(February 22, 2019 at 7:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: It doesn't really matter what ISIS is or isn't. If you know that ISIS is considered an enemy of the state, and you stand with them, then you will be considered an enemy of the state and treated as such. I don't see how any amount of goofy rationalizing gets around this.
Yes and no.
Do you remember the Patty Hearst case? It was from that situation the concept of 'Stockholm Syndrome' emerged. Not saying this case is the same, only that such cases are not always black and white. I'd certainly need to see some evidence from credible sources .
Apologies if I'm confused; was this the girl who was 15 at the time? In my country it is recognised that the teenage brain is still a work in progress. For that reason we have the legal concept of 'minor children',being children under 18 years. We do not try children as adults.
If this young woman went there at 15, her claim of being brainwashed may well be true. Most certainly needs to be investigated, objectively, according to evidence ,to which I do not have access
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I'm not making any claims, merely giving an opinion. I'm not in any position to judge this young woman. Nor, imo, is anyone else on this forum, unless they are privy to a very different level of evidence than the rest of us.
Trial by media and public opinion scares the shit out of me. This hit home in Australia with the Lindy Chamberlain case. (1982) This case was later seen as one of the more egregious miscarriages of justice in Australian history. Lindy Chamberlains was tried and convicted by media and public opinion.
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Stockholm syndrome is a condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity.[1] These feelings, resulting from a bond formed between captor and captives during intimate time spent together, are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims. Generally speaking, Stockholm syndrome consists of "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."[2] The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly eight percent of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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Alice Lynne "Lindy" Chamberlain-Creighton (née Murchison; born 4 March 1948) is a New Zealand-born woman who was wrongfully convicted in one of Australia's most publicised murder trials. Accused of killing her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, while camping at Uluru (then usually known as Ayers Rock) in 1980, she maintained that she saw a dingo leave the tent where Azaria was sleeping. The prosecution case was circumstantial and depended on forensic evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Cham...-Creighton
