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Sure, thats why it only smells like it. In this case only the boy is imprisoned and beaten in jail and his parents are extorted for half a million dollars to get their son back to safety.

>...extorted for half a million dollars to get their son back to safety.

http://money.howstuffworks.com/bail.htm

You realize that making bail doesn't mean you don't have to go to trial, right?

I think s/he was simply pointing out that a "$500K bail" does not mean that the kid's parents were extorted for half a mill. That is not how bail works.

I guess the U.S. is better than North Korea then. Aim high.

Give it some time, we'll eventually get there… after-all, NK hasn't always been like that throughout history…

Fine go ahead and downvote me, but while you stick your head in the sand, we're talking on hn doing and nothing about what is going on, while our government does stuff like this, and you think it is not going to get worse? Ha.