Shared Opinion

8 August 2009

It’s the blood, muck and goo that makes space travel so interesting

Aside from having that slight David Icke/David Bowie thing going on around the eyes, McKinnon looks like somebody’s son or uncle. Somebody normal who just sat at his desk and got carried away. And because of that, it’s easy to forget that the big argument should have nothing to do with his personal circumstances. McKinnon sat down at a computer, here, and committed a crime. That crime had ramifications in America, sure, but he can only have committed it here, because here is where he was. So, either we allow people to be extradited for crimes committed here, or we don’t. Either we hand ’em over, or we deal with ’em ourselves.

Me, I’d vote for the latter every time. Only it does seem that there is another misguided conspiracy theorist in a similar situation to McKinnon, who also is alleged to have sat down at a computer in north London, to have done things that (if he is found guilty) would have been criminal here, and who America also wants to stand trial over there. That would be old blinky hooky himself, Abu Hamza. What happened to the Daily Mail campaign on behalf of him? I must have missed it.