oh is that the "Tom" who failed his LDT and is that the same Tom that called this story of ES "an amazing story" and a "beautiful" thing....
the way that some of you are bending over backwards to defend every silly, stupid, arrogant thing that the elder Smarts do is very, very telling about your objectivity....I don't think you actually care about ELizabeth...I think some of you just want to defend some rich people in SLC for some reason...I wonder why?..
I for one don't think ES ran away....she was kidnapped...I don't know why she didn't run...there were several days down in SanDiego where both Mitchell and Wanda were gone....>
Ed Smart is something else, and so is Lois if she allows this exploitation of their dtr to go on.....
bad enought that to save on wages and SS taxes, they hire these bums....btw..it is estimated that up to 75% of homeless people come from mental hospitals or have mental conditions...but the Smarts just had to go out and hire these people..upwards of 50 differant bums at one time or another....
they exposed ES to these people and now they won't even let her live her nightmare down, and find some peace....I am sure that ES will not protest because that is what she has been taught to do....to not protest anything adults tell her....
I will add this....if Elizabeth was from some working class family or poor family, and the parents let drug users or alcoholics hand around, or people that have been in prison, and something bad happened because of those people to Elizabeth....Child protection would be on them in a New York minute...
and after something bad, something evil, had happened to her and the parents even considered putting her story out as an entertainment feature....they would be castigated and demonized here on Free Republic and the entire media...
but apparently, these Smarts can do no wrong...
What I find ironic is that a police investigator castigated Lois Smart for hiring a homeless person, went home, and found his wife had done the exact same thing, she had hired some guy off the street to paint their house.