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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
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So they convicted this bozo, fair and square, trial by jury and all that, and sentence him to life in prison, and then let him out because he's got terminal cancer, and only 30 or maybe 60 or maybe 90 days to live? And he goes home to Libya and gets a hero's welcome, and Kadaffi's kid claims he was a political hostage all this time.

Even I can't like the British government very much on this one. They turned their back on justice and the rule of law, as well as the feelings of the victims and America and the British people, and they didn't even get insist that it be handled discreetly. And they didn't get anything out of it? Stupid I can believe, but THAT stupid?

Shoulda let him die in his cell, then cremated him and poured his ashes over Lockerbie.

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
So they convicted this bozo, fair and square, trial by jury and all that, and sentence him to life in prison, and then let him out because he's got terminal cancer, and only 30 or maybe 60 or maybe 90 days to live? And he goes home to Libya and gets a hero's welcome, and Kadaffi's kid claims he was a political hostage all this time.

Even I can't like the British government very much on this one. They turned their back on justice and the rule of law, as well as the feelings of the victims and America and the British people, and they didn't even get insist that it be handled discreetly. And they didn't get anything out of it? Stupid I can believe, but THAT stupid?

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Originally posted by BigDamnNobody:

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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
So they convicted this bozo, fair and square, trial by jury and all that, and sentence him to life in prison, and then let him out because he's got terminal cancer, and only 30 or maybe 60 or maybe 90 days to live? And he goes home to Libya and gets a hero's welcome, and Kadaffi's kid claims he was a political hostage all this time.

Even I can't like the British government very much on this one. They turned their back on justice and the rule of law, as well as the feelings of the victims and America and the British people, and they didn't even get insist that it be handled discreetly. And they didn't get anything out of it? Stupid I can believe, but THAT stupid?

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I believe it is Scottish policy to release terminal prisoners. Misguided perhaps but the precedent has been set.

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Originally posted by PlainJayne:
I'd let him go free, too. After I had him fried up in bacon grease and important bits of him fed to the hogs. Yeah, he could go home to die then. I'm totally okay with that.

Or better yet, you use the same approach we use on nesting insect infestations...you know, fill him up with poisons that he can take back to the hive. Oh yeah. That'd work good too.

I am an angry, sick, violent-minded individual; I already know. I'm all about the poetic justice though...and you gotta admit, that would be poetic.

Got more options in mind, but they're really not the kind of thing I want to be broadcasting to the world. Don't want to give anybody any ideas they don't need to be having.

I am laughing my ass off, though...

Day late an'a dollar short...Story of my ruttin' life!

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