The Natalee Holloway saga.
I don’t know about most of you but other than not watching certain stations, there is no way to avoid this poor girls disappearance and the anguish her family and friends are going through…I feel their pain and hope it’s solved soon. However I cannot help but compare the unprecedented publicity her story has got from various media outlets. I’m in the UK and other than a mention here or there it’s early days as expected there is nothing here. On the other hand I have my TV tuned to Fox news all day most days (sometimes CNN) and it is covered 24/7.
Greta Van Susteren bless her heart has been in Aruba for a month covering the story..a whole month where at one point she was joined by Geraldo. Imagine that. All these reporters covering the disappearance of an 18-year-old girl. Yet so many others disappear and not even a mention. Admittedly the disappearances of prostitutes from truck stops and close by all over the US hasn’t raised the same interest as Natalee’s. But why? Let’s face it, there’s Natalee – a young attractive blonde haired, all American girl next door. Popular, bright and was already accepted as a pre med student at the University of Alabama. Lived in a nice neighbourhood, middle-class family with connections. Set’s off for a week for spring break fun in Exotic Aruba. The night before the departure flight home to Alabama, she disappears after an evening of fun partying with friends and a supposed tryst with a local boy…well not native Aruban but Dutch.
Her mother, arrives with other relatives to find her daughter and is aided by reporters from Fox and their camera men. They search, they badger the Aruban authorities, they beg they plead. Beth her mum does what any mother would do but unlike many others she doesn’t shy away from the media and uses them as much as the media vultures are using her and her families anguish to help their ratings. What seriously pissed me off is the way they have brought the FBI into it and the constant putting down of the Aruban police and their investigative skills. Sure they made some serious blunders earlier on in the investigation, but that doesn’t give them the right to put these people down because they are a very small nation. For Christ sake they are not use to high crime and the depravity we have become sensitised to. Then the piece de résistance, the stupid back water bigots have from Alabama (apologies to some of you native ‘Bamans) have the nerve to ask people to boycott Aruba. What for? Aren’t people killed every day in the USA and don’t some of their murders receive less than adequate investigation from the respective law enforcement departments? Let’s not also forget Alabama upholds the death penalty and has several people who probably shouldn’t be on death row and even worse has executed innocent people or those who were mentally ill. No Alabama, the world doesn’t stop because one of your daughters has gone missing and is probably dead.
I digress. Where is the publicity for the prostitutes from the streets of America that are found headless in garbage bags and the “minority” children who disappear or are murdered? Where is your outrage? Where are your cameras? I don’t see goddamn radio stations raising money and doing for them what they have done for others like Natalee.
Yeah I know the answer to my questions.
I wish Natalees family all the best and peace.
http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?itemid=909
Greta Van Susteren bless her heart has been in Aruba for a month covering the story..a whole month where at one point she was joined by Geraldo. Imagine that. All these reporters covering the disappearance of an 18-year-old girl. Yet so many others disappear and not even a mention. Admittedly the disappearances of prostitutes from truck stops and close by all over the US hasn’t raised the same interest as Natalee’s. But why? Let’s face it, there’s Natalee – a young attractive blonde haired, all American girl next door. Popular, bright and was already accepted as a pre med student at the University of Alabama. Lived in a nice neighbourhood, middle-class family with connections. Set’s off for a week for spring break fun in Exotic Aruba. The night before the departure flight home to Alabama, she disappears after an evening of fun partying with friends and a supposed tryst with a local boy…well not native Aruban but Dutch.
Her mother, arrives with other relatives to find her daughter and is aided by reporters from Fox and their camera men. They search, they badger the Aruban authorities, they beg they plead. Beth her mum does what any mother would do but unlike many others she doesn’t shy away from the media and uses them as much as the media vultures are using her and her families anguish to help their ratings. What seriously pissed me off is the way they have brought the FBI into it and the constant putting down of the Aruban police and their investigative skills. Sure they made some serious blunders earlier on in the investigation, but that doesn’t give them the right to put these people down because they are a very small nation. For Christ sake they are not use to high crime and the depravity we have become sensitised to. Then the piece de résistance, the stupid back water bigots have from Alabama (apologies to some of you native ‘Bamans) have the nerve to ask people to boycott Aruba. What for? Aren’t people killed every day in the USA and don’t some of their murders receive less than adequate investigation from the respective law enforcement departments? Let’s not also forget Alabama upholds the death penalty and has several people who probably shouldn’t be on death row and even worse has executed innocent people or those who were mentally ill. No Alabama, the world doesn’t stop because one of your daughters has gone missing and is probably dead.
I digress. Where is the publicity for the prostitutes from the streets of America that are found headless in garbage bags and the “minority” children who disappear or are murdered? Where is your outrage? Where are your cameras? I don’t see goddamn radio stations raising money and doing for them what they have done for others like Natalee.
Yeah I know the answer to my questions.
I wish Natalees family all the best and peace.
http://allspinzone.com/blog/index.php?itemid=909
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