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Autism Action UK (AAUK) have called for an emergency Urgent meeting, with Home secretary Theresa May and David Cameron
02 years ago
by kevinhealey33
in Autism
Autism Action UK (AAUK) have called for an emergency Urgent meeting, with Home secretary Theresa May and David Cameron,
AAUK Campaigners fear for Gary McKinnon’s mental Health status,
Founder Kevin Healey said, this needs to be halted ASAP, its gone on far too long now, and campaigners want to meet to discuss with the PM and Theresa May that Gary has already been seen and assessed by the top experts in the world of the Autism field,
Earlier today Kevin Healey spoke to Janis Sharp and she said “This Sunday it will be Autism Sunday, Tomorrow is Gary’s Birthday. Next month it will be nine years since Gary was arrested and ten since his alleged crime. Gary has suffered nine years of torment. He has effectively served a longer sentence than most murderers and rapists. The Government should keep its pre-election promises and refuse to extradite my son Gary McKinnon and end his nine year torture”
Kevin said “Gary has already served his sentence already he is under huge amount of anxiety and the Government don’t really take in to account his Autism the amount of stress he is under is appalling to say the least” a person without Autism (neurotypical) would be stressed and under high levels of anxiety but for someone with Asperger it’s magnified x100 times
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Autism Action UK launched
02 years ago
by kevinhealey33
in Autism
our new committee have been formed, a brand new non for profit group as been launched to campaign Nationally on Autism Issues,
we will be campaigning nationally, and some of our campaigns will be hard hitting, so many people for so long now have struggled, over 5000 names were taken to 10 Downing st, last october 2010 for it’s time for change campaign and the Government took no notice! the PM did not even respond to our petition, well infact it was a petition from over 500,000 people.
The second phase of the campaign will be launched very soon…visit the site today AUTISM ACTION UK
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AUTISM Campaign now you can text petition or donate via text!
0this campaign is aimed @ the three political leaders need to take more action for autism, and put autism on top of the political agenda
autism affects over 500,000 people in the UK and numbers are increasing…
autism affects children and adults in so many ways…….
communication, social interaction, imagination
vaccines don’t cause autism, there is no scientific proof yet……
nobody know what causes autism….
recently the government ploughed in 500,000 into autism that’s £1 per autistic person in the UK, are we really worth this much
the three political leaders need to take me seriously and the many thousands like me affected by autism
its time for change….and we want that change NOW………………….stand up for autism with me kevin healey
Text STANDUP followed by your name and address to 84424 to sign our Free petition
This service will cost the standard price of a text message at your standard network rate and no more.
and
text “SAAS” to donate to the campaign 84424
Donation to SAAS £1.50 + standard network text charge, the charity will receive £90p (please get the bill payers permission)
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99 Balloons Release for Gary McKinnon 12 noon today
099 Balloons Release for Gary McKinnon 12 noon today 3rd May Monday at Bridge Street j/w Victoria Embankment Westminster Bridge, SW1 (o/s Portcullis House) London.
The German Lyrics of Nenas worldwide hit song 99 Red Balloons was about balloons floating in the Sky being mistaken for UFO’s and the military over reacting.
This Balloon release signifies the promise by the Lib Dems and the Conservatives to keep Gary here in the U.K and to release Gary from the mental torture he and his family have been living under for 8 long years.
A change of Government will FREE GARY.
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Janis Sharp an inspirational Mother Fights on for her son
03 years ago
by kevinhealey33
in Autism
- Janis Sharp
The mother of accused computer hacker Gary McKinnon is to stand against Justice Secretary Jack Straw at the General Election.
Janis Sharp blames Mr Straw, who was Foreign Secretary when Britain’s current extradition treaty was agreed with the United States, for her son’s legal predicament.
Mr McKinnon, 44, from London, is challenging a US bid to extradite him on charges of hacking into highly sensitive military computers.
“(Mr Straw) is personally at least as much to blame for the ongoing legal travesty and betrayal of British sovereignty as any of his Labour Government colleagues,” Ms Sharp said on the Free Gary McKinnon campaign website.
She added: “He was Foreign Secretary at the time of the UK Government’s secret extradition treaty negotiations with the US Government, which resulted in the Extradition Act 2003, which Gary McKinnon and other extradition cases to the USA have fallen foul of.
“The fact that the Gary McKinnon extradition case has exceeded the lifetime of this current Parliament is a scandal which belies any promises of swift or fair justice made by this Labour government.”
