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May 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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James Slack
20:09 EST, 30 April 2012
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20:27 EST, 30 April 2012
Not a single U.S. citizen has been extradited to Britain for a crime committed on their home soil, it was revealed last night.
MPs said it was proof of ‘double standards’ by the American government in the case of Asperger’s sufferer Gary McKinnon.
Mr McKinnon, who is supported by the Mail’s Affront to British Justice campaign, hacked into U.S. military computers from the bedroom of his North London flat while looking for evidence of ‘little green men’.
Injustice: Gary McKinnon, left, and student Richard O’Dwyer, right, face extradition to the U.S., while not a single American citizen has been brought before UK courts for alleged crimes committed on home soil
There are at least two other comparable current cases involving UK citizens.
The lack of parallel cases of U.S. citizens being extradited to Britain emerged in a Home Office response to a Freedom of Information request.
Officials revealed that, between January 2004 and March 30, 2012, there have been seven known extraditions of U.S. citizens to the UK.
None of these has been identified as concerning crimes committed while the person was in the US.
MPs want a so-called forum bar to be introduced in this country, which would stop a Briton being extradited for a crime which took place in the UK.
Last night, Gary’s mother Janis Sharp said: ‘No U.S. citizens have been extradited to the UK for any crime committed while the accused was on U.S. soil. So why does the US target British citizens when they themselves have “forum”?’
MPs said the revelations made the case for reforming our biased extradition laws – currently the subject of a Government review – even stronger.
Dominic Raab MP said: ‘This is more damning evidence of the lopsided effect of our extradition arrangements with the U.S.’
Tory MP Dominic Raab, who has led calls to reform the UK/US Extradition Act, said: ‘This is more damning evidence of the lopsided effect of our extradition arrangements with the U.S.
‘No American has ever been extradited for alleged offences committed on U.S. soil. It smacks of double standards, and strengthens the case for extradition reform.’
Last month the home affairs select committee said the UK/US extradition treaty was ‘unbalanced’ and must be urgently reformed.
They called for suspects to be tried in the country where their crimes were allegedly committed unless there are exceptional reasons not to do so.
The MPs said that extradition arrangements with the U.S. are ‘threatened by loss of public confidence in the UK’ and – unless action is taken – ‘there is a risk that, with time, that lack of confidence will translate into wider disaffection’.
The MPs said they believed it was ‘easier to extradite a British citizen to the USA than vice versa’.
Under the Extradition Act, passed by Labour in 2003, U.S. citizens have the right to a court hearing to examine the evidence against them before they can be extradited to the UK.
However, Britons wanted by the U.S. do not get the same protection. To extradite a UK citizen, the U.S. needs only to outline the alleged offence, the punishment specified by statute and provide an accurate description of the suspect sought.
Mr McKinnon’s case is not the only example.
One sided: Chris Tappin, pictured wife his Elaine before being extradited to the US on over allegations of arms-dealing, is another Briton to being caught out by the lopsided treaty
Chris Tappin, of Orpington, South East London, was extradited to the U.S. on February 24 over allegations of arms-dealing. It has been claimed he conspired to sell batteries for use in Iranian missiles.
Student Richard O’Dwyer, of Chesterfield, is also fighting extradition on copyright infringement charges over a website he ran from the UK.
His mother Julia O’Dwyer said: ‘This clearly demonstrates yet again the imbalance of the current extradition treaty with the U.S.
‘Either the UK is not exerting its jurisdiction on the U.S. to seek to extradite any U.S. citizens for crimes on computers or over the internet, or the U.S. is protecting its own citizens accused of such crimes better than the UK protects its citizens.’
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Exactly how many US citizens have committed an alleged crime on their own soil against the UK? If the answer is none, then it’s not surprising that there haven’t been any requests for extradition of US citizens by the UK authorities.
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I have tried and tried again through DM comments on extradition of British subjects to the US that it is totally one sided because of an agreement between Blair [the Labour Govt] and Bush. Before any US citizen can be considered for deportation to any country including the UK, that US citizen has to go before a US court to see if lawyers can find any ‘element’ that would prevent deportation – usually that ‘element’ is ‘deportation not in the interests of the United States.’ Hence, this is part of the reason that US pilots engaged in so called friendly fire incidents and deaths of UK soldiers have not been allowed to attend and give evidence into such deaths as requested by the Oxford Coroner!
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This, is actually not ‘news’: It is actually something that has been pointed to in DM’s comment columns, by MPs, by solicitors, the Civil Liberties body etc. What is actually more concerning is that the USA Ambassador to the UK categorically told MPs at a select committee hearing that such ‘extraditions’ had occurred – – look up the records DM – – it is in there, one of the MPs quoted Mr Louis Susman on that point.
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but this is the one way extradition treaty Bliar signed when commanded to by Bush!
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Is this surprising?
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It’s the special relationship, they tell our leaders what to do and they do it, it’s a mass inferiority complex.
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These people should change their religion to avoid being extradited.
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The extradition treaty has been misunderstod, as being one between equals. It isn’t. We should know our place as has been accepted by the politicians who signed it.
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‘Double standards’ is the very principle that the American government operates on – always has and always will. Little wonder it is called The Great Satan by more and more people. Those spineless bottom feeders that inhabit Westminster need to evolve into a creature that has a pair and tell the Americans where they can put their lop-sided extradition treaty.
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Yep, good old American double standards.
They rigged the contest for the right to supply the Jeep to the American services ( Bantam built it, won the contest, the Yanks protested, ran the contest again,copied the design , submitted it, and won!)
Supersonic flight Miles aircraft had a jet propelled design which was handed to the Americans on the understanding that the technoloogy woulld be shared. The government instructed them to hand it to the Yanks, who stuck a rocket into it, went supersonic and then refused to share the technology on the grounds that it would endanger national security. Oh yes, and they ‘borrowed’ the Rolls Royce gas turbine designs as well…..
Lockheed ( allegedly) bribed European governments to buy the Starfighter instead of the English Electric Lightning, and rubbished Concorde because they couldn’t make their version work
Need any more convincing that they use and lose allies as they want to?
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