[The following resolution was introduced into the US House of Representatives on 30 July by Representatives Maffei (D, N-Y), Lee (R, N-Y) and McMahon (D, N-Y). It was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.]
RESOLUTION
Encouraging the United Kingdom to investigate British Petroleum (BP) for foreign corrupt practices.
Whereas Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, including 189 United States citizens;
Whereas the Scottish courts released al-Megrahi from prison on August 20, 2009, under the understanding that he was suffering from terminal prostate cancer;
Whereas the Scottish authorities have never clarified why al-Megrahi could not receive humane treatment while still in captivity;
Whereas al-Megrahi seems to have well outlived his original diagnosis;
Whereas it is very troubling that al-Megrahi received a hero’s welcome to his home country of Libya;
Whereas British Petroleum (BP) admitted on July 15, 2010, that a delayed prisoner-transfer between Britain and Libya ‘could have a negative impact’ on BP’s oil negotiations;
Whereas there are allegations that BP inappropriately attempted to affect the Scottish Government’s decision and possibly even the doctor’s diagnosis; and
Whereas al-Megrahi’s release sends an incredibly offensive message to the families that lost loved ones on Pan Am Flight 103:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives encourages the United Kingdom to investigate British Petroleum (BP) for foreign corrupt practices.
[It is hugely entertaining to see politicians jumping onto a bandwagon just as its wheels come off.]
Let it also be resolved that those who would prefer to be associated with a "House of the Just" encourage the United States of America to look to itself in the matter of corrupt foreign practices starting with the matter of evidence presented at the original trial, of the now terminally ill Mr Megrahi, in the Netherlands.
ReplyDeleteIf the United States of America cannot bring itself to do this honest thing, then let it further be resolved that it keeps its trap permanently clamped shut and stops interfering in the affairs of another sovereign country over which it has no jurisdiction.
The World Police have jurisdiction wherever there is injustice, wherever there is suffering, wherever freedom is threatened. And if you don't understand that, then have another sip of 'freedom whiskey' (someone mentioned that earlier).
ReplyDelete"...Whereas it is very troubling that al-Megrahi received a hero’s welcome to his home country of Libya;"
ReplyDeleteWell, brainwash the Libyan public just as thoroughly as the American public next time. Problem is they continued to believe he was fully innocent, along with a heck of a lot of other people who speak English even, which I know is "very troubling" to some in Washington.
Connect-the-dots-poorly resolution fails.
Bloggy......ohhhhhh now you're reminding me of Mrs Thatcher and her prayer of St Francis!
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