Posted on 06/11/2005 11:05:50 AM PDT by kcvl
No body found.
She could still be alive.
No one said anything bad happened.
All we know is, at least 5 guys are being held and questioned.
Wait for Geraldo's show and see if he's managed to come up with any worthwhile info.
(omg, I am so confused.)
My parents told me to open my own sodas at parties and if I left a drink to dance to consider that drink finished and get a new one upon my return. That was in the late 70's. My father was afraid of LSD being slipped into a drink.
I remember that during the '70's.
I had teenage sons at that time.
"We were told that the incoming female students were being told during their orientation that all men were potential rapists, etc."
As unfair position, to be sure, but one that probably would've saved this particular girl's life.
Yes. It's called upbringing.
sw
Yes Geraldo has said that there has not been a confession and there is not a body. According to Geraldo, he is getting his info from the person that would be equivalent to our US attorney general who is constantly being updated by Aruba law enforcement.
This is how I became worldly.
I was not with or around other Americans, except for my husband, and he was at work all day/six days a week.
I ventured out on my own every day alone.
It was the common sense that kept me out of harm's way.
Granted, I was much older than Natalee.
A lot of common sense in your post, even if it is number 666. *g
I cannot imagine she's still
alive & well after all this
time.
My daughter is 10, and I managed to live through my childhood. I feel qualified to speak of my parenting ideas.
sw
PtBoR, I agree with you on many of your points; that kids this age do think they are infallible. But, I'm sticking with my point that had better choices been made by Natalee, her parents, her chaperones and her friends, Natalee would have been somewhere other than in that car with those boys. Given the "infallibility" of Natalee and others her age, and the fact that they are likely to make poor choices, I feel there is more justification for pointing some fingers at *all* the parents and chaperones who in actuality, set these kids up for bad things to happen.
I began my post saying that "while this girl didn't deserve to die the night she was killed" because I also believe that even given all the rotten choices surrounding her being an underage drinker on the island of Aruba & getting in that car, she most certainly didn't deserve the punishment that had befallen her.
But parents and adults need to be just that. Yes, mistakes and accidents will happen. But this needs to be talked about now, as probably thousands of other parents have purchased celebratory tickets for their graduating teens to travel to destinations around the globe just as Natalee did.
One thing bothering me is the fact that Natalee wasn't even legal to drink in Aruba. We all know that's what they were paying for. These kids wanted to celebrate with alcohol, so it made all the adults feeeeeeel better knowing that their children would be doing it "legally" in Aruba. However, we are now being told that Natalee wasn't yet age 18.
I think this part of the story tells a lot about how rules and lessons were taught in Natalee's home. Sending Natalee with her parents' blessing, to lie and break the law in Aruba so that she could participate in alcoholic activities with her fellow graduates doesn't teach responsibility. It teaches cutting corners, disrespect for authority, lying and breaking the law.
Yes, Natalee and everyone around her made some awful choices. And yes, sometimes "things happen." Sometimes, we choose the wrong way to go because of our humanness. But disagree with you because I *do* think there are also character issues involved here. A person of character wouldn't encourage their child to break the law. A person of character wouldn't watch a bunch of teenagers get so darn drunk without some constant & sober supervision by adults. A person of character would be more than just good grades.
Natalee didn't deserve the punishment she ultimately received. May the Lord comfort her friends and family.
Did you see the couple on Kasich's show, whose daughter has been gone for 5 years, and they still don't know what happened to her...
Too bad, she went missing in 2000, before the advent of the 24/7 fight for ratings between Fox, MSNBC, and CNN..she was very pretty also, so I am sure her disappearance would have gotten this same coverage...
These reporters probably aren't all that unhappy to have an assignment in Aruba.
We really don't know what happened. I don't know when her parents divorced, but it is likely that she has lived in a lot of places and travelled a lot. We don't know if she had too much to drink. We don't know if someone slipped some drugs into her drink. We know only snippets from news reports. We know how accurate the press is, don't we?
Actually, it is shocking, because most murderers only spend less than 9 years actual time in prison. It is only the high profile news cases like the Manson family, and this Aruba girl, where the murderers will be spending more than 9 years in prison. The system is not right, a person that murders my uncle should get the same jail time as the murderer of Sharon Tate, or this aruba girl, but most people dont think so. Most people think that if you kill a celebrity, that you should spend more time in prison than if you killed an average joe who does not make the headlines.
My father's only warning about drugs to me in the 70's was: don't smoke one of those funny cigarettes....LOL
I never did, or any other drugs either...it must have worked.
Geraldo ... Justice Minister says rumors of Natalee's body found are false.
(Where's a folding chair when you need one.)
Oh, that kind of bike. I thought...never mind what I thought. I don't have any interest in motorcycles (I much prefer my boat), so I don't automatically make the connection.
Ironic that probably most of us felt the same way during the hunt for the Runaway Bride!!
That she had been gone so long, she had to be dead!
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