“Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?”
“Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We’re ruled by effete assholes. It’s a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference! “ *
Follow the money.
Blair, ‘blood money’ and a Lockerbie deal: Talks with Gaddafi hours before BP agreement
By Ian Drury
Last updated at 9:41 AM on 20th August 2009
Gaddafi ‘to send private jet to pick up bomber’ from Glasgow
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Obama calls on Megrahi to be made to ‘serve out his term’
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Megrahi’s wife says bomber is ‘very happy’ to come home
Tony Blair has been accused of agreeing a ‘blood money’ deal involving the Lockerbie bomber with Colonel Gaddafi just hours before BP unveiled a £500million oil contract.
The then Prime Minister laid the foundations for the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi during a meeting with the Libyan leader in a desert tent two years ago.
The pair thrashed out a controversial prisoner transfer deal just before BP chairman Peter Sutherland announced the firm was investing $900million – about £545million – to search for oil in Libya. If the firm strikes rich, it could be worth £13billion.
The Scottish Government confirmed that its justice secretary Kenny MacAskill would announce Megrahi’s fate at 1pm today.
It is widely expected that the terminally-ill 57-year-old, the only person convicted of the December 1988 bombing, will be freed on compassionate grounds.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207772/Blair-blood-money-Lockerbie-deal-Talks-Gaddafi-hours-BP-agreement.html#ixzz0Ojfq9tG4
Can’t we put a warrant for his arrest with Interpol, or something, so that he gets nabbed on his way to Libya and put in shackles?
PS: Now I know how to spell Libya. Almost.
I lived in Scotland for several years. I know very many Scots and can’t believe that a large majority aren’t opposed to this move. But I’ve been wrong (and disappointed) before.
Boycott all products made in Scotland.
He deserves exactly the same compassion and mercy he showed for the 270 dead and their families.
expand that boycott to all British products with Blair and BP involved.
i suppose he’d need a private jet.who’d let him near a commercial flight?
You know, there was a -reason- why the Highlands emptied into Canada and the USA.
Pity we aren’t doing much better here. That Inderjit Singh Reyat feller is still wandering loose, eh?
Follow the money. Justice for the 270 lives so brutally snuffed out weighed against a potential £13 billion. What do you expect; the last time the British took any kind of principled stand was in 1940.
Paul D, you are mostly right. Thatcher took a principled stand regarding the Falklands and I hate to admit it, but socialist Blair did show some of the old British spunk. However the overall trend continues (and in France)and the “bleet” will fade away with the setting of the sun.
If this doesn’t piss off everyone in the western world then nothing will. It is an explicit statement that our lives as passengers (or anywhere), are expendable and of secondary importance to the almighty dollar. Compassion in this case is nothing but verbal rubbish.
We live in a world that desperately desires to see justice rather than the corruption that currently runs the roost.
Nato soldiers around the world are risking their lives to stop terrorists like this and many have paid the ultimate price. How do you think they feel by this betrayal of their efforts?
This tells the tale.
“Saad Djebbar, a lawyer who has worked with the Libyan government on the case, told BBC radio that freeing Megrahi would be a huge boost to relations between Britain and the whole Arab world.
“Britain and Scotland will grow in the eyes of the Arab states,” he said.”
In the British Viles, “APPEASEMENT R US”
Phantom: I don’t understand the connection you’re making between the Highland Clearances and this event, but I’d be glad to hear.
Makes you want to put your pipes away for sure. Hopefully the sane people that are left will try to effect the change that will stop this sort of nonsense.
I think of this as a brilliant counter argument in favour of the death penalty. The social contract thats made when you don’t execute a murderer is that he won’t be released on the street to do it again, and that he’ll be punished by remaining in jail for the rest of his life. Not good enough for statist judges, they have to push further and give compassion to those who deserve none. If this POS was already dead, there would be no ruling to make!
MJ, as I remember my history the Highland Clearances was a one-time deal, whereas the Scottish Diaspora went on until WWI.
Point being, if it was all so spiffy in Scotland they’d have stayed home, wouldn’t they?
At the risk of committing the “no true Scotsman” logical falacy and having ET jump on me, I have to say that letting the Lockerbie bomber even live this long, let alone walk out of jail, doesn’t really fit with Scottish tradition. We’re more the pay-your-dues-you-sorry-b@st@rd types, historically speaking.
Nor does the F-ING news story fit with tradition. I quote:
“In Tripoli, Megrahi’s wife Aisha said: “I am very, very happy. I am overjoyed, it is indescribable. It is a great moment which we have been waiting for for nine years. The house is full to bursting; everyone who loves Abdelbaset is with us,” she told AFP by telephone.”
