Teenager Elizabeth Smart Found Alive

I gave my daughter a hug. But she made me chase her around the house first! 9 year olds are odd!

It's nice to get some good news for a change. I thought she was dead for sure.
 
But did she want to be found?

Miss Smart is an interesting case indeed. No doubt most people are glad she's returned to her family. It appears right now that she had ample opportunity to flee her "captors" during her association with them. I'm curious why she didn't if that option was available.
 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/884413.asp?0cv=CA00

"One reporter, Mike Carter of The Seattle Times, told MSNBC’s Dan Abrams he had received information that Elizabeth had been stopped by police “in other states,” and that the girl “gave fake names in those states.”"

Now that is just downright odd.
 
Re: But did she want to be found?

Lemastre said:
Miss Smart is an interesting case indeed. No doubt most people are glad she's returned to her family. It appears right now that she had ample opportunity to flee her "captors" during her association with them. I'm curious why she didn't if that option was available.
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Have you paid attention to anything that's been reported on the news? Gimme a break.
 
budddyh said:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/884413.asp?0cv=CA00

"One reporter, Mike Carter of The Seattle Times, told MSNBC’s Dan Abrams he had received information that Elizabeth had been stopped by police “in other states,” and that the girl “gave fake names in those states.”"

Now that is just downright odd.
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Wow! Does this always work? ( giving fake names )



I guess you just need to make sure your dog, disguised as a Pit Bull, doesn't jump out first..:D
 
Didnt the police beat to death the #1 suspect in this case. Guess they were wrong about the guy. Another example as to the reliabilty of tourture.
 
Diogenes said:


Thanks..

makes this:


Pretty disingenuous...
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It was meant to be disingenouous. Although he did die under suspcious circumstances. (were you expecting "Cause of death: Multiple phone book trama to the head")


Thanks for the link Renata
 
What a great outcome!!! As a Daddy to two daughters I couldn't be happier.

However....get a load of the contradictions that will soon become more and more apparent.

Dad is thanking God for a "miracle"
The family is very religious and believe Christ was looking out for their girl.

But #1...the family allowed this creep in their house that they met panhandling in Salt Lake City. He was dressed up like Jesus and was a street preacher who gave his name as "Emmanuel". They allowed him in their house...with access to their kids because he fit into the Christian mythos.

Conclusion:
Had this family been more skeptical and less religious, their daughter never would have been taken in the first place. I bet anything that what will come out is that this girl cooperated with "Emmanuel" because he indoctrinated her into his own little religious cult. :rolleyes:

Religion sucks.
-zilla
 
Rik:

Don't forget, this family prayed for the safe return, and, THank Ed, their prayers were answered...

What about all of the un-answered prayers for missing children who are never returned home? Certainly, those parents aren't praying correctly...

Clearly, God favors upper-middle class mormons, at least this week.
 
rikzilla said:

Had this family been more skeptical and less religious, their daughter never would have been taken in the first place.
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So you agree with American that the parents are really at fault. Nice.
 
Tmy said:


It was meant to be disingenouous. Although he did die under suspcious circumstances. (were you expecting "Cause of death: Multiple phone book trama to the head")

Thanks for the link Renata
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We were all waiting for something to back up our position on " the reliabilty of tourture"...

We are still waiting...

I'm convinced it was the 'sack lunches'...

If he had had some ' hot meals', he would possibly be out on parole, ....again, ..... by now...
 
sundog said:



So you agree with American that the parents are really at fault. Nice.
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Who would you say is at fault? (besides the crazy perp...he was just doing what crazy perps do.)

Who would you say was at fault for the sinking of the Titanic? (and you can't blame the iceberg either....it was just sitting there doing what icebergs do)

Liberals always hand-wring when it comes to assigning responsibility. We're always asked to examine "root causes"...or that one culture cannot pass judgement on another culture. Bull$hit. Freedom must come hand in hand with responsibility.

-zilla
 
rikzilla said:


Liberals...-zilla
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Must you paint EVERYTHING with your I-hate-liberals paintroller? You are getting worse than JK. You are revealing yourself to be a simpleminded boor.

Does anyone besides Rik the Nutcase see a political angle here???
 
from the CNN report:

After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Mitchell changed his look, Tom Smart said. He shucked the robes, shaved his beard and appeared as a "clean-cut" panhandler in the fall of 2001 when Lois Smart, Elizabeth's mother, encountered him.

"Lois gave him $5 and asked him if he wanted to come up and do some work. She was impressed by him," the uncle said.

Which places Rik's uninformed leap to judgement:

Had this family been more skeptical and less religious, their daughter never would have been taken in the first place.

squarely in the sewer where it belongs, with American's uninformed ravings.

Nice company you keep, Rik.

This is where a rational person would say "Oops, I was wrong". Not that that means anything to YOU, of course; you never back down, you're always right.
 
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