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As a Scot I am totally disgusted by this descision, purely pandering to Terrorists in exchange for contracts. However, it does also lend
credence to the belief of many Scottish people that the acronym SNP really stands for "The Scottish Nutters Party".
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Interesting to see on the BBC one o'clock news that Ghaddafi has just personnaly thanked Gordon Brown for his assistance in persuading the Scottish Government to release the bomber, and has confirmed that Britain will receive many "benefits" for their "humane act".
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Yet Gordon Brown denied he had anything to do with the release. What a murky world it is.
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Yet Gordon Brown denied he had anything to do with the release. What a murky world it is.
I obviously don't know for a fact, but I am pretty sure this deal has been in the making since Tony Blair's meeting with Ghaddafi a couple of years ago to bring Libya back into the "fold". It was a distinct possibility that the deal was finalised by Gordon Brown during his recent handshake with Ghaddafi. Pardon the expression, but the whole thing "stinks".
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It goes with the prevailing attitude of many in the UK, as I see it from afar, that prison isn't punishment, but an opportunity for rehabilitation. What a load of codswallop.
A "life" sentence should mean you stay in prison until you die. It looks like the new calibration for a "life" sentence is 8 years!
In Washington State, we have the death penalty, a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, life with parole options and on down from there. If the death penalty is sought by the prosecution, a separate jury trial is held to determine if the sentence is justified.
Going from memory, I think the last death sentence was about 10 years ago and the perpetrator filed so many appeals that he eventually died in jail from complications of obesity. There might have been two executions in Washington during the 41 years we've lived here.
Frank
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retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
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Interesting to see on the BBC one o'clock news that Ghaddafi has just personnaly thanked Gordon Brown for his assistance in persuading the Scottish Government to release the bomber, and has confirmed that Britain will receive many "benefits" for their "humane act".
He also thanked the Queen - now if she had any involvement in it, I'll eat my hat!
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Originally posted by Batu Kawa
Interesting to see on the BBC one o'clock news that Ghaddafi has just personnaly thanked Gordon Brown for his assistance in persuading the Scottish Government to release the bomber, and has confirmed that Britain will receive many "benefits" for their "humane act".
He also thanked the Queen - now if she had any involvement in it, I'll eat my hat!
I agree, anyone who thinks the Queen, or Prince Andrew, were involved would have to be "nuts".
However it looks like I may have been correct as The Guardian has just commented as follows re the "Dear Muammar" letter from Brown to Ghaddafi:
"The letter also refers to a conversation between the two leaders at the G8 summit in Italy six weeks ago where Brown writes that he "stressed that, should the Scottish executive decide that Megrahi can return to Libya, this should be a purely private family occasion." the Guardian reported.
The letter, addressed "Dear Muammar," contradicts previous claims that the Lockerbie case was only briefly mentioned during that conversation in July and that Brown stressed it should be left to the Scottish government, the Guardian reported.
A second letter written by the British Foreign Office minister to Libya also confirmed to Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill that there were no legal reasons to prevent Megrahi's release and expressed hope that MacAskil "consider the Libyan application," the paper reported.
As I commented before "the whole situation stinks".
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Does it seem like our "special relationship" with the USA is over, now their politicians are threatening to boycott UK goods and holidays.? Personally it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if it did as acting like their proverbial pet puppy just seems to alienate us in the eyes of the rest of the world. Or am I being unfair with comments like that? But yet another clanger for our wonderful politicians in power.
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I can't believe the Scots govt were naive enough to believe that Megrahi could return quietly to Libya - of course he was going to get a massive welcome; it was a huge victory for them.
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