From yesterday's Metro:
So the Americans aren't happy about the Scottish government's release of Al Megrahi on compassionate grounds. This is even though he may be innocent of the Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie bombing in 1988.
There is also reluctance in Britain to hand over an English man who suffers from Asperger's syndrome to be [extradited and] tried for hacking into the Pentagon's computers.
Well, perhaps US diplomats based in London should settle the £3.5 million they owe in congestion charges. On the other hand, the British ambassador's staff in New York could refuse to pay tolls to pass in and out of Manhattan Island. They could smash through the barriers like scenes out of the A-Team and Police Squad and claim diplomatic immunity after the event.
Sorry, Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton, but I don't think the special relationship is quite so special any more. The end.
Paul Haskell, Surrey.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Reader's letter of the day
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4 comments:
I'd agree with him, if only he hadn't included the dreaded grocer's apostrophe in his first sentence!
Do the people want Justice... Revenge... or Closure ?
It is not clear. In these cases, frequently it feels like the latter 2. And rarely the former. In which case the people are in for trouble, in the end.
JM, that might have been my mistake, I have amended.
The "special relationship" has only and always meant that the UK smiles and says "thank you" whilst being sodomised by the Merkins.
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