Lockerbie Bomber to be set free to die with family

Nothing wrong with a little bit of humanity.

It seems like the Christian right are the ones who are most upset with this. These people like bigTexx want him to rot in jail and suffer. They are foaming at the mouth, wanting an eye for an eye, when clearly their religion teaches to forgive their enemies. I don't get it.

 

Desecration of a body is desecration. You are talking about taking samples of his brain and his genitalia. TO many that would be considered desecration.

In regard to the ward of state argument then do you are agree that the PRC is right to use the bodies of executed prisoners for medical purposes?

 

don't you think a little remorse might be helpful? he didn't show any

 

what happened with unconditional love/forgiveness?

 

The people who nailed Jesus to the cross didn't show any remorse. And he forgave them.

 

How pathetic. He served he damn years and killed nearly 300 people. I hope he gets hit by a truck tomorrow.

 

Is the current U.S. Government "Christian right"? I think many folks across all spectrums are equally disturbed by this.

 

Let's set abortion aside for a moment...

1. The man is not a threat to anyone at this stage. In 90 days, according to Christianity - he will meet his maker no? If you are a Christian and believe in the tenets of Christianity, should you not also believe that is enough?

2. You realize that this guy was never convicted of being the "bomber" - m erely of being involved, right? And that the witness that testified against him was paid 2 million by the prosecution - to the point where the Scotish Appeals court said in reveiw of the case, "A travesty of justice may have occurred here". In other words, the guy may have very well been innocent.

There are other annomalies, but it appears the real culprits got away in order to satisfy the need to get someone, if anyone.


Justice will never prevail here. There is no such thing as justice, it's a made up imaginary thing anyway. The guys has often said his heart goes out to the victims families, even AFTER he landed on Libyan soil.

Most likely, he was a fall guy. In any case, it's moot. Making a guy with terminal cancer suffer even more is a bit inhumane.

 

I am surprised that he hadn't been killed in prison. Honestly.

 

there are some reports that the release has something to do with trade links....

The release of the Lockerbie bomber was tied to trade deals between Libya and the UK, reports quote the son of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi saying.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8215554.stm


.......now this should piss people off, I highly doubt that it's not true, oil has a way of people selling their souls...aka the Iraq invasion.

 

A distant cousin of mine was on that flight that crashed. She was a student at the time returning home from vacation. I remember while I was still quite young at the time that the media started calling non stop throughout the night for my parents reaction. But I don't really care that this fellow is being released. Its time to move on.

 

Is there a precedent for this type of thing? If not, that is my only real objection to this idea. What's to stop the next guy from requesting this courtesy? Domino effect?

 

Scotland and the UK are their own country, they can do what they want.....

The guy is going to die anyway, but they should have made it much less public, IMO.

DD

 

I am sorry that he has cancer. He has a life sentence for killing almost 300 innocent people in an act of cowardice and extremism.

You do not have to be inhumane. He can be kept in a hospital ward, being given medication to manage his pain in his final days.

Releasing this monster should not have been an option.

 

I agree with this. Or just let him sentence his complete.

I just don't agree with "having a camera crew document the remainder of his miserable life" or "cutting off parts of his genitalia and brains and send his body back to his family incomplete".

 

Why are some saying this guy was more of a scapegoat than one who actually perpetrated this crime? Was he not found guilty in a court of law? Surely, there was evidence that ties him directly to the bombing...and it wasn't circumstantial? The guy acts like he was been wrongly imprisoned this whole time...based on his statements.

I was watching Wolf Blitzer give the guy who released him a hard time on CNN. I don't think it has anything to do with anything else other than the person who released him showing compassion to this guy given his circumstances. He said as much during the interview and said he wasn't influenced by anyone or anything. He was also asked if it had been one of his children on that plane...would he still release the guy. And, he said yes because of the morals and values he believes in.

As far as my feelings, if he truly is guilty of bombing a plane that killed 270 people...I don't think he deserves any compassion whatsoever. Where was his compassion when he killed all those people? They never got time to go home and be with family prior to their deaths. They just got snuffed out in an instant. By releasing him, it begins to imply in my mind whether this guy was a direct perpetrator or just a scapegoat? But, I don't have the evidence in front of me, either, nor did I watch the trial. It would be like releasing a perpetrator of 9/11 in my mind. I just can't agree with it.

 

I would've thought he was in some sort of max security wing. Even not, I've only ever heard of child-killers being genuine targets for other prisoners. I don't know what kind of inverted moral code a max-offender prison sub-culture would have, to what extent would other murderers, rapists or other violent criminals would or wouldn't empathize with or relate to a terrorist?

 

I'd rather not use a person's (assumed) faith against them to judge their behavior. I'll take religious hyprocrites over religious zealots every day of the week.

 

How many experts agree that he'll be dead in 3 months? Watch him live...