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Missing Danielle Parents Allegedly Swingers
Larry King Live ^ | Brenda & Damon Van Dam

Posted on 02/11/2002 5:06:42 PM PST by Petronski

Larry asked them about it just now on Larry King Live (2-11-2), and they refused to deny it.


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To: mackattack
May I ask you something? Someone told me that Bob Dole had someone in his presidential campaign that was a swinger. Do you know anything about that? If so, I guess what you say might be true? I dont know. This is quite a subject for my first day on Free Republic.

It was Roger Stone, a longtime activist in the party. His ex-wife Ann Stone founded the Republicans for Choice group. Stone is remarried, and swinging with the current wife -- he got caught by the media because he was dumb enough to run a swingers ad with his picture on it!

402 posted on 02/11/2002 9:05:13 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: bederest
a "written, prepared statement"

Yes, the parents seem more interested in protecting their orgy buddies than in finding their daughter. They didn't even care enough about her to tell the truth in the first place, but maybe they already know she's dead and are just covering up to protect their "friends".

404 posted on 02/11/2002 9:05:31 PM PST by FITZ
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To: EricOKC
The fact that they are swingers though is incedental.

It doesn't sound like it ---it sounds like the child was taken from the house or whatever was done to her because one of the parents brought home a bunch of people from a bar and they were too involved in their orgies to care or notice what was going on. It doesn't sound like they were trying to provide a very safe home for those children. Most likely one of their orgy-mates killed their daughter.

408 posted on 02/11/2002 9:11:05 PM PST by FITZ
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To: Petronski
They are into playground equiptment? What does that have to do with anything?
409 posted on 02/11/2002 9:12:45 PM PST by woofie
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To: EricOKC
You assume that because we partcipate in activities you consider perverted that we must do all other manner of things you find perverted as well.

I didn't say anything about "perversion." You did.

My point is very simple. It depends on basic human psychology and requires no knowledge from me about your "lifestyle." Unless you have conducted extensive psychological tests, you cannot possibly know with any degree of confidence the true motivational factors among members of your own swinging group, let alone among swingers in general. Nor can you possibly state with any confidence that "pedophilia is NOT something which exists [even to the point of saying it doesn't exist!] as an interest among swingers."

Why would you want to make such a broad statement? You must be aware of the extremely high number of lowlifes that are into your "thing." My guess is that in your heart of hearts you are uneasy about these practices, and when challenged you lamely attempt to put a panglossian, highly moral sheen on them.

As I said earlier, you can only know your own sexual predilections, and, depending on your level of awareness, you may even be mistaken about those.

410 posted on 02/11/2002 9:15:25 PM PST by beckett
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To: Petronski
I think most swingers are trying to better deal each other, or in some cases the woman is just trying to keep her and her children's life style's from poverty until the kids are grown and she can leave.

In this case however, it seems to me the mother is a cold weirdo, and the father is a whimp that does what ever he is told to do.

411 posted on 02/11/2002 9:20:49 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: EricOKC
Old enough to understand implies that they would have the mental capacity to deal with it. If i didnt think they could, they wouldnt be told.

I'm just not sure that anyone would have the mental capacity to deal with knowledge like that about their parents. And even if they could deal with it, well, what's the point in telling them? Once again, for the sake of your children, I suggest that you never tell them about it. They will not want to learn something like that.

412 posted on 02/11/2002 9:21:48 PM PST by Fraulein
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To: EricOKC
nice job hangin with the thread ...

I may not (or may) agree with how you live your life, but will defend til death your right to live it ... or words to that effect, etc etc

413 posted on 02/11/2002 9:27:12 PM PST by fnord
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To: Petronski
Sounds to me like the kids were just the byproduct of the lifestyle.
414 posted on 02/11/2002 9:27:19 PM PST by babylonian
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To: EricOKC
You dont volunteer the details about what you and your husband do in the bedroom do you? You dont tell the kids that daddy likes to tie mommy up and spank her sometimes do you? Or tell them that mommy likes to be on her knees a lot do you?

So, WTF do you think i would ever be obligated to tell my kids exactly what we do with our friends when we go out at night and leave them at grandma's?

There's a huge, huge difference between what two consenting adults do in their privacy of their bedroom and these same parents bringing other adults into the bedroom. For one thing, you're getting other people involved in the equation, which means psychological consequences, not to mention diseases. And the chances of other people finding out your behavior increase exponentially with each new partner added to the equation.

