Let’s just detain the whole damn island, shall we?
I’m getting sucked into the story. Kind of against my will, because frankly I am sick of the following trend: “Only if you are a cute white chick and preferably pregnant will you get national news coverage as a missing person.”. God forbid if you are a fat homely middle-aged woman with a mole on your nose and you happen to go missing. You’ll be out of luck. And GOD HELP YOU if you are a minority or a man. Go missing for all we care, get your head chopped off in a smelly ravine … we don’t care.Your family can call the local news stations all they want … but if your high school picture shows a troll-like pimply dude with horrible teeth … nobody’s gonna jump to promote the story.
The Aruba case is, actually, quite interesting to me, because of the intrigue that appears to be going on behind the scenes. CW’s been posting about it a bit, and his posts have led me to Scared Monkeys, which appears to be information central for this whole thing. Here is today’s post. I can certainly understand the frustration of Holloway’s family, having to deal with such a different system, and having no sense of what is actually going on, and nobody having been charged yet – even though they are detaining everyone in sight. (Hyperbole is my friend.)
Dutch father and Dutch son (whose face creeps me out, by the way – I know guys like that. I look at that kid’s face and I can see that something is missing there – like, uhm, kindness, maybe? Concern for others?) – now both “detained”.
(Oh, and to connect the dots on my blog here today: This photo of the Dutch parents being interviewed is from an interview they did with Fox News’ Greta van Susteren, who also happens to be a lockstep member of the glazed-eyed thetan-fighting brigade!!)
This IS beginning to be interesting. It’s a good thing I cancelled my cable.
greta is a scientologist?!
Yup.
Yah, same here. Sucked in against my will. What got me interested was the judge/father being arrested today. How could I resist?
Yup. At some point, it is useless to fight back, RTG.
that seems so strange to be one if you are a journalist,don’t you think?
It seems very weird indeed, siobhan. Did you know that Beck is one? He was “born into it”. His parents are Scientologists, and they raised him in it.
The whole thing is so weird. I really must stop being so fixated on it. It’s taking over my life.
Apparently she quashed some stories critical of the cult while at CNN. It might make a lot of sense to the cult to place people in news media. It is a bit surprising that a person whose profession is skeptical inquiry would fall for that though, though, even accounting for the fact that journalists are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.
You know what? I can’t stop. The other day, I sent a colleague to the Rick Ross site (which of course, I found through you). Today a *different* colleague comes up to me and is like, “do you have a minute?” and proceeds to talk about the Katie & Tom thing as the most bizarrely engrossing story. But now this one is weird too. Personally, I think that the father found out something the son did and covered it up.
Ann – hahahaha
That Rick Ross site is a black hole. I have to force myself to not go there if I have other stuff to get done, because HOURS will go by.
I love that a co-worker would come up to you and need to discuss TomKat. That is beautiful.
Yeah, and it seems like everybody’s caving in now … the stories are crumbling like a house of cards. I feel bad for the other two guys who have now been detained for … I don’t know … 2 weeks now?
The truth will come out. It’s bound to.
“It is a bit surprising that a person whose profession is skeptical inquiry would fall for that though….”
Nobody’s easier to con than a con-man. She is professionally skeptical, so is predisposed to random skepticism. The “S”s (not to be confused with “s”s) are randomly skeptical of a wide variety of elements of consensus society.
Similarly, conspiracy theorists of the more raving sort come to that position because they don’t believe in the usual stories and many are devoted retailers of multiple conspiracy theories. Yet they fail to show even the most rudimentary skepticism about the descents into the absurd that they profess. I suspect this is because they are not actually skeptical but rather only skeptical of things that fit a certain pattern.
News reader as “S” seems a natural fit to me.
I guess this means that Greta can’t be a Jedi Knight…
No, Noggie, but like Tom she can be a Sith Lord.
I had forgotten that Greta was a disciple of Xenu (foe of Xenu?). I remember that she actually got in trouble at CNN for excessive L-Ron zeal.
Perhaps it makes me unacceptably politically incorrect, but I cannot really trust someone who is a zealous follower of any belief system that is demonstrably false. (It’s possible to make a credible argument against evolution, even if it isn’t correct – but not that humans evolved from clams.)
I think that Doug is on to something there. Randomly skeptical of only those things which the chattering classes say it is acceptable to be skeptical of.