Misplaced Compassion

20 August 2009

The date was December 21 1988, just four days before Christmas. Over 250 people boarded the plane, most of them students on their way to spend the Christmas Holiday with their families. The mood was festive and even more so for the families that were expecting the passengers of Pan Am flight 103.
But those families would never embrace their loved ones again. Those on the plane, 259 souls, and 11 more innocent people in the Scottish village of Lockerbie were wiped out by the actions of a Libyan sponsored terrorist act.
The bomb planted on the aircraft exploded just few minutes after the plane took off from London, as it was flying over the sleepy Scottish village, ripping the plane apart and causing it to plunge straight into unsuspecting habitants of Lockerbie.
The only person indicted for the horrible act of terrorism and convicted, is one Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was finally convicted in2001 and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the Scottish prison of Greenock. Even the Libyan dictator Gadhafi admitted the responsibility of the Libyan government and offered some compensation for the victims, the moment that he realized President George W. Bush was not taking terrorism as lightly as his predecessors had.

Today, Megrahi, after just spending eight years in prison, is on his way home to Libya on one of Gedhafi’s personal airplanes, having received a compassion release from prison by the Scottish authorities. The basis of the compassion release is that the terrorist is affected by terminal prostate cancer and only has few months to live. Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill made the decision that based on the fact the man is dying, it was the compassionate thing to do to let him die in his homeland.

These are the facts, and now my thoughts.
It is extremely hard for me to even begin to feel any compassion for someone who has so much blood of innocent people on his hands. Here we have a sub-human piece of excrement who purposely placed an explosive device on a civilian aircraft, for the sole purpose of killing innocent civilians. Here we have a terrorist who was bent on inflicting pain and suffering on people, specifically American people, who had had absolutely nothing to do with any gripe he could have had against the US.
My thoughts go to the final moments of those doomed passengers on flight 103, those who survived the initial explosion and aircraft break up only to experience the terrorizing final seconds of their existence. My thoughts also go to those on the ground who were just living their lives only to be crashed and burned by the plunging of the aircraft on their homes. And finally my thoughts go to those who received the horrible news that their loved ones will never reach their destination.
And with these thoughts going through my mind, my willingness to afford any kind of compassion toward Mr. Megrahi diminishes exponentially.

This situation is one of the reasons why I am a strong supporter of capital punishment, because it is my deep belief that someone like this kind example of human trash, responsible for the pain and suffering of so many innocent people, should have been sent to Allah a long time ago.
But the reality is that so many people across the world have reached a mental condition where holding someone to their responsibilities is no longer considered an important human behavior, having been replaced by the need for sensibility, by the need to feel good about oneself, and screw those directly affected by the actions of pure evil people.

I am sure that Kenny MacAskill had no family member on the plane or living in the homes of Lockerbie devastated by the attack. Had his son or daughter, his wife or mother had been among those who perished, maybe the man would have found it harder to feel the compassion for the scum bag.
So what could be motivating the man to grant Megrahi the gift of supposedly die in peace at his home? It is hard to give an answer, and I am not into psychological analysis, but I can surely express that I feel the political correctness and the touchy feely approach is going to be the end of free men across the globe, as those in the business of terrorizing free people, those in the business of subjugating others, those in the business to force their social and religious convictions on everybody, those who make it their life goal to have gripes against the rest of the world, will never cease to conduct their murderous acts. Showing compassion and understanding will only embolden these characters and weaken the ideals of freedom and self-determination that the West should be championing.

And how is public opinion going to react if upon the terrorist arrival in Libya, if and when images of jubilant Libyans welcoming him as a hero are going to show up on the News?
Are all those compassionate peaceniks going to be moved by the images?
Betrayal of the families of those who perished in 1988 has been justified by the decision that it was more important to feel good about oneself. The right to justice of these families was sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.

I surely hope that all those who are now getting a warm feeling about this terrorist being allowed to end his miserable life at home will never have to endure the pain of a loss similar as the one this man condemned so many innocent people to suffer. I can only hope that his last few days on this Earth will be as painful.

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”