Posted on 10/04/2005 6:07:06 PM PDT by Chieftain
We'll talk with Ashley Smith who became a heroine to millions of Americans when she was taken hostage by accused Fulton County Courthouse killer Brian Nichols. Smith tells the story of her life and her harrowing ordeal in her new book "Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero."
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Maybe I should read the whole thread before I comment further....
Hun,
You hated the woman.
You still hate the woman.
For you, its personal (and I don't know why).
Hun,
You hated the woman.
You still hate the woman.
For you, its personal (and I don't know why).
I didn't hear her on the radio. I just saw her on TV. She had a smile on her face and Sean laughed a little too.
I thought it was funny. Not true, but funny.
Jokerman is a great Dylan track, and "Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings." is a great Dylan line, but it's actually from another song on the album "Sweetheart Like You"
Cheers
Who in the hell is this Vander guy and why are you talking about him?
Pay attention son, I thought this was about Ashley Smith.
No, no, no! You got that all twisted up. Van der Sloot is the escaped convict. He had sex with an angel, while they were both on meth.
Wow, she IS a saint!!
Thanks for clearing that up! I'm not buying anyones book!
It's personal to me that so many FReepers gave me greif because I called bullsh!t on Ashley's story from jump street.
I heard that Ashley is going to Holland to marry Van der Sloot. There is a lot of meth in Amsterdam.
Yeah, Ann enjoys making over-the-top statements, but the recent actions/statements of the President makes one wonder.
It was the SCOTUS comments that threw me off.
Not even mine? I was thinking of writing a compilation of everyone's books. It promises to be a really tangled web of deceipt and heroism.
As we speak she is probably in a blind rage, stabbing the person who did her makeup in the chest 257 times.
If it has more pictures than words... and the NYT gives it two thumbs up, maybe.
Meth addicts aren't concerned about looks, just show me the money, honey! (which way to the bedroom?)
Wow, you seem to be quite a jerk. Why so bitterly obsessed with her after all this time?
Do you honestly believe that she would go on TV and admit to having given him drugs that night if she was still addicted and using? Admitting it to a nat'l TV audience is not only tough, but a way of penance and attempting to put that bad part of her past behind her. It is therapy, by confessing and inviting the whole nation to hold her accountable. How much easier would it have been (or at leasted appeared to be from her viewpoint) for her to never have mentioned it, left it out of the book, and gone on with a hidden life?
What we saw is someone honestly trying to change their life, and taking advice that tells them to confess, come clean, and put yourself in a position to be held accountable. I betcha dollars to donuts that she was urged by those counseling her to do this interview for those reasons. If she was just selling a book, it would have been far easier(and with higher sales) for her to never mention it and pretend everything was fine that night.
Obviously she still had problems that night, but it also appears that she allowed it to be a life-changing experience for the better. Time will tell, but this interview goes a long way to supporting that view, not shooting it down, as you imply. Completely consistent with what we surmised in the days after the incident, that she was a person trying to clean up her act by turning to God, but now we know her struggles were deeper and more recent than we realized.
So I don't understand your obsession with trashing her, instead of recognizing that she may be turning her life around, and wishing her the best.
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