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Here is Tom Smart's "beautiful story" comment. The word he actually used is "wonderful".


Tom Smart, message to the kidnapper tonight, what do you have to say?

SMART: I believe that this person is not a bad person at all. And our family has felt strongly for a while. And there's been a comfort here for a while. This is just somebody who actually likes Elizabeth. We don't know -- we have issues. We've been ripped apart by our polygraph. I don't know who has done what with my brothers.

We all have issues. Anybody's taken -- we've been ripped apart to the core. And we understand that everybody has issues. And we pray hard that whoever this is will know that the family is full of compassion towards everybody because this is a wonderful story, in a lot of ways.



http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/12/lkl.00.html

[Spirited]

Thank you for the post.

No replies from those who attacked so vehemently?

It is a revealing article. I know relatively little about the case but I suppose that I am beginning to surmise what the real "rub" is here.

[Pagey]

Tom Smart, message to the kidnapper tonight, what do you have to say?

SMART: I believe that this person is not a bad person at all. And our family has felt strongly for a while. And there's been a comfort here for a while. This is just somebody who actually likes Elizabeth. We don't know -- we have issues. We've been ripped apart by our polygraph. I don't know who has done what with my brothers. We all have issues. Anybody's taken -- we've been ripped apart to the core. And we understand that everybody has issues.(Note: There he goes, giving us the #42 treatment) And we pray hard, that whoever this is, will know that the family is full of compassion towards everybody, because this is a wonderful story, in a lot of ways.

Really Tom, you mean Elizabeth being forced to have sex with that scum of a pedophile, as his 'alleged' wife, while she was on her 9 month coming of age Trip, Tom? Is that the wonderful part of the story Tom? A complete and utter whack-job that guy certainly is. I'd sure like to know about those issues that came up on Toms and Elizabeths' Dad's polygraph tests....... Thank God they dressed like weirdo's, were spotted by locals and Elizabeth Smart is home safe today.

[Illbay]

I already responded to this. IMO, the police told the Smart family spokesmen to make sure that any comments they might make regarding the abductor should be of a certain character.