Two separate influential people have spoken out against the extradition of terrorist Gary McKinnon from the United Kingdom to the United States after he attacked a United States defense computer network in the United States causing it to go down for three days.Autistic hacker, terrorist and moron Gary McKinnon has been throwing a temper tantrum over his extradition proceedings to the United States for bringing down United States
Terrorist and Moron Gary McKinnon
Department of Defense Computer Systems. McKinnon at one point went as far during his temper tantrum to have his lawyer threaten suicide on his behalf if extradited. McKinnon believes that his newly diagnosed condition as being Autistic guarantees him special treatment – including a get out jail free card, just because hes obsessed with UFO’s.
I feel that if Gary McKinnon feels that his Aspergers is the cause of this – and also why he should not be put in prison for his actions then perhaps he could stay inpatient in a hospital and receive treatment for his Aspergers until such time the doctors feel he is stable enough to to serve his sentence for terrorist acts against the United States putting countless Americans at risk.
Many of you are going to argue that Gary McKinnon should be praised for attacking the system and pointing out ‘weak security’. These people need to realise that even attempting to compromise a computer system shows ill intent – and if I were to drive off with my neighbors car who leave it running to warm up in the morning its still grand theft auto.
The UK Responce
As of right now the UK’s official position has been to extradite Gary McKinnon to the United States for prosecution under computer crimes laws – however Lord Carlie has recently urged the government to oppose the extradition of Gary McKinnon joining London Mayor Boris Johnson. Johnson has gone as far as to say that the extradition proceedings of a terrorist are ‘neocon lunacy’.
I would like to know if airplanes have been flying into Mr. Johnons’ London Bridges causing them to fall down in terrorist attacks if his response would be just as stupid. What Do You Think?
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You’re being overly sensationalistic.
Gary McKinnon isn’t a terrorist, by any definition of the term; a “terrorist” is somebody who causes harm or threatens to cause harm against people for the purpose of making them afraid, usually for a political, religious, or other idealistic reason. Gary McKinnon is a plain-vanilla computer hacker. It isn’t correct to call him a terrorist, unless you can also call someone who steals a road sign, breaks out of jail, or assaults a policeman a “terrorist” (these are all crimes against a government, as McKinnon’s were).
“Moron” is just plain incorrect. McKinnon is most likely highly intelligent. His actions were very unwise, but they did require some theoretical knowledge of computer systems.
A lack of extradition is not a “get out of jail free” card. It simply means that he will be sentenced in his own country rather than in the US. I don’t see what the big deal is, as long as he is sentenced somewhere.
Asperger’s is no reason not to convict; but it can and sometimes should affect what the punishment is, because it can affect motive, and the motive for a crime is important when determining sentencing. There is a big difference between killing someone after having gotten into a bar fight with him, and killing him because you were hired to do it. The first one will receive a much lighter sentence, and rightly so; but both are murder.
Gary McKinnon isn’t a terrorist. As far as I can tell, he’s the hacker equivalent of a teenager stealing a car for a joyride. Asperger’s doesn’t have much to do with that fact; a typical teen doing something similar would probably have similar reasons, except maybe he’d want to do it more to impress his buddies.
Throwing the book at him wouldn’t be justice. It doesn’t make sense, whether or not the guy has AS. Whatever happened to jail time, community service, house arrest, and don’t touch a computer for ten years?
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@chaoticidealism
That left when you attacked the United States military. Comparing that to stealing roadsigns or beating a police officer is like comparing a fireplace to the wildfires in Australia. If a country did what Gary McKinnon did – it could be considered an act of war. I don’t think your grasping the seriousness of what he did.
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Remember Captain Lisa Nowak, USN? Of the Astronaut Love Triangle? (I still giggle when I think the words, “Astronaut Love Triangle.”)
Her lawyer, obviously grasping at straws, included Asperger’s Syndrome in the list of excuses for her crime.
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Not so long ago, the US refused to extradite IRA terrorists to the UK.
The treaty is one sided, never mind AS it is just wrong.
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@laurentius-rex: I fail to see whats wrong about paying time for crimes
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He isn’t a terrorist
He should be extradited
He is a horrible person for what he is doing to autistic everywhere
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And “Moron” – maybe, esp. in satirical comment – but Terrorist – no way.
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I have to mostly agree. Asperger’s might justify his obsession with hacking. It does not justify actually breaking the law. You can learn much about hacking and computer security holes without actually breaking the law.
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‘neocon lunacy’ – I’d certainly agree with that.
McKinnon was very silly, naive and should be called to account for his actions.
But in a system that fair.
He won’t get that in the US.
You can ask Stafford-Smith why.
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@Socrates – whats not fair about if you do the crime you pay the time?
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