The release of the alleged bomber of Panam Flight 103 Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi from Scottish prison is the VERY BEST PIECE OF NEWS.
He is innocent of the crime.
Totally.
My friend Yvonne and her daughter Bryony were on Flight 103.
We all received our Christmas cards after learning of their deaths, like that should have any relevance to anything, but, in some small way, it did matter, and still does.
Nearly 21 years on...
My friend Lawrence Fitzgerald oversaw the establishment of the excellent memorial to the victims on Flight 103, now in the new Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
He liaised with Jim Swire representing the British families of those that had died to help put together the permanent exhibition that strongly questions whether justice was done with the imprisonment of Al Megrahi.
Last December, Jim founded the "Justice for Megrahi Campaign" to gain release for this wrongly convicted man.
Having just witnessed the BBC's shoddy news coverage of this very wonderful news, and listened in astonishment to the neurally challenged and odious Jack McConnell spouting some derivative nonsense, it needs to be pointed out that this is not about oil or Mandelson or the coming general election or the horrendous deaths of many loved individuals or US/British relations, it is about an entirely innocent man being allowed to return to his family in Libya, having been the victim of a "catastrophic miscarriage of justice" according to Tam Dalyell.
That is it.
It's about JUSTICE.
Al Megrahi was a scapegoat.
And yet again they show us the placcy bag...
...the transparent plastic bag with personal effects.
It must make good television because they always show it every pre-xmas anniversary.
The camera focuses in on a child's toy.
I hate the media.
They fail us.
Repeatedly.
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