Per month?
Yes, sorry, I corrected it to make it more clear that is the monthly amount they are entitled to.
Per month?
Yes, sorry, I corrected it to make it more clear that is the monthly amount they are entitled to.
$42k per year??? OMG, lol
Their recent apartment could well be subsidized as well. I dont know if they publicized the address to look it up.
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Folks probably threw them out. Got tired of having trash all over the house.
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He might very well be exaggerating their sacrilegious behavior, and they do seem to have called in the Taliban either to make him knock it off or get rid of him. (Natch, he tries to convey the Taliban et al. were there out of concern for the hostages.)
Imagine treating someone you depended on for survival that way. Your hosts, for better or worse, in a foreign country. With family n all.
I really dont understand why the Taliban didnt just persuade the bandits to return the gringos from whence they came. The Taliban might quite have been enjoying the bandits predicament.
I could be wrong on this I dunno why my memory of this was someone tipped off the cops about the tapes, they were in the attic maybe, im thinking it had to be Karla however she is quite cunning so I could not imagine her leading the cops to this evidence as she was in one video where she was clearly and willingly assualting her own sister. Did we ever find out just how those tapes were discovered. You are saying the defense lawyer had them? I do not remember that but this is my dizzy brain I was so blessed to have lol
I'm not sure if you are Canadian but they would have been receiving Ontario Works (welfare) in the amount of at least $1,262, plus CCTB (baby bonus) of $1,860, plus other tax credits of around $500, so about $3,500 monthly. In addition, I can see a hotel offering a discount rate. They also had a US NGO that works specifically with integrating hostages accessing all available benefits for them and helping them negotiate the system (the NGO was paid by the Provincial gov't). I'm proud of our social net, without it CC and the kids would have been much worse off even though both sets of grandparents are comfortably well-off (JB's family is certainly millionaires).
Why is that funny? Most countries with safety nets don't let children go hungry or have to resort to crime to feed their families.
Thanks for bringing the thread back. IMO, attacking someone’s behavior, e.g. assaultive, is one thing. Disparaging a religion and stereotyping cultures was an unfortunate direction for the discussion.
Now, this article.....
LMAO the first bandits couldn’t get a buyer for the Boyles! Not the Taliban, no one. They drove around for a week trying to sell them. Wise Taliban: can you imagine what a liabilty JB would have been, not to mention his so-white-she-almost-glows-in-the-dark pregnant wife?
Aha! Here’s one of the points I was trying to make earlier: warrior groups frequently have a code that has protocols about categories of people...Here, it was in the Taliban’s warrior code not to take a pregnant woman hostage.
JB is proud of how he apparently managed to get approval from a Taliban leader for his knowledge of arabic and farsi as well as his history with Khadr. He gives away, he wanted to be with the Taliban. He’s making as if the only reason he was rejected, despite the glowing accolades, was because his wife was pregnant.
So, they flunked Taliban, who JB thought he could “deal with” (like the US hasn’t been trying to figure out how to deal with them in, lo, how many years.
More comments in my next post. Don’t want to erase this one by mistake.
Their recent apartment could well be subsidized as well. I dont know if they publicized the address to look it up.
I'm not sure if you are Canadian but they would have been receiving Ontario Works (welfare) in the amount of at least $1,262, plus CCTB (baby bonus) of $1,860, plus other tax credits of around $500, so about $3,500 monthly. In addition, I can see a hotel offering a discount rate. They also had a US NGO that works specifically with integrating hostages accessing all available benefits for them and helping them negotiate the system (the NGO was paid by the Provincial gov't). I'm proud of our social net, without it CC and the kids would have been much worse off even though both sets of grandparents are comfortably well-off (JB's family is certainly millionaires).
Back on subject...Im just glad that they have the help for the sake of the kids. Thats all that matters. Never mind the politics and religion. Those poor little ones didnt ask for this. So if help for the parents means help for the kids, thats a good thing IMO.
Wow. I cant imagine the uproar in the US if our govt paid a Guantanamo bay released prisoner $10mil and then another very very sketchy person who was once related to said GB prisoner, $3,500/month.
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If arrest of one parent means help for the other parent and the kids. Bc I sincerely dont think JB had any intention of getting his wife and kids help. Now that hes locked up, CC and kids can hopefully begin the healing process. I do think she needs to come back to the US with the kids. Not because of anything to do with Canada vs the US. But bc she probably has way more of a support system here and can deprogram easier than if shes in a foreign country, where her closest contacts are her creepo husbands kin. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A lot of the money they are receiving is because they have children, probably at least 1/2 of the total.