Officials to Urge Families of Hostages Be Free to Pay Ransoms

Families of American hostages who communicate with foreign kidnappers or raise money and pay ransoms will no longer have to fear prosecution for aiding terrorist groups, a White House-ordered advisory group on U.S. hostage policy is expected to recommend, senior officials told ABC News last week.

"There will be absolutely zero chance of any family member of an American held hostage overseas ever facing jail themselves, or even the threat of prosecution, for trying to free their loved ones," said one of three senior officials familiar with the hostage policy team's ongoing review.

The study undertaken by the National Counterterrorism Center on orders from the Obama White House has involved interviewing many of those with tragic experience such as the parents of journalist James Foley, who were among several families alleging they were repeatedly threatened by administration officials with prosecution last summer for moving to raise millions in ransom demanded by ISIS and other groups in Syria.

It was the taking of Americans for ransom that caused Jefferson to send the Navy and Marines over to squash the Barbary pirates (muslims). He had the Koran that Ellison used for his swearing in to try to understand his foe.
Jefferson had no admiration for muslims.
“to the shores of Tripoli” is in the Marine Corps Hymn because we had to go over there and kill a bunch of them.

DANE-GELD

—by Rudyard Kipling

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!"

Another way for Hussein to support America’s enemies and encourage their activities.

his only problem with either ISIS (Daesh) or the Mad Mullahs is that he is convinced that HE is the caliph.

Okay, everybody, paying ransom to terrorists sucks. I completely agree.

But how about answering the question we ask leftists all the time: what clause of the U.S. Constitution allows the Federal government to prohibit this??

And if you cite the war powers clause you are going to have to show me a declaration of war, and evidence that we are actually fighting a war.

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