Ms Sharp, from Hertfordshire, said she will stand in Mr Straw’s Blackburn constituency as an independent focusing on civil liberties.
Kevin Healey Said-
Gary and his family have gone through enough already this should be halted and stopped, Gary as already served an 8 year sentence of Anxiety, and NO person with Autism should go through this it’s torture, any animal wouldn’t get this sort of treatment the UK Government should be ashamed that they are subjecting this to someone with a Registered disability.
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Autism The real truth to the leaders of the party’s
03 years ago
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Autism the real truth
this week three leaders will release there manifesto will Autism be included in them? now its time for real change, for far too long now Autism as been at the bottom of the Goverments agenda, with only half a million pound been plouged into autism services, that’s less than £1 per aitistic person in the UK, “IT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!”
Janis Sharp mother of Gary Mckinnon, stands as an independent candidate in balckurn against Jack Straw, Gary’s future lies in the hands’s of only a few people, we need real chan NOW for people with Autism, like gary the goverment need to stop this now.
Many parents on social networking site facebook, think that there child Autism can be cured with supplements, and different therapies, Autism is a developmental condition and there is NO CURE for AUTISM FACT
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Hacker should not be extradited to the U.S.
03 years ago
HUMAN RIGHTS: Re: Peter Cotton’s letter in The Sentinel, January 13.
I agree with Mr Cotton that Gary McKinnon should not be sent to America. I recently spent a day with his mother Janis Sharp outside the Home Office to protest the extradition of Gary to the U.S.
Gary has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of Autism, and was only looking for evidence of UFO’s when he hacked into the country’s systems using a blank password search. The U.S. says he caused $500,000 worth of damage, but this has never been proved.
Gary’s solicitor, Karen Todner, has been working hard for him and his family. The good news is they have now won a judicial review and a High Court judge will now rule whether it was wrong to allow extradition.
Gary is in a poor state of mental health because of the seven years of stress. The judicial review will now take place in May and this gives him extra time, and support. However, I would still urge people to text GARY to 65000 – an appeal set up by his mother.
It will now be left to the judge to rule whether Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary was right to decide that sending him to the U.S. for trial would breach his human rights.
KEVIN HEALEY
Staffordshire Adults Autistic Society campaigner,
Newcastle
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Sarah Brown celebrates work of Autism
03 years ago
I recently attended the Autism Breakfast reception at Number Garry Mckinnon, the event was put on by Sarah Brown,
I personally think more people should have attended who are on the spectrum, i would like to see charity’s networking but im not sure this would happen, there are three National Charity’s who want to build a ten million pound Autism centre i mentioned this to Sarah, WHY? cant they all network together i guess they all have a different agenda’s , but all want a Autism centre all in the same city, which does not make the slightest sense at all, i think service ussers should be more involved in Autism Charity’s after all they know what is needed and what support they require, i gave Sarah a copy of my book, i did want to talk to Sarah about Gary Mckinnon but there was no time at all as soon as the breakfast reception ended we were spilt into groups, i got up and spoke and addressed all and said how important it was to have a diagnostic service for Adults, and that Adults get IGNORED when it comes to services, also i mentioned the importance of networking with other charity’s, recently i wrote to 40 odd Autism charity’s to ask them to support the Garry Mckinnon campaign only 5 wrote back which i was very disappointed with.
Sarah Brown brought together guests from Autism charities at Downing Street to pool ideas and resources to help their sector.
The Prime Minister’s wife hosted a reception to celebrate the work of the various charities and to look at ways that the sector can work together even more effectively to achieve it’s common aims.
Following the reception, Liz Blackman MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Autism, led a break-out session at which representatives from different charities discussed specific topics relating to Autism.
Subjects included how to reach out to the broader voluntary sector community and how to work together on core messaging regarding stigma and behaviour surrounding Autism.
Sarah Brown also took part in the group discussions, and was joined by Health Minister Phil Hope and Minister for the Third Sector Angela Smith.
Phil Hope spoke to guests about government strategy on autism and the role that government can play whilst Angela Smith emphasized how the third sector can be a bigger advocate for social change
Ivan Corea Said
The UK Autism Foundation joined autism charities at Downing Street. The reception and discussion convened by Sarah Brown was to celebrate the work of the charities in the autism sector and discuss ways that the charity sector can work together to achieve a common aim. Sarah Brown focused on her experience of charitable work and the important role that the third sector can play.
