The government of formerly great Britain is satisfied that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi did not breach the terms of his compassionate release by still being alive a month after he was supposed to die moving without telling them. ‘Cuz they, like, talked to him on the phone, and he assured them he hadn’t. Good to know.
OK, so the Salahis are attention-grabbing jerks. I get that. But last time I checked, attention-grabbing jerkery was not a criminal offense. Their real “offense,” as I see it, was exposing how embarrassingly weak our security was, while posing no threat themselves to anyone. Now that the Salamis made it through and embarrassed the hell out of Secret Service, we can all rest assured that security in the future will be as tight as we naively assumed it was before, and the next Salahis – whose intent may not be as benign as the original ones – will be rightly turned away. For that the Salamis deserve a medal, not the threat of criminal prosecution. Imagine that on June 11, 2001, Ashton Kutcher and a dozen of his punksters in arms had smuggled box cutters onto four U.S. airliners on a single day just to prove that they could. Would there have been a huge outrage and threats of criminal prosecution? Of course. But what, if anything, would have happened three months later?
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