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Government Threatened Foley Family Over Ransom Payments

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Sep 12, 2014.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    WNYC's On the Media did a really good feature on the issue of the media blackout of these kidnappings, that is worth listening to:


     
  2. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    But they might want to be careful with the IRS.
     
  3. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    You're sure that raising money to pay ransoms to terrorists is "a perfectly legal action" that is none of the government's business?
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I want to see the DOJ or White House official who would sell the prosecution of the Foley family to the American public.
     
  5. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Suppose the family of the next guy queued up for beheading decides to raise money through social media and it takes off like the ice bucket challenge. Or the Koch brothers decide to help fund the ransom. Wouldn't the government has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that something like that doesn't happen?
     
  6. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Maybe Obama shouldn't have dithered so long on the rescue attempts.
     
  7. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    It's legal to pay kidnapping ransoms, this can't be any different. No jury in the country would say otherwise, and no prosecutor would ever have the guts to press such a case, Career suicide.
     
  8. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    It is different. Handing millions of dollars to terrorists is tantamount to funding a war against your own country. And you don't need to prosecute anyone -- just stop it from happening.
     
  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Who is stopping it from happening and how?
     
  10. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Would assume, Ragu, that you could simply clamp down on any transmission channels.
     
  11. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Except Bitcoin.
     
  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The transmission channel is likely a suitcase filled with greenbacks. I'd follow the exact directions they gave me for delivering it.
     
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