Attending the reception were Phil Hope MP, Minister of State for Care Services at the Department of Health and Minister for the Third Sector, Angela Smith MP.
Ivan Corea of the UK Autism Foundation called for new ways of thinking and new ways of working, where autism is concerned. He also raised many issues concerning parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome including the problems of obtaining blue badges for parents and carers of children and adults with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Among those who attended the function was the autism campaigner Kevin Healey, Chair of the Staffordshire Adults Autistic Society. UKAF has called for a national campaign backed by all the autism charities, to celebrate the success of people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome and using positive role models such as Kevin Healey, Stephen Wiltshire and others. ‘Children and adults with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome also need role models,’ said Ivan Corea.
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Mother of autistic man wanted in the US on computer hacking charges has been sent emails threatening to kill her son
03 years ago
Janis Sharp, from Brookmans Park, disclosed that journalists and MPs have also been targeted over their involvement in her high profile campaign to prevent her son Gary McKinnon from being extradited.
In a series of emais, an American known only as Jerry describes Asperger’s sufferer Gary as a “ target”.
He also threatens that “future unpleasantness and the death of annoying MPs and journalists… will have been no accident.”
Janis admitted that receiving the threatening emails had saddened her.
But she vowed: “I refuse to be intimidated and will continue to fight for my son to be tried in the UK.
“If any British person was issuing death threats against American politicians, journalists and members of the public they would probably be charged with terrorism and extradited to America to face a lengthy prison sentence.”
The threats are currently being investigated by the Metropolitan police forces.
Meanwhile, the parliamentary authorities have also been informed after a message was sent to Hertsmere MP James Clappison.
Security at the House of Commons may now be stepped up as a result.
Another prominent MP has also been targeted, along with journalists from three national newspapers.
Det insp Chris Wright, investigating, said: “Hertfordshire Constabulary takes all allegations of crime seriously and this case is no different.
“The origins of these threats are being investigated and we are currently following a number of lines of enquiry into the matter.”
A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman added that detectives were “liaising with US law enforcement agencies” after a number of “malicious emails” were sent to various media agencies.
Prosecutors in America allege Gary, 43, caused nearly £500,000 worth of damage to military computers in 2001 and 2002.
If convicted in a US court, he could face up to 60 years in jail.
Gary, of North London, admits hacking but maintains he was looking for evidence of alien life.
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Gary Mckinnon WINS Judicial review
03 years ago
Kevin Healey & Janis Sharp (Gary Mckinnons mother ) outside Buckingham palace Janis just presented Her Majesty the Queen with flowers and a letter also cards to ask for compassion for her son
I Recently spent a day with his mother Janis sharp outside the Home office to
demo the extradition of Gary to the US, Gary has Asperger a form of Autism Gary
was only looking for evidence of Ufo’s when he hacked into there systems he did
a blank password search, and there systems were open no firewalls or security in
place and he left a note on there systems, and the US say that he caused
$500,000 worth of damage, but this has never been proven, Gary’s solicitor Karen
Todner has been working so hard for gary and his family, now the Good news
today, they have won the judicial review, a high court judge will now rule out
whether Johnson was wrong to allow extradition, but Gary is in a poor mental
health state at the moment because of the 7 long years of stress he has had to
put up with, the judicial review will now take place in may this still gives
Gary extra time and support from all his supporters, however i would still urge
people to TEXT GARY to 65000 this text appeal has been set up by his mother
Janis,
but it will now be left to the judge to rule whether Alan Johnson the home
secretary was right to decide that sending him to the US for trial would breach
is human rights
Kevin Healey
staffordshire adults autistic society -SAAS
campaigner for Gary mckinnon
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Text Campaign for Gary Mckinnon
03 years ago
by kevinhealey33
in Gary McKinnon
- Gary & Janis Sharp
- Text “Gary” to 65000
A new Campaign has been launched today to save Garry Mckinnon, please get all your contact’s, and get all your friends to text “GARY” to 65000.
Gary does not really have long left before our Government send him off to the US, it’s people power can put an halt to this before its far too late for Gary and his family.
Alan Jonson, Gordon Brown can STOP this but why wont they? the US Government want to make an example of this vulnerable man with Autism (which is now recognised as a Disability under the DDA ACT),
It’s simple text “GARY” to 65000
Janis Sharp Gary’s Mother has spent years campaigning for his freedom, people can follow Gary’s mother on twitter for latest updates on the campaign and people can #tag #freegary for more updates.
