I support this policy.
To: CorporateStepsister
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: -
"We invaded you last night - we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: -
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: -
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
2 posted on
09/14/2014 2:05:56 AM PDT by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: CorporateStepsister
I would not have let the fear of prosecution deter me from trying to rescue my family member. I’m pretty sure the jury would see it my way.
3 posted on
09/14/2014 2:12:17 AM PDT by
jocon307
To: CorporateStepsister
On the other hand, Obama had no intention of rescuing anyone.
4 posted on
09/14/2014 2:26:41 AM PDT by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: CorporateStepsister
But it is OK to swap a deserter for 5 really bad terrorist. . .
5 posted on
09/14/2014 2:28:07 AM PDT by
DeaconRed
(We have a useless, clueless, gutless leader we can't get rid of for 2 more years. Unless. . . . .)
To: CorporateStepsister
Though seriously downplayed,
Obammy paid millions as well as traded 5 murderers for this Berghdahls release.
To: CorporateStepsister
Wouldnt paying the ransom be funding terrism?
7 posted on
09/14/2014 2:31:13 AM PDT by
sickoflibs
(King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
To: CorporateStepsister
More government hypocrisy...Guantanamo? Bergdahl? Hello?!?
8 posted on
09/14/2014 2:31:14 AM PDT by
Drago
To: CorporateStepsister
I support it as far as the government goes. Not for families. If they snatched Kerry or an ambassador do you think we wouldn’t negotiate?
9 posted on
09/14/2014 2:31:31 AM PDT by
wiggen
(The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
To: CorporateStepsister
Obama and the DNC/RINOs, like McCain, received their
cut of the ransom, and the Obama wants each video MADE,
like the raping and murder of the Ambassador,
so that NO ONE will ever forget the First Moslem Traitor.
14 posted on
09/14/2014 3:49:05 AM PDT by
Diogenesis
(The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
To: CorporateStepsister
Unless the Obama minions showed me detailed rescue plans, I would have told them to shove it. It IS a free country and I WILL do what I can for my family. The cowardly and feckless Obama Administration cannot be compared to Thomas Jefferson's.
15 posted on
09/14/2014 4:10:24 AM PDT by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: CorporateStepsister
But it is ok if the Preesident negotiates giving up 5!terrorists for one traitor! What difference does it make?
16 posted on
09/14/2014 4:28:23 AM PDT by
ThePatriotsFlag
($$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$)
To: CorporateStepsister
If the journalist’s politics turned out to be “wrong”, the family would be excoriated as terrorist sympathizers.
19 posted on
09/14/2014 5:09:45 AM PDT by
Wolfie
To: CorporateStepsister
If my child was held for ransom by ISIS, I would spare no effort to bring that child home. If that means I ignore government demands and then I go to prison, so be it.
20 posted on
09/14/2014 5:47:25 AM PDT by
moovova
To: CorporateStepsister
The United States has a policy of never paying ransoms, contending that doing so would endanger Americans all over the world. WITH ONE EXCEPTION: when a person's a lowlife deserter THEN Obama pays cash and hands over terrorists in exchange...
23 posted on
09/14/2014 7:43:50 AM PDT by
GOPJ
("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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