Scots Release a Murderer

Remember when you were a kid and the schoolyard bully just wouldn't stop bugging you?
(If you were the schoolyard bully, remember when you were a kid and just wouldn't stop bugging those smaller than you?)
You'd get that one moment of victory when a teacher would catch the bully in the act and pull him aside, giving him a stern "talking to". The bully's head hung in shame, the teacher then says, "Are you going to do this again?"
The bully replies, "No, ma'am."
So the teacher concludes, "Okay, buddy. Go sit for time out for the rest of recess. But if I catch you bullying people again we're going to have big problems."

How often did that strategy work? Remember all those reformed bullies who change their ways after getting a word lashing from Ms. What's-her-face? I don't.

But Scotland took a page out of the lazy teachers' handbook when they decided to release Lockerbie Bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, on grounds of "compassion". The mass-murdering terrorist was diagnosed with prostate cancer, so the Scottish government took the soft-handed route and him go to die in his home country, Libya. After serving only eight years of a minimum 27-year sentence, al-Megrahi spent only around 11 days in jail for each of the 270 people he slaughtered.

My complements go to President Obama et. al. for issuing a decisive, strong response.