Kevin Healey Autism Show

Kevin Healey speaking to Mark Lever National Autistic Society Autism Strategy

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Kevin will be talking about the new organisation AAUK Autism Action UK Autism Action UK (AAUK), was founded this year (2011) by Kevin Healey, Chairman & Founder of Staffordshire Adults Autistic Society (SAAS) and Autism Radio UK, The only Autism Radio station in the UK, Autism Action UK is a National organisation non for profit organisation campaigning on a national level for people with Autism, they have committee members from all across the UK who in the not to near future will be launching campaigning on various topics, such as Benefit cuts, DLA, respite Diagnoses etc, future campaigns will highlight employment issues, and campaigns on bullying etc. The official website to the new organisation can be found hear www.autismactionuk.co.uk also they have a facebook group also “AutismActionUK AAUK” also AAUK is on twitter @AutismActionUK. Membership to the organisation is only £5 per year for anyone 18 and over, just in the last two weeks of its formation AutismActionUK Have over 1,200 members who have joined there facebook group. Autism Action UK also fully support Gary Mckinnion Who is facing extradition to the USA, campaigners from AAUK have put in a urgent call to meet with David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Home secretary Theresa May, to Discuss Gary’s mental health, he has currently been assessed by four medical experts who deal with Autism and now the UK Government are calling for a 5th none expert. Autism Action UK is managed by people on the Autistic Spectrum, parents, care workers etc, recently it’s time for change campaign, Kevin Healey took over 5000 signatures to 10 Downing street and there was no response from the UK Government the petition was ignored by the PM and it was passed over to Whitehall the DOP Department of health, Officials from Autism Action UK have said “it’s time for change and we want change, we will continue to campaign nationally until something gets done”.

On Todays show 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.

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