How do you now avoid justice in the UK? Just get a lawyer to say that if you are subjected to legal process you will kill yourself.Centuries of British jurisprudence demolished in seconds by one of the worst disastrous home secretaries in living memory.And invoking the Human Rights Act to do it too.
The look of sheer incredulity on the face of the American commentator on ch 4 said it all when listening to a Conservative apologist of his catastrophic decision.
The argument about the crime being committed on British soil is of course the worst sort of sophistry.It is as if Mc Kinnon had created a long mechanical arm from his bedroom that stretched across the Atlantic,guided it into the Pentagon,deleted files etc,withdrew the mechanical arm back again and claimed he could not be extradited because he never physically set foot on American soil!
Just because you can commit criminal acts by the click of a mouse does not imply immunity from the consequences.The same results were achieved than if he had physically breached the Pentagon walls and broken into the building.The added irony is that we are quite content to have people extradited to EU countries with far less rigorous legal system than the US which is similar to ours and not based on insane Napoleonic principles.
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