the Lockerbie bomber........

[srkruzich]

Scotland also has a "compassionate" prison release program. I didn't pay attention to all the details, but one of them is a person is released when they have less than 3 months to live.

I don't object to the program - I think it's a viable option the United States should sometimes use.

I do disagree with the "hero" welcome he received.

Why be compassionate to a mass murderer?  There was no compassion shown for the ones who died in that bombing

[srkruzich]

Um, did any American families complain when he was tried in Scotland? Or did they accept whatever Scotland did? I really don't know.  It was a terrible tragedy regardless. I wonder how that would have been handled here if the circumstances were similar.

The bombing was comitted in scottland so the trials were held there.  Scottland had jurisdiction.  IF it had of happened here, we would have had jurisdiction.   The sad fact is this terrorist is now being heralded as a hero when he should be dying in his prison cell.

[Varmit]

Scotland also has a "compassionate" prison release program. I didn't pay attention to all the details, but one of them is a person is released when they have less than 3 months to live.
I don't object to the program - I think it's a viable option the United States should sometimes use.

You can't be serious??!!??  When should this be used in the U.S.?

Frankly, I think that son of a bitch should have been hanged.

[Teresa]

Hangings way too quick and "compassionate"...

[Jane]

I will have to answer to God for my feelings. Anyone that takes a life should not be allowed to live. Cold blooded murder is just that. Ask the people that jumped out of the WTC  or the people on that plane. When you bomb a plane or  run into a building it is thought out murder. I am so mad right now to think we should be compassionate, that person needs to think about how those people died.
Jane

[Varmit]

Hangings way too quick and "compassionate"...

You assume that I would employ the "quick drop" method.  no, no, no, by hanging I meant that a rope placed around his neck and his ass hauled up the nearest tree branch so he can choke on it for awhile.

[flintauqua]

Since it was Scotland, I'd like to have seen him treated the same way William Wallace was at the end of Braveheart.  Now there is a deterent towards high crimes and treason. 

[pamsback]

Since it was Scotland, I'd like to have seen him treated the same way William Wallace was at the end of Braveheart.  Now there is a deterent towards high crimes and treason. 

William Wallace was NOT a criminal or a terrorist. He was a Patriot.

[Wilma]

Um, did any American families complain when he was tried in Scotland? Or did they accept whatever Scotland did? I really don't know.  It was a terrible tragedy regardless. I wonder how that would have been handled here if the circumstances were similar.

The bombing was comitted in scottland so the trials were held there.  Scottland had jurisdiction.  IF it had of happened here, we would have had jurisdiction.   The sad fact is this terrorist is now being heralded as a hero when he should be dying in his prison cell.

srkruzich:  Where did you get the quote from Diane?  I can't find it.

[flintauqua]

Since it was Scotland, I'd like to have seen him treated the same way William Wallace was at the end of Braveheart.  Now there is a deterent towards high crimes and treason. 

William Wallace was NOT a criminal or a terrorist. He was a Patriot.

I started to add that I didn't believe Wallace deserved what was done to him, only that I do believe the bomber deserved said treatment.  But I didn't know how to say it without someone on here twisting the words back upon myself.

I agree with your statement of William Wallace being a Patriot.  But what he did was considered a high crime and treason by his opponent, the English, just as what our nations founding fathers did. 

I'm sure that somewhere in there I said something that offended someone in someway, and I'm sure I'll be chastised for it forthwith.