Posted on 07/22/2005 4:46:19 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Perhaps it might help if the federales backed off and gave the people the RIGHT TO FIGHT BACK! You can't own a gun in Mexico without a government or army permit.
Appeasing the criminals...
Kinda like the disguised amnesties for the illegal mexican border busters.
"So does the government of Mexico enforce ANY laws?"
Oh, yes.
It's illegal for people to own guns. And it's illegal for foreigners to own land. And it's illegal for the government to do jack without a little under-the-table dough.
Even if they are cutting off a family member's fingers, one by one, and sending them to you?!
Your choice is this: reward kidnappers, thereby encouraging them and other people to engage in more kidnappings, or refuse to pay ransoms, ever, and remove the economic incentive for kidnapping.
Add to that the fact that, even if you pay the ransom, you probably are not going to get your family member back anyway.
The kidnap victim is the only witness. Eliminate the victim, and your chances of being caught are that much less.
Only if they are bribed.
This is Mexico, where kidnapping is a business. You'll get them back, so the next customer will pay.
You proved my point.
I assume that these kidnappers are operating in the same way as those in Central America. Making payment is not as simple as appeasing criminals, it is necessary. As I said, I am assuming that these guys are working the same way as those in El Salvador did after the cease fire was called. At the time, you paid immediately or the one kidnapped died immediately. There was zero negotiation and the kidnappers, if you attempted to do anything other than pay on demand, always immediately killed their victim. They had no qualms whatsoever about doing it.
Maybe the Mexicans are softer in this regard though. The Salvadorans, after 12 years of guerilla warfare were a hard bunch.
Don't pay, you don't get them back, and the next customer will pay!
Death to kidnappers. Period. Nothing else.
Unless, of course, you like having your family members kidnapped and want to encourage them to do it again.
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