Blind man to fight extradition laws

The BBC is reporting that a blind British man, who was extradited to the USA on child cruelty charges, which were later dropped after he had spent six months in jail, is taking up the fight against the one-sided extradition laws, which allow British citizens to be sent to face trial without the US presenting any case whatsoever:

BBC NEWS: Extradition fight man attacks law

The reader will notice the government's defence:

"Our experience under the new arrangements has to date been extremely positive," said the spokesman.
"Requests from the US are now taking an average of six to 12 months to process compared to 30 months under the old arrangements.
"This is much closer to the time taken to process requests by the US – five months. This benefits victims, witnesses, our courts, and the fugitive themselves."
US requests are now handled in the precisely same way as used with other European countries since 1991 and with nations like Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, he added.

Except, of course, that most of the other countries are mentioned are civilised ones. None of those countries presently has concentration camps, for example; and I don't believe any so-called civilised country has a "justice system" as ridden with politics and callously indifferent to perpetrating injustice as that in parts of the US.

Note the emphasised bit "our experience". It's so much easier for them, and so much more convenient than actually protecting their citizens from a "friendly" foreign power.

But so much about the way our country deals with the USA reeks of expediency, fear and favour – much, of course, like our government's participation in the war in Iraq, which as was pointed out by Rumsfeld, if I remember rightly, they could have done without in any case. I wonder what they have on Tony Blair that he serves his puppet-master so much more readily than those who pay his wages?