I would not have let him go, under any circumstances.
What he did is not forgiveable.
The only sympathy he deserves, in my opinion, is in the dictionary, the definition is all he needs, not an application of the definition.
I find the judge mistaken in what he did, unfortunately we have judges that way here.
Only to Hell. Along with the entire Charles Manson gang.
FORT WORTH, Texas - Three decades after basking in the national spotlight as "Squeaky" the infamous Charles Manson disciple who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford, the now 60-year-old woman slipped quietly out of a federal prison Friday after being released on parole.
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme eluded the media as she left Fort Worth's Federal Medical Center Carswell in one of the many cars streaming in and out of the front gate Friday morning. She previously refused interview requests, and prison officials would not say where she planned to live or what she planned to do after more than 30 years behind bars.
NO, he was sentenced to LIFE and should remain in prison until death. He probably should have been been given the death penalty but definitely should serve his full sentence!
It's easy to say “NO” because our “NO” makes no difference with the decision. However, if my decision was the one that allowed the person to go free or remain in prison, I think I would have wanted to know more of the facts that forced the decision in the first place. We all want forgiveness for our sins so we should also be capable of forgiving. Nothing will change the past and if he was in fact responsible for the crime, he will have to answer to a far greater power than any on this Earth. He continues to this day to say he is innocent and the One he is about to meet knows the truth.
The most honest answer then is that, I don't know. Being that any answer I gave would make no difference on the true outcome, the question is really moot.
Since I have now seen how the individual was treated when he got home to Libya, and how agile he appeared to be as comparred to his departure in Scotland.
I wonder if the Judge and those who applied for the release of this terrorist, not now be tried for being incopetent, and complete idiots.
I fold. I want nothing to do with anything that has an Obama attached to it. Keep my 2 cent and here's 2 cent more to not speak the domestic enemy name.
Scotland’s devolved government is now reeling from the vehemence of the opposition—from the White House to its own backyard—which has greeted its decision to free the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi. The Scottish Parliament has been recalled from its summer recess to meet in emergency session in Edinburgh Monday. But increasingly attention is moving away from Edinburgh to London and the exact role of the British government in facilitating the Lockerbie bomber’s release. And here we enter very murky waters indeed.
Nobody has yet proved that the British government struck a deal with Tripoli—the return of the bomber for lucrative contracts with the oil-rich Libyans—but the circumstantial evidence that something was going on behind the scenes is growing daily. There is a bad smell in London that no amount of official spin can dissipate—and the cast of characters that might have been involved in any deal would not be out of place in a Bond movie.
Two British prime ministers, the son of the Libyan dictator, a Russian oligarch, the scion of a European banking dynasty, a prince of the Realm, a leader of Big Oil and Britain’s very own “Prince of Darkness”—all have at least walk on parts, if not more, in events that preceded the release of the Lockerbie bomber, supposedly on compassionate grounds (because he is apparently dying of prostate cancer).
The man at the center of this web of intrigue is Saif Gaddafi, the shaven-headed son of the Libyan dictator. Turns out this graduate of the London School of Economics is a good friend of Oleg Deripaska, the Russian aluminum baron, and Nat Rothschild, of the eponymous banking dynasty. Saif invited both to his 37th birthday party in June in Becici in Montenegro, into which Deripaska and Rothschild have poured around $1 billion to create a sort of St. Tropez in the Balkans. Saif is also pumping Libyan money into Montenegro—reason enough for Rothschild last year to host a party in his honor in New York.
What’s all this got to do with the Lockerbie bomber? Enter Lord Peter Mandelson, Britain’s secretary of State for Business, the most powerful man in London after Prime Minister Gordon Brown and a politician so steeped in the dark arts of spin that he almost revels in his “Prince of Darkness” moniker. Despite his Labour politics, Mandelson loves the company of the rich and famous and numbers Deripaska and Rothschild as friends.
Last August he visited Rothschild in his $60 million estate in Corfu, Greece and stayed on Deripaska’s luxury yacht. This August he stayed at the Rothschild villa—and met Saif Gaddafi. Mandelson claims the meeting was only “fleeting” but admits they did discuss the Lockerbie case. A week later it became public that the bomber might be released on “compassionate” grounds. It was then revealed that Mandelson had previously met Saif at a reception in London in May.
