Posted on 08/22/2009 12:35:19 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet
"Your action," he wrote MacAskill, "makes a mockery of the grief of the families who lost their own on December 21, 1988. You could not have spent much time with the families, certainly not as much time as others involved in the investigation and prosecution."
He ended the Lockerbie letter with a frustrated question: "Where, I ask, is the justice?"
President Barack Obama on Friday called the elaborate homecoming in Libya for the freed bomber "highly objectionable."
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We should have had a stealth bomber flying over the spot of his homecoming and dropped a 2,000 lbs bomb on the whole crowd.
Wave up America. Pres_ _ent Obama did not say the
release was objectionable. It was the reception.
Should it have been in the Oval Office?
This is UN style justice. The trial should have been held in the USA, and the POS should have been imprisoned here.
Jurisdiction was in Scotland for the trial because the flight crashed there.
We should have objected and had the trial in the USA.
BTW, there is no death penalty in Scotland.
Lesson learned.
While the outrage is understandable, prior to the release it was common knowledge in UK that a pending appeal would quite likely show that the prisoner was framed by the British government.
Avoiding this embarassment may have been one reason for the release.
Funny how all this “outrage” is being vented after the fact. I’m sure the Brits coordinated this with us and got the green light behind the scenes. Gotta do Muslim outreach, y’know.
“Our country has lost its way.”
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As much as I dislike 0, what would you have liked for him to do? He certainly is not going to pick a fight with another Muslim country.
Do you think that Bush would have reacted otherwise? Hell, he is the one who used the phrase, “Religion of Peace” during a “State of the Union” address. There are still millions of Americans who take that statement for granted.
The trial should have been held in the USA, and the POS should have been imprisoned here.
Jurisdiction was in Scotland for the trial because the flight crashed there.
We should have objected and had the trial in the USA.
“what would you have liked for him to do?”
1. State he is “utterly outraged” in lieu of “highly objectionable.”...for starts. Maybe throw in he “strongly condemns this horrific display of appreciation of a convicted mass murderer by a sitting head of state”..might be nice.
2. Recall ambassador
3. Invite families to DC to discuss his “highly objectionable” views rather than an out-of-control buddy of his for a beer, for absolutely no value at all.
Sounds like a start. What say you?
Excuse me, but it’s just not possible to “frame” the head of Libya’s secret police.
0bama may say it’s objectionable... he may write in in an email... but I am betting he was in a quiet conversation and agreed to it, warning Brown that he’d have to publicly denounce it.
you mean you think there is ‘more to follow?’
and he would have been in GITMO and possibly released months ago.
Not to mention the little fact that Libya confessed complicity in the attack, and paid one and a half billion dollars in compensation to the victims’ families.
Where is it? Is this it?
No doubt true.
I’ve been unable to find anything referring to him as such. He was Head of Security for the Libyan airline, and also pretty obviously a secret agent. But I doubt he was head of the secret police.
Everyone was in on it. All this after the fact posturing is pure unadulterated bull droppings.
Details, details. The Scots needed to sell more shortbread cookies. Screw the rule of the law and those pesky, greedy families.
We should be making that argument if it ever, God forbid, happens again.And this result of early release is a good reason why a court might actually accept the argument.
Maybe a sniper from a mile away is now the answer.
elaborate,...especially from our side of the pond.
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