For most of my life i have regarded the Daily Mail as a reactionary, right wing shit stirring rag nut now, when I am certainly old enough to know better I must confess I am beginning to agree with its stance on many issues. The warning signs have been there for a while now. As a life long Private Eye reader I tended to rely on Lord Gnomes organ for for both news and laughs. After all, the Guardian which i grew up to associate with detailed news coverage and balance lost its credibility for me in the 80s when it grassed up a Cruise Missile whistle blower to Inspector Knacker after only a little pressure from the Government. More recently the BBC has lost its credibility following the Kelly affair as it too caved in on a variety of issues, surrendering its independence for the sake of a Guaranteed license fee money supply which the Government has now reneged on.
Today, I read the Mails article on Gary McKinnon, the low grade hacker and Aspergers sufferer whose only real problem was his obsession with UFOs and suspicion of American Military and Governmental cover up. Armed only with a bog standard computer and on a dial up link he apparently managed to access a wide variety of military and Pentagon web sites and computers. Of course his job was made easy because many of them did not even have an active password to protect them. This was far too embarrassing for Uncle Sam, particularly following the 911 attacks and the widespread paranoia so McKinnon has been charged with every offence they could find from causing "tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage to Government defence systems." (this would be most unlikely as all he did was look, he wasn't messing with code) to crapping on the White House Lawn, or so it seemed. What a travesty of justice there is in this world when the McKinnons of this world suffer so yet scumbags like W Bush and Tony Blair walk free.
There is of course a million to one chance that he did stumble on some officially hidden pictures of UFOs which would blow the Yanks out of the water after years of cover ups and conspiracy theories from professional Ufologists, but somehow i think not. I became interested myself in UFOs in the early 70s and read all the books and soaked up all the theories. It quickly became obvious to me that the vast majority of UFOs were actually misperceptions, another large chunk were apparently new Air Force hardware being tested and another large chunk were actually things such as Earthlights. The small number of genuinely mysterious and unexplainable sightings were it seemed to me electro-magnetic in nature. They could move and manouvre at incredible speeds and seemed to have no mass. They were able to leave behind even the fastest and newest US jets and rockets and many though not all, did not even show up on radar.
There are some genuine mysteries even mentioned in the US Air Force official Blue Book investigation and these are always worth reexamination using the latest tech and data. But, the real secret that was kept from the public was not what they were or were not but rather that the Air Force simply did not know, and, having decided that they did not present an immediate threat to national security they decided on a mums the word policy and the UFOs and those who chased them were usually debunked and humiliated, irrespective of their individual reliability and expertise. McKinnon, unlike the flying saucers he sought was comparatively easy to find and therefore a convenient scapegoat for the Americans total computer incompetence.
As many have said of him. He did a valuable service to the USA by exposing the holes in their computer systems big enough to fly a Mother Ship through. Aspergers Syndrome is a disability and to desire to sentence him to decades in the clearly vicious and inhumane penal system is a travesty of Justice.
Many people have campaigned to have McKinnon set free or at least charged with a minimal offence and maybe given help rather than a prison sentence and until recently many MPs apparently agreed and wished to see him not sent sent to the USA where justice costs even more than it does here and is probably completely outside the means of this rather ordinary man. Worst of all is to see this bunch of MPs turn from democratic believers in justice and freedom to a bunch of weak lilly livered cocksuckers and arslickers as soon as the PM, or the Home Sec or the Chief Whip clicked his fingers. What a bunch of shits they are. Possibly to fight McKinnons corner would actually expose them to some real work or principals, all of which is thin on the ground in Westminster nowadays, where the real task is to trouser as much dosh as they can in expenses, or to accept money and privileged from organisations which directly conflict with their offcial positions, like for instance that little lickspittle, Andy Burnham.
As a life-long labour voter i find i can no longer even contemplate voting for any of them with only a handful of noble exceptions. They have let down the Party system which was never in good health anyway, and the rest of the country who believed in democracy. Worst of all they have let down the poorest in our society, the ones who really needed some help and who stayed loyal to Labour through the darkest days of the Thatcher reign. All of this was wasted as the poor, the disabled, the sick and the elderly were sold down the river. Shame on Tony B Liar, Gordon Brown and the rest of the rag-bag or opportunists and bottom feeders.
I only wish i had met Gary McKinnon some years ago, possibly i would have been able to divert him from flying saucers and conspiracies to some genuine leading edge research into EM phenomena like the Meadon Vortex, or Plasma. Perhaps i could have give him a copy of John Keele's excellent book, "Operation Trojan Horse" which explains the whole gamut of UFOs, and other varied occult phenomenon in a very readable yet concise fashion. It could save you and many others on this path a lot of time and brain cells.
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