Free Gary

This just came in from a girl on twitter, she is going to post these up around tube stations etc in London.

FREE GARY

You may have heard about the case of Gary McKinnon, the UFO computer-hacker with Asperger’s Syndrome. Gary is being extradited to the USA with British Government backing, to face 60 years in a US jail, because he hacked into US government and military computers to search for UFOs.

The British Government have abandoned Gary to his fate, to appease the USA. Perhaps you too think that Gary should get what is coming to him. Perhaps you don’t know what Asperger’s Syndrome is, or perhaps you think that a peaceful, vulnerable, UFO computer-geek deserves to be treated like a terrorist by the country that brought us Guantanamo Bay and Abu-Ghraib?

But the fact is that Gary is no terrorist, and his actions were merely part of the eccentric and obssessional behaviour symptomatic of Asperger’s Syndrome. Bear in mind too that the computers Gary hacked into had no security in place, no passwords, no firewalls. A thirteen year old child could have done what Gary did. Because of his condition, Gary did not realise the seriousness of his actions. And because of his condition, to extradite him to the US to face a 60-year jail sentence, away from his support networks, and in a brutal and foreign environment would be inhumane, even if it were not grossly disproportionate to his crime.

Please support our campaign to persuade the British Government to stand up to America, and have Gary tried in the UK.

www.freegary.co.uk www.tweet4gary.co.uk

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