{"id":939,"date":"2009-11-11T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2009\/11\/11\/ufo-researcher-gary-mckinnon-suicidal-over-health\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T21:26:22","slug":"ufo-researcher-gary-mckinnon-suicidal-over-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/ufo-researcher-gary-mckinnon-suicidal-over-health\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO Researcher Gary Mckinnon suicidal over health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"article-inner\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<h1>UFO Hacker Gary Mckinnon suicidal over health<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"pic\" id=\"Thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Assets\/GetAsset.aspx?ItemID=41183\" width=\"250\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"noindex\"><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"ArticleInfo_AuthorLabel\">Author:<\/dt>\n<dd id=\"ArticleInfo_AuthorLabelLink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/authors\/articleauthor.aspx?liArticleID=238605\">Mark Ballard<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Posted: <\/dt>\n<dd id=\"ArticleInfo_PostedDateLabel\">15:28 11 Nov 2009<\/dd>\n<dd><span class=\"share\"><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\naddthis_url = document.URL;\naddthis_title = &#39;&#39;;\n\/\/addthis_title = &#39;&#39;;\naddthis_pub = &#39;&#39;;\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/addthis_widget.php?v=12\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\nif (typeof addthis_widget==&quot;undefined&quot;){var addthis_widget=&#39;addthis&#39;;\nvar at12O=&#39;http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/&#39;; 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padding: 0px;\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"ArticleBody\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/11\/05\/238435\/change-to-law-could-save-gary-mckinnon-from-extradition.htm\"><strong>Protracted extradition proceedings<\/strong><\/a><strong> have turned <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2008\/08\/28\/231065\/hacker-gary-mckinnon-essential-guide.htm\"><strong>UFO hacker Gary McKinnon<\/strong><\/a><strong> into a nervous wreck who is on medication to quell his suicidal tendencies, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/03\/12\/235250\/hacker-mckinnons-mum-plans-song-protest-for-obama.htm\"><strong>his mother, Janis Sharp<\/strong><\/a><strong>, told MPs yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the light of Gary McKinnon&#39;s hearings, the chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee has questioned whether the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_Rights_Act_1998\">Human Rights Act <\/a>is fit for purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Act is so exacting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/07\/31\/237141\/mckinnon-faces-extradition-despite-suicide-risk.htm\">Gary McKinnon&#39;s risk of suicide might not be sufficient to engage its protections and prevent his extradition<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nthreat of extradition was having a detrimental effect on McKinnon&#39;s<br \/>\nmental health, said Janis Sharp, McKinnon&#39;s campaigning mother. <\/p>\n<p>She<br \/>\ntold MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee: &quot;It has ruined Gary&#39;s<br \/>\nlife&#8230; it has destroyed him. If the door goes, he jumps. If someone<br \/>\ntouches him, he jumps. He has incredible chest pains every morning.&quot;<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"noindex\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"mpu\">\n<div class=\"mpu-inner\"><span><br \/><\/span><noscript><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>McKinnon, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asperger_syndrome\">Asperger&#39;s Syndrome<\/a>,<br \/>\nbecame suicidal last month after the High Court threw out his appeal<br \/>\nagainst extradition on human rights grounds. He was put on medication.<br \/>\n&quot;He would rather be dead than be extradited, that&#39;s the reality,&quot; Sharp<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lever, head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nas.org.uk\/nas\/jsp\/polopoly.jsp?d=2074&amp;a=20617\">National Autistic Society<\/a>,<br \/>\ntold MPs that extradition, by taking an Aspergic far from familiar<br \/>\nsurroundings and family, could have a severe effect on their mental<br \/>\nhealth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeoffice.gov.uk\/about-us\/organisation\/ministers1\/alan-johnson\/\">Home Secretary Alan Johnson<\/a><br \/>\ntold the same committee that he was reviewing whether McKinnon&#39;s<br \/>\ndeteriorating health warranted the government&#39;s intervention in his<br \/>\nextradition on the grounds that it breached his human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nHigh Court threw out McKinnon&#39;s last legal challenge to extradition on<br \/>\nthe same grounds, because the threshold of pain after which the Human<br \/>\nRights Act (HRA) is engaged was so high that, even were someone<br \/>\nextradited in full knowledge that it would lead to their likely death,<br \/>\nit could not intervene unless someone faced a prosecuting authority<br \/>\nthat actually intended to treat them inhumanely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/mp\/keith_vaz\/leicester_east\">Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz<\/a> MP told Computer Weekly after the meeting that it must be asked whether the HRA threshold was set too high.