Posted on 11/08/2005 9:57:00 AM PST by 11th_VA
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Gov. Bob Riley called for a travel boycott of Aruba on Tuesday until authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island cooperate more fully with the family of a Mountain Brook teenager who has been missing since a graduation trip in May.
Riley asked the governors of the other 49 states to join him in urging a boycott of Aruba on behalf of the family of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old Mountain Brook High graduate last seen on the island May 30.
Her mother, Beth Holloway-Twitty, joined Riley at the Alabama Capitol for the boycott announcement. She contends Aruban authorities have failed to adequately investigate the possible murder of her daughter, who was with a teenager, Dutch national Joran van der Sloot, and Surinamese brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe on the night she disappeared.
They were held for a time and released.
Ping.
Dr. Phil has a real good idea that she's still alive and was sold into sex slavery. Of course, he has no concrete proof of this but he did stay in a Holiday Inn last night
WTF?!? A freaking boycott?!? Is it just me or is this just him grandstanding?
Greta on FOX will devote an entire hour to this tonight. Oh yeah, will hype it as Breaking News during the show, but is actually breaking about 9 hours earlier.
Prayers for the Holloway family.
Maybe they could take Joran and his two thug sidekicks to one of those "unknown" CIA prisons just to see how strong they really are.
Natalie's mom was next to him when he made the announcement
Boycott?..Hell, we should invade...
Thanks. Did you see Law and Order on Sunday night? They did a very good job of "ripping this story from the news."
The Govenor has gone overboard, as it were.
This guy must be a real idiot.
His is an idiot apparently looking for free facetime on Greta.
I've maintained that posit for months now.
I sure did not; I've had a houseful of company for the last ten days and haven't had a life of my own.
Dumped the last one at the airport this very morning!
WOOHOO!
He'd do better to promote a boycott on trips to rowdy tourist spots by groups of poorly supervised teenagers.
Welcome back to sanity. :)
Good to see your name on a thread, friend....
I totally support a boycott of sending naive high school students on week long, under chaperoned trips to party towns where it's all about gambling, booze, sex, and hanging out all night in seedy bars.
Send them to Six Flags, or even Disney World, or the State Fair.
I blame the parents. Divorce after the kids get into college. Excelling in morality and ethics is the exception not the rule for kids of broken families. She was hurting inside and acted out in Aruba. All accounts indicate she was behaving very recklessly there.
Not necessarily. If it were my daughter, and her apparent missing and probably murder were so mishandled, I would want George W. Bush personally calling for a boycott by the entire world.
Meantime I would be looking for hit men to visit Aruba. Hell hath no fury like a Dad when his daughter is harmed.
You don't know what the hell you are talking about. I know this family and Natalee isn't anything like what you just posted. If your child ever goes missing anywhere I bet you will do ANYTHING you can to get someone to help you, ANYTHING!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.