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Post by Dabbit on Aug 27, 2009 1:04:56 GMT -5
I wonder how you feel about the release of Megarhi the Lockerbie bomber? Personally speaking I feel it was the wrong decision - he was convicted of killing hundreds of people in the plane over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Yes the man is dying of cancer but what about the people who won't get their lives back at all (270 in all I believe). I do not think the release was the right thing to do in this case. Our news is reporting that most of our friend across the pond are feeling a similar way...
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Post by Mark on Aug 27, 2009 11:22:19 GMT -5
I quite agree, Dabbit. Here is what the man, Kenny MacAskill, said:
"Compassion means remaining true to our values as a people. No matter the severity of the provocation or the atrocity perpetrated."
Well, I just wonder, what if it were Hitler himself who had been in that situation. Would he have been released? Where does one draw the line? I think house arrest under hospice care is the most that should have been done for such a monster, if that. Indeed, what 'compassion' did he show? None at all! There must be limits to compassion for criminals - how about compassion for the victims' families and friends? Locks my jaws it does!
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Post by Dabbit on Aug 28, 2009 1:00:38 GMT -5
I fully agree Mark. Recently the 'great train robber' Ronnie Biggs was refused parole because he had not shown any remorse for his action in the 1960's. He is dying with cancer and no longer a threat to anyone as he can't talk or anything. But Jack Straw refused him bail - which was later quashed upon appeal. I'm not sure if you know the story but one train guard got killed in the biggest robbery in British history (then). Anyway, he had always denied hitting the man and killing him. And I actually agreed to his released, because from what I know he didn't kill the man, and despite showing no remorse - it was only material things he was 'proven' to have actually done.
In the Megarhi case he was judged in an independent country where he was found guilty and properly sentenced for the death of hundreds of people. And because he gets ill he gets released? I put myself in the place of the families who lost loved ones in that dreadful plane incident. And come to my conclusion he should have died in prison...
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Post by Mark on Aug 28, 2009 8:10:40 GMT -5
Right. He should have been shown the same compassion he showed to those people he killed and their families.
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