No room for compassion

August

I have no mixed feeling about the release of convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi by Scottish authorities.

He’s supposedly terminally ill and was released earlier today on “compassionate” grounds.

Compassion should have extended no farther than providing him appropriate medical care until he died in prison.

There was no compassion for the lives of the 270 who died when the jet was bombed, crashing to the ground in Lockerbie, Scottland with 189 Americans aboard.

His release is an affront to the U.S., to all the families of those killed on Pan Am 103 and to all of humanity.

Inhumane acts simply don’t deserve compassion for those who orchestrate or take part in them.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 3:39 pm by Bob Baird.
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