On December 21, 1988, the families of 270 people took a turn for the worst as those who were aboard the Pan Am Flight 103 crashed in the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All 259 passengers on the plane were killed, along with 11 people on the ground. The flight was traveling from London to New York. Here is a statement of the verdict from
:31/01/01 at 1100 hours CET
"The Lockerbie bombing trial is over. Today the three judges in the special Scottish Court in Camp Zeist in the Netherlands acquitted one the two Libyan defendants, Lameen Fhima, but Abdelbasset Megrahi was pronounced guilty by the 3 judges. The verdict was unanimous."
However, the point in bringing up this tragic disaster is to bring to light some issues involving other similar disasters, for example, the airplane crash that Ron Brown died in, the airplane crashes that took the lives of those in the World Trade Center, and any that may died at the Pentagon. Many have called for justice from the deaths on American soil from September 11, 2001, as to what type of justice they were and/or looking for, I do not know, I believe that many confuse justice with vengeance. Justice as defined by Webster's Dictionary, has three meanings:
1 a : the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments b : JUDGE c : the administration of law; especially : the establishment or determination of rights according to the rules of law or equity
2 a : the quality of being just, impartial, or fair b (1) : the principle or ideal of just dealing or right action (2) : conformity to this principle or ideal : RIGHTEOUSNESS c : the quality of conforming to law
3 : conformity to truth, fact, or reason : CORRECTNESS
Webster's Dictionary defines vengeance as:
: punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense : RETRIBUTION - with a vengeance 1 : with great force or vehemence 2 : to an extreme or excessive degree
If you compare and contrast the two definitions, then you will see that
what many are now
calling justice, is not, but actually vengeance. For those who seek "true
justice," or any type
of reparation for the victims' families, the whole story needs to be told. It
seems that the
bombing or crash of the Pan Am Flight 103 involved the CIA and some of their
operatives. So, if
you are for asking for justice, whom do you ask for justice from, do you have
the right or
correct suspects from whom you seek justice? We all need to ask ourselves
this question and then
think of whom else may have been involved and what role did they play? Who
died on the airplane?
Were there any CIA agents? If so, what was it they knew that got them murdered?
The same type of questions and thought process needs to occur when we discuss
or contemplate the attacks on the WTC. The whole story needs to be brought to the
forefront, so the people
of this country and the world can make an EDUCATED and INFORMED decision. We
need to make a
decision that's not based on speculation or lies that we constantly hear from
the mainstream news companies.