Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
As I mentioned: Muslim does x, gets extradited; non-Muslim does x, national outrage and no extradition.
As I mentioned: That is 100% completely wrong.

Muslim sets up computer website to facilitate, aid and abet murder and terrorism. Gets extradited.
Non-Muslim hacks into insecure computer system to hunt for little green men, that he is obsessed with due to his mental health. Doesn't get extradited.

For you to resort to this immature name-calling is facetious and not worthy of you.
If you think that was the real reason for what happened, I have a bridge to sell you. There is no legal reason for the refusal to extradite (change of treaty only applies to future cases). This is a blatant attempt to appeal to British xenophobes (who don't seem to mind when Muslims get extradited).
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to refuse to extradite (no change to treaties needed), his health being one of them and that was the issue named here.

Believing that someone who is ill and commited a victimless crime that embarrassed another nation but neither was intended nor did cause harm should not be extradited is not xenophobia.

Rather than prosecute Gary McKinnon the US should have hired him to help identify and fix the holes in their insecure systems so that next time when a terrorist intent on death and destruction tries to hack in they can't so easily. "Their but for the grace of God" it could have been a terrorist (Muslim or not, think the Unabomber wasn't Muslim) rather than someone looking for UFO's.