Are Scottish politicians soft on convicted terrorists?

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Followers of this blog will recall that it was set up to try and help review the actions of those who "represent us" in our elected governments. Indeed you'll find right at the top of this blog "Yet the individual client has virtually no say over what various national governments and their competing departments are doing to their rights and liberties in their name. This blog attempts to address the dilemma posed by the question “Quis custōdiet ipsōs custōdēs?”"

The recent release of the only person to be convicted of the Pan Am Flight 103 /Lockerbie atrocity is, to my mind, an excellent case in point.

UK politicians have imposed on UK businesses and individuals draconian laws ostensibly with a view to to combating terrorist finance. You may care to link back to an earlier blog entry on the UK's approach to fighting the terrorist threat. http://anabscenceofbalance.blogspot.com/2009/08/kafkaesque-terrorist-freezing-orders-uk.html

However, when it comes to how they behave themselves, it is totally a matter of "compassion" for a convicted mass murderer. The way in which the Scottish politicians in particular have deported themselves over the last week, whilst British and American troops are conducting a war in Afghanistan, has appalled me.

I have been trying to not to vent my spleen at the release of the terminally ill Al Megrahi by the SNP's "honourable" Kenny MacAskill, MSP (pictured) or the absence of leadership, inaction or representation of English interests by our Scottish Prime Minister the "Right Honourable" Gordon Brown MP.

Instead, I shall let you read the letter from FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, to Scottish Minister Kenny MacAskill.

Once you have read it, I'll leave you make up your mind whether you think Scottish politicians are soft on convicted terrorists