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Hostage 'Bonded' With Captor
CBS News ^ | March 14, 2005

Posted on 03/14/2005 12:44:23 PM PST by EveningStar

The woman who was held hostage in her apartment by the suspect in Atlanta's courthouse slayings came forward to give an account of her ordeal, saying he let her go after they bonded while discussing God, family, pancakes and the massive manhunt going on outside her apartment.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: ashleysmith; briannichols; murderousscumbag; stockholmsyndrom
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To: Deguello

You don't think referring to someone as an airhead and a sheep is denigrating?

Or are you just hoping that no one noticed?

Whether by accident or design, the situation turned out as well as it could. Maybe cutting her a little slack is in order?


161 posted on 03/14/2005 2:06:01 PM PST by dmz
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To: HairOfTheDog

She is elevating the murderer into something he is not. He is not someone to be pitied. He is someone who needs a good deal of justice thrown his way.


162 posted on 03/14/2005 2:06:46 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: All

Actually, the headline and the story is: Captor "bonded" with Hostage!


163 posted on 03/14/2005 2:06:51 PM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: juzcuz
"can change lives from death's direction toward the direction of life"

Our Church teaches that when God gives you the chance, you take it. God helps you, but you have to use what he gives to overtake the bad.

We have one retired minister that is in his eighties. He was a Military Chaplain in WWII, Korea and two tours of Vietnam and now serves the VA hospital. He will tell you that you have got to take responsibility for your safety. That God will help you, but you have got to work for it to make it happen. He is CCL holder and carries.

164 posted on 03/14/2005 2:08:08 PM PST by Deguello
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To: EveningStar

What are you really trying to say?


165 posted on 03/14/2005 2:08:25 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: HairOfTheDog; EveningStar
"She might try to plead for his life, I wouldn't be surprised."

She was just interviewed by Sean Hannity on his radio show. He asked her that exact question, and she responded that she was not going to answer, that she wanted justice to fairly take it's course in this case, and didn't want to have any influence on it.

She is a remarkable woman. Why there are so many people who want to disparage her is unbelievable to me.

166 posted on 03/14/2005 2:08:58 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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To: pbrown
She is elevating the murderer into something he is not. He is not someone to be pitied. He is someone who needs a good deal of justice thrown his way.

Have you heard her whole interview?

She told him that he needed to face what he had done. He said it to his face, that he needed to turn himself in. That's a lot braver than slapping her around on this thread is.

167 posted on 03/14/2005 2:10:00 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I would be singing a different tune if she had been focusing her sympathy on the victims and their relatives rather than on the killer.
168 posted on 03/14/2005 2:10:42 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
I'm sure a lot of people were praying, like I was, that he would be quickly captured without harming anyone else. I see this as an answer to prayer. Would that I had that kind of faith. She was really put to the test.

How people can pick her apart after what she went through floors me.

Remember those snipers were caught by a man of faith who had prayed with his buddies that they would be caught, while I think it ironic that the priest ignored the phone call and didn't report it to anyone.

Maybe people didn't pray that that courtroom would be protected. I can't exactly fault them for that since God isn't allowed in courtrooms any more.

169 posted on 03/14/2005 2:11:55 PM PST by Aliska
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To: EveningStar

does she get the reward money?


170 posted on 03/14/2005 2:11:57 PM PST by Koblenz (Holland: a very tolerant country. Until someone shoots you on a public street in broad daylight...)
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To: A Citizen Reporter

I don't know if people just enjoy argument and seek to find it, or if they love to attack women or what, but it's sure maddening.


171 posted on 03/14/2005 2:12:09 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: A Citizen Reporter

My guess would be that some people just can't handle a remarkable woman... or a remarkable man for that matter.


172 posted on 03/14/2005 2:12:21 PM PST by myrabach
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To: A Citizen Reporter

I was listening to Rush talk about it and he kept mentioning she was reading Rick Warrne's "The Purpose Driven Life," which indicates that she's a Christian.

In light of that, her actions and attitudes make complete sense. The world cannot comprehend it, so they fear it and attack it.


173 posted on 03/14/2005 2:13:43 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: k2blader
Oop, should be Rick Warren's...
174 posted on 03/14/2005 2:14:46 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: pbrown
The creep murdered 4 people and she acts like she has the hot's for him.

No, that is not how she is acting.

175 posted on 03/14/2005 2:15:08 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: EveningStar

Have you listened to it? Have you listened to it?

One segment she talked of the victims, how they were likely parents with children. She said this to HIM, forced HIM to talk about the victims. What is the matter with you that all you hear is one answer where she says pities the man?

Have you listened to it? Have you listened to it?


176 posted on 03/14/2005 2:15:38 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: Koblenz

I don't see why not.


177 posted on 03/14/2005 2:16:24 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I don't know if people just enjoy argument and seek to find it, or if they love to attack women or what, but it's sure maddening.

You are so on the money here!

Like my Grandaddy used to say "Some folks wouldn't be happy in heaven with a white picket fence."

178 posted on 03/14/2005 2:17:01 PM PST by najida (The older I get, the more I hate gravity.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I heard it all. That doesn't change the fact that she has sympathy for that man. Do you know what he was on trial for? For tying and raping and sodomizing his ex-girlfriend over a three day period. Shoot, he even brought an ice cooler along with him with food encase he got hungry. She sounded like she believed him when he said he was set up by his ex.

Apparently you haven't read all my post. I have said repeatedly that she was brave. It's her actions in the aftermath that I have a problem with.

179 posted on 03/14/2005 2:17:25 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I don't know if people just enjoy argument and seek to find it, or if they love to attack women or what, but it's sure maddening.

It's called disagreeing with you.

180 posted on 03/14/2005 2:17:25 PM PST by Gumption
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