Posted on 07/04/2005 6:39:22 PM PDT by TexKat
On SM there are posters, some of which are MB students and I think also some of their parents.
The last I saw which was yesterday, those that were on on SM were not for the boycott of Aruba and was not for the protest, etc.
The following is a post by one of the MB students on SM.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject:
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I'm not back for long... I was just glancing over some posts, trying to refrain from saying anything for fear of being attacked again, but I would like to say once and for all that none of us who are closely tied to case are supporting the "banning Aruba" sentiments being spread currenty. We don't have a problem with the country, we have a problem with the people who took our friend. All we want is for her to return safely as soon as possible.
Please don't attack Aruba or its citizens who have been very supportive and instrumental to the search. I thank these people and am apalled that people would ridicule those who are trying to help.
I also do not feel that Beth should be attacked or faulted in any way whatsoever. She is one of the most amazing people I've ever met and it hurts me that people feel it justifiable to attack an already horribly victimized woman. She is not attacking anyone. She just wants her daughter back. I'd ask those who would say hurtful things about her to please think about how you would act in her situation... I think if you really took tim eto place yourself in her shoes you would see how noble her character truly is.
Thank you and please cintinue to pray for Natalee!
God Bless![/b]
When did he receive this?
What's up w/that insurance company?
What is bogus Howlin?
That she was a runaway; it was thrown out there to divert attention from the crappy job the Aruban police were and are doing.
You took the font right off my keyboard.
Neither do I.
Geez, what cry babies the arubans are.
"Does anyone know what the penalty might be if they can pin it on JVDS?"
If I remember correctly, they do not have a death penalty and their life sentence is 40 years. Hope I am wrong!
EXACTLY why a person should NOT trust someone they have known all of two days! Thank you for helping me make my point!!
Her parents did say she was naive, so maybe that explains a lot.
That's news to me...mom even said she had a talk with her before she left...
Correction. It was her uncle that said she was naive.
‘Natalee’s naive,’ her uncle says For all her activities and achievements, relatives described Holloway as having an almost childlike side, too.“Natalee’s naive. She hasn’t dated a lot. She doesn’t party a lot,” said uncle Paul Reynolds. Holloway attends church regularly and wouldn’t ever run away, he said.
40 yrs. in incarceration,
is life for 17 yr. old
joran.
He'll be an old dude when
he gets out.
I'll bet the ranch, he's
already having a hard time
in jail.
Gotta be suffering partying
withdrawls....like an addict.
Hope so! LOL
I think the leniency was due to his age. Some countries don't have a drinking age at all.
That's a good point and underscores the likelihood that she had been given rohypnol or some other compliance inducing drug.
EXACTLY why a person should NOT trust someone they have known all of two days! Thank you for helping me make my point!!
No, that's not your point at all. You wish to slam her. It's after the fact, dearie.
Do try to remember that her mother still claims she was kidnapped!
My thoughts, too. I truly hope that someone is at least exploring that avenue and doing some checking around. I would hate 5 years from now for Mrs. H/T to wonder if she should have considered that possibility, if they aren't now.
And it makes the Kaipoe's refusal to talk with them all the more reprehensible.
I hadn't heard that they refused to talk to Natalee's parent's, only that Deepak had spoken with Greta off camera. It seems though that I recall their lawyer asking them not to give any interviews because of the ongoing investigation. When was it announced that they refused to talk to the Twitty's?
I have thought from the getgo that she had been given a drug. Hubs and I had the same initial reaction. It doesn't fit that she'd 'go out on a limb' like that, on her last night there, especially.
I can buy that she used bad judgment and may have let her hair down - and her guard - a tad more than usual, given the celebratory nature of the trip.
The rest is on that monster's head. He's lucky I'm not NH's mom. I wouldn't be as nice as she has been.
It wouldn't be the first time.
Nor I.
I would have been bordering on jail time long ago. LOL
Yep. And it is apparently the MO of date rape guys to pull a stunt on the last night before a girl leaves the island. Makes sense on several levels.
As far as the crappy job the Aruban police did. True. There is a lot that can be said of how the initial contact with LE, the Twittys and the VDSs was handled. But how many hours does it take before steps are taken in the US before one is considered a missing person, etc.? What is one of the first questions asked when one reports someone (especially a teenager) missing in the US?
I've started scrolling down to see whose name is at the end before I read their post, so I can skip it if necessary; thus far, contentious, abrasive people have added nothing to the thread
Not many if suspected kidnapping is involved.
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