Posted on 04/16/2005 10:40:12 AM PDT by Jo Nuvark
Vanity: Question... has anyone noticed the inordinate number of child abuductions in Florida? Could this in any way relate to the cuban criminals and mentally ill that Castro "released" to the United States? Is there a database somewhere that charts abuductions nationally? Just curious.
I don't know what the statistics are, but my question would be, are there more pedophiles in Florida than elsewhere? Some of the maps they've shown on Fox and elsewhere show an awful of them in the areas where these girls were living. Could it be that Florida is a pedophile haven because of bad judges and lax laws?
It probably has more to do with the weak child protective services agency in Florida. Those idiots lose children in their custody all the time.
The last girl that was kidnapped was kidnapped by a deranged white guy. I don't think that cuban theory is going to fly. I think it has more to do with the fact that the state has tens of millions of residents. And their social services system was built very poorly and run for about 50 years by the Dems.
Warm climate may something to do with it. Florida has long had a high transient population.
Would it have something to do with the media? Look at all the car chases in southern California. Have you ever seen a car chase in Chicago or New York on live television?
I read the Chicago Tribune every day. There are murders, abductions, killings, shootings, here in Chicago every day. I haven't seen Rita Crosby or Catherine Herridge 'reporting live from Chicago' in a long time.
Something's up in Florida... the water or the citrus... something is wierd. Why would there be more pedophiles in Florida? What kind of indecency laws do they have there?
They lose adults there too. Look at Terry Schiavo.
You're right about the deranged white guy. But I was noticing the latin/hispanic names that seem to dominate. If this is a plausible trend, could law enforcement or the public fend off these guys? Forewarned is forearmed.
As someone else said, Florida has a huge transient population. A lot of families and a lot of adults move there to reinvent themselves when they've hit bottom elsewhere. Communities aren't as stable as they are in the rest of the country.
Atlanta had an Amber Alert a few weeks back. It was resolved quickly. BUT, it didn't end up on FOX.
I think FOX must have a huge affiliate in Florida, and that is why all the news seems to come from there.
Warm climate... Hmmm... California has warm climate. Wonder about their statistics? I wonder if there is a tracker that looks at this from a statistical point of view. We would at least know that there are safe places to raise young, pretty, white girls. Hey... did I just say white girls? Don't most of them seem to be young, pretty, white girls? That's scarry.
Good points. Do you think the media is targeting Florida by only pointing out these profile abductions?
I won't draw conclusions based on last names... but I will try to rely on actual data. Thx
FOX must have affiliate in Florida...
That's interesting. I don't actually know what the other networks are reporting. This does seem to be unbalanced.
I think that 20+ years ago, California was the state where most weird crap happened. Today, it's Florida. You don't have many young native-born working-class people moving to California, it's too expensive and too stratified. Florida is still cheap, is a lot closer to where most people are moving from, offers a lot of blue-collar jobs because it's growing so quickly, and has Disney World and an ocean you can swim in.
The children that were abducted here were of a minority race. I don't know if that played into the coverage or not.
But, there is something else. When you have BEAUTIFUL pictures to show on television of the missing girl, the media perks up.
True or not, the MSM knows one very true fact. The weather is nice in FL.
This is particularly true when the FL stories just blossom during November, December and January.
Why freeze your posterior reporting in NY when you can work on your tan while reporting?
But I was noticing the latin/hispanic names that seem to dominate...
Rethinking... My original question had to do with the cubans that Castro released to us. My understanding was that they were bottom dwellers (criminals, mentally ill). The name thing had to do with the possible relationship to them being the abductors and pedophiles. Am I still on dangerous ground here?
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