Posts Tagged ‘Lockerbie’

In Stitches Over Stitch Up

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Heavens, BP and the British government somehow cut a deal with Libya to release the Lockerbie “bomber” in exchange for an oil contract!

Of course that’s what was done!

Just as America recognized Libya in exchange for a $10 million payoff to our Lockerbie victims and oh yes, some beneficial oil contracts.

These deals may have been seedy and cynical, but they were done with the full awareness of the US Congress.

So why are the 4 Senators from New York and New Jersey surprised, let alone angry?

It’s the same sort of nonsense as the outrage, entirely driven by the racist Know Nothing Party and its racist Fox News enablers, over a Muslim center being built some two blocks away from Ground Zero.

So the new British PM says it was a Scottish decision, not his fault, and the Scots say it was a British government decision, not their fault!!!

Why not just be honest: “We did the same sort of deal with Tripoli that you Americans did, so please, enough already with the breathtaking hypocrisy!”

Gorilla says: “15 million unemployed, there have to be better things for Senators to do than fire up their fifth-rate Claude Rains impressions!”

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Boycott Scotland? Send Them Flowers!

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Another vacation era story that just doesn’t make sense is the outrage over the decision by Scotland to allow a terminally ill, convicted terrorist to return to Libya to die.

Another round of Freedom whiskey anyone?

The insensible is why this should cause the slightest shred of controversy. Scotland has laws allowing clemency for dying murderers. In the US, we continue with capital punishment, keeping pace with barbarian dictatorships worldwide.

The deal with Libya (nearly 15 years ago!) was quite simple: in exchange for a large payment to the Lockerbie families, the provision of the guilty by Tripoli to international trial, and a promise by Libya not to use terrorism in future, the West would get access to Libya’s vast oil resources. Both sides have certainly lived up to this bargain.

Gorilla says: “Scotland reminds us that we are supposed to be human beings with the capacity for humanity. George W. Bush’s torturers and the Lockerbie bombing remind us of just how difficult that is!”

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