Lockerbie appeal. Lack of media interest.

[Peter Lemkin]

In light of developments it is instructive to read back over this thread.

The State has indeed ensured that there will be no raking over the existing evidence, nor presentation and scrutiny of substantial and damning new evidence by Megrahi's defence team.

The press is full of sanctimonious outrage at his welcome back in Tripoli; there are copious reports of the 'outrage' of the US families of the victims (if there's one thing our MSM excels at, it is sanctimonious outrage); also of Hilary Clinton being snubbed by Alex Salmond (SNP First Minister) whom she had urged (for public consumption) to refuse Megrahi's release/transfer.

Meanwhile the substantive issue of Megrahi's actual guilt beyond reasonable doubt which any fair minded review of the detail is forced to conclude as unsustainable, is buried.

The Spooks must be breathing a sigh of relief, whilst celebrating their cleverness and the gullibility of the general public once again

Oh, there are all kinds of ways to make sure a real investigation never takes place. You can kill the man in prison, force him to withdraw his appeal, loose the evidence or a witness....there must be a list somewhere they all share. No, we'll probably never get a real official investigation on Dallas, RFK, MLK, Waco, Oklahoma City, 9-11, 7-7, Pan Am, Gander, Nugan-Hand, Iran-Contra, Watergate and a thousand other Deep Political operations. Them's the 'Rules' of the Rulers.....what you don't know will hurt you!

“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph M. Goebbels

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials