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Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted of the Pan Am 103 bombing.
Outrage is understandably the reaction among most Americans because of the release of the Pan Am flight 103 bomber. Especially among relatives of the victims, a sense of Justice not served is pervasive according to most media reports.
Even President Barack Obama, whose Presidency and election last year held as major positions the importance of closing the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center and program, has expressed opposition to the release. In one radio interview he has even expressed a hope that Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi would not be welcomed, but be held in house arrest. Earlier the President had issued a request that al-Megrahi not be welcomed back with a hero's welcome.
And to their credit, Libyan officials drastically toned down a tarmac welcome party that was set to be quite a bit more resplendent than it ended up being. But Libyan President-for-life Muammar Gaddafi sent his own son to retrieve al-Megrahi, whom Libyan officials turned over in 2001, and hundreds of Libyans met al-Megrahi on his return to his homeland after 8 years of imprisonment.
The whole episode is a black eye for the Obama administration, which has taken a hard stance against strict programs against terrorism since early in the election. But even more important to be considered, which has flown under the media radar to this point, is the fact that al-Megrahi was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year! It is now August of 2009, meaning that the Scottish system has been unwilling or unable to operate on this ward of the state in over 8 months.
View the following video, which shows al-Megrahi arriving in Libya to a hero's welcome. First, the pathetic use of a sick, dying man as a political photo opportunity is truly despicable. The man is hunched over and is obviously in bad shape, looks it, and feels it. Yet it is more important to Gaddafi to get some photos for the (state controlled) news cameras than to get this man into an ambulance and to his home or a hospital.
But even more important to me in the present discussion over health care is, why did this man not receive an operation to remove his prostate late last year? I have had relatives who were diagnosed with prostate cancer. One had an operation years ago to remove his and lived a long life cancer free until smoking caught up with him as an old man. Another elected to pursue experimental prostate seeding instead of having his prostate taken out. And still another is enjoying a 0.00 PSA test after early detection and complete, timely removal.
The Scottish system issued a death sentence on this man because its Socialized health care system could not "work him in." And this is, once again, my point--that this will be the end product in our system if we allow such a Socialized, or public option, or government-run, government-mandated system of co-op's to become the system here.
Look at that video. This is a pathetic, old man who is about to die. Do you see how he is assisted down the steps, practically being carried by the arms on both sides? This man will soon meet his maker where final judgment shall be carried out. If anything, perhaps victims' families should cheer his release due to his impending death and final judgment. It is themselves whom they should bemoan, for living in a system--no, allowing a system to exist--that will likewise cause them to sit by and wait for month after month for a procedure that is readily available in the U.S. within a couple of weeks.
This episode continues to serve two purposes, and offers two lessons to the American Democratic leadership who continue to be strangely disinterested in listening to the People who state this will be the result. First, it is bad policy to release terrorists, or even to allow them the rights and considerations they deny their victims. And more importantly, moving to a government-controlled, Socialized system of health care will result in exactly the same death sentence being handed down to Americans who may otherwise enjoy years of productive--and tax paying!--lives in a system that produces the longest life span in the world, factoring out suicides, accidents...and terrorists.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32504868#32504868
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