Justice for Joran van der Sloot: throw him overboard.

[Jenny_Jackson]

Someone could annonymously call Homeland InSecurity and suggest the Van der Sloot brat is a Jihadis Terrorist. Waterboarding will get the truth out of him

 

[shereads]

Someone could annonymously call Homeland InSecurity and suggest the Van der Sloot brat is a Jihadis Terrorist. Waterboarding will get the truth out of him

Won't work. He's even whiter than Mitt Romney. Everybody knows terrorists have swarthy complexions.

 

[rgraham666]

Won't work. He's even whiter than Mitt Romney. Everybody knows terrorists have swarthy complexions.

Except the ones from Bosnia. Who often look Scandinavian.

Yes, person from Homeland Security reading this. Many Muslims look like Scandinavians!

That's sure going to screw your profiling up, isn't it?

 

[Boxlicker101]

I still think it's a long throw from "didn't get the result we wanted" to "corruption." It would take stunning naivete to assume that the unsolved murder of a tourist, on an island that depends heavily on tourist dollars, was just going to blow over. I think it's more likely that the evidence they needed simply wasn't there. If the victim died in a way that didn't include bloodletting, what were they ever likely to find? All three men admitted being with her, so evidence that she was in contact with them proves only what they've already admitted. As little as we may like it, there are some cases for which it's very easy to see the most likely answer and very difficult to prove it.

They might have found her body or some of her possession, which could have been incriminating, if they had looked. They didn't, though, until after her killers or abductors had plenty of time to dispose of such evidence.

This was not an unsolved murder, just a mysterious disappearance. Maybe they thought that might blow over.

There is more than one kind of corruption too. If Joran's wealthy father paid off the authorities, that would have earned him and his son time to dispose of the evidence by dropping it miles out in the Caribbean Sea.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Won't work. He's even whiter than Mitt Romney. Everybody knows terrorists have swarthy complexions.

Does that include Timothy McVeigh and John Walker Lindh?

 

[shereads]

Does that include Timothy McVeigh and John Walker Lindh?

"That was sarcasm, Charlie Brown. Don't you know sarcasm when you hear it?"

~ Lucy

 

[BlackShanglan]

They might have found her body or some of her possession, which could have been incriminating, if they had looked. They didn't, though, until after her killers or abductors had plenty of time to dispose of such evidence.

This was not an unsolved murder, just a mysterious disappearance. Maybe they thought that might blow over.

There is more than one kind of corruption too. If Joran's wealthy father paid off the authorities, that would have earned him and his son time to dispose of the evidence by dropping it miles out in the Caribbean Sea.

I'm not saying that these things are impossible - although I was under the impression that the authorities had the three main suspects under close surveillance from very early on in the game, and indeed, if they did not know where the victim's body was, that would be a very good strategy, as there would be a good chance that one of them would go to the crime scene on some errand or another. Whatever the reality, my point is that while any of the above is possible, there's no strong evidence that it's the case - not enough that it seems fair, to me, to boycott the entire country.

 

[shereads]

I'm not saying that these things are impossible - although I was under the impression that the authorities had the three main suspects under close surveillance from very early on in the game, and indeed, if they did not know where the victim's body was, that would be a very good strategy, as there would be a good chance that one of them would go to the crime scene on some errand or another. Whatever the reality, my point is that while any of the above is possible, there's no strong evidence that it's the case - not enough that it seems fair, to me, to boycott the entire country.

You're right, of course.

But still.

Edited to add: I suspect that Nancy Grace's producers had something to do with Holloway's disappearance...Can Van der Sloot be charged with being named Van der Sloot, or is that legal in Aruba?

 

[BlackShanglan]

Can Van der Sloot be charged with being named Van der Sloot, or is that legal in Aruba?

It seems incredible in an modern industrialized nation, but he cannot. It was legalized under the Guacamole Act of 1963.

 

[cloudy]

It seems incredible in an modern industrialized nation, but he cannot. It was legalized under the Guacamole Act of 1963.

I've heard that "Van der Sloot" is a very common name in Constantinople.

 

[rgraham666]

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

 

[cantdog]

You're quick, Rob. Love They.

 

[cloudy]

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

Turks? But, Constantinople is in Greece, where the PERSIANS live.



Ask Shang.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Turks? But, Constantinople is in Greece, where the PERSIANS live.



Ask Shang.

This is true. I stopped by there on my way to Instanbul.

 

[Boxlicker101]

You're right, of course.

But still.

