There’s still the European Human Rights Court to pursue but as pointed out in recent online discussion, Gary's case is difficult to frame within the aims and operation such systems. This is again ironic because when we step back, McKinnon’s case is all about human rights – we just have a conceptual lag so much of the public and civil/legal systems fail to see it this way. We've seen how the US intelligence services and traditional media have linked Gary's actions to that of "cyber hacker" and "terrorist" - both these misleading terms are sufficient on their own to reduce those willing to offer support but add on the UFO and alternative energy tags and such a case becomes still further isolated. Not only have the usual left-wing and libertarian groups failed to align themselves with Gary's plight but most of the UFO and Exopolitics field have offered limited support also.
Both the Freegary.org.uk support site and Exopolitics.org.uk have attempted to publicise the McKinnon case as it progressed. This took the form in the last couple of years of writing to certain MPs, visiting one sitting MP, mentioning it at conferences and events and distributing leaflets and media online and offline. More recently we distributed template letters people could send in to the Uk Parliament, MPs and finally the Law Lords direct office at the Houses of Parliament. However I still have this nagging feeling the wider community could have done more but we seemed to just accept the limited narrative which bounced between authorities, traditional media and the public consensus without much intervention. What we essentially have summarised in the McKinnon case is a real-world example of what happens when someone attempts something tangible in the search for disclosure and truth with regards the UFO phenomenon and new energy systems. Let’s have optimistic ideas of how to push things forward to a new world and new paradigm but remember this cannot happen and will not happen without human causalities along the way - it's the nature of the beast we're collectively tackling.
It's sad that when someone needed a full-on response from a [not insignificant] UFO/Exopolitics community it didn’t materialise. Seeing this take place has made me doubtful that this field has the ability to deal with some of the harsher incidents that will occur as we continue to push for a more open, ethical system with regards energy and off-planet communication. It's all very well asking us to smile and embrace the coming disclosure but this will be a tainted new world, post-disclosure, if we don't support those that fall along the wayside through no real fault of their own.
To be fair we should point out that some support was offered from various areas. In response to the points made above Alfred Webre from Exopolitics.com pointed out the complexities of the situation:
“We attempted to communicate with the Solicitors, with Gary and with his family and were not successful in getting an approval to go forward with an activist Exopolitical community and media campaign, which we were prepared to carry out.”
“I personally felt this was a strategic error on behalf of Gary's legal team, and still do, especially given the remarks of Gary's solicitor on the BBC TV today to the effect that the UK had not prosecuted Gary because they wanted to give full berth to the USA to do so. That makes this a political case, and I do not understand the logic of Gary's solicitors in not wanting us to raise the UFO political issue widely and loudly.” Alfred Webre rightly indicates that agreement from the family and legal team was not received in any formal manner in fact when we learned the extradition was going ahead Alfred even offered his experience as an international and human rights skilled judge. The difficulty they had on Gary’s side was deciding on whether to risk raising the political issues further by aligning the case with core disclosure themes. The last thing any of us want is for Gary to become a kind of ‘poster boy’ for UFO and disclosure issues - it may have brought further problems to sway the final outcome. On a personal level I fully believe that if it had been up to Gary himself he would have welcomed a more formal layer of support from this community. He certainly wasn't afraid to comment on the 9/11 issue in an interview done only a few days before the hearing.
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