Scotland Deserves Our Contempt
Two hundred and seventy murders landed terrorist killer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi a minimum 27 year sentence in a Scottish prison. When the wheels of justice finally caught up with Megrahi after ten years on the run, it meted out punishment amounting to 36.5 days per person that he slammed into the ground near Lockerbie during that tragic Christmas season of 1988.
Thirty six days does not sound like a lot of time behind bars for murdering a single young American, but Megrahi, apparently due to his spectacularly efficient success at killing, qualified for the Scottish volume discount.
As it turns out though, in retrospect at least, the Scots believe that 36.5 days is still way too much time behind bars for a guy who happens to have developed in his bowels the same terminal affliction he became to those 270 victims.
Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill believes that the terminally ill Megrahi is worthy of the compassion he denied his victims and he has been released, after less than a dozen days per murder, to a celebrating throng of Libyans happy to receive their hero under the waving flags of Libya and their new second favorite country, Scotland. And, who wouldda thunk it, just in time for Ramadan!
Scotland deserves our contempt.
1 comment:
As a Scot I find your comments insulting but factually incorrect to boot. Maybe instead of decrying another nation it would be better for you to educate yourself on how other nations work. We are not America and we will not be bullied by America. Whilst I agree Megrahi should rot in hell, we have a justice system here that is a world leader. Part of that system is that when it is proven that a prisoner is going to die, no matter how heinous the crime, he is entitled to compassionate release. We cannot and will not alter our justice system based on one case.
We also do not imprison others in a foreign land and leave them being tortured and with no trial for years. I believe that is the case in Guatanamo Bay Cuba. Maybe you should look at the wrongs being done by America in your name before decrying another nation.
Compassion is exactly that and if there was more of it around in the world such terrible atrocities would not be happening.
I do not want to go into the fact that it is almost certain now that Megrahi did not carry out the bombing but you could research that very easily yourself.
I would hope that on reflection you may reconsider the wording on this page.
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