What happened to Natalee could happen anyplace in the United States. Just read a newspaper - how many young women who have left home to attend college disappear? Oh, right. None of them. Just couldn't happen here.
Posted on 07/11/2005 9:37:09 AM PDT by Responsibility1st
"Two suspects were released yesterday who were involved in a violent crime against my daughter," "These criminals are not only being allowed to walk around among the tourists and citizens of Aruba, but there were no limits where they could go."
Statement by Beth Holloway Twitty, Natalee's mother, upon release of brothers, Deepak Kalpoe, 21, and Stish Kalpoe, 18, for lack of evidence.
This is the desperate cry of a mother who has witnessed six suspects in the disappearance of her daughter released for lack of evidence. Only Joran van der Sloot remains behind bars, and Beth Twitty is terrified that he might also be released, leaving no clues to the mystery of what happened to Natalee Holloway.
Although I sympathize with Beth's heart-rendering dilemma, I take exception with her inflammatory statement. In America we treasure the principle of "innocent until proven guilty", the Kalpoe brothers deserve to be considered innocent. They are not criminals, they are not even defendants, there is no evidence they had anything to do with Natalee's disappearance.
The Twitty/Holloway clan has adopted a lynch mob mentality, they are desperate to find someone/anyone to blame for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.
But Beth Holloway Twitty didn't have to travel thousands of miles to Aruba to point the finger of blame at a couple of dark-skinned brothers, she could have stayed home and looked in the mirror to find the person responsible for Natalee's tragic fate.
She allowed her barely eighteen year-old daughter to celebrate her high school graduation, by taking a trip to an island renowned for its casinos, bars and its "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" morality.
Where are all the Christian commentators who are always preaching the doctrine of "personal responsibility"? Why has Beth Holloway Twitty been granted a free pass?
It's ironic that this agnostic editorialist is just about the only one taking the unpopular view that Beth Holloway Twitty bears some responsibility for her daughter's disappearance and probable death.
IMO Christianity is about compassion. Right now is maybe not a good time to rub salt in her wounds; not a good time to throw it in her face, that she let her young daughter run off to Aruba.
Carolyn
Run off to?? She allowed her daughter to go on a chaperoned school trip. That's hardly 'running off".
This is really kind of disgusting. He is calling for people to pile on this woman. This publication usually has better stuff than this.
For what? Giving birth?
She "allowed" her to go to Aruba and so now she shares part blame? How could she stop an 18 year old from going and why would she? Typical left wing liberal pass-the-blame BS.
Hannibal Lector would probably disagree. :=)
While I would never send a daughter off to another country like that I refuse to blame the parents. After all plenty of harm can come and often does is done to our children in this country.
Natalee was an 18 year old high school graduate. Her mother could not have stopped her from going to Aruba.
I'm sure the overwhelming feeling of guilt has consumed most mothers at one time or another for a trip/date/experience gone bad for their daughter(s). It has been a "push" for me to take a firmer stand if/when I allow my single 22 year old daughter to take any such trips. At this point, not without me, she won't. (Absestos ready.)
What happened to Natalee could happen anyplace in the United States. Just read a newspaper - how many young women who have left home to attend college disappear? Oh, right. None of them. Just couldn't happen here.
Wow - where did this come from? Talk about a reach to bash Christians! I don't think Beth Twitty is being given a pass at all. She did what MANY parents do - let their children go on chaperoned trips - arguments about the details aside. Natalee was 18, not 2. Her mom is fighting like a tiger for her child and any parent worth their salt would do the same. What about the kids who were on chaperoned field trips to London? Would their parents be blamed if they happened to be on the trains or the bus that blew up? Bad things happen to people because there is evil in this world - Natalee could have been snatched from a mall parking lot just as easily as disappearing from Aruba.
Yeah, but I bet mother paid for the trip.
I don't know many 18 year olds (with common sense) who have that kind of expendable cash for lavish trips, unless it's supplied by someone else.
I think it is a totally worthwhile call for her to shut the funk up. Enough is enough. Of course, I blame the media more than her it is the reason this crime has been on 24/7 during which time hundreds of people have gone missing or been killed without a perp being arrested.
She is doing a magnificent job of making Americans appear to be overbearing loudmouths without a clue. It is terrible to lose a child like this but blaming the Arubans for not having wholesale executions of anyone who SAW Natalie during that week is a bit much.
The bigger crime is that of the RATmedia and Fox for making this into far more than it is- a routine sex murder of a young girl who should have never been there in the first place. Beth's actions could be overcompensation for a guilty conscience.
Of course she could have. But it's much more fun to bash her mother, and slam "third world countries".
Agreed however you have to be pretty damn stupid to send your child anywhere foreign after 911. Frankly I won't be leaving USA shores anytime in the future which is a shame because I had dreams of going to Egypt but now my skin color and voice make me a walking target. Instead I will visit the King TUT exibit in Pa, in 2007. Also had dreams of a trip, just daughter and I to go to Paris. We will now settle for New Orleans or one of the Las Vegas Casinos.
LOOK OUT HAWAII we will be returning soon : )
USA is so vast I think my money should be spent at home. : ) As for my kids...they will live under my rules until they move out so if they did defy me and travel abroad while under my roof they will not have a room to return to when they return, if they return.
18 year olds are not famous for common sense but she could have had her own money and she was free to go. I can't blame her parents for this.
Hope Reyes doesn't have children or loved ones. His pompous arrogance will haunt him one day. Life's lesson.
My 18 1/2 year old son was killed in a traffic accident. I gave him the car, am I to blame for his death?
I mentioned that I thought the circumstances of the trip were an invitation to trouble, at the time. Boy did I get savaged for that!
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