Posted on 08/20/2009 6:44:13 AM PDT by mware
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, allowing him to die at home in Libya despite American protests that mercy should not be shown to the man responsible for the deaths of 270 people.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said Abdel Baset al-Megrahi's condition had deteriorated from prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi had only served some eight years of a life sentence, but MacAskill said he was bound by Scottish values to release him.
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Ok, that explains the real meaning of "life sentence". How is "Scottish values" defined?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O88tBPpSW4
A murdering scu&bag ally of Liberal Democrats is on the loose. (Think he’ll kick the bucket before he murders some more?)
One hopes his sorry, murdering backside is being watched.
IMHO
However, what has distinguished the English speaking people from the world IS compassion. REAL compassion, not the Utopian kind. I was stunned after reading a book on Dunkirk how , in fact , The Germans were as masochistic as the Japanese when it came to the treatment of prisoners.
Moreover, we all know how the Russians treated theirs.
Therefore, let's celebrate rather than deny what we have accomplished in establishing the modern day civilization.
"The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious; and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long."[Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2nd ed., vol. 4, ed. by J. B. Bury (London, 1909), pp. 173–174.]
The only upside is that it is giving 0bama the finger for all of his slights to the UK.
Agreed he should have at least made the video's compatable with the videos used in the UK.
Oh great- now he gets to go out as a “hero” suicide bomber.
WHAT is WRONG with the people in charge??????
On this I am in total agreement.
No compassion from a muzzie to an “infidel”. It was the Iranians, using Libyans as cutouts to do the job that did this bombing. We need to focus on the Iranians. Reagan “educated” Khadaffi with a visit of F-111s who almost got him- since that time until just recently ole Moammar has been quiet. Now, with Obama he’s hugs and kisses.
This decision, however, smacks of the recent trend in the UK to apply Sharia law (Allah the merciful and compassionate)in the hopes that muzzies will “like” us— absolutely stupid. I hope someone is on this guy’s tail wherever he goes. He’d be a perfect candidate for suicide bombing and an even greater role as a national hero in Libya. Pray he has an RF ID somewhere imbedded and trackable. This had better be useful to our people, that is to say. Communication with Ahmenijad by this guy would be nice to show. Personally, I’d center point him with a Barrett 50 as got off in Tripoli or better a Predator hit.They should be denied this huge propaganda victory.
“What we are watching is “liberal compassion” which is not compassion at all.”
That’s correct IMO having been raised in a semi-Leftist environment. Mother and Grandmother both Leftist whack-jobs, and Father a complete opposite John Bircher with myself seemingly in a bubble outside looking in at it all. It was strange, and I don’t even communicate with any of them to this day.
I can tell you many things about the loonies of the Left ie; “Liberal Compassion” is basically “what can I get for me out of this”? Their minds don’t even touch on morality, nor do they even brush their eyeballs across the page in the book of right and wrong. They are aware of the difference, but don’t acknowledge it as anything but an obstacle in the way to what they want for themselves.
Phony people, with phony relationships, with phony smiles. Don’t even go near their feed bowl. They are animals. If they share it’s because right at that moment what you have is more appealing than what they have, and they will have what you have soon whether you want to give it to them, or not.
The best thing one can do to a Leftist is leave it alone. Don’t associate with it, and never consider it Human much less elect it to anything.
The mofo’s that released him ( after serving 11 days per victim ) should be stung up from the nearest lampost, or have their heads stuck on a pike, adorning the town halls walls.
The mofo was laughing his cancer ridden ass off as he walked up the ramp to the airplane.
ahhhhh, he wants to be near his family when he dies of ass cancer... take the SOB up in a Cessna with a Syrian pilot, and blow the plane up over his families house.
F him, and the Scottish officials that set him free.
Release of this MASS MURDERER is OUTRAGEOUS!
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Question:
What, if anything, did OBAMA AND/OR HILLARY - do to stop this BEFORE it occurred? Likely Zero.
Make no mistake - this is another - MASSIVE OBAMA FAILURE - of the highest order.
Terminal cancer might be just the psychological factor that spurs this mass murderer to participate in one more act for the glory of Allah.
The decision to release him is just one more example of how many guilt-ridden Westerners have lost all ability to reason rationally.
In Islam, the one and only GUARANTEED way to make it into Muslim paradise is to die while fighting the infidels.
A Muslim who knows he's going to die soon anyway, has every incentive to become a suicide bomber.
Wow, that’s a tragic visage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill
He got a heroes welcome.
**Fox News bimbo: “So how do you feel watching the man who murdered your son ascending the stairs to the plane?”**
First time in my life that I actually hoped for a PLANE CRASH.
My sister was supposed to be on that plane, but luckily she had trouble finding the young’ns passport and missed it
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