Also the Daily Mail have backed Gary from the very start, as well as various Autism Charities including Staffordshire Adults Autistic Society (SAAS), UK Autism foundation Ivan Corea as also spoke with Kevin on Blogtalkradio and have both appealed to the US President to show compassion as well as writing to her Majesty the Queen,
other celebrities including Bob Gedof & Chrissy Hide have wrote a song and people can download this from hear CHICAGO
David Cameron MP, Nick Clegg MP, Chris Grayling MP, Chris Huhne MP, James Brokenshire MP, David Burrowes MP, Mayor Boris Johnson, Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP, Keith Vaz MP, Charles Kennedy MP, Sir Menzies Campbell MP, Kate Hoey MP, David Blunkett MP, Andrew MacKinley MP, Lord Carlile QC, Vince Cable MP, Simon Hughes MP, Norman Baker MP Tim Loughton MP, Peter Kilfoyle MP, Lord Morris of Manchester, Lord Clement-Jones of Clapham, Alan Simpson MP, Tom Watson MP, among others and many more famous people are backing Gary to be tried in the UK.
Also Sarah Brown, Trudie Styler, Sting, David Gilmour, Julie Christie, Peter Gabriel, Keith Duffey, Emma Nobel, Terry Waite CBE, Tony Benn, Nick Hornby, Barry Norman, Jilly Cooper, Trevor Baylis, Dr Dawn Heather, Professor Baron-Cohen, Nadine Stavonina, Peter Howson, Dr. Liz Nelson OBE, Richard Madeley, Jonathan Ross, Stephen Fry and Duncan Bannatyne
“I fully support Autism SAAS & the petition Kevin Healey has launched to help to keep my son Gary McKinnon in the U.K” Janis Sharp”
sign the petition today click hear
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Gary Mckinnon’s Fate lies in the hands of our Goverment
03 years ago
by kevinhealey33
in Gary McKinnon
As the new year dawns our government have still not decided the fate of Garry Mckinnon, Gary a guy with Asperger syndrome was just looking for UFO evidence, and has been facing 7 years of sheer anxiety, and mental health problems, to face 60 years in an American prison let alone to see is family again, i have read a few articles about some adults with A/S in the American prison’s some have been cruelly tortured, name calling razors put in there shoes, and other horrendous things, what appals me that not many Autism charitys have supported Gary and his family.
Janis an inspirational mother who is fully protecting her son from the American’s when i recently attended the Demo outside the Home office i was pleased to see Nick Clegg supporting Gary and talking on British TV that this should be stopped, alongside the few hand full of MP.s who were there to support Gary.
what saddens me is the response we have not got back from Her majesty the Queen or the US president (no response and no letters) Janis sent a direct letter to the Queen and over 50 bunches of flowers to ask for compassion did Her Majesty acknowledge Janis Sharp?
what will happen when Gary is extradited to the US will he soon be forgotten about, or will he take his own life before, we as people power should stop any of this happening before its all to late for Gary and his family.
Alan Johnson needs to stop this clock now, its gone on far to long and the UK government including the Prime Minster Gordon Brown must put an halt to this.
