Elizabeth Smart - Current Photo/Website

www.elizabethsmart.com ^ | 6/8/02 | www.elizabethsmart.com

[stlnative]

I wanted to post this more current picture of Elizabeth Smart at age 14



Someone has started a domain in Elizabeth's name. You can visit site to see more pictures of her and to find more out more information. www.elizabethsmart.com

[J.R.R. Tolkien]

Did the crackpots at Psitech know that the post about them would be removed???

[stlnative]

What the heck is wrong with these people...? First someone posts a wacko website that they see vision her as being dead and now Elizabeth is a celebrity because her case stands out more than other cases? (I glad the website link post is gone and I hope the poster was banned)

[J.R.R. Tolkien]

Tae Kwon Do is a good option.

Fairly easy to learn.

And of course there's pepper spray...

[wardaddy]

Boy this one is a heartbreaker....I don't think I could handle it if it were one of mine. I would have to either find the sumbitch and kill him or implode. I don't think I'd care too much about the consequences. Down here, folks every now and then get away with retribution killings. Either a no process by the local DA or jury nullification. That's where acrylic and ceramic knives could come in handy in a courtroom if you get my drift. That sorry POS that killed Polly Klass would have been perfect for that course of action....the dad might have even prevailed in court.

Where's yer pic on the homepage?...it's X marks the spot now.

Regards

[XGMan]

The Smart's should have had a dog (big or little). Odds are it would have been barking.
I'm an absolute believer in an "eye for and eye". Whatever he does to the kid should be done to him--before he gets the gas (or hanging in Utah?)

[bonfire]

Pepper spray, good idea. Now we have to make sure our daughters have pepper spray on their nightstand or under the pillow...........sigh......

[Timesink]

Such a pretty girl. And yet, I sense something behind those eyes. Sadness, perhaps. Just a hint of something that doesn't quite jibe with the big smile. In the youngest photo especially.

Everything I've read is that her parents have REALLY sheltered her. So maybe it's just unease at being in public, and/or sadness at being so disconnected from the world.

[Sir Gawain]

Just wondering why some children only get on milk cartons and some get national TV coverage, that's all.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I mentioned this before on the other thread. Most child abductions are at the hands of warring parents or relatives. They usually don't make the headlines. Stranger abductions are rare, and ones where an intruder breaks into a home and steals a child at gunpoint are even more rare. I think the ones that make headlines do so because of the circumstances surrounding them, not because one child is more important than another. All children are important.

[Marauder]

This kind of thing makes me burn with a rage that defies description. If I got my hands on a POS that would abduct a child I'm afraid I'd do something very un-Christian to him, like a one-way deep-sea fishing trip - let the sharks have him.

My prayers are with the family for the safe return of this little girl.

[AshleyTodd]

To: Sir Gawain

**I always wonder why certain missing children get elevated to celebrity status above others. **

Excuse me?!

34 posted on 6/7/02 11:07 PM Pacific by homeschool mama

Along this same line, it is ghoulish and disrespectful beyond words that threads are created over horrifying events such as these, (in the name of reporting the news) that turn into nothing more than chat threads, while real people are suffering excruciating pain, as 1000 posts are mindlessly made, just passing the time. Current events always create a lot of talk, but there's something almost sacrilegious about seeing hundreds of monotonous chatter at a time like this.

[goody2shooz]

Not credible.

Within a week of Chandra Levy's disappearance Psitech described where and under what circumstances she could be found. If the D.C. police had been more careful they could have found her last June/July when the crime scene was still relatively intact.

Do they have misses? Sure they do. But the police don't solve every crime committed, either.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Earth to newbie: This forum and threads on it exist to spread information. In cases like this 'knowledge is power'. More people across the US and parts of the world know more about this case now than they otherwise would if this Forum and thread did not exist. If this offends you, find another thread.

[philman_36]

A few lessons in Kick Boxing or some other defense class wouldn't hurt either.
More like survival techniques 101. Eye attacks, obscure items ie pens/pencils as lethal weapons, throat attacks, sucker punches...all kinds of tricks.
I feel sorry for anyone messing with my kids. I've made them understand that if abducted it is a life or death situation, not some silly schoolyard fight, and they better defend theirselves. Forget the kick boxing. You better teach them to get serious.
And to any who might say "you're teaching violence to your kids"...read the statement again and figure it out!

[wardaddy]

Utah used to have a choice of firing squad as well....Gary Gilmore?

[BunnySlippers]

There was some speculation (I don't know how valid) that the suspect may have been corresponding with her on the Internet.

[bonfire]

100% agree.

[AshleyTodd]

When you can show me that such chit-chat brings a missing child home, this newbie will consider changing their opinion.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

But they didn't find Chandra, did they? Either the DC police chose not to follow their tip or they were wrong.

I am not discounting psychic ability entirely. But any time a person specifically goes after this ability it becomes hit and miss at best. That is a whole other realm that is extremely hard to navigate. It is a realm which is full of deception and hard to decipher messages. Often a psychic will get an accurate picture but be way off in their interpretation. The average individual does not have the skills to navigate this realm. It becomes a Pandora's box. The government scrapped this program for a reason.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Use your common sense. Spread of information is essential in finding any missing person. Who elected you the new thread police anyway?