[Windflier]

The 25% of me that is Scottish is still 100% pissed off.

I don't know what percentage of Scot blood runs through my veins, but my ancestors came from Middlebie Parish, not far from Lockerbie. I may have even lost some distant cousins in the downing of Pan Am 103.

I am very pissed at what the Scottish government did with this.

[szweig]

They wouldn’t have had this mess if they had offed him in the first place...SSZ

[Verginius Rufus]

In the old days many officials in the British government had a classical education. Maybe that's no longer true. They could have taken some pointers from Thucydides (1.133-134).

The Spartan authorities had evidence that Pausanias the regent (the victor at the battle of Plataea against the Persians in 479 B.C.) was guilty of treason (medism) and were about to arrest him when he took refuge in the temple of Athena of the Brazen House. The Spartan ephors did not want to violate the sanctuary of the temple so they walled up the doors until he starved. When he was on the point of death, they removed him from the temple so that he wouldn't die in the temple and cause pollution.

The Scottish authorities could have waited until the Libyan terrorist had 24 hours or less to live and removed him to a hospice (in Scotland)--that way he wouldn't have died in prison, but he wouldn't have had a hero's welcome in Libya.

I'm waiting for the announcement that his cancer has miraculously gone into remission.