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2009-11-29 Britain

Pentagon hacker 'wants to be prosecuted in the UK'

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Posted by ryuge 2009-11-29 09:45|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 What a crock. This guy hacks his way into US government Defense Department computers, and wants people to believe he suffers from a mental condition that precludes prosecution. What's that? He isn't trying to avoid prosecution? Sure pal, sure.

Posted by imoyaro 2009-11-29 11:20|| 2009-11-29 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 He can be tried in Blairistan after he gets out of U.S. Jail.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-11-29 11:24|| 2009-11-29 11:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Got news for her. Since joining the EU, the Magna Carta is no longer in effect. Neither is Common Law, nor the rights of "free Englishmen".

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-29 11:38|| 2009-11-29 11:38|| Front Page Top

#4 "Many people would rather be dead than be in a prison in America. He's had several breakdowns, he doesn't talk for days, he doesn't eat. A psychiatrist says he's detaching totally from himself. He feels like he's walking through a world that never ends."

What's this young man's address? I'd like to send him the complete series DVDs of Oz. Or Bad Boys with Scared Straight on the B-side.

Posted by ed 2009-11-29 17:08|| 2009-11-29 17:08|| Front Page Top

#5 I've no doubt Mr. McKinnon is suffering just as his mother claims... and that in her anxiety she's making it worse. Aspies who are deeper into the autistic end of the spectrum have real problems understanding society's rules and why they should follow them -- although it's more often basic things like wearing the same outfit every day, regardless of occasion or weather, and bathing regularly. This is not the same as psychopaths, who understand the rules but think themselves above such things. Unfortunately, I see no way to handle this that's fair to both Mr. McKinnon and the world at large.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-11-29 18:11|| 2009-11-29 18:11|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't feel bad for this POS, his sufferin Ma Barker or the tools which will show up to excuse his behavior. He needs a beatdown, virtual, penal, or otherwise.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-11-29 18:32|| 2009-11-29 18:32|| Front Page Top

#7 He won't survive prison, Frank, and he'll never understand why. Think of Lennie in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Idiot savant no longer has the same meaning it once had, unfortunately.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-11-29 20:41|| 2009-11-29 20:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm OK with that

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-11-29 21:39|| 2009-11-29 21:39|| Front Page Top

#9 What's the problem with him serving time in the US vs the UK? It's not like the British system is that much gentler than the US one, is it? (Or is it just that Mummy won't be able to visit as often? Basic anti-Yankee sentiment?)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-29 23:50|| 2009-11-29 23:50|| Front Page Top

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