Compassion for Terror

On the evening of 21 December 1988, 270 persons were murdered in Lockerbie Scotland on board Pan Am flight 103. In 2001 Abdel Baset Al Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence operative, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 270 people. Eight years later, Al Megrahi is now diagnosed with terminal Prostate cancer.


This week the Scottish government's Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, released him on "compassionate" grounds.

"Compassion and mercy are about upholding the beliefs that we seek to live by, remaining true to our values as a people. No matter the severity of the provocation or the atrocity perpetrated... it is my decision that Mr Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, convicted in 2001 for the Lockerbie bombing, now terminally ill with prostate cancer, be released on compassionate grounds and allowed to return to Libya to die."

Unbelievable compassion? Is it compassionate to the victims? How about these numbers...four hundred parents lost a child, 46 parents lost their only child, 65 women were widowed, 11 men lost their wives, 140 lost a parent, seven lost both parents.

Compassion? Really? If so, then on what grounds can any murderer with a terminal illness be held in prison?

The seeds of destruction are sown by the Wests virtues taken to a mad extreme.

Thanks Bill!

"We are so grateful to our government: President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the U.S. State Department for their dedication to and hard work on behalf of American citizens," the statement said. "We especially want to thank President Bill Clinton for taking on such an arduous mission and Vice President Al Gore for his tireless efforts to bring Laura and Euna home. We must also thank all the people who have supported our families through this ordeal, it has meant the world to us."

The Obama Administration and President Clinton have done a great service in getting two reporters released from North Korea. Congratulations and thank you. It's good to see President Clinton being utilized in a fitting role. Not the first time either as the role he played in Tsunami relief was excellent. I appreciate him far more than President Carter.

Hey, when people do good things, you recognize it.

Willful Ignorance

"I love these members that get up and say, Read the bill! Well, what good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you've read the bill?" John Conyers (D) Michigan ridiculing of the idea that he and his fellow legislators should actually read bills--here, the health care "reform" act--before voting on them.

Conyers is a huge advocate of something he hasn't read and doesn't understand which violates the US Constitution, affects 1/6 of the US economy, and interferes with a daily service that every citizen uses. That's just great. There is really very little to add other than if you think reading it is hard try to make it work in reality.

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. ~Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ~William G. McAdoo