Quote Originally Posted by IAN 2411 View Post
It is written in the American constatution that no citizen of the USA will be extrodited to a foreign country to be tried.
Complete nonsense, the US constitution says nothing of the sort, which is why the US can and does extradite suspects to the UK as well (indeed, last time I checked, not a single UK request had been refused by the US). The Russian constitution does apparently say that, and the French also refuse to hand their citizens over for trial (I wonder if the European Arrest Warrant trumps that?) - and personally, I find that disgusting: to allow a suspect to escape justice based on the passport they hold is terrible. I for one do not want my country sheltering criminals, native or otherwise!

I will not make light of 9/11, it was an atrosity on the free world. However since then, the Americans have still not learned that respect has to flow both ways to be of any use. The UK is not now, and never will be, the lap dogs of the USA, and if the Americans believe they are, then they dont deserve the respect that is given them.
Does knowing that the US does actually extradite when the UK requests it and that you had them confused with the Russians and French change that position at all? As for making light of 9/11, if only McKinnon had shown that civility when he was posting offensive graffiti on the computer systems he attacked.

Gary McKinnon belongs to the UK...America, leave him alone, its bully boy tactics, its a powerful country against one autistic person. My how the standards drop when there are no wars that need back up.
Maybe he does "belong" to us - but do and should we want him? If there were doubts about his guilt, or that he'd receive a fair trial and, if convicted, sentence, I'd be hesitant about extradition too - but that isn't the case here.

If McKinnon ever does finally serve time for his crimes and gets the stretching you refer to Blair getting, will the apologists who blamed his victims for not having "enough" security apply the same logic and blame him for not having a good enough chastity belt, or not being strong enough to fight off Bubba?