Yes sir, we will withhold our personal opinions due to your knowledgeable insight and expert analysis ... is it expert analysis, or did some one watch Primetime Live
Bill O'Reilly already asked that question. (About the sexual assault). Twice. He sure wanted to be the first to get that angle. Something seems strange. Although they could have played psychological mind games, wouldn't the average kid try to run away after so long? I would think your average kid would get very homesick.
Most people over the age of 30 know about Patty Hearst and the Stockholm Syndrom without the help of some TV show. Im not sayin that glynch didnt get his info from Primetime Live, but it wouldnt be unusual for someone to already know of that particular case....see AB's post. Im inclined to believe that it may have been a combination of TSS and maybe a bit of brainwashing that caused the girl to seemingly not attempt to escape.
here's what Drudge is reporting this morning: XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU MARCH 13, 2003 20:02:38 ET XXXXX 'YOU THINK I AM THE GIRL WHO RAN AWAY,' SMART TOLD COP "You guys think I'm that Elizabeth Smart girl who ran away," Elizabeth Smart challenged police officer Bill O'Neal the moment she was found by authorities. Smart's startling words have ignited a firestorm around Salt Lake City: Was the teen unknowingly conveying the unthinkable -- she deliberately ran away from home?! While local and federal authorities work on the likely premise the girl was taken by force and later brainwashed, questions of a possible runaway scenario began to creep into the picture, sources said late Thursday. One top federal source said the case remains "utterly baffling." Just as NBC reported teen Elizabeth had a "ceremonial marriage" to the drifter on the night she went missing. MORE Dressed in a wig, veil and sunglasses, Smart told the police officers who discovered her Wednesday in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy that her name was "Augustine." She said that the couple accompanying her - Brian Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee - were her parents. But police became suspicious of the young girl who kept calling herself "Augustine". “She said she's a child from God, a minister of the Church of Christ and she along with her parents are passing on the gospel throughout the United States," said officer Victor Quesada. Smart became agitated when officers asked her to remove her wig and sunglasses, and told them she recently had eye surgery. "She kind of just blurted out, 'I know who you think I am. You guys think I'm that Elizabeth Smart girl who ran away,''' officer O'Neal said. For nearly 30-minutes, she denied she was Elizabeth. She expressed concern about what would happen to the man and woman she had been living with. [Is it possible for someone who has been completely brainwashed to simply rebound hours later? The family said Elizabeth shared hugs and jokes with her parents and siblings just hours after being separated from Mitchell and Barzee. Elizabeth even gave an impromptu harp concert. "She's like totally talking, totally casual," said Elizabeth's cousin, Sierra, 22. "She got all new clothes. She gave a fashion show." One case insider asked: "Just when did the deprogramming occur here?"] KNIFE OR GUN? Elizabeth's father, Ed Smart, said the little miss described being taken from her home last June at knife point. At the time, Elizabeth's sister, Mary Katherine, then 9, said Elizabeth was taken by a man with a gun. 'I remember hearing Mary Katherine saying 'You're not going to find her. A man took her. A man took her with a gun,' Mr. Smart said months after the disappearance. Unidentified fingerprints found in the bedroom of Elizabeth Smart were compared to 84 thousand fingerprints on record -- including those of suspect Brian David Mitchell -- without a match ever being made, the AP reported late Thursday. MORE Meanwhile, intrigue swirls around the period of time Elizabeth Smart stayed in a basement apartment -- a block from a Salt Lake police station! Elizabeth didn't seem in danger and expressed no fear of her captors, claims the man who rents the studio. He said she had an opportunity to escape the apartment or call police at night. "I figured she could have called the cops if she wanted,'' Daniel Trotta, 24, told reporters.
That was already posted in this thread Max. This is what happens when you give a Bear internet access.
i saw the stuff previously about her statement...i must have missed the stuff about not finding his fingerprints anywhere in the house and the rest of that stuff....sorry bobcat!!
The Stockholm affect isn't exactly an "expert" term. It's pretty common knowledge. They even made fun of it on the Simpsons BY NAME. (the episode that Homer was abducted in Argentina) Didn't y'all ever see that movie Savannah Smiles?
We'll all have to wait for the book I think. But there's more: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/03/14/smart.kidnapping/index.html
I think the authorities should get all Smart family fingerprints. I'm currently only skeptical because Ed Smart hasn't shed one single tear when it seems he's about to break down. That or he certainly knows how to use all of his 57 face muscles!! I wonder who bought dibs for the made for TV movie?
I just saw on a newsmagazine that in utah, polygamy is common, and that it is common for a father to give his daughter to another man as a third or fourth wife. They even showed this one 60 year old man who was on Jerry Springer who has four wives, and the last wife was only 14 when he married her.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/18/smart.case/index.html I hope those of you who were so quick to point a finger of blame at Elizabeth or Elizabeth's father realize how foolish you were.
The whole thing is kinda weird... If she was kidnapped, she must have been brainwashed as she doesn't seem to be affected, but that doesn't make sense does it...