415 posted on 02/11/2002 9:33:21 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Fraulein
Please don't! I highly recommend that you never tell them about it. Most people would be horrifed to learn that as they were growing up their father had been sleeping with people other than their mother, and vice versa. They would probably be devastated, and I imagine that they would look back upon their childhood -- and your marriage -- in an entirely different way. Some things are better left unknown. Nothing good would come out of it. Nothing, that is, except problems for your kids...

Agreement bump!

416 posted on 02/11/2002 9:37:23 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: EricOKC
Sorry, I do not buy, and will not buy, that the fact that they were "swingers" is incidental.

Pardon my "rant" in advance, buy if they had not been swingers, and deeply involved in that lifestyle, they would not have had people coming into the house at these hours ... if they had done anything at all in a faithful, monogomous lifestyle, it would have been them doing it in their own home and the other associations, particularly by the wife that night, would not have occurred ... and if they had, she certainly would not have brought them home ... but then, that would not be a normal, faithful monogamous lifestyle either.

Eric ... I don't care what your lifestyle is. You are free to live it as long as you do not violate others rights. But that does not mean it is moral and it does not mean that it is "right" and it certainly does not mean I will accept it as such ... even though I recognize that there are varing degrees of people involved in the lifestyle ... those varying degrees are simply to me, varying degrees of immorality, just as anyone involved in any form of adultery is.

The key issue with respect to the traditional lifestyle of marriage is one of fidelity and faithfulness. When the fidelity line is crossed, whether behind one's back, or whether with full agreement, then fidelity is simply gone and any faithfulness is made a mockery of ... in fact, at that point, an individual is only being faithful to themselves and their own passions IMHO. Adultery is not an issue of doing it when someone isn't looking, or when someone doesn't care ... it is an issue of doing it with someone to whom you are not married, period.

Again, I didn't care to know your lifestyle ... and I am not going to try and "force" you one way or another within the constraint of the infringement of other's rights. But please, don't try and pass on this notion that it is moral, that it is somehow faithful and has anything to do with traditional marriage vows simply because you both "agree", ot that it can be anything remotely related or equivalent to them ... clearly it is not. And, in as much as it does not, my own feeling and opinion is that it is very unhealthy ... and I believe from a religious perspective that it is simply wrong and will lead individuals and societies that partake in it to ruin.

Therefore, I (meaning me personally) would not call it marriage in the traditional, moral and spiritual sense of the word. Although your agreement may be mutual ... and it may be legal ... it is certainly not what I would call a marriage based on vows of fidelity and faithfulness before God ... and it is the type of thing, like many other vices, that is practiced by the majority of society, will ruin us as a nation and as a people.

The traditional values in this country and the by and large acceptance of them by the majority of people is what keeps us strong ... morally, mentally and physically as a people. Strong traditional marriages make for strong families (this is presuming that the fidelity and faithfulness are maintained). The more that breaks down, the more those societal strengths will ebb away and the more incidents like this we will have. So I pray, despite the fact that you are free to live such a lifestyle, that it nevers becomes the norm.

Finally, I believe that a very large part of this girl's disappearance and possible death is a result of a lifestyle that by its nature is unfaithful and filled with infedility. And once those values are breached, other more glaring and starling dangers enter in ... unfortunately, such dangers are very stark and unforgiving to innocents like these children.

No need for a rely, this is just my own (rather lengthy) opinion, but one I do all in my power to pass on to my own five kids and the scouts I teach and anyone willing to listen.

417 posted on 02/11/2002 9:40:16 PM PST by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head
Hello Jeff
Your entire post was so well said, that I had a hard time picking out anything to comment on. Yes, adultry is adultry, if known or unknown. However, what stands out for me in this day and age, is the need to defend behavior that is not the norm, and say it is the norm.

Therefore, I (meaning me personally) would not call it marriage in the traditional, moral and spiritual sense of the word. Although your agreement may be mutual ... and it may be legal ... it is certainly not what I would call a marriage based on vows of fidelity and faithfulness before God ... and it is the type of thing, like many other vices, that is practiced by the majority of society, will ruin us as a nation and as a people.

There is almost a militancy in the defense of harmful, or potentially harmful behaviors, and a need to put down the normal behavior.

Indeed, it is become rather common, to call names of "prude", "raciast", "right wing ranter" in an attempt to shut people up, rather than to seriously face the issue or question.

Your post was refreshing.

