The mace in the Scottish Parliament is inscribed with the
four words 'Wisdom, Justice, Compassion, Integrity'. Sadly none of these most
worthy aspirations has been conspicuous in the Scottish Government's inaction
over the Lockerbie problem.
[The blogger went on to say that the designer of the mace
would have added a fifth word had space permitted but he did not tell us what
that word would have been. Uruisg has
now broken his silence. Today he has posted as follows:]
It's `courage' of course! If the Scottish Parliament's mace
had had room for a fifth word, alongside the worthy foursome of wisdom,
justice, compassion and integrity, that's what designer Michael Lloyd would
have gone for. (...)
As ever more doubt is cast on the conviction of `Lockerbie bomber' Abdulbaset al Megrahi, the Scottish Government's capacity
for displaying wisdom, justice, compasion and integrity is (at the time of
writing at least) completely nullified by the lack of courage to do something
about it.
I for one would be proud to be a citizen of an independent Scotland that had shown the braveheart spirit needed to face up to and deal with this issue, but ashamed if we are to be a nation prepared to live with the stain.
I for one would be proud to be a citizen of an independent Scotland that had shown the braveheart spirit needed to face up to and deal with this issue, but ashamed if we are to be a nation prepared to live with the stain.
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