Hope For Autism & Asperger's Syndrome: My Story. Gary McKinnon: a test case for principles. The first acid test for Britain's new government is not the economy, but whether it is capable of an act of simple humanity.
Can Theresa May deliver on the repeated promise of Tory and Lib Dem leaders to end the torment inflicted by the state on Gary McKinnon, the hacker with Aspergers, whom the Home Office wants to send to lengthy imprisonment and likely suicide in a US jail? His court room cruelty is scheduled to begin again on 24 May: the time has come to end it, once and for all. In 2002, from a council flat and with a battered first-generation laptop, McKinnon hacked into US army computers with a gusto and brilliance attributable to his Asperger's. He left a polite message of political protest against the post-9/11 Bush administration: "US foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days. " He did not realise that the damage he was causing would amount to £350,000. Terms of endearment...