Maybe something is turning these people into Scotsmen.
Posted on 08/23/2009 7:23:31 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Scotland's first minister has defended his government's decision to free the Lockerbie bomber after a blistering attack from the FBI chief and insisted that US-Scottish ties would remain strong.
Robert Mueller, the director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, said in a strongly worded letter to the Scottish justice minister that releasing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi "gave comfort to terrorists around the world".
Mueller said the decision to free Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, on compassionate grounds made a "mockery of justice".
But Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said he "clearly disagreed" with the FBI director.
"It is difficult for people sometimes in the United States to recognise that it is a different legal system, but it is a different legal system, it is a Scottish legal system and therefore we have to follow the tenets of Scottish justice," Salmond told Sky News.
He also dismissed a website calling for a boycott of his nation and its products over the Megrahi case.
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I have vacationed in Scotland many times, but I will not be returning for quite a few years. Any country that releases a terrorist mass murderer can do without my tourist dollars.
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“Ye kin take our lives, but ye’ll never take away....OUR COMPASSION!”
What an utterly contemptible nation Scotland has become.
Think again.
He also dismissed a website calling for a boycott of his nation and its products over the Megrahi case
Think again.
I wonder if “Scottish Law” Specter agreed with the realease.
So I wonder which tenet of Scottish law covered the release of a mass murderer?
This was purely a financial decision.
Screw Megrahi!
Ya shoulda cut his throat long ago.
God help us if he actually recovers
from his cancer.
I hope he gets Obama Care.
IMPOSSIBLE to do.............
What does Scotland produce anyway, that could be boycotted?
Scotch Whiskey.
That most definitely can be boycotted.
Here’s one Scot who will switch from Whisky to Navy Rum.
“Salmond” is a sassenach name. What’s a sassenach doing speaking for Scotland?
Maybe something is turning these people into Scotsmen.
Eleven days in jail per murder.
From what I read the Scottish people are not at all happy with this decision just like the English people are not happy either.
Hey Scotland! Put that in your bagpipes and blow it!
"The diagnosis of a terminal condition had heightened his sense of isolation and undoubtedly had substantial psychological impact."
["undoubtedly"?!?!?! ... very scientific - in other words; we feel his pain!]
... "Mr Megrahi himself has a strong belief ...
[see, even Mr Megrahi thinks we're right to worry about his psychological state (we needed that affirmation, since we don't really have a clue!)]
... "of the physical state impacting on the psychological and vice versa. He simply wished to return home to be with his family, including his ...
[cue the violins]
..."elderly mother".
... "His return to Libya would, we feel, not only benefit the patient, but would also be advantageous to the family ... when considering any potential longer-term psychological impact."
[longer-term psychological impact?!?!? ... oh my, wouldn't want anyone in his family to be worried about what sort of life their convict father/spouse/brother might have led after his "three months" (yeah, that's the ticket) is up!]
..."As noted previously, we are not aware of the specific details of treatment locations and treating physicians on return to Libya, though [~18 characters redacted], MB, FRCPEd, Professor Medicine (Endocrinaology), [~31 characters redacted] Libya, has been involved in his care.
!!!! His Libyan doctor has been giving these Scot numbskulls his medical diagnosis??? And the Scots foresee him getting treatment beyond what they could persuade him to take advantage of! I foresee convict Megrahi living a long healthy life, as his "metastatic" cancer is miraculously put into remission by the "wonders" of the Libyan medical pharmacopoeia. Most men who have prostate cancer die with the disease, they don't die from it. I don't buy this "metastatic" diagnosis, and it shouldn't be reason to let a mastermind of mass murder free in any case.
As his caregivers were claiming that the hormone therapy wasn't working, the next step offered might have been an orchiectomy. Convict Megrahi probably chafed at that, and told his doctor's they better get him the heck out of there - the ruse of being terminal wasn't worth losing his testicals over!
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