Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Allegedly a British citizen called Gary McKinnon hacked into NASA and US military computers causing
$ 700000 worth of damage. The Americans have asked for Mr. McKinnon to be extradited to the US to stand trial and the British Home Secretary has agreed. Mr. McKinnon suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism but his many appeals the British courts have been turned down. This is not an isolated incident. We regularly hear of Britain throwing its citizens into US jaws but the opposite does not apply. Americans do not have to answer any charges to the British justice system. Also Britain regularly hands over all the intelligence it gathers to the US but the Americans give only selected bits in return. Seems that Britian has handed over its sovereignty to the US and is merely a slave nation. If that is the case the British government owes it to its citizens to be open about it so they can avoid falling foul of US laws. It is also of vital interest to the rest of the world because Britain continues to occupy, quite unjustly, a veto wielding membership of the UN Security Council. It means in effect that the US actually has two votes and can always find support for whatever it does. This needs to be taken up at the UN General Assembly and then nations should collectively ask Britain to resign its seat. It will be ugly but the world should stand united for justice. Chavez and Ahmadinejad, are you listening?

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