How to silent family members ....
Hostage-taking is an instrument of terror. Capturing family members, especially children, is a tried-and-true instrument of totalitarian terror. Memoirs of Stalinist terror are full of stories of strong men and women disintegrating when their loved ones are threatened: this is the moment when a person will confess to anything.
In
Putin’s Russia, threatening to separate families is a way to rule by
fear. It’s a lesson the Trump Administration seems to be learning.
