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This "family fight" business is nonsense. They have six children. They probably had to go from one function to another. That's happened to us before when our six children were small. Nobody gets hysterical. The family saw her get her awards. They are obviously supportive of her harp performances. She wouldn't get excited because they had to miss one.

What is with all you people who want to believe the worst about this poor family?

Again, if you read the story, and all the others on this topic that have come out in the last 24 hours: The dad reported the open garage door to the police during his initial interviews on June 6. Read the story before you start spinning your mean-spirited theories. The media have just now picked up on it.

The business about the family prayer being released for PR purposes is another silly assumption. It looks like the media have just gotten hold of details of the initial interview of Ed Smart. He was obviously asked to detail the family's activities on the night of the abduction. Mormon families are supposed to have family prayer every day, either in the morning, or before bedtime. This is not unusual. It was the reporter who picked out this detail to report, not the Smart family.

What is with all you people who want to believe the worst about this poor family?

That's not it at all. We are simply aware of the fact that stranger abudcutions are rare. Especially home invasion stranger abductions. Especially ones where there are no signs of entry.

What is with all you people who want to believe the worst about this poor family?

I think that deamonizing the family is some people's way of fooling themselves into thinking it can't happen to them.

The JBR's parents dressed her up as a slut and taught her to strut for grown men, the Van-Damns were swingers who's 'alternative' lifestyle opened the door to their child's abductor. We hear about their kids missing and don't don't feel to threatened because they are not like us.

They don't want to think that a strong, healthy, traditional family would have this horror happen to them, so they look for the slightest sign of something odd to exagerate and deamonize them with. Then they can go on thinking they are safe.

What is with all you people who want to believe the worst about this poor family?

Good question. The family has been raked over the coals here and I wonder how the questioners would behave, if placed in the same horrible position? (For the benefit of the really stupid, that's not a threat at all, just a question.)

What is with all you people who want to believe the worst about this poor family?

Amen, LL and pass the ammunition.

I have followed the threads on this for nearly two weeks and have been struck by the unceasing cynicism and malice of many freepers. It seems to be the current zeitgest of this forum that well-reasoned opinions have given way to knee-jerk mean-spirited opinions disguised as "hard-nosed" analysis.

true conservatives should be aware that lazy thinking and contrarian opinions are no substitute for fair, reasoned analyses.

I think true to freeper form, people here don't just buy what a person says no matter what side of the story they are on. I don't think its meant to be 'mean-spirited'. At least not all of them that question this dad and family. You seem quite quick to defend a person/a family you know nothing about. It certainly isn't out of the realm of possibilities that someone in the family is involved.

The family saw her get her awards. They are obviously supportive of her harp performances. She wouldn't get excited because they had to miss one.

As someone who is continually late for just about everything, I do not necessarily see that a family fight has to be immediately suspected as a concern in this close family. But I do see this as unusual in a family whose members are responsible. If Elizabeth was scheduled to play the harp, I find it very unusual that she was late for her performance. Even I am not late if I have a performance that I have committed to. While it may mean nothing, I think it bears investigation and I hope the SLC police have looked into it.

Just to clarify, the story was that the whole family, including Elizabeth, were so late for the 8th grade graduation ceremony at her middle school, that her scheduled harp performance did not take place--- not that she did play, but the parents were late and did not hear it.

You probably understood that; I just wanted to clarify it for others....

What is with all you people who want to believe the worst about this poor family?)))

I'm with you. I've watched the dad, and he seems stupified with horror, grief and helplessness and sounds incoherent and bizarre when interviewed.

Heavens, I'd be incoherent and weird, too. Frankly, I don't see how anyone could pass a lie detector under these circumstances...I know I'd be too weirded out to make any sense...

Reminds me of that mom whose baby was dragged away by animals in Australia...she behaved "inappropriately" for the camers, so the whole world lost their minds and started hating her.

Where does it say every citizen must give a polished performance for the cameras when a life is falling apart?

The fact that they raised this adorable girl and five other children ought to speak for a lot. Think how quickly the Van Dam lifestyle was exposed.