Boycott Scottish Products

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down by a bomb shortly after departing London’s Heathrow Airport en route to New York. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members were killed, as were 11 citizens of the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, when huge sections of the plane came crashing down. All 270 victims were innocent of any crime.

On January 31, 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was convicted of the murder of 270 men, women, and children. His co-accused was found not-guilty. Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison, to be served in Scotland.

On August 12, 2009, it was reported that Megrahi was to be “freed on compassionate grounds,” suffering in the terminal stages of prostate cancer. He reached Libya on August 20, two days before Ramadan. Megrahi has served an average of 11.5 days in prison for every life he took.

He has never once expressed guilt or remorse.

He was freed by decree of Scottish Government Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill on “compassionate grounds.”

There will be no strong repercussions from the American government for this inexcusable action.

However, there is one thing we all can do. We can boycott Scottish products.

Now, I don’t know about you, but there’s really only one thing I know of that the United States imports in any large amount from Scotland. You may have some of this product in your kitchen or your den. It’s Scotch Whiskey.

It may not seem like much, but I implore you to never again buy Scotch Whiskey.

The whiskey industry in Scotland brought in over 800 million pounds last year. I don’t know what percentage of its economy this represents, but I do know the Scottish government makes a significant amount on duty fees of it. It is one of the UK’s top 5 manufacturing export earners.

Hit them where it hurts. The wallet.

Promise yourself and the innocent victims of Flight 103 that you will never, ever purchase another bottle of Scotch Whiskey in response to the Scottish government’s spitting in the collective face of the surviving families.