418 posted on 02/11/2002 9:53:03 PM PST by Selara
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To: VA Advogado
Drugs are harmless, right guys?

You can keep pushing that "drugs are harmless" belief but people still aren't buying it.

420 posted on 02/11/2002 10:06:19 PM PST by Zon
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To: mackattack
I personally think you were more militant yourself than some. You accuse anyone who doesnt attack Eric as defending him whether true or not. There does not seem to be the same fairness in your comments as were in Jeff's, but I'm glad you found something you can agree with.

I suggest you reread my posts. Other than pointing out the futility of parents attempting to hide their lifestyle from their children, I simply posed logical and reasonable questions.

Again, I assert that if a parent feels compelled to hide their lifestyle from their children, that lifestyle needs to be re-examined. I asked you once before, what part of this do you disagree with...let me ask again...what part of this assertion do you disagree with?

421 posted on 02/11/2002 10:15:27 PM PST by Selara
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To: NC_Libertarian
Perhaps, unless their sexual habits endangered their daughter.

Bump

423 posted on 02/11/2002 11:25:50 PM PST by Concentrate
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To: murdoog
Maybe I'm turning liberal or something, but it seems a little cruel that their sexual habits are becoming fair game for the whole damn world while they are also having to deal with a missing and possible dead child.

No,it just means you are sane,and not a part of the lunatic,sexually-obsessed right.

424 posted on 02/12/2002 2:51:35 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: Don Myers
Post 267. Ok, I picked myself up off the floor. Thank you.

Sick Sick Sick. Isn't there some department of government to report OK to?

425 posted on 02/12/2002 3:00:24 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: MsLady
I hate to go on looks,

No,you don't. You are loving this. It gives you a chance to feel superior to somebody else.

but, one of my first impressions about the van dam woman, was she had a hard cold look to her.

Of course she is hard and cold-looking. You are seeing your own image reflected back at you. On the other hand,a woman who is involved in mate-swapping is anything BUT "hard and cold".

Wonder if she has a drinking problem?

Meow! And what does this have to do with her daughter being kidnapped? You DO remember there is a missing child,right?

426 posted on 02/12/2002 3:02:34 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: CharacterCounts;beowolf
He's even managed to make this thread about him.

Interesting. Perfect cover for him to meet like minded individuals here. Although I suspect the pickings are pretty slim (outside of Bewolf).

Swinging, a game the whole family can play.

427 posted on 02/12/2002 3:03:34 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: cactmh
Yep, you win....lol
428 posted on 02/12/2002 3:04:40 AM PST by MsLady
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To: tortoise
Swinging. I thought that was a left over fetish from the 1970s. Gone the way of the leisure suit.
429 posted on 02/12/2002 3:05:22 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: Hodar
What pizza place either delivers, or is open at 3am?

All of the pizza shops around here in manhatten are open pretty much 24/7.
430 posted on 02/12/2002 3:06:17 AM PST by Libertarian_4_eva
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To: Zon;roscoe
You can keep pushing that "drugs are harmless" belief but people still aren't buying it.

Where is Roscoe when I need him?

431 posted on 02/12/2002 3:09:34 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: sneakypete;mslady
Of course she is hard and cold-looking. You are seeing your own image reflected back at you. On the other hand,a woman who is involved in mate-swapping is anything BUT "hard and cold".

You know MSLADY that well? I think she's made a very good observation. But when you go through life with a mental seeing eye dog, some things escape you.

432 posted on 02/12/2002 3:11:31 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: jackbill
What is the likelihood that the little girl would be missing if her parents weren't into "swinging" or some other "alternate life style"?

Identical chances.

What is the likelihood that the little girl would be missing if her parents had spent the evening at home and tucked her in?

Her father WAS at home all night,and he even tucked her in.

It's not a matter of "sexual habits",

You are right here,but why did you try to make it a issue in your first sentence?

it's a matter of parental responsibility.

No,it's not. Remember Polly Klass? There are untold numbers of children abducted from their homes every year by strangers,with the parents being home and totally blameless. "No,I do NOT know how this is possible.",but I DO know it happens. What everybody should be focusing on here is that a little girl is missing and either dead or in danger. Instead,we have a bunch of sexually-repressed idiots who want to play voyuer.

433 posted on 02/12/2002 3:11:54 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: golitely
You know what? If this rumor turns out to be true, and if Westerfield did it, I really think they should arrest the mother and father as accomplices.

