Gary McKinnon case: Hardline un-populism »
Posted By berkeley 4 months ago in Political OpinionThe point, however, is that the law in question is a bad one, cooked up in the heyday of the frenzied alliance between Tony Blair and George Bush. As with much that flowed from that partnership, the new extradition arrangements seem to work asymmetrically – with a Liberal Democrat analysis suggesting that US courts are more than twice as likely to refuse extradition to Britain as British courts are to refuse to expel people to the US. The broad brush applied takes insufficient account of the ethical difference between a disruptive but non-violent UFO obsessive such as Mr McKinnon and those with the ambition to kill.
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