Posted on 08/08/2010 3:11:56 PM PDT by autumnraine
When the Lockerbie bomber was convicted, Brian Flynn and his family felt they had finally gotten some small measure of justice. Little did they know they were being betrayed.
I will never forget the scream I heard from my mother in the other room in January, 1989: “My son will NOT die in vain! Do you hear me? He will NOT!” At that moment, she was talking to a U.S. senator about how the government planned to respond to the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am 103. Two weeks before, my older brother had been murdered on his way home for Christmas.
Like many of our Irish ancestors, we Flynns like a fight, and my mother was going to make this the fight of her life. Although I was a naïve 19-year-old college student, her passion swept me up into the cause.
Almost immediately, we began planning demonstrations, publishing articles, shouting on rooftops —whatever we could do. Through the dedication and commitment of countless family members, we managed to honor our loved ones through these efforts.
Little did we know, we would be betrayed. Out of the blue, I got a phone call, telling me that Megrahi was being considered for release.
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I think if I were one of these family members, I’d be highly tempted to organize a fund to pay a group of mercenary/special forces types, to go to Libya and finish this piece of human filth off. How a government gets away with this, I do not know.
One of the great betrayals in Scottish history, IMHO.
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