Aruba asks if Bush supports Alabama's boycott

Expatica ^ | November 9, 2005

[LucyJo]

Americans enjoy free speech, and the President of the United States supports that freedom. The Governor of Alabama has the freedom to ask that our citizens boycott Aruba. Our citizens have the freedom to choose whether or not they comply with his request.

[laney]

I sure had my fair well share of WILD DAYS, but I never got into a car with 3 guys I did not know no matter how drunk I was....

[Great Caesars Ghost]

Surely you are joking. If anything the girls would think "It won't happen to me."

[smartin]

That's exactly right and that's what makes our country great.

[daybreakcoming]

When you say 'give up the killers' I am not sure what you mean, and you have to be careful.

I think you read it that way because you wanted to. I think most would read it as "give up the killers to the rule of law" instead of muddying the waters to prevent it. How on earth did you read extraditing them to the US when the crime happened there?

[smartin]

Everyone thought it was a taxi. They are not marked in Aruba.

[oceanview]

enough with this story, enough. Bush does not need to get pulled into the friggin Natalie Holloway case now. This is crazy, just let this go away. any american who wants to boycott Aruba is free to do so, its their personal decision.

[laney]

Maybe so, where were her friends? where was the Chapperone?
She is with these 3 goonballs in the bar, no reason to get in a car with them.. I am not blaming her but her immaturity and naivety is was got her into this horrible situation...

[smartin]

And Bush should be behind Americans who do.

[blaquebyrd]

"What about all the people who go missing in all the other countries all over the world?"

Not to mention right here in the good ole USA. I'll bet Alabama has more missing teens today than Aruba has had in the last 50 years. By the governor's logic we should boycott Alabama.

[smartin]

Her friends checked on her and also thought she was leaving in a taxi to go back to the Holiday Inn.

[laney]

LOL..You got that one right!!! if it wasn't for GRETA this story would have died long time ago!

[pepperhead]

I agree, the boycott is voluntary. The government isn't preventing anyone from going to Aruba if they wish.

[My back yard]

I believe there is some evidence, or rumors anyway, that she is still alive, and she was sold to slave traders. There are now private investigators working on it. The governor, I'm sure, is up on all the facts as known with this case. And he is right to call for a boycott.

[tfecw]

What about all the other AMERICANS in foreign lands that are missing???

I'm glad you asked.... Note: due to the tremendous amount of countries a US tourist gets murdered I’ve picked out some of the bigger countries (at least one homicide in the past 5 years)( Source)

AUSTRALIA
BAHAMAS
BARBADOS
BELGIUM
BRAZIL
CANADA
CHINA
France had no homicides but an unusually high number of suicides...which is interesting.
GERMANY
INDIA
ITALY
JAMAICA
JAPAN
KOREA
.....

I tried finding the stats for US tourists murdered in DC, but that's fairly hard to find. I did recall seeing on the news that either a tourist got stabbed, or stabbed someone a week or 2 ago.

[laney]

I don't believe so....She knew those 3 were in that vehicle, that is when she should of bowed out, it's 2:am everyone has been drinking and late nights and drunk people usually produce some things YOU just might not want to happen...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This was a case, so I'm told, of an A student, who had never been in a scrape of any kind. Aruba would like this case to go away and they hope that by ignoring the parents and playing hardball with American authorities, it will.
Aruba is not as squeeky clean as you might believe.

[My back yard]

Homicides Happen. Ya know? But the difference here is this woman has not been found. No body. And someone is hiding information about where she is.

[laney]

And how many others are MISSING???? Newsflash: There are many unsolved murders in the world, should we boycott every country?

[go-ken-go]

yes, yes,- but its still an awful place to be for the Holloways, never knowing what happened to their daughter.
Did Aruba think there wouldn't be a backlash from some, regarding tourism.