Ned advises all his followers to stand by for further demonization of BP by Obama and the rest of the body American politic. Why? Well, apparently, BP may have asked the Scottish government to review the life sentence for a convicted terrorist, who was implicated in the Lockerbie, Scotland bombing of a Pan Am plane that killed more than 270 people, many of them Americans. The Scottish government, which has considerable autonomy from London's Houses of Parliament, decided to release the prisoner after having served seven years after a team of Scottish physicians declared he was suffering from advanced prostrate cancer and was likely to die in custody. They released him a year ago and damned if he isn't still alive in Libya!
So watch for Congress and Obama to go ballistic. The fact that BP had nothing to do with the decision to release the prisoner, that the decision was made entirely by the Scottish government, that the former government of Gordon Brown, who was chucked out by David Cameron and the Tories a couple of months ago, said BP had no impact, and that BP was the head of a consortium of oil companies, mainly AMERICAN, who were in line for a $20 billion contract, will of course have no impact on the renewed fury with which the politicians will descend on BP. This time, Ned can only hope that the company's hapless representatives will tell Congress and the President to stick it where the sun don't shine.
UPDATE: 7/23/10 The Scottish government has denied that BP had any influence on their decision, or in fact tried to influence them in any way. This will, no doubt, have little or any impact on the U.S. Senate's demand that BP officials testify on the (non)issue.
Stay tuned.
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