סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן
This is certainly the case with the brain-dead Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill who has allowed convicted Libyan terrorist Abdelbaset al-Megrahi free on “compassionate grounds.”
So now the scumbag will spend his remaining days in Libya surrounded by friends and family. A more fitting end would have been tossing him out of an airplane two miles above Tripoli. I know that sounds harsh but this man is a mass murderer and deserves a fate far harsher than the one he will receive in Libya.
Does minister MacAskill think this reflects well on the Scottish system of justice? The predominant viewpoint from the U.S. is the U.K. is increasingly sewing the seeds of its destruction with these sorts of decisions.
Rant over…
Read More:
Official Website of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103
“Heartsick” is how the mother of a Shelton victim of the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, described her feelings on the possibility that the Libyan terrorist convicted of that attack could be released early from prison on compassionate grounds.
“What pains me the most is that he will get a chance to say goodbye to his family and that’s not something we got to do,” said Jane Davis, whose daughter, Shannon, a 19-year old Syracuse University student, was among those killed when the plane exploded and slammed into the ground in Scotland just days before Christmas in 1988.
Whether or not Abdelbaset Al Megrahi is released on ‘compassionate’ grounds, let us be under no illusion. This has nothing to do with compassion – and everything to do with cynical political horse trading and the rehabilitation of the murderous tyrant Colonel Muammar Gaddafi…
This is Blair paying back Gaddafi, one more sign that the mad monster is being welcomed back to the fold of diplomatic respectability.
Why does Gaddafi deserve such a gift? Because Blair considers his most prized foreign policy ‘success’ to be that of bringing the dictator in from the cold – in a deal which saw Gaddafi renounce his attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and his sponsorship of terrorism.
Gaddafi’s rehabilitation is a murky story of oil, guns, terror and backroom trading.
It is no coincidence that, around the time Blair was negotiating a deal to allow Libyan convicts held in Britain to serve out their time in their home country, Libya awarded a £450million oil development contract to British company BP.
In 2008, on his vainglorious global farewell tour as Prime Minister, Blair made great play of going to see Gaddafi. The meeting in a tent was like two grotesque and ageing rock stars bidding
each other their adieus. Blair was presented with a camel saddle as a present, which was soon discreetly sold.
BP executives were soon joined in Libya by those from Royal Dutch, who were also after oil contracts, and BAE Systems, keen to re-equip its armed forces. The initial £450million BP deal could be worth £13billion, if the oil and gas are as extensive as is claimed.
The government of the United Kingdom has washed its hands of the entire affair, allowing the Scottish government total freedom in taking this perfidious action against the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103.
The actions of the Scottish government are inexcusable. A man who is responsible for the mass murder of 270 innocent civilians must be held accountable for such a cold blooded and ruthless act. Freeing a terrorist in order to further ties with the tyrannical Libyan regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi and to further the commercial interests of British Petroleum in that region is repulsive and sickening.
Unless the Scottish government rescinds this decision to release al-Megrahi, and if the British Parliament continues to avoid intervening in the matter, we urge all Americans to protest this action by boycotting the United Kingdom and Scotland in full. Don’t travel to Scotland or do business there (or in the United Kingdom in general) and don’t buy any British or Scottish products.
While I do not agree with the call to boycott English or Scottish products, I certainly understand the sentiment. Why do I disagree with the boycott? Because most Scots and British are just as offended by the justice minister’s stupid and insenstive decision as we are here in the states. When you see the townspeople of Lockerbie lined up to jeer and curse as al-Megrahi was escorted by the police to the airport, you should know this is the case. They should not pay for the sins of minister MacAskill or the crimes of al-Megrahi.
The New Centrist 