Yeah, we’re happy the paer wee lad is going home to the loving family he’s been kept from all these years. Sorry about the wee misunderstanding, ducky.
Scots wa’f-ing hey.
It really doesn’t get any worse than this for attempted appeasement. I don’t care if there are doubts about his guilt. Judges and politicians are constantly interfering with the tools of justice our society creates. There should be NO compassionate discharges when one breaks one of the only natural rules of civilization.
More and more, these types of compassionate interference processes are costly lawyering procedures that legitimize human rights tribunals, prisoner rights groups and in general, revisionist and relativist mindsets which undermine society’s basic rules: Justice and equality for all, including the bereaved families of terror victims. Their rights don’t count.
I am in general, completely against the death penalty – but i understand that its use prevents this type of abuse in the legal system, and there are few crimes more worthy of a summary execution than this one. Instead, because of internationalist real-politik negotiators like Kissinger, consideration of current inter-national relations and their paramount driver, the underlying economic ties and dependencies, can create a situation like this.
The Scots don’t deserve this meddling Euro/UN style of politicking. Freedom!
Is that 11 days in the big house for each victim?
I guess I shouldn’t look at it that way… it seems on the light side.
The Scots (British) exported their brightest and best, and it shows.
Ah!!
the world is corrupt…
didn’t we all know that already ?
Isn’t it wonderful to see Obama’s new era of “respect for America” at work.
Maybe they just wanted to save the money he would have cost the National Health System.
Kyla:
Naw, Scots aren’t cheap, they’re thrifty.
So now any would-be terrorist group has to do is recruit terminally ill bombers who, if caught, will be back on the street in no time on compassionate grounds.
Sweet.
“The United States deeply regrets the decision by the Scottish Executive to release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi,” a White House statement said.
“On this day, we extend our deepest sympathies to the families who live every day with the loss of their loved ones. We recognise the effects of such a loss weigh upon a family forever.”
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US lawmakers and relatives of the American dead had also fiercely opposed the move”
Does this mean that the next time the Hun Army decides to march west, blows through the Low Countries, kicks the crap out of France and is encamped on the eastern shores of the English channel that the USA will not send over its soldiers and equipment to bail England’s terrorist appeasing ass out of the fire ?
C’mon Barry, be specific with us.
New Labour is resented as a Scottish political set-up in England. The Sassenachs think they’re the ones who’ve been colonized by wankers, now.
so howcum Susan Atkins who [as] steadfastly [as any can be] claims to have accepted Jesus as her saviour, who is past her ‘expiry date’ (pun intended) from cancer and who was involved WITH OTHERS in the Sharon Tate murder of 4 people, not hundreds, will die in prison?
“the law is an ass” certainly in Not-So-Great-Britain.
cant Obama just wish him dead?
Im sure it was cleared with him first anyway.
Yup. So much for the old country. I’m glad my people came here while we still can.
Shame on us Scots. I suppose we’ll see if there’s anything left worth a damn after we see the results of the next election.
From syracuse.com…
Among those killed in the Pan Am bombing were 35 Syracuse University students, one Colgate University student, two students from Oswego State, and a couple from Clay.
Statement from Syracuse University on Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi
August 20, 2009
Kevin Morrow
(315) 443-3784
Statement from Syracuse University on Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi:
“During this time our thoughts are with the Pan Am Flight 103 victims and their families and, as always, keeping the memories alive of those we lost. From the beginning, we have wanted justice to be served in this case. Given the tremendous suffering this terrorist act caused to innocent citizens, their families, and their communities, we are extremely disappointed that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has been released.”
If you put in about an hour’s reading of Scottish online newspapers you will come away with the firm conviction that Scotland has become leftish. To me it came as no surprise that they have done this, it is the expected thing in a leftish state.
“Britain and Scotland will grow in the eyes of the Arab states.”
So that’s what it takes to improve relations with Arab states, eh? Free a mass murderer. Good that we all know that now: that all Arab states support mass murderers, regardless of their country of origin.
When I watched the clip of that announcement, the spokesman seemed extremely pleased with himself as if he was delivering a piece of profound wisdom. Or, worse yet, as if it was painfully obvious they had to let the guy go. What crap.
Lots of people die in jail; that’s what happens some times.
Comrade Khaddafi has done a heroicand compassionate act by sending his private jet to take the freedom fighter back home.
The Peoples Republic of Scotland quite correctly spits in the eye of Amerikkka. What’s the lives of 189 oppressors whose guilt is indisputable as willing serfs for the worst regime the world has even known?
Praise would have been to Allah if only there were 500 Amerikkkans on that fight which was gloriously destroyed to show the oppressor what the misery they have imposed on us feels like.
That’s right. It’s your fault, Amerikkka.
