Pentagon. ********************************** Stargate Atlantis, Here we go again!!! ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
