Is Gary McKinnon The Original Julian Assange?
GARY McKinnon is not Julian Assange. Up the road from Westminster, Assange and his grandstanding celebrity pals was getting mobbed by the media. On Westminster Bridge, Janis Sharp held aloft a card signed by politicians and well wishers for her son, computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
The US military and politicos want him to stand trial for hacking into top secret military computers and, allegedly, messing with files. If he is found guilty for seven charges, he could be sent down for 70 years. Mr McKinnon is 44.
Why does the US want him? To make an example of him? Mr McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome. He was not a threat. He says he was looking for evidence of UFOs.
He says he wanted to find evidence that the US has had access to alien machines. He wanted the world to know about it. He wanted transparency.
He spoke about “The Disclosure Project” that “they are some very credible, relied-upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and [they’ve] captured spacecraft and reverse engineered it”
The US says McKinnon hacked into 16 Nasa computers, as well as computer systems operated by the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense. He did this between February 2001 and March 2002.
Said he:
“I found out that the US military use Windows. And having realised this, I assumed it would probably be an easy hack if they hadn’t secured it properly.“
In 2005, the US began moves to extradite Mr McKinnon. The hacker fought it. He lost in the high Court. In 2008, the House of Lords said he had lost. He appealed again. In July 2009 he lost again at the High Court.
What next for Gary McKinnon?
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(Left to right) Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, Former Labour minister Michael Meacher and ex-shadow home secretary David Davis are watched by Janis Sharp, mother of Gary McKinnon, after they met the Home Secretary Alan Johnson and urged him not to extradite the computer hacker to the US.
Posted: 14th, December 2010 | In: Technology Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
