"On May 3rd 99 red balloons are going to be released somewhere in Harlech in support of the campaign to stop Gary McKinnon, the UFO and Zero source Energy seeking hacker, who entered the NASA and Pentagon computer systems, in 2000-2002, through computers attached to the net that were not protected by passwords. He left notes for the Americans for two and a half years saying that there security was rubbish."
Rather than let go of all the balloons at once I decided to talk to each of the adults and explain about Gary McKinnon and offer each of them the following
1 set a balloon free to symbolize freeing Gary
2 take a balloon with them to symbolize Gary staying in this county
3 Pop a balloon to symbolize their agreement with his extradition and likely death.
Whatever choice they made I would photo them.
If the adult understood and set a balloon free they could also have one for their children
1 set a balloon free to symbolize freeing Gary
2 take a balloon with them to symbolize Gary staying in this county
3 Pop a balloon to symbolize their agreement with his extradition and likely death.
Whatever choice they made I would photo them.
If the adult understood and set a balloon free they could also have one for their children
NO ONE popped one or even wanted to pop one.
I spent 3 hours handing out balloons and talking to each person and their reactions were amazing - most people knew who I was talking about after a brief explanation.
At the end of three hours I was so cold my bits had dropped off - there was snow on the mountains this morning - and there were very few people around - I had handed out 50 balloons - so I released the rest of the balloons and now have to write up some wonderful comments
Cheers to Janis and Jerry at Seasons and Reasons for the help with the balloons and gas and more and to the Castle Hotel for the use of their car park.
Lovely day (-: Thank you everyone (-:
Location: Harlech Castle Hotel car park, Gwynedd
This was written on the Facebook group the Castle Group - the site for Harlech Castle Hotel - Thank you (-:
On May 3rd 99 red balloons are going to be released somewhere in Harlech in support of the campaign to stop Gary McKinnon, the UFO and Zero source Energy seeking hacker, who entered the NASA and Pentagon computer systems, in 2000-2002, through computers attached to the net that were not protected by passwords. He left notes for the Americans for two and a half years saying that there security was rubbish.
The USA has waged a powerful campaign against him using a very badly formulated 2003 UK US Extradition Treaty ( which gives away rights we as UK citizens have had since fighting for them and winning them in 1689) and could be taking him and imprisoning him for the rest of his life for his actions.
Three years ago one of the top experts in Asperger's Syndrome was watching Gary on TV and recognised all the symptoms of that syndrome. It has since been conclusively proved that Gary McKinnon does have Asperger's and it is very likely that it was this that led his head to go where it did. One of the effects of Asperger's is that when locked away from family and friends and known environments depression sets in and in Gary's case could lead to and almost certainly will lead to suicide.
Gary's mother Janis Sharp ( @JanisSharp on twitter - and also a candidate for the election in a few weeks time - in Blackburn against Jack Straw ) is releasing 99 red balloons in London and there is a Balloon release in Salisbury plus other events around the country to give some extra focus to this. Gary next goes up for his final court reckoning on May 23-5 and it will be this that decides his fate.
Our Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, although having the power to halt the extradition and enable the case to be seen in this country, refuses to help, as he has with a number of cases of people who are ill and who have good reason to stay in this country - death if they go to America - American prisons have a very poor record where it comes to providing any form of adequate care for disabled prisoners.
So, having said all that, anyone at the Castle Hotel mind if I do the release in the car park? Obviously if it's crammed to bursting I will walk down to the beach if needs be but it would be good to get the actual castle as a backdrop for the photo's which will go on the web
Our Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, although having the power to halt the extradition and enable the case to be seen in this country, refuses to help, as he has with a number of cases of people who are ill and who have good reason to stay in this country - death if they go to America - American prisons have a very poor record where it comes to providing any form of adequate care for disabled prisoners.
So, having said all that, anyone at the Castle Hotel mind if I do the release in the car park? Obviously if it's crammed to bursting I will walk down to the beach if needs be but it would be good to get the actual castle as a backdrop for the photo's which will go on the web
Cheers if you have managed to get to the end of this
Mark Aldiss
Ty Crwn Bach
Harlech
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