Who is Responsible for mud on Lady Liberty?

John R. Houk
© July 27. 2010

What is in a name? Take for example the name Barack Hussein Obama or perhaps Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. The first is the name of the President of the United States and the later is the name of the Lockerbie Bomber. The first gave an interview to Laura Haim with the audacity of the words America is an Islamic nation:

And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples. (Emphasis mine)

President Obama speaking in an official capacity in the Muslim nation of Turkey governed by an Islamist Prime Minister:

And I've said before that one of the great strengths of the United States is -- although as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. (Emphasis mine)

Leftist apologists have attempted to explain away these BHO words as taken out of context by Conservatives. In a sly sense the Leftists are correct; however I believe President BHO was speaking from his Leftist and Muslim-sympathetic heart. BHO and his Leftist cadres have taken great strides to downplay America’s Christian heritage to magnify Leftist transformative concepts of Secular Humanism managing the American collective. Also President BHO has taken great strides to move America’s National Interests and Foreign Policy toward an Oil friendly Muslim Middle East increasingly pushing Israel into a potential existential threat (also to mention a demeaning of Jewish cultural heritage) by creating a Jew-hating sovereign Palestinian State.

The later person with a recognizable Arab-Islamic influenced name murdered 270 people on Pan Am Flight 103. The number of Americans murdered by Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was 180.

Al-Megrahi was the only person convicted of downing Pan Am Flight 103 in 2001 roughly 13 years after the deed committed in 1988. Al-Megrahi was diagnosed with cancer with the idea he had only three months to live. Al-Megrahi had a life sentence for his crime against humanity but a request went out to release him from prison for humanitarian purposes. I wonder if the victims and the families of the victims felt mass murder for the cause of Islam was a humanitarian act?

What was the agent that worked for al-Megrahi’s humanitarian release? Al-Megrahi’s supposed incurable cancer diagnosis somehow placed him into a prisoner exchange deal with Libya. Libya is where al-Megrahi is from and is the nation nailed for the source of the terrorist plan executed that murdered 270 souls. (Full Disclosure Conspiracy Theory)

It appears after denials and half disclosures that a combination of high level players was responsible for al-Megrahi’s release. President Barack Hussein Obama has been accused as the instrument that inspired Scottish authorities to make the humanitarian release. Shortly after this accusation a denial was issued from the What House in which the White House released a communiqué that demonstrates an inspired misinterpretation by Scottish authorities. Was Obama responsible or Scottish authorities?

President BHO’s sympathies for Leftist multiculturalism and memories of an Islamic upbringing undoubtedly added to the misguided thoughts of a humanitarian release of al-Megrahi. However, I am getting the impression that BHO’s thoughts of Scottish humanitarianism was abused to make a British National Interest deal benefitting British Petroleum’s access to Libyan oil.

If I am correct then BHO was swindled with the UK paper trail potentially making BHO the fall guy if public scrutiny turned south – and it did. Rather swindled or complicit, President Barack Hussein Obama is demonstrating his recurring ineptitude on Foreign Relations and Foreign Policy.

Obama is the tool of a Muslim terrorist’s release. Al-Megrahi is the Islamic hero who killed a large amount of infidel (kafir). Libya is the glorious Islamic welcoming host nation to a national hero. No matter how you look at it, it is mud on Lady Liberty.

JRH (Hat Tip: Solid Snake)
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White House Has Their Own Lockerbie Questions to Answer

By Nile Gardiner
July 26th, 2010 at 3:30pm
THE FOUNDRY
Part of the Heritage Foundation

The Lockerbie scandal has just become even murkier. According to a Sunday Times report yesterday “the US government secretly advised Scottish ministers that it would be ‘far preferable’ to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.”

The newspaper obtained a leaked document which reveals that Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, had written to Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister, ahead of the release of the Lockerbie bomber. The correspondence indicates that the Obama administration’s opposition to the “compassionate” release of the Lockerbie bomber may not have been as clear-cut as it has subsequently claimed. In the August 12, 2009 letter, the senior US official appeared to condone “a conditional release on compassionate grounds” of convicted Libyan intelligence agent Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, if Scottish officials were determined to proceed with the release of al-Megrahi against the wishes of Washington. As The Sunday Times revealed:

The note added: “Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.” LeBaron added that freeing the bomber and making him live in Scotland “would mitigate a number of the strong concerns we have expressed with regard to Megrahi’s release”.

As the piece points out, this clearly contradicts President Obama’s assertion at his joint White House press conference last week with the British Prime Minister that “all of us here in the United States were surprised, disappointed and angry” upon learning of Megrahi’s release. Here is what Barack Obama said when he appeared alongside David Cameron on July 20:

I think all of us here in the United States were surprised, disappointed, and angry about the release of the Lockerbie bomber. And my administration expressed very clearly our objections prior to the decision being made and subsequent to the decision being made. So we welcome any additional information that will give us insights and a better understanding of why the decision was made.

This latest revelation in the Lockerbie debacle should not diminish the responsibility of Scottish authorities in the disgraceful release of a mass-murdering terrorist who killed 270 people. Nor should it alleviate the pressure on the Coalition government to hold a full inquiry into the role of British government officials in the bomber’s release. But it does raise serious questions over the Obama administration’s own role in the Lockerbie matter, and whether it did all in its power to try to prevent the release of a terrorist responsible for the killing of 189 Americans.

As I wrote nearly a year ago, President Obama was not as forceful as he might have been in speaking out before Megrahi’s release, and did not appear to make the fight against it a priority:

If returned to Libya he (Megrahi) will receive a hero’s welcome, and both Britain and the United States will be completely humiliated. He might also stage a dramatic recovery. As for the relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing, who have barely been consulted, they will be denied justice. Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, must show compassion for the families of those who were murdered, not for the terrorist who savagely killed their loved ones. A direct intervention by President Obama may be the only measure that will prevent Megrahi’s release – it’s time for him to speak out.

This Thursday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Lockerbie should focus not only on the role of Scottish and British authorities in the shameful release of the bomber, but also upon the messages being sent by the Obama White House and State Department to both the Scottish and British governments ahead of Megrahi’s release. This is a time for complete openness and transparency over Lockerbie on both sides of the Atlantic. David Cameron has pledged to make available some key British government documents dealing with the Lockerbie release. It is time for Barack Obama to do the same with regard to his administration’s Lockerbie correspondence.
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Who is Responsible for mud on Lady Liberty?
John R. Houk
© July 27. 2010
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White House Has Their Own Lockerbie Questions to Answer

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