Lockerbie bomber released (6 Viewers)
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The question isn't whether his crimes were brutal enough for him to be granted no mercy, but rather it's whether he's likely to repeat them or not.
If we disregard principles and emotions, there's probably no need to keep him in jail. Probably just a waste of tax money from a purely financial point of view.
If we disregard principles and emotions, there's probably no need to keep him in jail. Probably just a waste of tax money from a purely financial point of view.
Americans complaining about other countries decisions on foreign policy. 
...and lets not forget the believed roots behind the Lockerbie bombing...the illegal American air raid on Libya that killed, amongst others, Gaddafi's daughter, launched to our shame from these shores, for which no-one was held accountable for...the Americans call the attack on Pearl Harbour a day of infamy because it was an unanounced attack on a sovereign nation without a decalration of war...so what was the attack on Libya then?
Lockerbie was a disgusting attack on innocent civilians carried out by an uncaring barbarian...but the reaction from America, a country that picks and chooses when it wants to apply or ignore international law, is perverse and pathetic
...and just in case you think I agree with the release of this convicted murderer I don't.
There's a quote that I always remember since I first read it many years ago...
"The greatest tragedy of all will be if political expedience dictates the compromise of such a fundamental moral principle as the inherent unlawfulness of the murder of innocent persons"...could have been especially written for ths scenarion...but guess who said this...?
...an American prosecutor in the My Lai case when the US officer in charge of an assault on a village in which over a hundred innocent vietnamese civilians were murdered and who had been convicted personaly of directly ordering the death of 22 of them - which resulted in him being sentenced to life in prison - was released after THREE AND A HALF YEARS of HOUSE ARREST!!!...how did the families of the innocent Vietnamese feel about this I wonder?...did anyone in America care then?
What has happened this week is wrong in so many ways...but the Americans are guilty in so many ways of uber-hypocrasy.
There's a quote that I always remember since I first read it many years ago...
"The greatest tragedy of all will be if political expedience dictates the compromise of such a fundamental moral principle as the inherent unlawfulness of the murder of innocent persons"...could have been especially written for ths scenarion...but guess who said this...?
...an American prosecutor in the My Lai case when the US officer in charge of an assault on a village in which over a hundred innocent vietnamese civilians were murdered and who had been convicted personaly of directly ordering the death of 22 of them - which resulted in him being sentenced to life in prison - was released after THREE AND A HALF YEARS of HOUSE ARREST!!!...how did the families of the innocent Vietnamese feel about this I wonder?...did anyone in America care then?
What has happened this week is wrong in so many ways...but the Americans are guilty in so many ways of uber-hypocrasy.
I was going to bring up the whole IRA - US link if the Yanks kept up their condemnation.
Funny how America suddenly decided after 9/11 that terrorism isn't such a good thing.
Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, said: "The terrorist shows no compassion and to give him a compassionate release was wrong.
"I think it's very serious and I think there should be consequences."
Consequences!!!...what are they going to do...F18 bombing raids on the McDonalds in Argyle Street...M1 Abrahams pounding Edinburgh Castle from the Mound?
They might as well close Disney World now as they'll miss those two million British tourists visiting Florida next year...