Edited to add: I suspect that Nancy Grace's producers had something to do with Holloway's disappearance...Can Van der Sloot be charged with being named Van der Sloot, or is that legal in Aruba?

It is legal, but he has to pronounce the last part to rhyme with "boat".

BOAT!!?? THAT'S IT!!! They used a BOAT to dispose of the body!!

 

[Boxlicker101]

This is true. I stopped by there on my way to Instanbul.

That's good. Oddly enough, if you had a date in Constantinople, she should have been waiting in Istanbul.

 

[BlackShanglan]

It is legal, but he has to pronounce the last part to rhyme with "boat".

BOAT!!?? THAT'S!!! They used a BOAT to dispose of the body!!

My God! He's got it!

 

[SlickTony]

I seem to recall that even though OJ was acquitted of the murder, he was deemed culpable in a civil court, and the judgment against him was ruinous. He may have a small coterie of hangers-on, but he hasn't worked in years, and nobody will give a thin dime for any of his mementos.

 

[shereads]

I seem to recall that even though OJ was acquitted of the murder, he was deemed culpable in a civil court, and the judgment against him was ruinous. He may have a small coterie of hangers-on, but he hasn't worked in years, and nobody will give a thin dime for any of his mementos.

He lives in a big house with a pool in Miami. Not the kind of neighborhood he'd have lived in before the civil trial, but rich by most people's standards. He never lacks for golf partners or girlfriends. And I've seen him twice in restaurants - signing authographs.

One of the people who asked for his autograph was a co-worker of mine. He fawned. O.J. beamed. He loves attention, and gets a lot of it.

Losing that lawsuit doesn't seem to have caused him to suffer terribly. I imagine his children have suffered unspeakably, living with and loving the man that their maternal grandparents believe killed their mother. But O.J. himself lives a rich, busy golfer's life.

 

[Boxlicker101]

He lives in a big house with a pool in Miami. Not the kind of neighborhood he'd have lived in before the civil trial, but rich by most people's standards. He never lacks for golf partners or girlfriends. And I've seen him twice in restaurants - signing authographs.

One of the people who asked for his autograph was a co-worker of mine. He fawned. O.J. beamed. He loves attention, and gets a lot of it.

Losing that lawsuit doesn't seem to have caused him to suffer terribly. I imagine his children have suffered unspeakably, living with and loving the man that their maternal grandparents believe killed their mother. But O.J. himself lives a rich, busy golfer's life.

OJ gets a very generous pension from his years in the NFL, and is very well off by most standards. There are always women who have the hots for notorious men such as he, and men who want some of the notoriety ( and some of the women) to rub off on them. Of course, there are also some idiots, besides those on his jury, who think he was innocent.

He used to rake it in from endorsements. Those are gone, and probably even any residuals, because none of the advertisers is crazy enough to want to be associated with OJ. I sympathize with his children too, bcause they are now at an age where they are learning about what happened to their mother. He got away with murder.

 

[rgraham666]

They may not have thought he was innocent. Just that they thought he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Different things altogether.

 

[McKenna]

The part about all this that's fittingly ironic is the literal translation of van der Sloot's last name: From the ditch.

 

[rgraham666]

The part about all this that's fittingly ironic is the literal translation of van der Sloot's last name: From the ditch.

Snicker.

 

[neonlyte]

Except the ones from Bosnia. Who often look Scandinavian.

Yes, person from Homeland Security reading this. Many Muslims look like Scandinavians!

That's sure going to screw your profiling up, isn't it?

Jesus... and I go to Norway such a lot and never suspected. In fact, I had two 'terrorists' in my house last weekend masquerading as Norwegian doctors. Though in fairness, they were female and everyone knows terrorists are male, even those from Instantbull.

 

[SlickTony]

He lives in a big house with a pool in Miami. Not the kind of neighborhood he'd have lived in before the civil trial, but rich by most people's standards. He never lacks for golf partners or girlfriends. And I've seen him twice in restaurants - signing authographs.

One of the people who asked for his autograph was a co-worker of mine. He fawned. O.J. beamed. He loves attention, and gets a lot of it.

Losing that lawsuit doesn't seem to have caused him to suffer terribly. I imagine his children have suffered unspeakably, living with and loving the man that their maternal grandparents believe killed their mother. But O.J. himself lives a rich, busy golfer's life.

I hadn't realized he was that well off still. Girlfriends? Amazing. Why not just date Bluebeard and have done with it? I blame gothic novels. No matter how guilty the man looks, it always turns out that all the killings were done by someone else.