Yeah, but isn't the election over... and thus, the thread either dead or "derailed" in order to continue on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
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Yeah, but isn't the election over... and thus, the thread either dead or "derailed" in order to continue on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Dunno. P'raps.
I feel poor, poor little picked-upon Mr Mckinnon and his battles with the mighty evils of teh Yoonited Stayts of Murka deserves a thread of its own.
Despite Lokis orgasmically confident assertion that people support this because of anti-americanism, i have to disagree. Its either a misplaced sense of group ("one of us"), an equally misplaced rooting for the underdog or part of that british tradition of supporting criminals if they are quirky enough (robin hood, ronnie biggs, whatever)
I don't see that kind of support for criminals that hurt Britain. This is especially true of the banker case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spawnie
Actually there was again a load of controversy over the Natwest 3.
A crime committed in the UK, against a UK company, prosecuted in the USA using a one-way unfair extradition treaty . . . yes there was a lot of controversy over that at the time and most of the arguments now over the Mckinnon case are recycled from that one.
Do the two i mentioned not count?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Robin Hood can't be treated as more than apocryphal at best to be fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spawnie
No, because other people have been extradited without this kind of whining. You can't explain something that varies with something that is constant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spawnie
Yeah but the public is fickle and relies on the media to lift its heroes aloft. See "the search for Maddie".
Because someone isnt picked up by the mob as a folk hero isnt a particularly good argument that they never do, and so it must be for another reason (according to you, anti-americanism).
Who?Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Please name ANYONE who has been extradited using this treaty without any whining ...
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-25773591/
Looks like your government is ready and willing to extradite the guy...
Your source is from February? That goverment doesn't exist any more.
It's also about someone else, accused of defrauding a London firm :weird:
Erm, read your claim and read my response.
Read it and don't understand your response.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Regardless, it still doesnt matter as who the media raises aloft is hardly the arbiter of rightness. Who was that guy all the Sun readers bummed who shot that young lad in the back a few times? Tony Martin?
Hey maybe that was anti-americanism.