Posted on 08/20/2009 8:18:57 AM PDT by Schnucki
It is not just the reputation of Scottish justice that will suffer in America as a consequence of the release “on compassionate grounds” of Abdelbasat Ali Mohmen Al Megrahi. The credibility of Barack Obama’s influence on the world is going to take at least as hard a knock. In the end, all the protests and all the diplomatic pressure from the White House counted for nothing. Scotland’s determination to return Megrahi to the bosom of his family and his homeland was not going to be blocked.
The rehabilitation of America’s standing in the world was going to be one of the great gains, if you remember, of the Obama election victory. No more was the voice of the US to be held in contempt by its old allies. The Obama White House would restore the moral authority of the nation, and thus its influence in the world. So much for that. As the Scottish Justice Secretary intoned his ruling that Megrahi was to be permitted to go free because he was “a dying man”, most Americans (even of the liberal Obama persuasion) would be wondering what a life sentence meant if it did not involve dying in prison. But the important political lesson will have gone home. The President and his Secretary of State could do nothing - for all their administration’s supposed global prestige - to prevent what they considered to be an outrage. On yet another score, Mr Obama could not deliver the goods.
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I don’t really care that they released him. The man has less than three months to live. Why would Britain want to pay for his care during that time.
Let him go home and be a final burden to his family.
“The man has less than three months to live. Why would Britain want to pay for his care during that time.”
The Brits won’t pay for his healthcare anyway since he’s terminal. There’s no reason to let him go. He can die in his cell.
I disagree. He’s still a threat.
Who better to go out in a blaze of glory as a suicide bomber than someone with three months to live?
I kind of object, in general, to compassionate releases for mass murderers, hell, murderers in general.
It’s not like compassion was part of the act that put them there in the first place.
Mixed feelings.
If he goes home to a hero’s welcome?
That might hurt the One, and do not forget, Rev. Wright sure sucked up to Libya, even after this mass murder took place!
And what if he decides that since he's going to die soon anyway, he might as well go out like a firecracker and take some other people along with him? What will the Scottish government say then, "Whoops"?
A lot of “diplomatic pressure” is for public consumption, with a quick wink for those who know you really don't care at all.
If it is too much for our liberal friends to accept that Obama wanted this murder released, please remember that when an event occurs, and all the logical and ethical explanations for it happening have been ruled out, all that remains is the illogical and unethical.. and the explanation must lie therein, because, regardless of the cause, the event still happened.
I bet that’s not entirely true.
I bet they are providing him pain killers and morphine and oxygen.
I doubt he has three months to live. He should die in his cell. Where are the humanitarian rights of those he killed?
Greater than that, his release shows the spineless minds at work. The guy should have been given death from the git-go.
This message is greater than anything else.
If the man is guilty of this act that killed 259 innocents, why shouldn’t he spend his final days in prison?
The cost of care is part of the deal with a life sentence.
I’m sure he’s not the first person to die in their prison of a terminal illness.
But it makes me wonder... was this a “compassionate” release, or a “we don’t want to foot the bill” release?
RPT.
I doubt it would hurt Obama at all. It’s britain setting him free.
Start the timer... let's see how accurate that diagnosis turns out to be.
;-/
The man who did it.........he can go home and tell his family goodbye.
He didn't give a damn about anyone but himself.
There's probably no more cost to be borne, other than his bread/water diet and maybe a morphine shot once in awhile.......the morphine shot is the only part of continued incarceration that I'd object to.
If they couldn't send an Ambulance for a pregnant woman, where do you think they get the money to send this guy back?
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