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[T-J]

[Marc Ravalomanana]

[bacasper]

[mises]

[RJjr]

[Gopher]

Yes. AntiAmerican on the usual U.S.-centric head-trip. Because you cannot simply discuss the Lybian affair without citing the usual bill of particulars and then going on and on about this rabid nonsense, including all that has appeared here re: American hypocrisy, Vietnam, and the IRA.

Everything in world affairs, every single thing, seems to excite your extreme unhappiness with the Great Satan.

So again, I think it must really suck to be like some of you people here, like you live your lives as if you were everyday inside one of these screaming townhall meetings on healthcare.

And I pity you and sympathize, RJjr. For professors and the academic community as well as the press and media have cultivated this in you and many like you, this extremely harsh and negative way of talking about America, for decades now.

Wake up and start questioning these discourses that are out there. They are mostly reacting, still reacting, against the patriotic consensus in the 1950s, like the antiOrientalists in Near-Eastern studies continue to react against Max Weber et al., and other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Orientalists. But how long must this continue before we can say, "OK. We get it. Let us move on to other discourses now?"

[bacasper]

Gopher: Is RJjr homophobic just because he didn't want a hug from you?

[mises]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6140801/Jack-Straw-admits-Lockerbie-bombers-release-was-linked-to-oil.html

There you have it.

Forget about global cooling/global warming/climate change. A move away from oil is necessary for a wide spectrum of excellent reasons. The UK is paving the way for the EU's wonderful future of sucking up to horrible government to satisfy energy needs.

[bacasper]

This human rights lawyer asserts his innocence.

The Framing of al-Megrahi

Gareth Peirce

It is, of course, now all about oil. Only a simpleton could believe that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was not recently returned to his home in Libya because it suited Britain. The political furore is very obviously contrived, since both the British and American governments know how and for what reasons he came to be prosecuted. More important than the present passing storm is whether any aspect of the investigation that led to al-Megrahi�s original conviction was also about oil, or dictated by other factors that should have no place in a prosecution process.

The devastation over Lockerbie, at the cost of 270 lives, deserved an investigation of utter integrity. The European Convention on Human Rights demands no less. Where there has been a death any inquiry must be independent, effective and subject to public scrutiny. But, in the absence of this, a number of the bereaved Lockerbie families have of necessity themselves become investigators to make sense of what was being presented at al-Megrahi�s trial and decide whether the prosecution was in fact a three-card trick put together for political ends.

Perhaps the result could have been different if there had been an entirely Scottish police investigation, without interference or manipulation from outside. Instead, from the beginning, the investigation was hijacked. Within hours, the countryside around Lockerbie was occupied: local people realised to their astonishment that the terrain was dotted with unidentified Americans not under the command of the local police.

Extraordinarily, however, distinct from the Dumfries and Galloway police, scores of men, some wearing no insignia, some the insignia of the FBI and Pan, invaded the area. Lockerbie residents reported seeing unmarked helicopters hovering overhead, carrying men with rifles whose telescopic sights were pointing directly at them. And when, much later, items of baggage came to be married up with the passengers they had accompanied, there were disturbing signs of interference. The suitcase belonging to Major McKee (a CIA operative flying back to the US to report on his concern that the couriering of drugs was being officially condoned as a way to entrap users and dealers in the US) was found to have had a hole cut in its side after the explosion, while the clothes in the suitcase were shown on subsequent analysis to bear no trace of explosives. A second suitcase, opened by a Scottish farmer, contained packets of white powder which a local police officer told him was undoubtedly heroin; no heroin was ever recorded as having been discovered.


full, detailed article at link

[Reggie]

[Reggie]

That was an interesting article, bacasper. Thanks for sharing it.

[mises]

[bacasper]

[swoodman]

Yeah compassion for someone they were never certain was guilty. I thought the US was supposed to be the most Christian country in the world. He wont be alive for long, its only right he was finally released

[Adventurer]