Yeah they sure were great.
Why did they lock him up in the first place? They caved and the world knows it.
Yeah they sure were great.
Why did they lock him up in the first place? They caved and the world knows it.
Good point Dodge, you said it all for me. If the measurement of Scots' greatness is compassion, why lock anybody up for that matter? Better to forgive everyone for their sins and allow them to go free ... it would save cost of prison, cost of legal fees, they would win all the way ....Yeah they sure were great.
Seriously though, how can anyone say that this guy was wrongfully charged? Surely the British system of justice is much more rigorous than that? Isn't it insulting to the British legal system to say that someone "innocent" has been incarcerated for the sake of having someone to punish ...
Good point Dodge, you said it all for me. If the measurement of Scots' greatness is compassion, why lock anybody up for that matter? Better to forgive everyone for their sins and allow them to go free ... it would save cost of prison, cost of legal fees, they would win all the way ....
Seriously though, how can anyone say that this guy was wrongfully charged? Surely the British system of justice is much more rigorous than that? Isn't it insulting to the British legal system to say that someone "innocent" has been incarcerated for the sake of having someone to punish ...
In my opinion it is just more of that "politically correct" bs." We are so good. We care more and would not want to offend anyone" horse hockey!
A snake will still bite you if you are their "friend". God knows The United States has been bitten by their so called "friends".
Good point Dodge, you said it all for me. If the measurement of Scots' greatness is compassion, why lock anybody up for that matter? Better to forgive everyone for their sins and allow them to go free ... it would save cost of prison, cost of legal fees, they would win all the way ....
Seriously though, how can anyone say that this guy was wrongfully charged? Surely the British system of justice is much more rigorous than that? Isn't it insulting to the British legal system to say that someone "innocent" has been incarcerated for the sake of having someone to punish ...
Right, there is no such thing as a "British Legal system" as Scotland has her own legal system.
The point of prison is to prepare people to re-enter society and to make sure that they don't commit the same crime again. Megrahi is a dieing man who is now unable to commit such crimes. Prison has served it's purpose in that respect.
Compassion is only considered when have 3 or less months to live (estimate issued by doctors)
Megrahi has received a sentence that no court of law can overturn, hes going to die.
I can only judge the people I see by their actions. I saw women and men in their 30s 40s 50s and older dancing in the street. And some of the women were making those annoying yodeling sounds they tend to make at such times. I am sure there are good people there. But there were good people killed on 9/11 too. They woke me up. I am ready to play by their rules. We will never win their game playing by our rules. Am I an old sick bitter man? Damn straight I am. Was I brought up that way? No. It took things like 9'11 and years of insulting remarks made by our so called friends to make me that way.
Good point Dodge, you said it all for me. If the measurement of Scots' greatness is compassion, why lock anybody up for that matter? Better to forgive everyone for their sins and allow them to go free ... it would save cost of prison, cost of legal fees, they would win all the way ....
Seriously though, how can anyone say that this guy was wrongfully charged? Surely the British system of justice is much more rigorous than that? Isn't it insulting to the British legal system to say that someone "innocent" has been incarcerated for the sake of having someone to punish ...
As Comrade Austin says, there is a difference between the Scottish legal system and the English/Welsh system.
And there are specific circumstances that precipitated Megrahi's release. Though i still hold it would have been preferable, or even ideal, that his appeal were heard. The case would have fallen apart.
Does that include my insults? Because i prefer to see them as constructive criticism.
Apologies Austin, I stand corrected. So how does the Scots' legal system differ from that of the English? I'm obviously completely ignorant in this and the apology is sincere ...
I thought imprisonment was punishment. Not a stage before rehabilitation.
Right. Also not a very nice way to die either. At least he got a hearing before he was incarcerated though, the victims of Lockerbie were not given any lattitude at all. Nor their relatives the opportunity to say goodbye to them. I don't see any compassion in how they were treated.
Although he probably didn't do it. And a second appeal trial would have proven this. I think Megrahi probably regrets having been released on compassionate grounds. How would you feel if you were soon to die, having been accused, without a fair trial or fair appeal, of having committed genocide?
You know Dirk, when you are that sick, you don't think about stuff like that at all and are more worried that you don't have the strength to get up in the morning, bath and dress yourself. You really just want to die as cancer is as bad as that. It sort of gives you a complete paradigm switch to a different plane where politics, history, and "what ifs" don't matter any more.
I agree but what i mean is that most people would want their mark to be left in the world. But they wouldn't want to be remembered as genocidal maniacs! Because that is how we live on, in peoples' hearts and memories.
Right. Although I can't help but thinking that perhaps he is regarded as a hero amongst his own people. He sacrificed his life and earned lots of space in heaven? Isn't that the way it usually works with terrorists from the Middle East?