Lockerbie Bomber is free...

Originally Posted by Locke

A life sentence is just that - a life sentence. Why should he be released because he is sick and going to die anyways? Why should he be allowed a hero's welcome as he returns home, a triumphant murderer.The only public relations this did was make the man a hero, and he will die a hero and a martyr, more so then if he had died in Scotland.

I'm guessing you're fairly unfamiliar with the British legal system and that's fair enough, you've had no reason to be familiar with it up until now but over here, life very rarely means life. There are only a handful of people serving true life sentences over here and those that are are generally only doing so for their own protection from the public. Life here means 20 years with the possibility of parole in some cases after 10. Also, letting terminally ill people out early happens pretty often. Ronnie Biggs was let out early just last month for example and he killed a bunch of people, stole millions of pounds then fucked off to Rio for most of his life, only coming back to take advantage of our medical care.

As I understand it, he wasn't cheered off the plane because he killed a load of Merkins, he was cheered because the general feeling in Libya is that he never did it and was provided as a scapegoat by the Libyan government to appease ours and your government. I remember there being a fair bit of cheering when Clinton freed those two journalists from North Korea but I bet the North Korean public weren't too impressed. These women had been found guilty in their courts after all and were as guilty in the North Korean legal system as Lockerbie boy was in ours.

If you think that our legal system is so infallible as to preclude every sending anyone home then by the same standards, evey time the Iranians capture and convict some US military personel or the Koreans lock up a journalist, they should stay to face their punishment.

Prisoners are released home all the time all over the world and it works both ways. You're being incredibly blinkered and naive on a number of levels here.

Were you not outraged when Mozzam Begg was released from Guantanamo back to the UK? He was charged with terrorist offences too and there was a fair bit of celebrating when he landed in the UK. I'm not sure he was even charged with anything actually, I think you guys just locked him up for a few years and flew him to Pakistan to be tortured but never quite made it to court.

Do you not see how these things are very similar events? Can you not appreciate the massive double standards in your stance here?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Tails

MAN, FUCK. Shin, one of these days I'd like to click on one of these long, horribly drawn out and boring as fuck threads and not see your name pop up with a wall of text that I can't be bothered to read because you're a terrible human being.

I am henceforth suggesting that all posts of yours over 400 characters long be replaced with a picture of those wing shoes of yours so we can laugh at you.

I'm sorry, I didn't realise this thread had already degenerated into snappy one liners and pictures. Maybe next time you could leave an official announcement of when the time for discussion of the subject has passed so I know not to bother. I'd hate to think I'd made you read stuff, on a discussion forum.

There's nowhere I can't reach.