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UK opposition party force vote on NASA hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition case
- biohacker42 17y agoUK conservatives are far more conservative then the US conservatives. I hope they win, and Gary is not extradited.
- sadiq 17y agoIf you look at many of the Tory policies, they're very very much to the left of the Republicans and even many Democrats.
- biohacker42 17y agoThat's what's called "libertarianism" in the US. That's what I meant by my above statement, as in this is what "true" conservatism looks like.
- sp332 17y agoTo all the downvoters: "conservative" and "liberal" mean very different things in the US and UK.
- monkeygrinder 17y agoThere are two main parties in the UK - Labour and Conservative. Labour would be similar to Democrats, and Conservative is broadly equivalent to the Republican party. What is more surprising is that the fate of a hacker has become a political election issue (it's almost election time in UK), which goes to show the growing appreciation of the importance of IT to government for critical services.