Comments on: Lockerbie terrorist should be locked up until death

By: W

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:25:19 +0000

Nearly four days ago, an earlier poster wrote this:

“Jay,

I rarely address you directly. However, your opinion piece forces me to ask you this: How do you feel about Lt. William Calley? The last I heard, he was a jeweler down in Fort Lauderdale.”

To the best of my knowledge, neither Jay nor anyone else has responded to this request.

Lt. Calley served three years of house-arrest before being pardoned for the deaths of up to 500 innocents in a Vietnamese village known as My Lai. Would it not be reasonable to suppose that there are a good many people who were “shocked, disgusted, and outraged” that this man received a Presidential pardon, in spite of the prosecutor’s plea that: “The greatest tragedy of all will be if political expedience dictates the compromise of such a fundamental moral principle as the inherent unlawfulness of the murder of innocent persons.”

Well, one tragedy of political expedience begets another.

Some have argued that the USS Vincennes case, quite possibly the trigger for the Lockerbie bombing (which quite inexplicably a very large number of people in the UK do NOT believe was carried out by the man now dying of cancer, cannot be compared with the deliberate killing of civilians. What about Lt. Calley? Were his actions another unfortunate accident?

By: Captain

Captain — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:56:50 +0000

It was inevitable I suppose, now it’s official “I agree with Bookman”

By: WH

WH — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:50:16 +0000

Here is one Brit who is damn proud that someone had the guts to flick the finger at the Judeo-American lobby. GO SWIVEL!

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:52:43 +0000

Talk about simple minds!

By: Dr. R

Dr. R — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:43:08 +0000

Whatever cultural ties we had with Britain seem to have been blurred over the years to where we now see the world very differently. Keep in mind that the pilgrims and pioneers who founded our country made a conscious choice to leave a European society they saw as being corrupt, micromanaged by the state and bereft of individual freedom. So we tried to establish something different on this side of the pond, and have succeeded in doing so, even as many try to take us back to the European model from whence we came. For the very reason I don’t want the government paying for and managing my doctor visits, we feel that convicted criminals should not re-enter civil society until their debt is paid. In its attempt to raise its social conscience beyond normal human limits, the people of the UK, and others, are dooming themselves to extinction. We see the simple-minded barbarism hard at work in the Middle East that is bent on destroying Western society, from within and without. Only the U.S. seems in tune to the threat enough to face it, while our allies elsewhere prefer to make nice and try to be friends. They are making a tragic mistake.

By: Producer

Producer — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:41:24 +0000

I had two colleagues killed on 103 and had a scheduled ticket on that very flight a week later. To release that animal is horrid. Maybe some of the CIA’s Blackwater recruits could arrange an “accident.”

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:35:19 +0000

This is like debating the merits of apple pie. However, for those who were old enough to remember – this bombing was in response to the shooting down of an Iranian Air Bus airliner (Iran Air Flight 655) over the Strait of Hormuz toward the end of the Iran-Iraq War by the USS Vincennes in July 1988. It was during this time that the U.S. starting playing cop in the Persian Gulf in order to keep the oil flowing. A role we have never given up. Iran has refused to this day monetary compensation from the U.S. for that incident. It doesn’t excuse the Pan Am bombing – but maybe we should just try to understand things a little better.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:26:30 +0000

One other thought, Cherokee. This philosophy was originally advanced by Immanuel Kant. If you are inclined to do some research, which I doubt, you will find that he was not from Georgia.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:13:54 +0000

Cherokee

August 21st, 2009
10:20 am

“Scotland’s original decision to do away with capital punishment, is shocking testimony to how little value Scottish authorities place on human life.”

‘Only in Georgia would someone make a comment like this…’

Only a liberal would fail to comprehend that statement. Logical and liberal both start with the letter L, and there the comparison ends.

By: md

md — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:49:16 +0000

Gotta love the arrogance coming from the other side of the pond.