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Originally Posted by shillelagh
Im a member of the labour party .. and ive stayed quiet mainly because i dont know what to think .. first english/scottish people arent paying to keep him in prison now .. so no expense to the taxpayers, hes also got cancer and is dying .. so if we can let ronnie biggs go why not let him go .. also are you sure he is the one who did it ..as the father of one of the people who died says hes glad hes been freed as he says that he had nothing to do with it ... but he was found guilty back in 2001 so there must have been some evidence of him involved.
What i would have done if i was going to release him tho would have got him on a plane, waited till he was 3/4's of the way to libya and then made the press release. That way then the media wouldnt have been able to make a big deal of it like what they have done. Also as it is the scottish executive .. and not jack straw that has made the decision .. leave the labour party out of it .. cos the scottish executive is run by the SNP not the labour party ..
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The Ronnie Biggs case hardly bears comparison. Biggs and his accomplices robbed a mail train and attacked a driver during the raid. The driver was never the same again and subsequently died. Biggs himself didn't attack the driver, but obviously he bears some responsibility as he was part of the gang. A despicable act that had tragic consequences for an innocent man, but hardly the same as murdering 270 people. I read somewhere that Al Megrahi has served 11 days for each of the victims. And yes, Al Megrahi's conviction raised a lot of questions. In fact, he was appealing against it, but after a cosy little chat with Macaskill, he dropped his appeal, so now we'll never know.
As for your party having nothing to do with it, well, maybe, but Mandy has certainly been keeping company with Gadafi's son...funny, that...and Gadafi junior reckons that the subject of Al Megrahi was raised...but of course, why should we take the word of some damn foreigner against a fine, upstanding fellow like Mandy? Funny how Gord was in very close talks with the Colonel just a few weeks ago at the G8 summit and, of course, the spinmeister himself, T.Blair, rushed through the Prisoner Transfer Agrrement after a
tet a tet with Gadaffi.
One thing I will say though, Shilleagh. If the boy David and his bunch of chinless wonders were in power, I'm sure a very similar scenario would currently being played out with Jaysay and AndrewB posting on here that "The Conservatives have nothing to do with it."
The fact is that there are billions of pounds worth of oil and gas reserves beneath the sands of Libya and that will always take precedence over concepts like justice and humanity. That's
realpolitik for you!
