Good of you to "escape" and join us here. No real news today except Shep reported that the authorities put the brothers and JVDS is the same room and VDS chnaged his story about which brother picked him up, after the one brother asked VDS "why are you lying?"
Is it just me, or does anyone else know why in the HELL the authorities are letting any of these guys have ANY contact with each other?
I've also heard (I think Greta reported it) that van der sloot's mom has been able to see their son, but not the dad.... Whooopeeeedoooo! Be sure the mom isn't coaxing him to keep his mouth shut.
Every day we get these wildly unreliable "reports" -- e.g., the Dutch kid sas "anger management issues" (does that psychobabble make anybody else besides me cringe?) -- the Dutch kid confessed -- the Dutch kid is leading police to Natalee's body.
Well, those last two "reports" turned out to be dead wrong. Who knows if the first --or any other "reports" we hear-- are true?
And then there's the assumption out there that the three teens MUST have lied about dropping Natalee off at the hotel -- because security cameras didn't pick up on any such event.
Then we hear other "reports" that the cameras involved were not capable of picking up all possible activity in the hotel entrance area. But, NEVER MIND! --it's much more fun to ignore that "report" and stick with the "boys are lying" version of events.
I'll be honest: Like everybody else who clicks on this kind of thread, I'm curious and caught up in the intrigue.
And like practically everybody else, I thought this Joran van der Sloot was probably Aruba's version of Robert Chambers, the "yuppie murderer."
But now I'm not so sure. There's WAAAAAAAAAY too much misinformation and pure, uninformed speculation out there.
This subject as a news story has degenerated into irresponsible infotainment.
You know what we FReepers should be focusing our considerable energies on? Issues such as ELECTOMAGNETIC PULSE BOMBS (EMP) --launched by some rogue state such as North Korea-- potentially ending life as we know it in our beloved country.
Were that to happen --and EMP bomb technology is quite likely being developed in many rogue states-- there would be no more Free Republic! And even worse (though that may be hard for us FR addicts to admit), unless something is done to shield vital computer circuitry, we'll likely have mass chaos: No power, no water, no commerce, no food supply, and precious little transportation. Thousands if not millions of Americans could perish within a few weeks or months after an EMP attack.
Isn't that the kind of issues we FReepers (including me) should be talking about, and putting pressure on our government to deal with?
Not Natalee Holloway. There's very little we can do for her here. God bless her and her parents, and I pray that she's found alive, but it's really silly for us here to get so wrapped up in what amounts to wild, and purposeless, speculation.
And while we allow ourselves to be so distracted, the terror states of the world are plotting away.
[ / rant]
They are in the same room in prison? Why? So they can keep matching up their stories?