Of course you want them arrested and jailed. They had sex,and you think anybody that has sex deserves to be punished. What else do you agree with the Taliban and the Ayatollah's of Iran about?

435 posted on 02/12/2002 3:23:27 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: VA Advogado
-- Isn't there some department of government to report OK to? ---

The above says it all, when it comes to just who here is sick sick sick....

436 posted on 02/12/2002 3:24:18 AM PST by tpaine
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To: TheMole
You could say that "swinging" is one's own business, but it will involve association with a lot more bad people than you'd meet in church.

HorseHillary! You meet the same people.

437 posted on 02/12/2002 3:27:02 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: TheMole
Smoking marijuana at home might not do much harm to anyone else, but a group of a thousand pot smokers will commit more crime than a thousand yacht club members.

Sorry,but I meant to address this little example of your "deep-thinking" with the previous post. A point of fact is that pot smoking IS a crime right now,so 1,000 pot smokers are automatically comitting 1,000 crimes. On the other hand,there is nothing illegal about owning a yacht.

438 posted on 02/12/2002 3:31:10 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: tpaine
The above says it all, when it comes to just who here is sick sick sick....

And you say this why? You a swinger too?

439 posted on 02/12/2002 3:38:06 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: VA Advogado; beowolf
Answer me this. -- Is there ANY sane reason for you to make implications about beowolf?

- I'll bet not.

440 posted on 02/12/2002 3:40:42 AM PST by tpaine
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To: sneakypete
Sneaky, you are being naive to argue that their life style didn't increase the danger to their children.
441 posted on 02/12/2002 3:43:21 AM PST by FreeAtlanta
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To: sneakypete
I will swing while on my yacht.
I will swing while smoking pot.
I will swing while on a plane.
Hell, I might swing while in the rain.
But, I will not eat...uh...never mind.
442 posted on 02/12/2002 3:46:12 AM PST by NoCurrentFreeperByThatName
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To: VA Advogado
Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.
443 posted on 02/12/2002 3:47:01 AM PST by tpaine
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To: tpaine
Answer me this. -- Is there ANY sane reason for you to make implications about beowolf? - I'll bet not.

Then you'll bet wrong. Beowolf engaged me first, and rather harshly, I might add. I simply put him back in his place.

444 posted on 02/12/2002 3:50:16 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: tpaine
Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.

I didnt attack you. I simply asked you a question. Are you now, or have ever been a 'swinger'.

445 posted on 02/12/2002 3:51:18 AM PST by VA Advogado
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To: DoughtyOne
My children's windows were shut and the doors locked. There wouldn't have been a chance for anyone to get at them without my wife and I knowing. I considered that to be my responsibility!

Unless the home is equiped with an alarm system that has an indoor siren most people will not wake up, if there is an intruder inside. Locking doors and windows will not keep even the most inept criminal out. One twist of a pipe wrench on a door knob will break the lock, and give free access to the home. Then it is free roam time for the intruder.

Just be thankful that nothing ever happened to your children, because it wasn't the locked doors and windows that kept the bad guys out. It might have been nothing more than chance.

446 posted on 02/12/2002 3:51:23 AM PST by snodog
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To: grlfrnd
Absolutely! I agree and she would still be alive if someone had had them arrested BEFORE! Or if they still arrested parents for drugs.

You're right! They both probably should have been arrested and sent off to government camps while they were still in junior high school. That is most likely when they first started having sex and doing illegal drugs,like tobacco and alcohol. That right there should be seen as proof they were going to be trouble in the future,and several years in a religious camp run by somebody like Jim Baker,Jesse Jackson, or the preacher from Louisanna who is Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin could only help lead them on the straight and moral track! We just can't have all these people running around out there having non-approved fun! We need to control them!

Speaking of which,I am sure you will join me in my new campaign to eliminate the wearing of sexy underwear. What other purpose does this clothing serve than to arouse sexual desires? I say,"DOWN WITH THONGS!" Will you join me in this call,neighbor? It's for the chilrun.

447 posted on 02/12/2002 3:51:37 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: EricOKC
With all due respect, if parents didnt have sex once in a while, there wouldnt be families with more than one child.

Yeah, but aren't they supposed to have sex with each other??

448 posted on 02/12/2002 3:56:11 AM PST by rogercolleridge
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To: VA Advogado
He commented on the obvious, that you are self rightous. -- Your comeback was a personal slur.
449 posted on 02/12/2002 3:56:26 AM PST by tpaine
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