I have been following the comments on the BBC Have Your Say site regarding the so called ‘Lockerbie bomber’ Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi story and it has served as a reminded on just how effective education has been in robbing us of our critical thinking skills.
Many, though not all, of the comments reveal how little interest or ability of the average person demonstrates in actually reading the news, researching the evidence and drawing ones own conclusions. They appear to be very comfortable in allowing others to do their thinking for them and to slavishly follow the opinions of the State-Endorsed Lame Stream Media, unable to accept that we are being manipulated.
Of course this was a terrible attack on a civilian aircraft, the loss of life and grief of relatives cannot be compensated by any conviction, but if an innocent man is being punished and vilified, does this not just add to the monstrosity of the crime?
There are many links to further background information, but here are just two.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/290805evidencefaked.htm
Many, though not all, of the comments reveal how little interest or ability of the average person demonstrates in actually reading the news, researching the evidence and drawing ones own conclusions. They appear to be very comfortable in allowing others to do their thinking for them and to slavishly follow the opinions of the State-Endorsed Lame Stream Media, unable to accept that we are being manipulated.
Of course this was a terrible attack on a civilian aircraft, the loss of life and grief of relatives cannot be compensated by any conviction, but if an innocent man is being punished and vilified, does this not just add to the monstrosity of the crime?
There are many links to further background information, but here are just two.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/290805evidencefaked.htm
(Link to original article no longer works)
http://news.scotsman.com/lockerbie/Lockerbie-evidence-was-tampered-with.3298596.jp
http://news.scotsman.com/lockerbie/Lockerbie-evidence-was-tampered-with.3298596.jp
Having just heard that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi has given up his appeal so I thought I would place another link for background information.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/08/lockerbie-disaster.html
Very interesting comments from South of Scotland SNP MSP Christine Grahame in this article.
Here is further background info from the BBC from back in 2000..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/777974.stm
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