About Janis Sharp
Janis Sharp
Glasgow born Janis Sharp is a musician/composer. She has also cared for many foster children and their families and does everything in her power to keep families together. She wrote her own children’s book “Lester Square” and following this decided to write the script for her own film “Lunar Girl”. She bought a camera and with the help of her friends and her husband, made and directed the independent film guerilla style in the streets of London and in her own home. This independent film funded on less than a shoestring budget was subsequently screened on Sky Channels over 100 times.
Lunar Girl was made in 2001 just prior to Janis and Gary’s world being turned upside down.
Janis’s son, Gary McKInnon suffers from Aspergers Syndrome, an Autisic Spectrum disorder. He had a lifelong obsession with UFO’s and while searching for evidence of UFOs, Free Energy and anti gravity, found that he was able to look into NASA and Pentagon computers systems as they had no passwords or firewalls on thousands of their machines. Gary left many cyber notes telling them their security was virtually nonexistent and he also left cyber notes as a form of peace protest against U.S foreign policy. Although Gary was a truth seeker and a whistleblower, he was subsequently arrested and has for the past eight years been fighting against extradition to America and the prospect of a proposed sixty year sentence in a U.S prison (and one state wanted to see him fry)
In addition to fighting to save her son from a virtual death sentence, Janis is standing as a candidate in Blackburn against Essex Man Jack Straw. She is fighting against the criminal erosion of all our liberties; against the corruption and lack of transparency in government and against the political power of vested interests. We need a government that works for us, with our interests at heart and not for the interests of a foreign power or a global commercial corporation.
Our young men are dying in Afghanistan, where our troops have been fighting for longer than the second world war at an unacceptable cost in lives and the destruction of many families both in Afghanistan and in the U.K. In addition to the horrendous cost in lives, the financial cost is over 35 billion pounds a year… for whose interest?
Janis is fighting for reform in government and an end to the whip system which supresses debate and democracy; a reform to the voting system to give a voice to the majority and not just the first party past the post. Only 22% of eligible voters voted Labour last time which means that 78% of voters are not being represented.
Janis genuinely feels that our way of life is literally at stake here and we are quite simply fighting for our own survival. This Government is working to an agenda that is definitely not in our interests.
Janis has had eight years experience of fighting the government. She can and will fight for the people of Blackburn and for the people of Britain.
