Posted on 07/03/2005 3:51:16 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Where has it been established beyond doubt that Natalee "drunkenly" climbed into a car with (one, two, ten) three young men?
From the tenor of this article, and with a broad brush, this Brit reporter has declared Natalee guilty of all the things he disapproves of in Aruba.
She becomes the perp rather than the victim.
Too bad she was born blond and pretty and has a determined family that is using every means of strategery to counter the secrecy, cronyism and possible cover-up surrounding the fate of their daughter.
The only thing this writer is correct about is the cynical and circus-like media coverage. It's shameful.
In fact, I believe the media is actually making things tougher for the family. The media hype and sometimes unfounded LE-bashing causes resentment and more secrecy.
Even the family is not criticising Arubian LE like the media is doing just to create more drama and ratings for their audiences.
Leni
'Swedish'?
Freaking nimrod. I don't suppose it would have anything to do with the tireless efforts of Natalie's mother now, would it? < / sarcasm>
Brain fart. I conflated the nationality of the perps with that of the victim. I'm up late; I'm tired. :)
"And the awful truth that Natalee's death would not have rocked America so much if she had been black. Or Asian. Or poor. Or a boy."
That's as far as I got; the America-bashing never stops, does it?
And once again, inquiring minds want to know: Swedish?
And once again, inquiring minds want to know: Swedish?
Dutch... Swedish. Like there's a difference. What're you, a member of ABBA...? :)
Snort----crime is rare b/c nothing is a crime according to the notoriously ultra-liberal Dutch. In the Netherlands, life is cheap. Prostitution is considered no big deal as is their penchant for euthanasia on demand. Aruba is also notorious as a stopping-off point for drug cartels.
The fact that 17-year old Joran was prowling casinos and bars, targeting young tourists---perhaps armed with date rape drugs to assure a score---is also indicative of liberal Dutch permissiveness.
Natalee's parents sent her to a place under the erroneous impression that values they prized predominated on Aruba.
How wrong they were.
What with its liberal Rube Goldberg justice system, a population with apparently no compunction about lying straight into the TV cameras, Aruba is the personification of Liberal Lies and Deceit Unlimited.
Dutch... Swedish. Like there's a difference.
LOL Dude, now you've really gone & done it. I'm crossing you off my list of possible candidates for Sec/State in the new Rice administration. :)
It's 4:30 A.M. (where I am), and I'm a groggy insomniac. Our beloved Future President Rice will surely understand and forgive me, under the circumstances. :)
"The tiny island, whose 100,000 population is crammed into a space smaller than Manhattan,..."
Well, millions of people live in Manhattan, so, what's the point? This author is close to hysteria, he makes Natalee's mom look like a model of composure by comparison.
It hasn't.
She becomes the perp rather than the victim.
In Britain, the perp is the vicitm.
I don't think that Aruba is specifically to blame over and above the others, although it does sound like little Amsterdam in the Islands. But all these islands are all about hustling the naive American tourists. People need to wake up and realize that all this name calling about "Ugly American" is intended to get you off your guard and make you feel guilty and make it easier to part you from your money, or your clothing, or whatever they want from you. They were hostile when I was a kid but it is so much worse now. Life is cheap. It can happen to you or anyone.
The whole spring break drunk fest is stupid as well. It is just asking to be taken advantage of, and possibly be hurt or arrested. It needs to stop.
And teens... when I was very young, say 12, I thought "nightclubs" were dangerous places. Then I became 18-21 and I thought a sweaty nightclub packed to the gills with sweaty bodies drinking their tails off was a good place to be. Now I realize they really ARE dangerous. Don't go. Don't be "cool". Don't follow, lead. Course, nobody listens, but things are so hostile today.
Buy your daughter a copy of "The Gift of Fear" before you let her go off to Aruba or any other place where she might be tempted to be swayed by "Are you some kind of racist?" when considering whether or not to go off with a group of strange men of any colour, about whom she knows nothing.
Or indeed before you let her go downtown in Toronto and commit the same stupid behaviour.
America does appear to be obsessed with well-off, blonde missing women and girls, but remember they also bow down before the Kennedy family -- why? They are wealthy, white and 'beautiful'. And they know their role and play it, too.
Maybe, maybe not. It is smug and unverifiable to posit a hypothetical like this. And such a typical Leftist outlook -- victims are of greater or lesser value depending on their ethnicity or sex.
Think Ted Kennedy!
This van der sloot, is Aruba's Ted Kennedy. Nothing will happen. Check out the shark end of the island.
She joins a list of American obsessions like Laci Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, Chandra Levy and Lori Hacking.
I'd like to raise the author one princess.
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