Lately so many threads are hijacked by provocateurs that I hardly post let alone read.
FR has been seriously infiltrated by people who do not wish us well. Some pose as conservatives, some pose as Christians, some are just pricks.
You're 100% correct. And, as the book Hillary's Secret War for which JR wrote the foreward tells us, lots of them are paid opinion shapers who come here to stir dissent among conservatives.
Someone on another thread (I think) had a great tagline--because I'm a mom over 30, my memory is shot, but the net effect of the tagline was "he learns more accidentally on FR, then on purpose anywhere else" That's how I feel about this site. I love the news that I wouldn't see anywhere else. I love to see other people's perspective. In some political threads, people break down theories that I would never be able to 'get' just reading about them. I've learned much.
For threads like this that just kind of grip you--you fear the worst, but still have hope--it just boggles my -- not naive, and not innocent mind that people are just ugly just because they can be. What on earth is the point?
The snitty little superior hindsight posts are obnoxious at best. I am so glad decisions made when I was 17 and 18 didn't result in my parents having to be on the TV pleading for more information--even if it was just to take me home for a funeral. While it's unfortunate that not every missing persons case gets this type of publicity, good for Beth Twitty that she's media savvy enough to go after it. I would do the same thing if it were my daughter that was missing.