Good Guys and Bad Guys?

A couple of Cancer patients have been in the news.
I have something in common with one of them and absolutely nothing in common with the other (except for the obvious).
The first is BBC TV racing and sports presenter Clare Balding
- she has just been given those magic words - 'All Clear' - after receiving successful treatment for thyroid cancer. That's great news because I really like her and hope she stays clear like me. (26 days now since I heard my Doc say 'All Clear'). Stay lucky, Clare.

The other patient is the Lockerbie Bomber - Abdelbaset Ali Al Megrahi. He's been released on compassionate grounds by Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill because he has terminal prostate cancer and only has three months to live.
This has sparked great debate on whether or not he should be released at all and if any behind the scenes deals were done to aid trade and industry between Britain and Libya in the future. He dropped his on-going appeal against his conviction, seemingly to expedite the process that would see him re-patriated under the prisoner transfer agreement between the two countries.
That means that we'll probably never know if he actually planted the bomb on Pan-Am 103 or not. There seems to be plenty of doubt in the minds of many people - except if they're American. President Obama and Hilary Clinton are no' happy. I think they're going to stop speaking to us Scots.
Ach weel - we'll just have to get some new pals.
A correspondent to The Times summed it up brilliantly
- "Our showing compassion has nothing whatever to do with what he is. It is to do with what we are."
John Graham-Hart, Aug 09.

I wish there had been less celebrations and no Saltires when he got off his plane though.

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