Megrahi

[wendilla]

Just watching police escort for Magrahi. Why don't they just chuck him out the door and let him take his chances and find his own way to the airport. I saw what happened at Lockerbie.End of rant no point in saying anymore.Hope someone shoots him and he suffers a long and lingering death.

[Sqad]

Joy..so you think that keeping him in jail until he dies would ease the pain of the loss of their loved ones.

[Bobbisox]

Kim, with respect I don't feel this was as much a rant as it was wendilla , like me, feeling for the victims family, I accept we have to look at a wide view of things happening, but the Middle East and everything tied up with the complexity of it, can't make the victims families of this attrocity think that way

[Bobbisox]

I really don'tknow what they feel like sqad and I suppose from a medical point of view, you may see t differently from m, from a personal point of view like mine, seeing a closure here on it wouldn't make e feel better, but would make me know that the perpatrator has not been given the luxury of being at home, his victims hadn't that luxury

[Sqad]

Joy.....I agree.....if we have got the right perpetrator.

[Kim A]

Bobbisox, sorry. I didn't mean to imply that you were ranting, it was a general comment. It just took me so long to type what I wanted to say that it came after your post rather than after Gromit's, which would have followed on much better. I feel desperately sorry for the families both here and in America, no-one should have to deal with the loss of kin in so dreadful, public and violent an event. However, as I said, I've never been convinced that the person in jail actually did the crime. An appearance at the Appeal Court would have been useful, but I agree with other correspondents that there is a hidden agenda that both Governments are keen to keep hidden. The Scots were damned if they let Mr M out and damned if they didn't. The whole situation, from start to finish, leaves an unpleasant taste in the mouth and a sense of lingering unease at what else is being decided on behind closed doors.

[steg]

so did the Scottish judges lie then, knowing he was not guilty then finding him guilty just cause they could?

[Kim A]

Nothing is impossible. Nothing would surprise me.

[Bobbisox]

I agree with your post Kim, and it is very well illastrated too, it is said that this man has never shown any remorse so surely if innocent he would have protested at the highest level
Sqad also, it is a very grey area, do we, don't we???
What would the Scottish goverment have got from holding the wrong man? why would they hide evidence, who would they be trying to appease?
I am open to all o your answers because I don't understand the reasonng for it
Thanks

[Bobbisox]

my spelling is in need of an overhaul ..sorry

[Kim A]

If we were being really paranoid and 'conspiracy theory-ish' we might assume that the Scottish parliament gained something like assurances over devolution, a substantial injection of cash for some project, whatever. Who knows? We can speculate all we wish.

[steg]

cool we might get a new Hampden out of this

[Bobbisox]

I guess will never know Kim huh
Bobbi

[Kim A]

No, Bobbi, and we can all argue our respective corners until we're blue in the face. Probably no-one will ever get to the bottom of it. Release for him, going home to die with his family - right or wrong? Justice for those who were killed - who really did it and why? In the end, it all comes down to personal gut feeling and a sense of unease that we're all being played for fools.

[Panic Button]

It could have been Syria, rather than Iran.

Oh, and by the way, Libya has lots of oil.

[Kim A]

Yes, I did and I was impressed by his magnificent speech which only served to show just exactly how much he needed to cover his own arse. What he did, what others did, where he went, what he looked at, how he'd weighed it up, how he'd consulted others,how the Scottish people's sense of fair play wouldn't have been satisfied by any other decision than to release Mr M on compassionate grounds and how the legislation wouldn't really cover him being released to serve the rest of his sentence in Libya. I don't have a problem with Mr M being released on compassionate grounds. I just have lingering doubts as to whether or not he was the actual perpetrator behind the crime in the first place.