Should Auld Outrages Be Forgot

posted at 11:58 am on August 20, 2009 by Mitch Berg
[ Terrorist Attacks ]   

A Scots judge frees a terminally ill convicted terrorist:

 Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds Thursday, letting the Libyan go home to die despite American pleas to show no mercy for the man responsible for the 1988 attack that killed 270 people.

The White House declared it “deeply” regretted the Scottish decision as Abdel Baset al-Megrahi left prison and flew to Libya on an Airbus dispatched to Glasgow Airport.

Scotland’s justice secretary said freeing the bomber was an expression of the Scottish people’s humanity but U.S. family members of Lockerbie victims expressed outrage.

It was “an expression of Scottish values” that al-Megrahi be allowed to return home to die.

Of course, al-Megrahi – who has never expressed the faintest remorse for the murder of almost 300 people, and had to be dragged from Libya under international pressure when his value to Gaddhaffi finally dropped below break-even – never allowed any of his victims the same courtesy.

For those who’ve forgotten:

Many of the victims were American college students visting home for Christmas.

Others were innocent Scots in their homes.

It’s good to know that some Scots have some real values:

Some men outside the prison made obscene gestures as al-Megrahi’s prison van drove by toward the airport.

After the Munich Olympic Massacre in 1972, when the “international community” slapped the few apprehended terrorists on the wrist and let them off with fewer consequences than a German traffic ticket for murdering the Israeli Olympic Team, the Israelis sent hit teams roaming the world to track down and kill the terrorists.  Mossad shot them down like scabrous dogs in the streets, pumping their chests full of lead from contact range; they blew them up in hotel rooms; they bombed their cars.  (Tragically, they killed an innocent Arab waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, in a case of mistaken identity; the person for whom he was mistaken lived on for years – but he can’t have made a whole lot of long term plans).

Just saying.  I don’t give a rat’s *** how terminal this piece of human-shaped mold is.  If what he did doesn’t warrant a midnight date with a JDAM or a silenced bullet in the dark or a garrote, I don’t know what does.

Cross-posted at Shot In The Dark, whose proprietor, Mitch Berg, is proud of the part of his Scottish heritage that would have shown its outrage at this travesty at the tip of a claymore.

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