UK Has Zero Tolerance for Terrorists Today
UK courts convicted one terrorist and refused to release another today.
Belfast militant convicted of N.Ireland attack | ajc.com
A Belfast judge convicted a notorious Protestant militant Friday of trying to kill Catholic politicians during his bizarre — and internationally broadcast — attempt to attack the Northern Ireland Assembly two years ago.
UK court: No bail for cancer-hit Lockerbie bomber | ajc.com
A court refused Friday to release from prison a cancer-stricken Libyan man convicted of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.The Court of Criminal Appeal in Scotland acknowledged that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi’s cancer was incurable, but it said he could not be freed on bail pending an appeal of his life sentence for the bombing that killed 270 people, most of them American.
It’s good to see two criminals who deserve rough justice get it, I’ll say that.
I have a lot to say about the UK justice system otherwise (you can imagine! LOL) but won’t. Your blog’s too nice to dirty that way!
What’s the justice-terrorism situation like in America today? Are sentences longer and tougher enough, for people convicted of terrorist activities?
Whatever happened to that fellow who tried to bomb the Atlanta Olympic Games, for instance?
I don’t know that terrorists are serving longer sentences. It is my perception that the Federal penal system has always been more likely to hold prisoners rather than parole them early.
Eric Robert Rudolph was the Olympic Park Bomber. Though I think of him as better known for bombing abortion clinics. He is in a Federal prison for life.
Timothy McVeigh was executed in 2001. And Terry Nichols, one of the other Oklahoma City Bombers is serving a life sentence.
Spent lot of time in Europe during the 1980s. Once took a train from Nice to Marseilles, and hopped off the train for a quick minute to grab a soda and a sandwich, and left my bag on the train. Within one minute, there was a policeman escorting me back to my bag, while the entire train stared. Not the thing to do in Europe.