Topic : 01/19 Follow-ups

Hey people - how many foreigners go missing in the US ?  How many murders go unsolved in the US ?  So is the answer to impose the whim of a US TV host independent countries sovereignty?  Hey why don't you just go invade and send the kids to Guantanamo ?  Seems that the rights of people to due process can be subverted by a TV host.  Banding together to boycott a nations main industry.  Young kind goes to beach island.  Gets drunk, leaves a bar and may be violated/raped?  What proof?  Stick the kids in jail and rot until they give you the answer you want - send them to Guantanamo too.  Self serving pandering crap.  If every country that had a kid die in the states boycotted the US we would be an isolated nation.  What a bunch of self righteous crap.  Keep the pressure on to solve and investigate but when traveling abroad realize you are ABROAD - you have the rights of a foreigner and act accordingly.  Just like the little brat in Singapore or the idiots that get caught with drugs in Malaysia .  If you want all the rights of an American - stay in America . 

Dr Phil------------ 

I think you missed a great opportunity to inform your viewers what the doctors found to be wrong with Syliva. A thyroid problem? What kind of thyroid problem?? And what else was happening with her health to make her act that way? I have a thyroid problem but I don't act the way she was acting. 

More information might help someone else to seek medical attention as things aren't always what they seem. 

The issue is that a 19 year old girl is missing! Her family, her friends, her community, her state and her nation as a people want to know what happened to her and are willing to boycott, rattle some cages, do some shouting and NOT DROP the issue until Natalee is either returned alive or for burial!!!  

OK, we've tired of all the time-wasting and posturing by the Aruban authorities. We know the main suspect's father is WELL CONNECTED and most likely involved in the coverup - The search team asked him politely if they could scan the underlayment of his back yard - which would end all suspicion of his physical involvement and clear his name - he refused. That search team and others noticed FRESH CONCRETE in his backyard! Get real people...My wife lived on the islands, and I've visited Aruba. The going motto there is " it's not my job man ". Prospective tourists need to know that their security is not a major priority of the country they chose as a vacation destination.  

What you can do: BE PROACTIVE - contact CRUISE LINES and CRUISE ASSOCIATIONS and let them know the facts re: Aruba, and how you feel about a company or group that still endorses travel there. Contact Travel Agent Associations and all your local travel agents with your feelinigs. I'll give you a jumpstart on some contacts. Let's work together to make justice count! 

1) ASTA ( American Society of Travel Agents ) email: askasta@astahq.com   and/or call 703-739-2782  Fax: 703-684-8319 

2)NACTA ( National Association of Commissioned Travel Agents ) email: nacta@aol.com  tel: 703-739-6826  Fax: 703-739-6861 

3)ARTA ( Association of Retail Travel Agents ) 800-969-6069   Fax: 615-985-0600   

4)CLIA ( Cruise Line International Assoc. )  To contact:  www.cruiseassoc.com/forms/form.html/?id=16 or cut and past this address onto your browser. 

There are many more Travel/Tour Associations you can Google also.  We know Natalie Holloway may never be found. We also know true justice may only be realized by hurting the Aruban government and that of the Netherlands with the only thing they understand - Financial Leverage.  

Please give a few minutes to Natalie's cause and you'll know you actively took part in honoring her remembrance. SPEAK OUT and let travel institutions know a TOTAL BOYCOTT of Aruba, and education to travellers of Aruba's justice system is the right thing to do.    I did. 

I just wrote a personal letter to the people at Regis and Kelly today, after watching Dr Phils show. On regis and Kelly they are actually giving away a trip to Aruba as a PRIZE! I feel it's disrespectful and told them so, politely of course :-) I asked them to remove the trip from their travel trivia wheel in respect for the Halloway family..  

I expect fully to be ignored by the show... but I at least took a stand 

Trish 

i agree with your wife...i think you are losing site of the real issue here.  arubians are not paying the price by the acts of a few...it's because of their government as a whole.  maybe the arubian people should put pressure on their own government.  HELLO, having sex with someone who is incoherent is RAPE.  you should really rethink putting your daughter in danger.  oh and  by the way, a tattoo is nothing compared to the loss of a child.  as dr. phil would say, "get real".