Disappointing that how much we read in the news how various people get away with murder, rape, mass killing etc and they are sending this vulnerable man with a Registered Disability to the US,
FREEGARY NOW
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Please sign 4 GARY “FREE GARY NOW”
03 years ago
by kevinhealey33
in Gary McKinnon
Please sign 4 GARY “FREE GARY NOW”
http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/29847.html
As the chairman of one of the largest adult charitys in the UK – i call now for all the AUTISM CHARITYS TO UNITE FOR GARY
the UNITE FOR GARY CAMPAIGN
We all now need to pull together and be one BIG VOICE for all Autism people in the UK
As a founder of two AUTISM charity’s and campaigning for 10 years, and losing friends with Autism/asperger- enough is enough we need to be ONE BIG VOICE
If you want to be a part of this please email me your details of your autism charity TODAY
KEVIN HEALEY
WWW.SAAS.UK.COM
email infosaas@nlworld.com
the first part of the campaign is SIGN UP FOR GARY
www.gopetition.co.uk/online/29847.html
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Kevin Speaks to various people on the Blog Talk Radio Autism Show
03 years ago
by kevinhealey33
in Blog Talk Radio
Janice Sharp joins me the Mother of Garry Mckinnon, and Ivan Corea a leading Autism Champion of UKAF the Autism foundation Gary McKinnon, could face extradition from Britain to the United States where he would stand trial for hacking into US government computers and could face a sentence of sixty years (Charged with 7 counts, proposed sentence Ten Years Per Count) Gary has recently been diagnosed as suffering from Lifetime Aspergers Syndrome, which is why his family, friends and supporters around the world are arguing that Gary should be allowed to stay in the U.K and face the courts in the country where the offence, if offence there was, was committed. Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, a world renowned expert on Aspergers and Autism feels strongly that Gary should absolutely not be extradited to the U.S. Professor Tony Atwood another world renowned expert on Aspergers and Autism also feels strongly that Gary should absolutely not be extradited to the U.S. As does Luke Beardon, a lecturer in Autism/Aspergers at Sheffield University and an expert on Aspergers and the law. The United States authorities waited two years to call for Gary’s arrest because of a then unratified, unsigned extradition treaty between the two countries which would make it easier for them to have a British citizen sent for trial in the US. Yet, when he was first arrested in London, Gary was told he would probably get a sentence of community service for his hacking activities. He naively admitted computer misuse before he had engaged a lawyer and without a lawyer even being present. We were still unaware that he had Aspergers Syndrome. Gary gained no leniency for his honesty and on the contrary, his extradition has been relentlessly pursued by the British and American authorities, despite the crown prosecution service (CPS) declining to prosecute Gary in Britain
other guests who have featured on the show have included Mark Lever from the NAS, Poly Tommey from the Autism Trust, Ivan Corea fromUKAF (UK AUTISM FOUNDATION) and many more guests
Ivan Corea and his family
to listen to the shows click the below link
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/autismsaas
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Gary
03 years ago
by kevinhealey33
in Gary McKinnon
“I fully support Autism SAAS & the petition Kevin Healey has launched to help to keep my son Gary McKinnon in the U.K” Janis Sharp
http://signup4garymckinnon.yolasite.com/
GARY McKINNON
Gary McKinnon has 28 days to appeal against the High Court decision to extradite him to the United States. The high court decided to uphold a refusal by Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, to sanction a trial in the UK. The home secretary, Alan Johnson, said he would abide by the ruling. “It would be illegal for me to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon, which the court ruling has made clear.”The Free Gary campaign has won the support of more than 100 MPs and received backing from many UK newspapers including the Daily Mail and celebrities such as as Bob Geldof, Dave Gilmour,Chrissie Hynde, Barry Norman, Jilly Cooper, Nick Hornby and Julie Christie. Many autism charities including (SAAS) Staffordshire Adults Autistic Society, The UK Autism Foundation,the Autism Trust, the National Autistic Society and others are backing the campaign.
Gary McKinnon’s lawyers have said that extradition arrangements between Britain and the US are imbalanced. Figures released in the House of Commons in Westminster to the Liberal Democrats in response to parliamentary questions reveal that the UK has extradited twice as many criminal suspects to the US as those who have gone the other way.
Harriet Harman recently said:”If he is found guilty, then obviously straight away we will seek for him to serve any prison sentence – if he is sentenced to prison – back in this country,” Harman told BBC1′s Andrew Marr Show. We will hold Ms Harman to her assurances on this matter.
Peter Hain became the first member of the Cabinet to support Gary since the High Court ruling. The Welsh Secretary suggested he would rather the computer hacker were tried in the UK than extradited to America.
The campaign in support of Gary McKinnon is gaining momentum and Gary’s lawyers are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to halt the extradition.
Here is what you can do:
*Write to your Member of Parliament urging your MP to contact Home Secretary Alan Johnson and asking him to act – he has the power to stop the extradition and even Lord Carlisle has said that Gary could be tried in the UK.
*Contact your local media pledging your support and urging local people to sign our online petition.
*Please encourage your friends and networks to sign our petition.
*Urge local charities, voluntary organisations, community organisations to support our online petition.
It is people power that can change things. Gary McKinnon isn’t a terrorist, he is a man with Asperger’s Syndrome who has admitted that he has done wrong by hacking into US computers – he will not be able to cope with the American penal system. This is why we are apealing for Gary to be tried in the UK.
Please come on board with us, we call upon autism charities and other charities in the United Kingdom to support our campaign and to join our online petition as partners.
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