As Business secretary, Mandelson is obviously keen on drumming up opportunities for British trade and business. And as the favored son of the Libyan dictator, Saif was keen to be seen to be doing everything he could to get the bomber back. He turned up in Glasgow on the private jet which whisked him back to Tripoli and in a taped TV interview during the flight Saif, whose name means “Sword of Islam,” assured the now-free bomber that “in all commercial contracts for oil and gas with Britain, Megrahi was always on the table.”
He has been “on the table” for some time. In 2004 Prime Minister Tony Blair flew to a tent outside Tripoli to do his so-called “deal in the desert” with Colonel Gaddafi which led to a broad rapprochement with Libya, a significant part of which was a prisoner transfer agreement which Gaddafi always saw as a means of bringing back Megrahi. Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, has continued the schmoozing of Gaddafi, even welcoming him to a recent G8 summit.
"SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!" quoting that famous fighting United States Marine, Private Gomer Pyle. Shame on you Enoc Sioul or is it Louis Cone? Your literate offering to this small town blog was very well written! Well researched with verifiable facts. It was so well written that our astute Sheila Tolley is willing to take precious time from her hectic blogging schedule to "read all that and probably learn something." My goodness! I hope Sheila will not rely on your submissions to enhance her knowledge base. I'm calling you OUT! Was it an "oversight" on your part NOT to give full credit to the REAL author of that fine piece? Mr. Andrew Neil posted these same words on http://www.thedailybeast.com/..
However, Mr. Neil's article continued for two pages. Your cut n' paste style included only one page. The full article is two pages.
SHAME SHAME SHAME. Fess up to your "error" and revert back to your inane rambling style and quit posting other author's creations.
Do the right THING!
Call N Alcars 10-9
I'm back!!
Note:
Andrew Neil is a publisher and broadcaster working out of London, New York, Dubai, and the south of France. He is chairman and editor in chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Business, and Apollo.
It was not my intent to take credit for this posting but to add additonal information on the nature of this subject. If you took it to be otherwise....my mistake. As you can see I did not sign my name at the bottom of the posting. I thought it would be obvious to poster that it was a cut and paste.
Well, since you are back, and a self proclaimed intellectual giant, let’s see what you have to contribute. We ignorant small minded folks can gather around you on the floor, peer into your eyes and be dumbfounded by such a brilliant mind. I agree my contributions may be more visceral than intellectual but I work with what I have. Seriously, there is no need to attack my, as you say, “Inane rambling style” but to add to, debunk or agree with what others have contributed. Please give it a try…….I am weary of trying to add more to this dialogue and challenging the popular redneck knee jerk reactions. You would never know this was a college town.
Congratulations to you Enoc Sioul! One can quickly ascertain your latest offering is a genuine Sioul literary effort that we all have come to admire and not a cut n' paste "error".
Keep up the hard work and give these local Redneck knee jerkers their comeuppance.
Yes suh!
Have a good day!
Call N. Alcars, You have hurt my feelings. My comment was sarcasm, I didn't read that much in all of high school. Welcome back...I've missed your blogs. I still love you!
Mea Culpa, Sheila! I thought I was saving you from your lovely self. I should have known you were just being patronizly kind to Senor Siuol and would not waste your valuable time reading.
It is refreshing to bear witness to your wit and wisdom. After you have inserted your opinionated literary proboscis into the thin skins of the lesser informed and withdraw, it makes for a good time reading their blog reactions to your everyday common sense.
yes...I love you too. You still owe me lunch.
Yes suh!
Call N. Alcars 10-5
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What he did is not forgiveable.
The only sympathy he deserves, in my opinion, is in the dictionary, the definition is all he needs, not an application of the definition.
I find the judge mistaken in what he did, unfortunately we have judges that way here.
FORT WORTH, Texas - Three decades after basking in the national spotlight as "Squeaky" the infamous Charles Manson disciple who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford, the now 60-year-old woman slipped quietly out of a federal prison Friday after being released on parole.
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme eluded the media as she left Fort Worth's Federal Medical Center Carswell in one of the many cars streaming in and out of the front gate Friday morning. She previously refused interview requests, and prison officials would not say where she planned to live or what she planned to do after more than 30 years behind bars.
