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    The man convicted of carrying out the bombing of a Pan Am airliner in 1988, which killed 270 people, is to be released from prison in Scotland
    It is thought arrangements are being made to return Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi - who has terminal cancer - to Libya before the start of Ramadan.


    BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Megrahi: Profile of a bomber

    I'm shocked at this news of his release which will be confirmed tomorrow at 1pm he was brought to trial and convicted and should serve his sentance.

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    Ronny Biggs and now him out, I reckon since the recession, prisons cant afford to keep them in anymore
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    In my opinion it doesn't really make an earthly difference if they are released now they are at deaths door.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by experienced punter View Post
    In my opinion it doesn't really make an earthly difference if they are released now they are at deaths door.....
    What about those ppl that this person killed?They didnt even have a choice.From someone who has lost both parents to cancer i say fuck him and his cancer.Let him die in jail.Lots of good ppl die from cancer and just because a guy like this get its ,it should be an excuse to let him out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Westsidex View Post
    What about those ppl that this person killed?They didnt even have a choice.From someone who has lost both parents to cancer i say fuck him and his cancer.Let him die in jail.Lots of good ppl die from cancer and just because a guy like this get its ,it should be an excuse to let him out..
    That's true, and I'm halfway down that road too. But you know the old saying - if everyone takes an eye for an eye, soon the whole world will be blind. I suppose compassionate release from jail on the grounds that this bloke will be dead in a couple of weeks gives us the chance to assume a moral superiority and show how enlightened we are, if that's indeed what we are.

    Also, what about remorse, and dare I say it.... forgiveness?
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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymouse View Post
    I suppose compassionate release from jail on the grounds that this bloke will be dead in a couple of weeks gives us the chance to assume a moral superiority and show how enlightened we are, if that's indeed what we are.
    I'd like to think that's the way people will see if, unfortunately it could backfire and they very people you wish to show that to may see the actions as actually weak and unable to stick to their convictions.

    Or at least that's the way they could twist it.............
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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymouse View Post
    That's true, and I'm halfway down that road too. But you know the old saying - if everyone takes an eye for an eye, soon the whole world will be blind. I suppose compassionate release from jail on the grounds that this bloke will be dead in a couple of weeks gives us the chance to assume a moral superiority and show how enlightened we are, if that's indeed what we are.

    Also, what about remorse, and dare I say it.... forgiveness?
    but sometimes in life we have a choice.eitehr our own eye or the others eye.If these ppl and ppl like him show no compassion to victims and are left off just because they get sick then it will actually encourage the stuff.Do we know that any woman on that plane was pregnant?Do we know that anyone on that ppl was sick?

    Im all for forgiveness and the like but im also all for calling a spade a spade and cunts like this deserve no respect in my eyes because they didnt do anything to get it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elle of Edinburgh View Post
    who has terminal cancer


    I'm shocked at this news of his release which will be confirmed tomorrow at 1pm he was brought to trial and convicted and should serve his sentance.
    Usually i would say no one deserves to die from cancer , but for me its way less than he deserves

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elle of Edinburgh View Post
    It is thought arrangements are being made to return Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi - who has terminal cancer - to Libya before the start of Ramadan.
    And he should be shoved out at 31,000 feet so that he may fall screaming to his death the same way his 259 victims did..........along with the 11 on the ground

    I'm sorry if that seems harsh............

    I commend the Scottish on their compassion, I'm not sure I could be as forgiving in the circumstances....

    I have been thinking about this for the last few days, and I must admit, my attitude towards the whole thing does change from time to time as I try to view it from different angles.......

    Again I commend the forgiveness displayed by the Scottish, I just hope it was not politically motivated..........
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    You don't fall screaming to your death from 31,000 feet - if the terror of being exposed to the open sky doesn't make you pass out, the lack of oxygen in the air at that altitude will, and you'll die of asphyxia before you hit the ground. Not that it ever erases the tragedy of such an event.

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