What is your thoughts or opinions on a mass murderer like Lockerbie’s Bomber getting released from prison recently?

A. Upsetting

B. Surprised

C. Upset and Surprised

D. The Man Served His Time

E. Everyone Deserves a 2nd Chance

F. No Opinion

Does either one of those statements represent the way you feel right now? Perhaps you remember the Pan Am Bomber that was responsible for 270 people losing their life. His name was Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Megrahi and it was him that caused Pan Am Flight 103 to go down in Lockerbie, Scotland as it left London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday December 21, 1988. The flight was headed to JFK Airport in New York, but never made it due to the bomb that was placed on board the flight. All 243 passengers aboard the flight were killed; plus 16 crew members and 11 people on the ground in Southern Scotland lost their life that day too. Just a horrible accident over the European skies and no one could have ever imagined that the person responsible for this tragic event would be released from prison.

The Pan Am Bomber was serving a life-sentence in Scotland for his actions, but has been set free by the courts there on August 20th of 2009. He has been diagnosed with a form of prostate cancer that is terminal. Doctors believe the Pan Am Flight 103 Bomber has less than 3 months to live and based on his health conditions; they have decided to release and return him back to his homeland located in the country of Libya. Does this sound like justice to you? Should he been allowed to leave his prison cell in Scotland and return to his native country of Libya?

I don’t imagine the families that had to suffer through that winter catastrophe back in 1988 are too pleased with the latest news coming out of Scotland. Here is a man that will get to be free and do as he pleases for the next 3 months or so, while he waits for this cancer to take his life away; while 270 people lost their life in a blink of an eye on that awful Wednesday 21 years ago. He really doesn’t deserve no sympathy for all the heartache and pains he has caused so many people and all the innocent lives he has taken away from his own direct actions. Not only did he get released from his confinements in Scotland, but gets a trip back to Libya, where he is probably most comfortable.

Hopefully other nations are taking notes of this release of the Pan Am Flight 103 Bomber and will hold Scotland responsible for the miseries that this man created for the citizens of Lockerbie and everyone that was aboard that flight. The grieving families now have 2 parties they can direct their hate and anger toward and Scotland has opened theirself up to this new-found anger by releasing one of the world’s most deadly murderers of the 20th century. I think I can find better countries to do business with and their products are no longer welcomed in my household. I hope other people and countries take steps to isolate Scotland for their actions to set a man free that doesn’t deserve the light of day.