BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play this Wednesday 12th December about Gary McKinnon's Extradition story so far. His legal team are still awaiting a date from the House of Lords for when they are likely to hear his case on a point of law (the clumsy attempt by the US prosecutors at illegal in the UK, plea bargaining coercion)
14:15: Afternoon Play: The McKinnon ExtraditionJohn Fletcher's play tells the true story of Gary McKinnon, a British citizen who is fighting extradition to the US on suspicion of hacking into government computers.
Directed by Pete Atkin.
You should be able to listen to the play online (Real Media) after the broadcast, for a week or so.:
Nefertit
So the USA says it can kidnap ANYONE ANYWHERE ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece
codstar
great and excellent afternoon play..
this extradidition law sucks
big time and undermines everything we british hold ture..
it makes you think how many americans have and are hacking british computer systems and nothing can be done with them because the chance of extradidition is zero for them,make's me sick..
keep strong gary we are all with you..
and remember keep watching the skys..
codstar
Sue Rees
Have just listened to the play on BBC. I live in Paris, and wasn't really aware of this totally ridiculous situation. Good luck to Gary.
wil
Shame Radio 4 hadn't included the information in the link below at the end of the extradition discussion on Radio 4. "Unreliable Evidence" The link is about America going to the British courts to say they have a right to kidnap British citizens wanted in the US.
Here it is:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece
Chris Randall
I listened to the dramatised version of Gary McKinnon's situation whilst waiting in a supermarket car park in Bournemouth. I have been following the Disclosure Project for many years and I was most gratified to hear this on BBC Radio 4 as it highlights some serious problems in our society. One of the most important issues is the supression of clean energy producing technology which I suspect has been going on for many decades since the work of Tesla and others and is condoned by oil companies, the scientific community and governments alike. The UFO angle, whilst interesting to me personally, has brought so much ridicule upon normal, intelligent people that I won't comment on it here. I will say that I am very frightened at what is going on behind the scenes in world governments which even politicians cannot control. It is time for our national leaders to take a firm stand against these unelected forces which control the world. I wish Gary the very best of luck and will support his case if I can.
Gallant
To those who have no idea just what the 'Black Operations' idiots have been playing with in the U.S go to http://www.disclosureproject.org/
If 1% of this information is true these people, un-elected by congress, have been messing with stuff that is very dangerous indeed.
To those reading this who have a good idea by way of involvement/monitoring, I say this. These issues are now worldwide news. Testimony in front of congress will happen....and your days are numbered.....
Stephen R Ward
I remember listening to this; and it stopped me in my tracks. (I literally had to pull over into a lay-by, and stop driving.) I had been aware of Gary's case, but not of the disproportionate way in which it was being handled....
It would be great (although, I know, too late in the day, now...) if this play could be made available again -- either in its recorded form, or simply as a script. I think it would help remind people just how plain wrong this is; and how -- in essence -- Gary is being penalized just for being different to the majority....
I wish him well; and will be thinking of him, tomorrow....
Martin
What do you expect from the USA when they have a government within the government that is willing to blow up buildings in their own cities to justify going to war with enemies of Israel...
You have all heard about the pre-crime laws Obama has been pushing? And the torture-prisons around the world, and the heroin trade from Afghanistan, and now they are sending 40.000 more soldiers to kill or get killed in Afghanistan... what a fucking joke - and people just sit stupified in front of their TV watching american idol and the rest of it..
joanne
i am disgusted that the US deems itself to kidnap british citizens whenever they seem fit.it really is turning into a facist nation.it only is the right thing to do if anyone is seen to be breaking the law they be put to trial in their own country. otherwise any country could use any excuse to take a person from their own country and do to them whatever seems fit. in some countries like america the death penilty is still going on. this is just another case of the US trying to be the police nation of the world.another point i would like to make is that this man has been diagnosed with aspergers syndrome which in itself is a special case. i aplore the british government please use common sense and keep gary mckinnon in britain and give him a fair trial because once he is given to the US they will, as the current state of affairs with the civil war brewing,use the situation and make an example of him. just for once think of our own british citizens and not your own agendas. i would like to say to gary our thoughts are all with you and stay stong.
Philip John Edwards
There is doubt about the amount of computer damage Gary did, there is no way for the public to know the truth. The whole topic of UFOs is shrowded in secrecy, of that there is denying, Gary was up against a closed system, which by definition is un-democratic. What Gary did was done in the spirit of democracy and change, just as many other pioneers have done when it is the only way left against a closed system, any judgement to be fair, must take this into account. Gary may have broken rules, but remember, rules can be changed.