MacAskill releases Al Megrahi
Danny | 20.08.2009 13:13 | Terror War
Kenny MacAskill just released the innocent person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, against heavy US pressure. He milked the limelight in his half an hour speech, blaming the UK government for failing to cooperate and repeatedly referring to Al Megrahis supposed guilt and lack of remorse.
The case was a sham invented by the US security services perverting evidence and knobbling Scottish judiciary. It is the biggest criminal case in history and it is a sham, any observant anarchists could use this as a case study in how power obviously corrupts justice. Al Megrahi appealled his innocence for eleven years until he was forced by cancer and the Scottish government to drop his appeal in return for spending his last few weeks with his family.
Personally speaking, this is the only issue I've ever posted on where I've had security service hassle. This is one of their responses from someone I later met:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334536.html?c=on#c143490
Kennys speech should have been listed with the rest of the Edinburgh Festival theatre events. The Scottish Government have simply 'covered their own arse' and ended any hope of finding the truth of that tragedy. There isn't even enough untainted evidence as stands to prove that a terrorist bomb destroyed the plane as this investigation shows -
Personally speaking, this is the only issue I've ever posted on where I've had security service hassle. This is one of their responses from someone I later met:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334536.html?c=on#c143490 Kennys speech should have been listed with the rest of the Edinburgh Festival theatre events. The Scottish Government have simply 'covered their own arse' and ended any hope of finding the truth of that tragedy. There isn't even enough untainted evidence as stands to prove that a terrorist bomb destroyed the plane as this investigation shows -
Danny
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Al Megrahis statement
20.08.2009 18:22
"I share their frustration. I had most to gain and nothing to lose about the whole truth coming out - until my diagnosis of cancer. To those victims' relatives who can bear to hear me say this: they continue to have my sincere sympathy for the unimaginable loss that they have suffered. To those who bear me ill will, I do not return that to you."
His statement continued: "I cannot find words in my language or yours that give proper expression to the desolation I have felt. This horrible ordeal is not ended by my return to Libya. It may never end for me until I die. Perhaps the only liberation for me will be death.
"And I say in the clearest possible terms, which I hope every person in every land will hear: all of this I have had to endure for something that I did not do. The remaining days of my life are being lived under the shadow of the wrongness of my conviction. I have been faced with an appalling choice: to risk dying in prison in the hope that my name is cleared posthumously or to return home still carrying the weight of the guilty verdict, which will never now be lifted.
"The choice which I made is a matter of sorrow, disappointment and anger, which I fear I will never overcome. I say goodbye to Scotland and shall not return. My time here has been very unhappy and I do not leave a piece of myself. But to the country's people I offer my gratitude and best wishes."
Danny