Shorter version: Keep out of this families, or heads will roll.
Both Families of Beheaded Journalists Say They Were Threatened With Prosecution By State Department
By Rachel Alexander
From First the Foley family revealed they had been threatened with
prosecution if they tried to pay a ransom to free their captured son.
Now the Sotloff family has come out and said they too were threatened by
a White House counterterrorism official last May. This is incredible
considering their sons were likely to be murdered. Why is the government
stopping parents from protecting their sons? How
many more families of captured Americans are going to be threatened by
our own government if they they try to rescue their kids?
According to Weasel Zippers,
The Sotloff family issued their statement after Diane
Foley, the mother of murdered journalist James Foley, told ABC News that
her family took statements by the White House counterterrorism official
about legal bars to paying ransom as a “threat, and it was appalling. …
We were horrified he would say that. He just told us we would be
prosecuted.”
The double standard is appalling. Last year, Jesse Jackson
successfully negotiated
for the release of U.S. citizen Kevin Scott Sutay, who had been
captured by the FARC of Colombia. That wasn’t the first U.S. hostage
Jackson had gotten freed, either. Why is Jackson, an unelected
race-mongering busybody, allowed to negotiate for the release of
captured U.S. citizens, but their own families aren’t? The unequal
treatment – and subsequent brutal deaths of these innocent Americans –
is disturbing.
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