Smart Family Fields Book, Movie Offers (Isn't that Special!)

Yahoo News ^ | 3/17/03

[FreeTally]

Everyone else understood what I wrote. Again, your zeal blinded your comprehension.

[Ann Archy]

The Photos are ALL taken by Tom Smart...the uncle who works for the Deseret News and sold to other media outlets.

[FreeTally]

Take one second to read your #209. You are reading and typing so fast, you mispelled "thought" twice, two different ways. You also used "proved" when it should had been "proven". Now, don't try to tell me my post was "unclear" and that you weren't overcome by your zeal in your misreading of it.

[Ann Archy]

If I were you, I would not state that Tom Smart did not sell the pictures WITHOUT checking it out.

[Ann Archy]

Oh Man! The description did NOT say he had a beard!!!! It is amazing that you are the first person to say this!!!

[babylonian]

Ed Smart and his brother are media whores, second only to Geraldo Rivera. And this whole story is fishy.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

John Walsh is doing another show on the Smarts today. It's all the aunts, uncles and grandparents.

[Ann Archy]

GAG ME!!!!!

[spectre]

Thanks for the warning!

Got to be a "mini-series" with all those relatives to interview.

sw

[Utah Girl]

Oh, there will be a trial.

[Conservative4Ever]

Wow....just now read your post. Thanks for posting the remarks. It does indeed seem to be strange things to say for an abducted child...but not for an errant child. I have always thought she was not abducted.

Red

[Utah Girl]

The extended family is going to appear?

[Utah Girl]

Do I think Ed Smart chose the right time and place to highlight the Ambert Alert bill? No, I do not. thanks for the link to Sensenbrenner's statement, I've read it and was just going to post it. What I don't get is why the House is still sitting on the bill. They passed a version of it last year, as did the Senate, but they couldn't come to agreement on the bill, and that session of congress expired. So the bills must both be reintroduced. The Senate has already passed their version of the bill. I appreciate Sensenbrenner's point of wanting to do the bill right. Do I think Ed Smart was overwrought? Yes I do.

From Friday's edition of the Salt Lake Tribune.

Sensitive Politicians
The Washington, D.C., office of Rep. James Sensenbrenner was barraged Thursday with hundreds of calls from people nationwide after Ed Smart publicly called out the Wisconsin Republican and challenged him to stop holding up the Amber Alert measure in a broader bill pending in the House Judiciary Committee. The measure sets up a nationwide child-disappearance alert system among law enforcement agencies.

When we called asking for a response from Sensenbrenner regarding Smart's plea, the congressman's Judiciary Committee press secretary, Terry Shawn, said, "I just want him [Smart] to quit crying [on TV]."

[sandude]

I'm really hoping the Smarts do not do this.

There is going to be books and movies made about this with or without the Smart's approval. If the family exercises a little control of the project they may be able to spare Elizabeth some of the trauma. Also, if the family directs the profits to trust funds for their children and to charitable causes then I see nothing wrong with it. Their children have all suffered because of this ordeal. Everybody who is jumping on the Smarts for this are acting prematurely. One thing is certain on the free republic, there are always plenty of people willing to criticize the Smart Family.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

It was 3 uncles, 2 aunts, grandmother, grandfather, and the two police who first found Elizabeth.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

The family did mention that they knew that Elizabeth was alive when the Wright family's screen was cut. That Elizabeth would have wanted her favorite cousin with her.

[Sandylapper]

OH, REAL-LY! What is the MATTER with PEOPLE? Like the Smarts are to blame for the fact that every scriptwriter, producer, and network are hounding them? And how would they even know what the best thing to do is right now? I wouldn't even know and I'm in the biz! It is so weird and so scary that there are people out there (on here) who keep punishing this girl, this family, who keep twisting this situation into something that the rest of us can't even fathom as a possibility.

Ahhhhh, shucks, Calce. You mean you're in the scriptwriting biz, and you can't come up with a scenario where Liz might have runaway with some believability? YOU, the person who had all of believing in your imaginary or virtual marriage to Anse? C'mon, now. Maybe you're too sympathetic with your character.

[Neenah]

They are sitting on the Bill because of the language in it. Congressman Sensenbrenner (before Ed Smarts statement) had put in TOUGH penalty law in it. Tough on crime.

It had failed because of a Democrat Congress, and now it is being held up because of the language. They apparently do not want the sickle to come down on the head of these perps.

James Sensenbrenner on t.v., addressing Ed Smart in a televised conference, said (paraphrased) " We would invite you to work WITH us, not ATTACK us ". I can try to find that, but I don't know right where to look for it. I saw it tho when it happened. I do hope that the language will be adopted and the law is tough on the offender. Don't you ?

As to the spokesman's remark. I have no knowlege about that, but I would take it to mean that what Mr. Smart did in addressing the Congressman and saying "Blood of the children" would be on HIM...was very upsetting to the office of the Congressman.

Jim Sensenbrenner is about as fine a man as you will fine in the Congress. The crying part...maybe what he meant was the fact that Mr. Smart was crying (?) and then all of a sudden looked up and was angry, and started his rant on the Congressman. Maybe that is what he meant. It was pretty disoriented. I thought his anger could have been more understood by being livid that this scum degenerate, homeless, wacko had taken his daughter !

It amazes me how people will blindly believe things without checking them first and pick up a phone and lambast a man who has worked hard for this Bill before checking it out.

Ed needs to apologise to Congressman Sensenbrenner.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Does anyone here still think she was "abducted?"

I don't. I think she ran away from her goofy as*ed dad and mom.