September 3, 2009

Did anyone doubt that the release of the Lockerbie mass murderer would wreak havoc on the hundreds of bereaved families of the victims of terror? Was there anyone on the planet who couldn’t have foreseen the hero’s welcome this thug received upon his arrival back in Libya? Simon Wiesenthal, a man who lost 89 members of his family during the Holocaust and spent the rest of his life trying to bring Nazi murderers before the bar of justice, spoke on the limited nature of justice when there are massive numbers of victims: “Who could even conceive of a revenge befitting a murderer responsible for the death of hundreds or thousands of innocents?” No, the best we can do, he would add, “is to pursue a measure of symbolic justice — since it is impossible to give each and every victim what they deserve — their own day in court….”\n