Gary McKinnon and the "New Politics"

"It took SIX Home Secretaries to examine the issue before, finally, it seems that something resembling justice will be done in the case of Gary McKinnon", says a Solicitor in Sutton Coldfield.
 
Five Labour incumbents to the post came and went - David Blunkett, Charles Clarke, John Reid, Jacqui Smith and Alan Johnson - and all of them simply abandoned Gary to reap the legacy of ill-considered the Extradition Act 2003.
 
It seems little short of a national disgrace that a citizen of the UK can be callously bundled over to a foreign power without even so much as the need to establish before a British Court that there is the slightest actual case to answer! How could the former government ignore and destroy the very fundamentals of our basic right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty?
 
This blog doesn't often like to stray into "politics" and is as sceptical as the next person when it comes to believing politicians when they promise to bring us "Change!"
 
However, if the move today by Theresa May, the new Home Secretary, to put the legal process on hold is an example of the "New Politics" promised by the Cameron Government then Harvey McKibbin Solicitors applauds it LOUDLY!
 
If you feel in any way strongly that we shouldn't just hand our citizens over to another power when it shows a whim - particularly when the case concerns a person with Asperger's Syndrome; particularly when the penalties in that country far, far outweigh any commensurate penalties in the UK for a similar offence - then please visit the Gary McKinnon website at:
 
http://freegary.org.uk/
 

and "add your voice to the sound of the crowd" against such breaches of fundamental liberties.

 

This blog is stepping out of the pulpit now, brothers and sisters... Thanks for reading (and taking action, if you do so)!