Ryan Cleary, an Essex 19 year old, was raided and arrested at his family home today for being one of the Lulz group of computer hackers.
‘Lulz’ started out as an internet street plural for ‘lol’ (laugh out loud) and is often used as a noun meaning amusing internet action or material.
Cleary and the group had successfully hacked their way into major business organisations like Sony, Nintendo and X-Box and into the US Senate and CIA websites.
Unlike Gary MacKinnon, the USA is saying they do not intend to ask for Cleary’s extradition. It is recognised that the drive for the activity came from competitive showing off rather than conscious subversion.
However, it is known that when British police raided the Cleary home – finding Ryan at work on his keyboard – they were accompanied by FBI officers.
is the UK now officially a colony of the USA, where it is normal and acceptable for its officers to be actively present on our soil and to supervise or monitor the actions of home police on sovereign territory?
All part of our “special relationship” with thr USA, or is it the result of the NEW! IMPROVED! KINGSIZE! “essential” relationship as annnounced by Obama recently. One question though – is this special/essential relationship reciprocal? Are British fuzz allowed to participate in arrests made in America? Nae chance.
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To be honest, I would prefer that we continue to enjoy US support in maintaining our western lifestyle and freedom, and if that ‘global policing’ involves the arrest of computer geeks indulging in illegal activity then so be it. We are all concerned enough about identity theft these days, and this is an example of that on a grand scale, with national security threats added in.
Let’s not defend criminal activity.
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