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To: Snoopers-868th

I offer that hiding the truth provides a false sense of protection. I lean more towards your second portion. Indeed, the truth shall set you free.

107 posted on 01/15/2007 4:32:03 PM PST by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)

My first point simply questioned the necessity of having the children before the camera. I do not believe it was necessary. No one would have recognized the 15 year old and his identity could have been protected.

Another thing I observed on Fox News today was the repeated airing of the teen fights being put on the internet. Does the media (including Fox) really care that these teenagers are creating fights to post on the internet or do the media want someone to control the internet? The parents of the girl being beaten up were not going to press charges. That is where the crime is--so I have to ask what was newsworthy.

Two different thoughts, I know.

122 posted on 01/15/2007 4:41:01 PM PST by Snoopers-868th

From your post 93: so there is no personal responsibility to go around here? None to the parents that just let him take his bike and go? None at all for stranger danger teachings?

And from 107: I offer that hiding the truth provides a false sense of protection...Indeed, the truth shall set you free.

Perhaps you have a false sense of protection in that you have CHOSEN not to learn the truth of the story of when Shawn first went missing. Yes, he was on his bike, and he had his parents permission...to ride it to his friend's home to play (a typical very normal behavior for any boy of 11). When he hadn't returned by dark, as was his custom (not to mention he was scared of the dark), his parents called to the other boy's house. At that point it was realized that Shawn never made it to his playmate's home that day. So, I ask you, in your opinion, was his abduction Shawn's fault, his parents' fault, his friend's fault, his friend's parent's fault or the kidnapper's fault? Who bears the personal responsibility for their poor choices here? I maintain that the personal responsibility for this tragedy rests squarely on the shoulders of the kidnapper, and not one other person. You are free to disagree.

158 posted on 01/15/2007 5:48:14 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)

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