Just
this once, and probably not for very long, Theresa May, I love you. Conservative Home Secretary displeases America, and stands up forhuman rights and disabled people all in one go. Put that in your
pipe, right wingers, and smoke it.
While
I'm very glad to see that the UK Home Secretary's eyes have been
opened to the idiocy of both the extradition treaty,and this
particular exercising of it, I am very afraid that the Americans are
still walking around with their eyes shut. I have said all along
that, if I were in charge over there when the extent of McKinnon's
hacking was revealed, I would have taken the first available plane
from over there to over here in order to shake McKinnon by the hand
and thank him for exposing the dangerous incompetence of the numpties
in charge of the nation's security. (That would be the first plane
after I had called all those responsible for leaving computers open
without firewalls, passwords etc, into my office for a chewing out
session that would have left the carpets ankle deep in blood.)
Instead
of that, they're still saying the hacking was "intentional and
calculated to influence and affect the US government by intimidation
and coercion" – remember, he was after details of UFO
sightings. It is deeply worrying that the country which still aspires
to lead the world can behave in such a narrow minded and short
sighted way, fuelled by vindictiveness rather than a rational
assessment of their own interests, as well as everybody else's.