Today, after only eight years in jail, the terrorist who bombed Flight 103, killing 270 people over Lockerbie Scotland in December 1988, has been released from prison on compassionate grounds. Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi flew home to Libya today and was hailed as a hero by Libyans at the airport in Tripoli.
Diagnosed with terminal cancer Ali Megrahi has been given three months to live. For this reason he was released, so that he could be home with his family for his remaining months.
Apparently, life imprisonment was not considered to be "compassionate" enough by the Scottish government. They needed to release him in order to express the full extent of compassion they felt this man deserved. That is remarkably short-sighted, even blind.
I highly recommend Professor Allan Bloom's book, "The Closing of the American Mind (1987)", the central thesis of which, is:
"In our effort to NOT decriminate, we have become indescriminant; no longer knowing right from wrong, good from bad, or just from what is unjust."
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