Comments on: Compassionate Release

By: X-man

X-man — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:54:38 +0000

Don’t know Mike, but considering that BP is 42% owned by Brits and 38% owned by Americans, the citizens of both countries bear as much responsibility.

http://www.bp.com/extendedsectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9010453&contentId=7019612

By: Mike47

Mike47 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:51:01 +0000

Can it be mere coincidence that BP (British Petroleum) just negotiated a deal for Libyan oil?

By: G-man

G-man — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:11:55 +0000

The more I think about this, the more my blood boils. I’d love to return to the Grampian Highlands village of my ancestors and piss on their local pub bar, and challenge anyone to stop me. Of course, I’ll wear a keffiyeh and spout off Arabic slogans of “piss on yer ancestors graves you f—-g limey bastards”. Really insult them, tho they won’t know it. Lord, how far we’ve fallen.

Maybe the best course of action is we all write to the Scottish Board of Tourism and tell them not only no, but hell no we ain’t gonna tour your s__t infested country.
/Rant out.

By: JoeC

JoeC — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:50:30 +0000

IIRC – The only reason he was tried in Scotland is they had no death penalty. And there was some hand wringing and bed wetting going on about the possibility of this scum being extradited to the U.S. where he WOULD have faced the death penalty if tried in Federal court. As a compromise, I believe the U.S. agreed to letting him be tried in Scotland, and again, his sentence was ‘life’ in prison. Well, as in the U.S., we have seen ‘life in prison’ doesn’t exactly mean what you would think ‘life’ means. Some places ‘life’ is as little as 20 years (but my memory may be faulty on that…. I haven’t spent the Google time to dredge up the half remembered news story.)

By: JackSprat Dawg

JackSprat Dawg — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:51:30 +0000

Why wasn’t there a US Marshal there waiting with papers for extradition back to the US the moment he stepped out of prison? Would there not be grounds for jurisdiction since it was a US registered aircraft? Inconceivable that he has been let go with so little fanfare….

By: Flatlander

Flatlander — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:44:34 +0000

The UK government wouldn’t touch this because it falls under Scottish legal authority, and don’t look now, but Labour is on the verge of losing Scotland to the Scottish National Party. There is a reason the Libyan’s were waving Scottish flags and not the Union Jack.

I have Scottish ancestry as well, but let’s give credit where credit is due. The Scots march to their own drum, and in general, have not supported American interests.