All credit to those media companies that have supported the battle of Asperger sufferer Gary McKinnon to overturn a despicable extradition order cooked up by former home secretary, and wife of habitual one-handed TV viewer, Jacqui Smith.
Much shame therefore should be pointed at her replacement Alan Johnson and the judicial system for failing to throw the extradition out today.
Many papers have joined forces with civil rights campaigners, sympathetic politicians and celebrities to show their support for McKinnon who was caught hacking into Nasa and Pentagon computers pursuing a harmless obsession with UFOs and could face 60 years in prison in the US. Sadly, the government has once again shown that it is incapable of doing everything but 'the right thing'.
First we had the appalling treatment of the Gurkhas, then the Ministry of Defence trying to cut compensation and now this. Now is the opportunity for newspapers to show what 'the right thing' is and launch a campaign forcing Johnson to change his mind. This would make a much more worthwhile campaign that the Daily Mail's current absurd obsession with wheelie bins.
