Libyan Mass Murderer Goes Free.

[SirJosephPorter]

Scotland has released the Libyan who was responsible for the airplane bombing at Lockerbie, Scotland. He has advanced prostrate cancer and is not expected to live three months.

Most families outraged at Pan Am 103 bomber's release - CNN.com

 

[Colpy]

Scotland has released the Libyan who was responsible for the airplane bombing at Lockerbie, Scotland. He has advanced prostrate cancer and is not expected to live three months.

Most families outraged at Pan Am 103 bomber's release - CNN.com

A walking reason for execution of mass murderers.

 

[darkbeaver]

He was innocent. Oil deal everybody wins, what victims?

 

[SirJosephPorter]

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, he is a mass murderer and properly must remain in prison for his life.

However, he has less than three months to live, so he has remained in prison practically all his life. Besides, he was not the instigator of the bombing, he was probably just a pawn, carrying out the orders from higher up (perhaps even from Khaddafi himself).

Plus there is something in what the Scottish minister said. We have certain standards, certain principles we live by, and compassion, justice tempered by mercy is one of them. If we sink to their standards, their level, it makes us no better than the terrorists.

But the crime was so horrible, so heinous that one has to question whether normal standards of compassion, mercy should apply. So I can see arguments on both sides.

 

[darkbeaver]

Ya they're compassion for oil deals outweigh their lust for punishment. What western minister has any principals at all? They are every one of them capitalist pig dogs no one can sink to lower standards, it is impossible. If it wasn't for the deal the dupe would rot behind bars to satisfy the diseased state of capitalist justice. TMO

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Ya they're compassion for oil deals outweigh their lust for punishment.

Scotland has its own oil, darkbeaver. In fact, Aberdeen is considered to be Britain’s Houston. Oil considerations probably did not enter when Scottish minister made his decision.

 

[darkbeaver]

Ya they're compassion for oil deals outweigh their lust for punishment.

Scotland has its own oil, darkbeaver. In fact, Aberdeen is considered to be Britain’s Houston. Oil considerations probably did not enter when Scottish minister made his decision.

Scotland is the scene of the crash and the prison and that's all.

 

[TenPenny]

The only reason he got out is that Scotland has a tradition of releasing people who only have 3 months or so to live.

Fug 'im, he'll be dead soon anyway, this way it won't cost the Scots any money.

 

[Cannuck]

Lockerbie bomber freed, returns to cheers in Libya - Yahoo! News


"He was sentenced to serve a minimum of 27 years in a Scottish prison. But a 2007 review of his case found grounds for an appeal, and many in Britain believe he is innocent. He served only eight years."