It’s taken me a few hours to simmer down enough to write this post without bad words and visible anger. Actually, the visible anger may still be slightly evident.
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am flight 103 blew to bits above Lockerbie, Scotland, wiping out 243 passengers and 16 crew members. The explosion was due to a bomb crammed into a Samsonite suitcase surrounded by baby clothes, compliments of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi. In 2001, he was convicted of 270 counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
He served seven years. Seven years. During that time he became riddled with prostate cancer, which might have just been a karmic come-back. And now one solitary man…not a panel…not a board…but one single, solitary man makes the decision to let this maggot go home so that he can be with his family for the last three months of his life. His release an ”Act of Compassion”, says Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill.
The salt on the wound was the royal treatment that Megrahi received yesterday evening as he landed on Libyean soil…greeted with a red carpet, thousands of cheering citizens, hugs from Kadafe’s son….Megrahi’s arms lifted in victory. Where’s the fairness in this? This isn’t justice….it’s a travesty. It’s an insult. A destroyer of faith.
Where was the compassion for those innocent souls who met their death in a tragic and violent way? Where? They didn’t get to come home to die. They weren’t transported in comfortable surroundings to their home-land. They didn’t come home to celebrations and political hoo-rahs. No. They came home like this:
It was later determined that the captain, first office, flight engineer, a flight attendant and a number of first-class passengers were still found strapped to their seats and were most likely alive until impact. The flight attendant was found alive by a farmer’s wife, but died before her rescuer could summon help.
While Megrahi is now pampered at treated like royalty, his victims has their clothing torn off by tornado-force winds from the busted cock-pit. Their bodies swelled to four times their natural size, resulting in their lung exploding. Those who weren’t fastened down were blown out into -50 degree freezing air, their 31,000 foot fall lasting for over two minutes. Some passengers remained attached to the fuselage and crashed into Lockerbie still strapped in their seats.
Although the passengers would have lost consciousness through lack of oxygen, forensic examiners believe some of them might have regained consciousness as they fell toward oxygen-rich lower altitudes. Forensic pathologist Dr William G. Eckert examined the autopsy evidence and determined that the flight crew, some of the flight attendants, and 147 other passengers survived the bomb blast and depressurization of the aircraft, and may have been alive on impact. None of these passengers showed signs of injury from the explosion itself, or from the decompression and disintegration of the aircraft.
Again I ask, MacAskill…where’s the compassion for THESE people? Or for their families who have to get out of bed every single day, missing someone that had no right to be taken away? And Libya…you talk smack about wanting to play nice, then go and do something like this? Obama told them not to give him a “hero’s welcome”…..and they did. So what do we do now? More importantly, what does the government do now? Shrug and say, “Eh, we told them…nothing else we can do now”?
I’m gonna tell you this RIGHT now….if they let that pimp freak Kadafe’s tent-dwelling self come over here and shack up in Central Park like he’s talking about doing….I’m going to start doubting a few things politically.
What can you say to the families of the victims after something like this? ‘I’m sorry’ seems trite. Compensation seems insulting. ‘Everything happens for a reason’ sounds insane.
MacAskill’s only explanation for Megrahi’s release was so that he could be comfortable in his last days. A gift of comfort.
Confucius say:
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
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Amen right back at ya!!!