Out to kill me. Then, from across the world, her kidnapper found her again. He reached out to me on facebook. Did your heart stop . It was so scary that he could find me. For the first time she shares her dramatic story, how she helped secret agents hunt down her captor. This all plays like a tom clancy thriller. Absolutely. The setting, a perfect island paradise. The plot, a daring undercover sting. Sting. We didnt think it would work. Face to face with her kidnapper at last. I just broke down. Its still hard for you. This is real life, like, pain. Would she get justice . I got the courage in that moment. Then i said im ready. Imagine being the mother on the other end of this call. Your daughter a world away in the hands of kidnappers. Both mother and daughter traumatized in their own ways by a callous captor. Their stories are intertwined. Amanda lindhout. My head is pulled back, and then there was a serrated knife. And her mother lorinda stewart. Did you keep it together . I did. I
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Im excited about tonights speakers. And i wanted to remind you of a different time in life. There used to be, as most of you all remember, a sort of a trump card, an ace, an ace you will that any kid on the playground pull when tyranny was afoot when somebody was criticizing their behavior or they were saying its free country kids used to declare, do you remember that its a free country. Thank its a free country. We were part of a collective civil agreement. We all understood that we didnt believe it. We knew it. So an abrupt loss or taking or a surrendering of our freedoms, on your perspective, would have sounded absolutely preposterous, but so did many things we have encountered and are still encountering not being able to buy soap at a mom and pop store down the street a local retailer. But having go to a big box store, being ticketed for fishing in a private pond without a mask, that was dont as a surgical shield. Or a splash shield, deciding if or which experimental drugs you woul
Different time in life. There used to be, as most of you all remember, a sort of a trump card, an ace, an ace you will that any kid on the playground pull when tyranny was afoot when somebody was criticizing their behavior or they were saying its free country kids used to declare, do you remember that its a free country. Thank its a free country. We were part of a collective civil agreement. We all understood that we didnt believe it. We knew it. So an abrupt loss or taking or a surrendering of our freedoms, on your perspective, would have sounded absolutely preposterous, but so did many things we have encountered and are still encountering not being able to buy soap at a mom and pop store down the street a local retailer. But having go to a big box store, being ticketed for fishing in a private pond without a mask, that was dont as a surgical shield. Or a splash shield, deciding if or which experimental drugs you would take into your body or that the department of Homeland Security ma
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