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Lockerbie Bomber goes free
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 03:14 pm |
This is now on the 1:00pm news and I cannot believe that the Scottish court can be so stupid as to let a mass murdering terrorist (270 people died in the PanAM flight) be released to go back to Libya, on compationate grounds because he has terminal cancer, after serving just 8 years of a 27 year life sentance. How many other murders get released because of terminal cancer or other terminal illnesses? Not many if any.
Appears to be failings that has allowed this to happen, in part the transfer of prisoner agreements, which the UK Government failed to ensure that no Libyan could not be transfered back to Libya.
I am gobsmaked....
The Scottish Justice Secretary is still speaking with a certain exasperation on this as I post.
It has now been finally confirmed that the bomber is being released on compationate grounds, although he showed now mercy when he with others killed the 270 people, the Scottish Justice Secretary has shown him considerable mercy by allowing this release.
Edited (8/20/2009) by libralady
[Added a bit more]
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 03:40 pm |
This is now on the 1:00pm news and I cannot believe that the Scottish court can be so stupid as to let a mass murdering terrorist (270 people died in the PanAM flight) be released to go back to Libya, on compationate grounds because he has terminal cancer, after serving just 8 years of a 27 year life sentance. How many other murders get released because of terminal cancer or other terminal illnesses? Not many if any.
Appears to be failings that has allowed this to happen, in part the transfer of prisoner agreements, which the UK Government failed to ensure that no Libyan could not be transfered back to Libya.
I am gobsmaked....
The Scottish Justice Secretary is still speaking with a certain exasperation on this as I post.
It has now been finally confirmed that the bomber is being released on compationate grounds, although he showed now mercy when he with others killed the 270 people, the Scottish Justice Secretary has shown him considerable mercy by allowing this release.
I don´t know about Scotland but in the USA there´s a compassionate release law that is applied in most if not all states, according to which an inmate can be released from prison if disabled or has terminal illness with less than 6 mos to live. They also would need to be disabled severely enough to pose no public risk.
We may not agree with the law, or think that it should not apply to certain people (like the one you mentioned), but it´s the law none-the-less. Maybe it has to do more with the government not wanting to pay for the expensive medical treatment of the inmate and less with mercy.
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 04:16 pm |
I don´t know about Scotland but in the USA there´s a compassionate release law that is applied in most if not all states, according to which an inmate can be released from prison if disabled or has terminal illness with less than 6 mos to live. They also would need to be disabled severely enough to pose no public risk.
We may not agree with the law, or think that it should not apply to certain people (like the one you mentioned), but it´s the law none-the-less. Maybe it has to do more with the government not wanting to pay for the expensive medical treatment of the inmate and less with mercy.
I don´t believe there is any law of this kind in the UK, I have never heard of one. There are plenty of terminally ill people in our prisons in the UK.
There will be plenty about it in the papers tomorrow. I know that the Americans ad Hilary Clinton opposed his release.
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 05:08 pm |
I was reading a story the other day about one of the women about the Manson murders that occured back in the 1960s. She has terminal cancer and her "compassionate release" was denied.
I don´t understand how we as a society can have compassion expected of us when compassion was not given to the victims of a crime. Is this supposed to be a statement of how we have evolved into a more forgiving society? Well, to hell with it, I say! I would rather be a barbarian than to let a monster like the Lockerby bomber be free!
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 05:17 pm |
My thoughts are with the families of the victims today. This man served what....8 years for murdering their children, spouses, siblings? And he gets compassion?
There isn´t much more to say. It sickens me.
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 08:00 pm |
My thoughts are with the families of the victims today. This man served what....8 years for murdering their children, spouses, siblings? And he gets compassion?
There isn´t much more to say. It sickens me.
I think this will be the thoughts of many across the US and the UK. A decision many of us will never understand.
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 08:28 pm |
I don´t have huge issues with pardons...however not for terrorists, murders or rapists. I was astound to hear this guy got released whether he has cancer or not is irrelavant.
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20 Aug 2009 Thu 08:38 pm |
I´m just watching this on TV now. He is already on a plane home. The father of one of the victims believes it is the correct decision, but most are furious.
Apparently the Uk government in London is distancing itself from this decision by saying ´it is nothing to do with us´.
I always thought it was a bad decision giving Scotland their own parliment. This confirms it.
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21 Aug 2009 Fri 12:43 am |
With the political interference and the stories of evidence withheld and evidence planted I doubt if we will ever find out the truth about the Lockerbie bombing. Also the revenge theory linked to the Iranian airliner blown out of the sky by an American missile 5 months earlier over the Persian Gulf with the loss of 290 lives including 66 children. Many people believe Megrahi was a scapegoat to appease bereaved relatives.
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21 Aug 2009 Fri 12:51 am |
With the political interference and the stories of evidence withheld and evidence planted I doubt if we will ever find out the truth about the Lockerbie bombing. Also the revenge theory linked to the Iranian airliner blown out of the sky by an American missile 5 months earlier over the Persian Gulf with the loss of 290 lives including 66 children. Many people believe Megrahi was a scapegoat to appease bereaved relatives.
Hmmmmm....I was wondering how long it would be before someone floated a conspiracy theory.
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