As much as it pains me…..I am actually going to mention Lindsay Lohan today. It seems that Ms. Lohan is doing some very hard time in a Los Angeles County jail for violation of her probation. While Ms. Lohan is only 24 years-old....her criminal history dates back over a period of several years. In May of 2007 she was arrested for DUI…..and during the arrest, police found cocaine in her possession. While she did serve 84 whole minutes of hard time for that conviction…..since that time, things have kind of gone downhill for Ms Lohan. After her 84 minutes in the hoosegow….Ms Lohan spent 45 days in an substance abuse clinic. Which by the way….seems to have been very effective….since just 10 days after being released from the treatment center……she was arrested again for DUI and driving on a suspended license. And if that wasn’t bad enough……she was found with cocaine in her pockets. Of course her defense against the drugs in her pocket was that the pants that she was wearing....weren't hers. (seriously…I didn’t make that up) Since then….she has been accused of stealing an $11,000 fur coat…..$200,000 worth of jewelry…..and being a total slut. (ok…I threw the “slut” thing in there….mainly because of the wearing someone elses pants defense). Her recent charge of violation of probation got her a 90 day sentence….of which she is expected to possibly spend up to 13 days of that sentence in jail. It has also been reported that Ms. Lohan had a very difficult weekend during her 13-day stint in the big house…..this was because she had already used up her two visits per week that were allowed……and therefore was not allowed to see her family. This story would be a tragedy…..if there were not still some hope that President Obama would provide a Presidential pardon for Ms Lohan. (We can only hope and pray…right?) Of course a pardon of that nature would probably be condemned by many right-wing radicals…..as political posturing in order for Obama to gain the 18-25 year-old skanky-slut vote.
Note to readers: Hang in there….I promise that I’m going somewhere with this……..
On Wednesday December 21, 1988……Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London’s Heathrow Airport on its way to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Aboard this flight were 243 passengers (189 of them Americans) and 16 crew members. Once the flight was clear of Heathrow Airport……the crew steered the plane due north toward Scotland…..and a short time later it reached its cruising altitude of 31,000 feet. Less than 5 minutes later the pilot made contact with the Scottish Area Control Centre at Prestwick, Scotland…..and that was the last transmission ever heard from Pan Am Flight 103.
As the plane approached Lockerbie, Scotland….an explosion in the cargo hold punched a 20-inch-wide hole in the left side of the fuselage. According to experts….the disintegration of the aircraft was rapid. Not to get into gory detail...but for the sake of the story, allow me to continue……The explosion knocked out all of the power on the plane…..plunging the passenger cabin into darkness. Experts have determined that once the cockpit broke off…. the fuselage became nothing more than an open cylinder. Because of that……tornado-force winds tore up the aisles with such great force that it not only became difficult to breathe……it also literally stripped the clothes off the passengers. Some passengers were thrown to the rear the rear of the plane……. other people and objects that were not bolted down were blown out of the aircraft into the night at temperatures of −51° F. Being at an altitude of 31,000 feet…..meant that the fall of these passengers, lasted as long as two minutes. Not all passengers were blown out of the plane…..some remained attached to the fuselage by their seat belts……crashing to the earth while still strapped to their seats. Forensic scientists believe that although the passengers would have lost consciousness through lack of oxygen because of the altitude……..some of them might have regained consciousness as they fell toward lower altitudes. Some experts believe that some of the passengers and crew survived the bomb blast, extreme cold and lack of oxygen……and were still alive upon impact. The total number of fatalities from Pan Am Flight 103 was 270. This included 243 passengers (189 Americans)….16 crew members….and 11 people on the ground….who were killed as large sections of the plane fell onto the town of Lockerbie, Scotland.
After a 3-year investigation……murder charges were brought against Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi (hereafter known as just Megrahi for obvious reasons)…..a Libyan intelligence officer and the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Then on January 31, 2001, Megrahi was convicted of murder by a panel of three Scottish judges…..and sentenced to life in prison. Megrahi served just over 8½ years of his sentence…..and during that time maintained that he was innocent of the charges against him. Then on August 20, 2009……he was released from prison on compassionate grounds. It seems that at the time, he was suffering from terminal prostate cancer (which we can only hope was discovered during one of his many prostate examinations while in prison). While doctors said in August of 2009 that Megrahi only had 3 months to live…..here we are almost a year later and he is still alive. Better yet….doctors are now saying that he might live another 10 years.
Is it just me…..(then again….of course it’s just me)…..or is something wrong here? Why didn’t the Obama administration do something? After all we know that the plan of this administration was to kiss every butt in the entire world so that we would find favor with them once again. (favor with the people...not their butts) So what happened? I know that Scotland is quite the “superpower”…but couldn’t we have put a little pressure on them NOT to release a man who was convicted of killing 270 people….189 of who were Americans. Why did we not find that act reprehensible…and speak out as the leader of the free-world that we are? (or at least used to be) Why didn’t we say….”Look….that ain’t gonna happen?”.
This administration has had plenty of time to speak out against…..and file a lawsuit against Arizona’s law against ILLEGAL immigration.......so why not do something similar against a country who is perpetuating such a heinous act such as releasing a convicted murderer of 189 of it’s citizens from prison? Note to Obama administration: You have failed again to uphold the job that you were elected to perform. And one more time….Americans have come out on the “short-side” of the equation.
So why did I mention Linsay Lohan? Here’s the part that many of you have endured this entire article to get to……..As much as I think that Ms. Lohan is a complete waste of space on the planet…..she WILL end up serving around 14 days in jail for ALL of the horrible acts that she has committed. Megrahi…..the useless piece of crap that he is…..served less than 8½ years for killing 270 people. Let’s do the math…8½ years is 3102 days……that’s 11.49 days in prison for each of the people that he murdered…..That is less time per person murdered…….than Lindsay Lohan served for what she did…..(and there were people outraged that she would get THAT much time) With that said…..NO…I’m not sticking up for Ms. Lohan…..but I am wondering “where’s the outrage about Megrahi?”. Why hasn’t this story been on the front page of every newspaper in the country? Why aren’t people marching on Washington over the prison release of a man who killed 189 Americans….in the same way that they protested Ms. Lohan having to go to jail for 13 days….and in the same way that so many nut-jobs are protesting against Arizona’s law against ILLEGAL immigration? Have we gone completely nuts? I can assure you that Lindsay Lohan’s court case was on the front page of more newspapers than Megrahi’s release was……and that there are a lot more people in that 18-25 year-old age group who know her story much better than that of Meghahi. Isn’t it about time for us to get our priorities in line? Not that Obama will pardon Ms Lohan……but there is one thing that is for sure…..if he did….he would be even MORE popular among those who support her release…..and of course we all know that demographic represents a huge part of those who helped him get elected as President of the United States. (pretty scary stuff huh?) After all….anyone who cares about the prison release of an Islamic wacko terrorist who killed 189 Americans…..probably isn’t going to vote for Obama anyway. Then Again ….That’s Just Me
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