<\/p>\n<p>Home<br \/>\nSecretary Alan Johnson reminded the committee how the US had assured<br \/>\nMcKinnon&#39;s Aspergic vulnerabilities would be accommodated in trial and<br \/>\nprison.<\/p>\n<p>This had been enough to persuade the High Court that the<br \/>\nHRA threshold had not been reached. Moreover, the court had repeated<br \/>\nclaims that evidence of the tragic effect of removal and incarceration<br \/>\non Aspergics was too patchy to count.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nas.org.uk\/nas\/jsp\/polopoly.jsp?d=2074&amp;a=18604\">National Autistic Society<\/a>&#39;s Mark Lever told the committee that researchers were examining the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Anecdotal evidence suggested a disproportionate number of those in prison had Asperger&#39;s Syndrome. Some academics assert that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nas.org.uk\/nas\/jsp\/polopoly.jsp?d=459&amp;a=17728\">the entire criminal justice system, from arrest to incarceration, is unfair to autistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These<br \/>\nwider matters were not put to or raised by the Home Secretary. He was<br \/>\nasked to explain why he had not intervened in McKinnon&#39;s case. He said<br \/>\nthe 2003 Extradition Act had been designed to prevent Home Secretaries<br \/>\nexercising their political or personal discretion.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#39;t think these decisions should be made on whether someone has a popular newspaper in favour of them or whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/05\/26\/236170\/pink-floyd-guitarist-sings-in-support-of-gary-mckinnon.htm\">famous pop stars are making records about them<\/a>,&quot; he said. &quot;This is about justice, not about popular causes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>For<br \/>\nthe same reason, Johnson has refused to meet with McKinnon&#39;s mother.<br \/>\nJohnson has also refused to make representations to the US government<br \/>\nfor clemency in McKinnon&#39;s case, which his supporters believe is a<br \/>\ntrifling matter that has dragged on too long to the tragic detriment of<br \/>\na vulnerable man.<\/p>\n<p>For the same reason, Johnson told the<br \/>\ncommittee, he agreed with the decision of the High Court, the Director<br \/>\nof Public Prosecutions and US Department of Justice, on the matter of<br \/>\nwhether McKinnon could be tried in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Their preference for<br \/>\na US trial on the basis of cost precluded any consideration of<br \/>\nMcKinnon&#39;s human rights, the High Court heard in the summer. <\/p>\n<p>Only<br \/>\njustice could intervene, Johnson asserted. He gave no indication that<br \/>\nthe law as it stands might be failing McKinnon and other Aspergics,<br \/>\nwhose condition was yet poorly understood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2008\/08\/28\/231065\/hacker-gary-mckinnon-essential-guide.htm#\">Gary McKinnon<\/a> &#8211; an interactive timeline:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"dipity_embed\" style=\"width: 580px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dipity.com\/Facey\/personal\/embed_tl?\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" width=\"580\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial,sans; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dipity.com\/Facey\/personal\">McKinnon &#8211; The trials and tribulations<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dipity.com\/\">Dipity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gary McKinnon, Chrissie Hynde and Janis Sharp talk to ITN:<\/p>\n<p> <object height=\"340\" width=\"560\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OBg7CcnCv8I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OBg7CcnCv8I&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2008\/08\/28\/231065\/hacker-gary-mckinnon-essential-guide.htm#\">Gary McKinnon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2008\/06\/16\/231077\/gary-mckinnon-broke-into-73000-us-government-computers-lords.htm\">Gary McKinnon broke into 73,000 US government computers, Lords told &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/07\/14\/236894\/us-allegations-against-ufo-hacker-gary-mckinnon-were-over.htm\">US allegations against UFO hacker Gary McKinnon were &#39;over baked&#39; &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/07\/31\/237132\/gary-mckinnon-uk-it-pros-believe-he-should-stay-in-the.htm\">Gary McKinnon: UK IT pros believe he should stay in the UK &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/07\/31\/237128\/gary-mckinnon-loses-case-to-avoid-extradition-could-face-60-years-in.htm\">Gary McKinnon loses case to avoid extradition, could face 60 years in jail &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/2009\/10\/19\/238186\/hacker-gary-mckinnon-gets-stay-of-execution.htm\">Hacker Gary McKinnon gets stay of execution &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}