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In the event, however, Scottish ministers rejected Megrahi’s application to return under the transfer agreement. Instead, they granted him compassionate release and his conviction stands.
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In pondering all this, the historian in me recalls some of the events of my generation - such as 2LT William Calley - who personally murdered 22 unarmed non-combatants and was the OIC of a platoon responsible for the deaths of over 500 unarmed non-combatants - including a number who were raped or mutilated - is sentenced by Court Martial to life imprisonment...but serves 3 years of 'house arrest' , never goes to prison, and never expresses remorse for his actions.
But I guess you woulda had to have been there.
There isn't any way to libel the human race.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
And so it goes... 
Richard's $.02 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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