Posted under Christianity & Culture & Europe & Religion & Survival of the West & Terrorism & Western Civilization
Yesterday’s release of terrorist Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, underscores the type of cultural decline indicative of nations which abolish capital punishment. It’s bad enough that this murderer wasn’t given the death penalty after his conviction for bombing Pam Am Flight 103, sending 270 people to their deaths. Now we have a Scottish government which is content to release murderers for “compassionate” reasons. In Megrahi’s case, it was because he had prostate cancer.
Think about this situation: The UK is undergoing an invasion by third-world Islamists who protest in the streets with signs reading “Islam Will Dominate the World,” meanwhile the magistrates in Scotland lack the moral backbone necessary to keep a convicted murderer in prison. Never mind the fact that Megrahi ought to have been executed. Yesterday’s action shows that Scotland (and the UK as a whole) is a joke when it comes to meting out justice and defending the commonwealth against men like Megrahi.
This is exactly the kind of weakness we see among the various nations which have abolished the death penalty. When capital punishment ceases, the legitimacy of the state itself begins to erode. Pat Buchanan has long bemoaned the “de-Christianization” of the West and here we see another example of how this is bearing fruit. To be sure, the end of the death penalty is not a cause of the West’s decline. Rather, this is just one symptom of a hollowed out civilization on the brink of collapse.
Kirt Higdon on 21 Aug 2009 at 10:29 am #
The injustice may have been convicting him in the first place. An official review of the decision indicated doubts as to the reliability of the evidence on which he was convicted and even the families of some of the victims think he is innocent and should never have been imprisoned.
Lord Peter on 21 Aug 2009 at 1:54 pm #
Scotistan?
Sean Scallon on 21 Aug 2009 at 5:20 pm #
Gee, what if he doesn’t die in six months? Terminal illness = Get out of jail free card? Sickening!
M on 23 Aug 2009 at 12:02 am #
It is an outrage that Megrahi has been released. Yet back in the 1990s, the US government pressurised us Brits to release dozens of convicted Irish Republican terrorists. I don’t recall Americans getting outraged about that.
Michael on 23 Aug 2009 at 7:43 pm #
This almost makes one want to take the Saltire license plate off the car, throw away the BRAVEHEART DVD, and swear off single malt … well almost.
roho on 24 Aug 2009 at 3:53 pm #
In 1988, I believed “America” could do no wrong, Ronald Reagan was perfect, the Russians were our enemies, the North Vietnamese had attacked us in the Gulf Of Tonkin, and “Oswald” actually shot JFK?
I believe less and less of the “Official Story” now days.
The Western Confucian on 24 Aug 2009 at 7:35 pm #
What if this guy was railroaded in the first place — Lockerbie Doubts — and only released because his appeal would have shown that fact — CIA spook says Megrahi was freed before appeal humiliated justice system?
Weaver on 25 Aug 2009 at 2:32 pm #
Libya supplied weapons to the IRA?
Call for Libya to pay IRA victims
roho on 25 Aug 2009 at 7:19 pm #
Even John McCain in his “Townhall Meeting” about healthcare, was blindsided by the question, “What’s up with Guantanamo”?
His response was that “there are combatants at Gauntanamo that can NEITHER be tried or released.”………………..Huh?……..Why?
Because it can never come out in a court record whom they actually worked for! (CIA?, Mossad?, Black-Ops?, ??????)
Globalism means never having to admit who your real boss is.