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James Sensenbrenner is my congressman. Ed Smart did an unwarrented thing by looking into the camera and addressing Congressman Sensenbrenner the way he did. People who are sympathetic to the Smart family, took Ed's words as gospel and inundated the Congressman's office and almost shut it down. These people didn't check out if Mr. Smart was telling the truth or not..they took his words and acted AGAINST the Congressman. That is why Ed Smart was very very wrong.

To paraphrase, yet be almost exact, Ed Smart, hours after his daughter was found, giving his first interview, looked into the camera with faux tears, raised his voice, pointed to the camera and spoke to the Congressman:

" You (Sensenbrenner), are the reason this Bill has not gone through. YOU will be held responsible for the BLOOD of those children...I will be on YOUR head and I will be hounding YOU. "

I refuse to allow the "excuse" that Ed Smart is tired and stressed. He has an agenda, and planned it all. I approve of the Amber Alert, but the way he did it...without the facts...and defamed this Congressman who INITIATED the Bill in the first place.It is just immature and demeaning by a man who could have had more tact and chose not to exercise it with dignity.

I find it very odd that he didn't remark on the man who supposidly took his daughter, but lashed out on Congressman Sensenbrenner. This may sound logical to most people about the Amber Alert, but the way he did it was just plain wrong. And for John Walsh to chime in , in agreement with Mr. Smart is just as wrong.

I can understand stress. I had a missing daughter for 6 months. What I can't understand are many odd things this family has done from the beginning that people all across the country have seen and talked about. It has nothing to do with the sadness we felt about this beautiful girl missing..or the joy of her being found. I think there is a whole lot of trouble in and from this family. The words " The End " are not put on this story yet.

I am also tired of people calling other's "Smart haters". What I have typed here are things that happened in front of cameras for all to see. They are not made up, as many posts in the past have been transcripts of actual conferences where things were said by the family. People who raise questions aren't haters. They want the truth. They want the truth for Elizabeth. And I suspect there are many questions to be asked. I hope they come out in a court of law, because something is wrong, and has been from the start.

Sensenbrenner Statement on Elizabeth Smart and Child Kidnaping Legislation

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]."