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To: FR_addict

I can understand your [for lack of a better word] indignation. This is an opinion forum, as I understand it, and as such your opinions are as valid as anyone's.

I think the whole island is a nasty little den of iniquity and the locals float along like flotsam and jetsum in the sea of life. Too many people have said they were approached to buy drugs on every corner in the place.

I don't see drug enforcement as any bigger a priority there than any other crimes that obviously go on, and with some apparent regularity.


134 posted on 04/18/2006 1:35:11 PM PDT by Froufrou
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To: Froufrou
Well, that's where we differ. I would love to go to Aruba. Drugs are all over our streets here too. It's not hard to find drugs in any town in the USA, if you look for them.

Birmingham has had a few drugs busts in the last few weeks and a lot more murders this year.

Both MSNBC and Fox News are reporting that the suspect is being held for criminal offenses and dealing in illegal narcotics. Fox called it drug trafficking.

Someone was buying those drugs.

There was a reason for the Mountain Brook kids to keep quiet about what happened during their trip. The jelly shot (I didn't believe it when I first heard about it) was true. Dave confirmed it in one of his interviews.

Did you read the FBI statements from Natalee's friends? Did you look at the pictures from MB taken before and after Natalee disappeared? Did you look at the kids statements that John Q. Kelley filed for Beth's lawsuit? One of the kids said that Natalee was the "designated driver". Why would underage kids need a designated driver?

We have our own problems here. I don't think the Aruban police handled this case well, mostly because of the pressure from Beth and the media, but I think the new guy is trying to clean it up. Look what happened to Jessica Lunsford. That was certainly a bad investigation where the perp lived next door and her body was finally found a few 100 feet from her family's home.
136 posted on 04/18/2006 2:12:57 PM PDT by FR_addict
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To: Froufrou

I think for some people the nexus of the case has become van der Sloot and not Natalee. They don't want to hear anything that doesn't support their idea of what happened. I really do think that has impeded the investigation.

I was really surprised the other night when they were talking about GVC being arrested and Beth was basically not interested unless it somehow implicated van der Sloot. For all she knows they could have the guy who killed her daughter and she's turning her back on that to focus on the other kid. It just doesn't make sense to me, but then I've never been in her situation.


141 posted on 04/18/2006 4:38:18 PM PDT by Burkean
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