At the risk of initiating Rant #3...
vraiblonde said:
I'm at the grocery store checkout and what do you suppose is staring me in the face? "Natalee drugged and forced into sex film" on the front page of the National Enquirer.
There should be a law against crap like that. How must her parents feel having their daughter's face plastered all over these tabloids with some lurid headline? This stuff is just heinous.
...I think, after two months, Natalies parents are numb and immune to what some rag has to say. They've been dealing with facing the near certain fact that their girl is dead and near certainty she died some horrific murder novel death and that they may never be able to bury her at home or ever know what happened.
To that end, keeping her disappearance current in whatever fashion may serve to help keep up the pressure for the answers, pressure which Aruba CLEARLY wishes would go away.
They must be losing millions per month from people who won't go nor allow their kids to go to that island. Allegations that the government is allowing snuff film perpetrators go free gains more attention, more pressure.
In the mean time the Star is putting in print what people are speculating and perhaps things they've heard, things the parents may have been told to prepare themselves for. Printed words cannot make their agony any worse.
I am not trying to Saint this kind of stuff; the rags are in it for the money, not public service. But it may do some good. The real bad guys ain't talking just yet.
and a game of Freecell.
Can I be your Pepa?
