Should it be legal to pay kidnappers ransom money?

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Judith Tebbutt: UK hostage kidnapped in Kenya freed

Does this just encourage the kidnappers to do it again? Should the SAS be sent in every time?

Got to admit though - if it was my wife or kids I would pay. If it was me and they paid I would be furious with them. But not as angry as you lot would be.

[AtW]

It is legal to do so.

It's not legal to demand ransom.

[BrilloPad]

I'd simply take off & nuke the site from orbit.

Solves an awful lot of problems.

Plus they don't do it again.

Then I will kidnap someone and hold them in the houses of parliament.

[hyperD]

Then I will kidnap someone and hold them in the houses of parliament.

I'd kidnap the entire 656 MPs in the house of commons and ask the taxpayers for the ransom.

That should prove a hypothesis of sorts.

[Friday Blue]

if i get kidnapped and im the only employee in the company, can i use company money to pay?

[centurian]

I'd simply take off & nuke the site from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure


Paying a ransom to repeat kidnappers simply funds the next kidnap. Are the people who paid this ransom ready to look the family of the next kidnap victim in the eye and explain why they were the ones who funded the kidnap of their loved one...

Doubt it.

[amcdonald]

Easy, just change international law so it's legal to kill kidknappers under any circumstances, and the same should be applied to pirates and make it illegal to pay a ransom

[NotAllThere]

It is legal to do so.

It's not legal to demand ransom.

It's not legal to pay a ransom to a terrorist organisation. In this case, a judge ruled it was a criminal gang, not terrorists.

The best way to stop kidnap is to always go in guns blazing. Behave as though the victim were already dead, then there won't be any more kidnaps. If the victim survive the attack, that's a bonus.

Anything else just prolongs the problem.

[Lockhouse]

if i get kidnapped and im the only employee in the company, can i use company money to pay?

No, a kidnapper is obviously a "controlling person" as described in the Budget.

[Friday Blue]

No, a kidnapper is obviously a "controlling person" as described in the Budget.

good one