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Sometimes kidnapping for ransom and blackmail is counter productive.

ER — 1/26/2019 12:42:30 AM (archived)

Has anybody read O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief"?

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Trump caves - RL - 1/25/2019 7:36:19 PM
- Sometimes kidnapping for ransom and blackmail is counter productive. - ER - 1/26/2019 12:42:30 AM
- Ann Coulter is PISSED... - RL - 1/25/2019 7:58:36 PM

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