AL Teen Missing in Aruba - Page 17

agzg · #**241** 11-23-2010, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

Show me a distraught and desperate family that is of lower socioeconomic status and/or racial and ethnic minority and I'll show "you" a distraught and desperate family that wouldn't receive as much media attention and definitely wouldn't be able to meet the accused, outside of a courtoom/criminal justice system context, and have it televised.

True story.

Kappamd · #**242** 11-23-2010, 12:50 PM

The mystery continues

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/23...alee-holloway/

DrPhil · #**243** 11-23-2010, 12:55 PM

Rest in peace to whomever's jawbone that is.

Perhaps that could lead to the end of a cold case.

honeychile · #**244** 11-23-2010, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Kappamd

The mystery continues

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/23...alee-holloway/

This isn't going to help Aruba win any "Safest Island For High School Graduates" awards.

Alumiyum · #**245** 11-23-2010, 02:45 PM

Personally, I'm glad her mother is still fighting for her, and I always keep in mind that for those that do not have a child missing that will probably never, ever be found, there is no possible way to come close to understanding how she feels. (Which also goes for her younger siblings, father, and step mother)

I can't help in a way being glad it's not her on some level, but on the other hand I know there's no way she's alive, so logically, it would be better if they find something. I really don't think they ever will, though.

MysticCat · #**246** 11-23-2010, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

And, as always, Ghostwriter comes late to ride someone's nuts and fight a battle that is already over.

And to trashtalk his brother -- the same brother he previously said doesn't "understand the meaning of 'a gentlemen [sic] and a man of honor.'"

KSig RC · #**247** 11-23-2010, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

And to trashtalk his brother -- the same brother he previously said doesn't "understand the meaning of 'a gentlemen [sic] and a man of honor.'"

I'm just happy he posted a picture of me where my tail covers the part he's really embarrassed by.

agzg · #**248** 11-23-2010, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by KSig RC

I'm just happy he posted a picture of me where my tail covers the part he's really embarrassed by.

LOL.

DeltaZeta09 · #**249** 11-23-2010, 06:03 PM

Reading through the threads, and how some of you responded to Alumiyum, it's embarrassing that you would associate yourselves with the Greek community. This entire thread has been about how "if she is so smart, why would she go off with some guys?" and how pretty little white girl gets attention. HELLO!? WHO CARES? The point is some normal, incredibly nice girl died in an otherwise paradise location and everyone, people who didn't know her included, have the right to care about her story hour-by-hour. I can't believe some of you are so heartless that you say things like how it's a moral lesson for others. Honestly, I find that most of the people on this website are clearly bored and unhappy. Most of the posts are negative, pompous, or sarcastic. You're supposed to be leaders in the community - or at least my initiation told us to be - and that does not include the mockery of an innocent girls death.

knight_shadow · #**250** 11-23-2010, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaZeta09

Reading through the threads, and how some of you responded to Alumiyum, it's embarrassing that you would associate yourselves with the Greek community. This entire thread has been about how "if she is so smart, why would she go off with some guys?" and how pretty little white girl gets attention. HELLO!? WHO CARES? The point is some normal, incredibly nice girl died in an otherwise paradise location and everyone, people who didn't know her included, have the right to care about her story hour-by-hour. I can't believe some of you are so heartless that you say things like how it's a moral lesson for others. Honestly, I find that most of the people on this website are clearly bored and unhappy. Most of the posts are negative, pompous, or sarcastic. You're supposed to be leaders in the community - or at least my initiation told us to be - and that does not include the mockery of an innocent girls death.

Please shut the hell up.

Munchkin03 · #**251** 11-23-2010, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Please shut the hell up.

Awww, you beat me to it.

knight_shadow · #**252** 11-23-2010, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Awww, you beat me to it.

It's because I'm bored and unhappy, with way too much time on my hands.

DeltaZeta09 · #**253** 11-23-2010, 06:20 PM

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knight_shadow · #**254** 11-23-2010, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaZeta09

Oh wow, so offended. I would say you're "real cool" for being an adult and swearing off on a chat board, but let's be real, you realized in junior high no one was ever going to consider any of you cool. It IS embarrassing that you all spoke of NH that way, and the fact that you can't even respond to the content of the criticism shows your lack of character further.

"Real cool" as opposed to "fake cool," eh?

Look -- this thread has been around for 5 years. If you'd actually read it, you'd see people saying "Wow, this is terrible, BUT _____." You can only be sympathetic for so long (considering most of us don't know her). At some point this DISCUSSION BOARD must become a vehicle for DISCUSSION.

And the whole "you should be ashamed to be Greek!" tirade is played. If you had been Greek for longer than a year (judging by the '09), you'd realize that being a part of an organization doesn't make you a drone who's incapable of engaging in conversations, discussions, or arguments.

So, again -- please shut the hell up.

KillarneyRose · #**255** 11-23-2010, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by DeltaZeta09

Oh wow, so offended. I would say you're "real cool" for being an adult and swearing off on a chat board, but let's be real, you realized in junior high no one was ever going to consider any of you cool. It IS embarrassing that you all spoke of NH that way, and the fact that you can't even respond to the content of the criticism shows your lack of character further.

Honestly, it isn't like that at all. I've read this thread on and off since it started and although people have expressed frustration at a perceived abundance of media attention when someone like Natalee disappears versus when someone of less means disappears, no one wishes ill will toward her. I can't imagine anyone would argue, even posters who doubted the wisdom of Natalee going off with The Sociopath, that it is a terrible tragedy.

That said, I am sad that it wasn't Natalee's jawbone that was found. Partly because that means that there is yet another young woman out there who is unaccounted for and partly because I want her poor mother to have closure. What an unimaginable burden it must be to wake up every morning and know your child is missing and most likely dead, but you don't know for sure.