kidnapping

17-Year-Old Boy Rescued From California Motel Room After Kidnappers Demand $500,000 Ransom

The teen’s mother got a phone call from Mexico demanding $500,000 for her son’s safe return. She received a video showing her son in the car. The boy's father was blamed for some past incident and threats of cutting off the boy's body parts were made unless the ransom was paid. The teen was rescued in Santa Maria.

Why the Taliban Will Regain Power

Zaeef freed from GuantanamoWe are fed a load of tripe about the Taliban in the western press. They are portrayed as crude, illiterate, opium traffickers and murders. They are quite the opposite. They are, in the first place, a legend, which began in the 1980s when a movement to resist the lawlessness left by the collapse of the secular regime was formed by brave, uncorrupt ‘talibs’ like Abdul Salam Zaeef, one of the founders of the Taliban, coined by the BBC in 1994.

Mexico: 100 Migrants, Including Children, Kidnapped.  Zetas Drug Cartel, Deserters from the Mexican Special Forces, Is Likely Culprit.

The feds pressured transportation companies to not pick up migrants along the way, which forced them to walk through an unsafe area. As many as 20,000 migrants a year are kidnapped and ransomed by criminal gangs, and three out of five women and girls are raped.

Is Adoption Legalized Kidnapping?


Kidnap is a verb that is defined as:

To take (someone) away illegally by force, typically to obtain a ransom.  Synonyms include: abduct, carry off, capture, snatch, take hostage.

Yet most kidnappings involve no ransom and many – such as parental “kidnappings” –  involve no force at all. And some illegally, criminally kidnapped children are raised well in every respect, as the child of their abductor: