# Releasing Al Megrahi. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 28, 2010, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/releasing-al-megrahi/548282 "2010-07-28T09:07:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/releasing-al-megrahi/548282/141 "2010-07-30T20:46:54Z")
Tee hee. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/releasing-al-megrahi/548282/142 "2010-07-30T21:07:36Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Tee hee. C’mon man. For a pit thread this is pretty informative, loads of folk are trying to explain stuff and offering info. If you’re just yanking chains, then well done I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/releasing-al-megrahi/548282/143 "2010-07-30T21:09:08Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > If you want to take pedantry to hilarious new levels… I thought that was a given with this board? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/releasing-al-megrahi/548282/144 "2010-07-30T22:34:00Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > C’mon man. For a pit thread this is pretty informative, loads of folk are trying to explain stuff and offering info. If you’re just yanking chains, then well done I guess. I never expected anyone would take that seriously. I’m just frustrated that the bulk of outrage expressed in this thread is over the feelings of some butthurt Scottish officials. If the situation were reversed, I wouldn’t fault the Scots wanting to know why the U.S. released a bomber responsible for the deaths of 190 of their countrymen. Further, the U.S. requested that al-Megrahi, if released, not be sent back to Libya over fears that he would be received as a hero. Of course, the Scots had every right to do what they did, but that doesn’t mean it don’t smell to the high heavens. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/releasing-al-megrahi/548282/145 "2010-07-30T22:56:22Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I never expected anyone would take that seriously. It’s hard to tell. Viewpoints need to be taken in context, and the source has to be considered, and well… > [@](#): > > I’m just frustrated that the bulk of outrage expressed in this thread is over the feelings of some butthurt Scottish officials. No, it isn’t. Seriously. Read the thread again. I can only speak for myself, but I think that the original trial may possibly be a great travesty of justice, reducing my country’s legal system to nothing more than a tool to be manipulated. I’m not cool with this. Even more importantly, way more importantly than parochial pride, there’s the likelihood that the fuckers who planned and paid for all those people to be killed have fucking got away with it. Understand? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/releasing-al-megrahi/548282/146 "2010-07-31T02:30:34Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Further, the U.S. requested that al-Megrahi, if released, not be sent back to Libya over fears that he would be received as a hero. Of course, the Scots had every right to do what they did, but that doesn’t mean it don’t smell to the high heavens. In what possible way is his reception in Libya relevant? People convicted (or accused) of crimes in faraway lands are often feted upon their return home. Remember Louise Woodward? Hell, how about Gary Faulkner? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/releasing-al-megrahi/548282.md?page=7)