There isn’t a man to be found in the entirety of the UK. Just whimpering, simpering, cowards who will serve their new Islamic masters like good little houseboys. Crikey, I swear the French couldn’t roll over so fast or so willingly. Maybe you sorry lot deserve King Charles, an inbred idiot to reign over a nation of sheep.
MarionN
Scotland is Left and always has been.
It has been Labour Unions, Shipbuilding and Coal Mines for donkeys years.Kids taught to vote Labour because the rich don’t do anything for the workers.
I had hoped that the Scottish National Party would open things up but only small improvements so far and this isn’t one of them.
Alba gu brath!
all together now, death penalty. ok. now you know the solution to the problem and don’t give me the same old crap about even one wrong execution is one too many. the bullshit conttinues.
marion m. scotland has been socialist for well over 100 years. when i was a young man many labour leaders, union stewarts etc were scottish.
Canadians love the English! They love them so much they let them,
1. Appoint their Heads of State.
2. Appoint their Prime Minister.
3. Appoint their Judges.
4. Appoint their Police Chiefs.
5. Appoint their Premiers.
6. Appoint their Ambassadors.
7. Appoint their Senators.
8. Give over ownership of their Armed Forces.
9. Give over ownership of their Federal Police.
Did I miss any?
To KPD: ????
I think you are thinking of the liarberal party of Canada
Well, if Obama is pissed at this waste of skin being released, he knows what he can do. Send a carrier or two to the Med, and bomb the living shiite out of whatever worthless town this terrorist calls home.
And maybe give loopy Khadaffi another special delivery from a flight of B52s.
But I won’t be holding my breath awaiting this action.
Was a British-Libya oil deal at root in this?
“Last November, Britain signed a Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Libya, and hurried it through Parliament. This could refer only to Al-Megrahi and was evidently the necessary preliminary to letting him go — there are no other Libyans in British prisons or Britons in Libyan prisons. Al-Megrahi had appealed against his sentence, lost, but then put in a second appeal. This might well have cleared up whether he was guilty as charged, and satisfied the victims’ families. But he could not be released while this second appeal was pending. Lo and behold! He withdraws this appeal, is suddenly revealed to have terminal cancer, and his boss, Muammar Gaddhafi, the Libyan dictator and hardened practitioner of terror, sends his private jet to Scotland.”
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“The suspicion is that the British government cut a secret deal with Gaddhafi to return his agent for the sake of the lucrative oil and gas contracts that British companies are obtaining in Libya, but the truth of that will also probably never be known, to leave a general cloud of contempt for the British government and the way it does business.”
http://pryce-jones.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjljYzJhZGY3YWUwZTA5ZDRkMmEzZTMzYjA0OTYyODk=
Awe, you left out the first sentence of that lovely quote.
Who will bet with me that this murdering scumbag’s name is not on the US “No Fly” list, cause, you know, he was supposed to die in prison.
AFter reading through some of the comments coming from (I guess) mostly Scots and (some)English and a few (mainland Euro) commenters who were happy as all get out to see this piece of crap freed (with plenty of moral relativism and moral snobbery, and a few “f- you Yanks” and basically that those American victims somehow deserved it). I finally, as an American, am ready to give up.
Ok, I get it; finally after the last decade of being confronted with it all the time and thinking “not everyone must think that way”, I get it — the world hates Americans and America, and the world wishes us all dead (all of us; our soldiers, our civilians, down to the last infant and puppy dog). They’d not stop at that — but would celebrate on our graves. So be it — I used to care about the world. I don’t anymore. I hope it burns. I’ll laugh when it does — even from beyond the grave if necessary.
“…terminally ill …”
What are the chances he has a dramatic recovery now that he has been freed?
Too bad the scots don’t have a version of Mossad to call on…
jane:
My post was a parody of the irrational hatred toward America from Mohammedans and the Marxists, with a bit of Rev. Wright thrown in.
Both groups consider individuals a threat to the collective and the confluence of Khaddafi and the Scottish commies clearly demonstrates a loss of moral compass.
Cheers
A caller on Charles Adler pointed out that, now that he’s released, al-Megrahi’s sentence works out to 4 weeks per victim.
Gord Tulk said “Too bad the scots don’t have a version of Mossad to call on…”
The Rangers Supporters Club could handle this. They dinna werk Seterdays though cause of the fitba mind.
I just had a flashback of the front top of the plane i.e. cockpit section broken to pieces and a picture of that huge ditch in the ground when all that weight hit the ground.
may the deal-cutters have molten lead poured into their eye sockets for 100,000 years before sent to hell.
I dont blame Libya or ghadaffi for this latest chapter, I blame the british oil companies salivating at billions in profits.
Kenny MacKskill
http://www.kennymacaskill.co.uk/contact.html