He will get a hero's welcome in all of these Arab nations.
From the rope that is, once he quit swinging.
The most honest answer then is that, I don't know. Being that any answer I gave would make no difference on the true outcome, the question is really moot.
I wonder if the Judge and those who applied for the release of this terrorist, not now be tried for being incopetent, and complete idiots.
Nobody has yet proved that the British government struck a deal with Tripoli—the return of the bomber for lucrative contracts with the oil-rich Libyans—but the circumstantial evidence that something was going on behind the scenes is growing daily. There is a bad smell in London that no amount of official spin can dissipate—and the cast of characters that might have been involved in any deal would not be out of place in a Bond movie.
Two British prime ministers, the son of the Libyan dictator, a Russian oligarch, the scion of a European banking dynasty, a prince of the Realm, a leader of Big Oil and Britain’s very own “Prince of Darkness”—all have at least walk on parts, if not more, in events that preceded the release of the Lockerbie bomber, supposedly on compassionate grounds (because he is apparently dying of prostate cancer).
The man at the center of this web of intrigue is Saif Gaddafi, the shaven-headed son of the Libyan dictator. Turns out this graduate of the London School of Economics is a good friend of Oleg Deripaska, the Russian aluminum baron, and Nat Rothschild, of the eponymous banking dynasty. Saif invited both to his 37th birthday party in June in Becici in Montenegro, into which Deripaska and Rothschild have poured around $1 billion to create a sort of St. Tropez in the Balkans. Saif is also pumping Libyan money into Montenegro—reason enough for Rothschild last year to host a party in his honor in New York.
What’s all this got to do with the Lockerbie bomber? Enter Lord Peter Mandelson, Britain’s secretary of State for Business, the most powerful man in London after Prime Minister Gordon Brown and a politician so steeped in the dark arts of spin that he almost revels in his “Prince of Darkness” moniker. Despite his Labour politics, Mandelson loves the company of the rich and famous and numbers Deripaska and Rothschild as friends.
Last August he visited Rothschild in his $60 million estate in Corfu, Greece and stayed on Deripaska’s luxury yacht. This August he stayed at the Rothschild villa—and met Saif Gaddafi. Mandelson claims the meeting was only “fleeting” but admits they did discuss the Lockerbie case. A week later it became public that the bomber might be released on “compassionate” grounds. It was then revealed that Mandelson had previously met Saif at a reception in London in May.
As Business secretary, Mandelson is obviously keen on drumming up opportunities for British trade and business. And as the favored son of the Libyan dictator, Saif was keen to be seen to be doing everything he could to get the bomber back. He turned up in Glasgow on the private jet which whisked him back to Tripoli and in a taped TV interview during the flight Saif, whose name means “Sword of Islam,” assured the now-free bomber that “in all commercial contracts for oil and gas with Britain, Megrahi was always on the table.”
He has been “on the table” for some time. In 2004 Prime Minister Tony Blair flew to a tent outside Tripoli to do his so-called “deal in the desert” with Colonel Gaddafi which led to a broad rapprochement with Libya, a significant part of which was a prisoner transfer agreement which Gaddafi always saw as a means of bringing back Megrahi. Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, has continued the schmoozing of Gaddafi, even welcoming him to a recent G8 summit.
However, Mr. Neil's article continued for two pages. Your cut n' paste style included only one page. The full article is two pages.
SHAME SHAME SHAME. Fess up to your "error" and revert back to your inane rambling style and quit posting other author's creations.
Do the right THING!
Call N Alcars 10-9
I'm back!!
Note:
Andrew Neil is a publisher and broadcaster working out of London, New York, Dubai, and the south of France. He is chairman and editor in chief of Press Holdings Media Group, publishers of The Spectator, Spectator Business, and Apollo.
Keep up the hard work and give these local Redneck knee jerkers their comeuppance.
Yes suh!
Have a good day!
Call N. Alcars 10-4
It is refreshing to bear witness to your wit and wisdom. After you have inserted your opinionated literary proboscis into the thin skins of the lesser informed and withdraw, it makes for a good time reading their blog reactions to your everyday common sense.
yes...I love you too. You still owe me lunch.
Yes suh!
Call N. Alcars 10-5