There is a rule in the Scottish Jusice System. Anyone who is terminally ill with three or less months to live is released on compassionate grounds to die at home. This is the rule now and has been the rule in the past.
Now because of the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi which now means that his appeal against his conviction will not take place as he agreed to drop it so he could die at home (this is something that seems to have been ommitted in all the reporting that has reached US shores, though judging by the quality of reporting on the NHS l really shouldn't be surprised).
Just today FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III (the Bush holdover), using his full name, puffed himself up and wrote a strongly worded letter to Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill where he accused him of making a decision which in his words was:
"as inexplicable as it is detrimental to the cause of justice. Indeed your action makes a mockery of the rule of law."
This has led to calls for a boycott of Scotland, but l find myself very annoyed at this. There are many commendable things about the USA but this boycott call is complete bullshit. Just who the hell do these people think they are? Where do they get off calling for a boycott?
Am l wrong in my stance?
No, l don't think so. But there will be those who would wish to admonish me for what i'm saying, and would use those offensive statements that somehow l am either "appeasing" or being "soft" on terrorists, so for them l have some simple questions:
Where has this outrage for the "mockery of justice" been for over thirty years when it comes to Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch?
How is it that William C. Rogers III Captain of the USS Vincennes was awarded the Legion of Merit for his command of that ship between 1987 and 1989 when it shot down Iran Air Flight 655, something that is not mentioned in the citation?
Why did it take the largest terrorist attack on US soil for it to finally dawn on some in the US that having bagmen for terrorist groups openly collecting money in your cities was more than a bit hypocritical?
Those are just three of the questions but what is really annoying is this idiotic call for a boycott of all things Scottish. When the Belfast Agreement was signed in the 1990's convicted murderers, some of whom had served months of life sentences to the outrage of many families in Ireland. How was this "mockery of justice" viewed over here, do you think?
People in European countries have had to deal with the treat of terrorism in many forms for over a hundred years. To have the US try and lecture others on how their justice system works when the US has ensured that it stays out of the International Criminal Court arrogantly declaring that only Americans should be allowed to prosecute Americans, while the US uses any means it sees fit to have others face trial really stick in the throat.
This call for a boycott is pretty mind-boggling because it's obvious that these morans don't know just HOW MANY THINGS WERE INVENTED BY THE SCOTS
Forget taking the gun from their cold dead hands, try getting them to release their grip on the TV remote!!!
Not that you could call them to warn them about it, they don't have a phone.
You would have to go and speak to them in person and you would have to walk along their muddy paths as you wouldn't want to turn up with any mode of transport that wasn't horsedrawn.
Just pray it isn't raining and hope they haven't found a way to keep the powder dry on their flintlock muskets as the 2nd Amendment is very important to them.
The only thing that would cheer them up is the fact that they would be able to tell Tiger to put his clubs down. We know how much Obama annoys them, just think of how pissed they are at Tiger still being number one!!
Just don't look to raise a glass of Johnny Walkers to it.