The Shame of Scotland, the Shame of the United Kingdom, the Shame of the Civilized World

Yep utterly shameful of the Scottish nationalists. None of us here admire the Scottish governments decision. Only it's nutjob First Minister Alex Salmond, defended it.

The same approach by the Scottish nationalists here was taken in Northern Ireland between Clinton and Blair under the guise of a civilised "peace process" and lauded by all. All those Irish terrorists are walking free and some of them sit in its government. But noone mentioned shame back then. Least of all Americans whose Presidents continue to laud its success, pressure the result, celebrate Gerry Adams in NYC and during that whole period harboured and protected many of these individuals in the US after killing British service personnel and innocent civilians in Northern Ireland. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter at the end of the day.

At least this guy was prosecuted, served time and will be stone cold dead inside a month. His victims families can grasp that small mercy as the world bends over and over with various excuses for global terrorists.

My heartfelt sympathy goes out to families enduring these injustices while all our noble politicians offer their platitudes for daft "peace processes" and so called "acts of humanity". To hell with them all.

Posted by alison at August 23, 2009 3:58 AM

"Taking prisoners is not productive."

Indeed. Shaul lost his kingdom because he did that, instead of killing Agag.

The civilized world will have to return to ancient laws of warfare (like Jewish Law, in my local case) if it is to survive the onslaught of those 7th-century Bedouins.

Posted by KosherWarrior at August 23, 2009 4:23 AM

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Posted by white punk at August 23, 2009 4:55 AM

The problem is confusion between the roles of an individual vs those of society. Seriously.

If the criminal in question were a lone operator who was going home to die with his family in the Scottish Highlands, the clemency would have been less harmful.

But the actual situation is that Libya committed an act of war against Great Britain as part of the jihadi effort sometimes known as the Clash of Civilizations. As such, it's more of a zero-sum game between the two sides; what Libya gains, Great Britain loses.

The judge, of course, is mandated only to focus on the case of the individual, and he is not a part of the Defense Ministry. This sort of manipulation is known as "Lawfare". The use of law to fight a war.

Posted by Fred at August 23, 2009 6:49 AM

This sort of "thinking" seems to be going around...We're letting the Iranian bastards who kidnapped and killed our guys in Iraq go as well.

Posted by Patvann at August 23, 2009 7:19 AM

A man or a nation receives no more respect than he demands. The Muslim is seeing us as they should be seeing us. When that changes, they will understand immediately. That is all they do understand.

Posted by james wilson at August 23, 2009 8:23 AM

He was forced to drop a potentially very embarassing appeal to get this release. A lot of people, including some relatives of the victims, believe this man was railroaded for political considerations, and he has been freed for the same.

Maybe one day we will learn if the Iranians did this as revenge for the USS Vincennes shooting down one of their airliners 5 months before? That sure sounds like motive to me.

Posted by Al McLaren at August 23, 2009 8:56 AM

Thing I Know #3. Mercy is the opposite of justice.

Posted by Morgan K Freeberg at August 23, 2009 10:06 AM

So The Guardian has come out against foreign policy realism and for a morality based foreign policy?

Some one let George W. Bush know - he'll get a chuckle out of it.

Posted by Mikey NTH at August 23, 2009 11:01 AM

As radio host Dennis Prager frequently says "being on the Left means never having to say you're sorry."

Anyone that doubts if the Left will sell each of us into slavery for their own benefit needs only to look at this news item. If they have to firebomb every major city to save a salamander, we're toast. We have no intrinsic value to the Left and they will trade us for any shiny object that catches their eye.

Posted by Scott M at August 23, 2009 11:24 AM

I had never before seen the monument in the picture. It is wrong for the terrorist attack to be labeled a "disaster" -- a name more fitting for an accident or natural event. Lockerbie was not a disaster; it was murder.

Posted by John at August 24, 2009 6:20 AM

The clash of civilizations is over. We lost. Everything to come is just the mopping up operation.

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