Aruban Criminal Released due to Connections Kills Again, Big Surprise
Poor Joran van der Sloot. He's the real victim in all this.
First, they kept harassing him in Aruba over the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old American tourist. Those old fogies and puritanical Americans just don't understand the way that kids like to have fun these days.
CNN has the report here (http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/04/peru.murder.case/index.html).
I mean, if you meet a pretty young girl, of course you're going to get her drunk to the point of severe alcohol poisoning. And of course you're going to think of selling her to sex slavers -- that's what all the cool kids do these days. And when she seems to be dead, of course your first thought will be "Oh no! I'd better dump the body offshore." You'd have to be some sort of stick-in-the-mud to consider kidnapping, rape, enslavement, murder and disposing of the evidence to be somehow illegal or morally wrong or other archaic concepts of that sort, right?
Secondly, they got mad at him just because he admitted all this on videotape. I mean the poor naive young lad was probably just boasting -- here he is, this cool kid hanging out with international criminals and expressing his individuality through poisoning, rape, kidnapping and murder, just like we all do at that age (well, I didn't but then I never hung out with the really cool kids) -- and they want to hold his words against him like this was some sort of criminal investigation or nonsense like that.
It sure was lucky for our plucky hero that his father Paul van der Sloot was a rich businessman and the family was connnected with the Aruban judiciary. Why, do you know that if he hadn't been well-connected, poor young Joran might have been treated like -- you know -- a criminal? Imagine that -- just for having a little fun with a teenage girl that she didn't happen to survive -- nothing worse than I'm sure that we've all done at one time or another (for values of "we" including the typical psychopathic serial killer).
But now, alas, Joran van der Sloot is in trouble again, in Peru, and this time Daddy's dead (collapsed during a tennis match, no doubt now regaling Hell with his upper-crust society anecdotes). And the trouble happened in a Latin American country with absolutely no respect for him.
Appears that Joran took a young woman named Flores back to a hotel room in Lima for some normal healthy young adult fun. Sadly, Senorita Flores seems to have wound up dead -- the phrase "bludgeoned" is being used to describe what were no doubt perfectly innocent hijinx -- and Van der Sloot for some reason then decided to take a trip to Chile. The Peruvian authorities had no sense of humor about the fate of yet another girl who was of course nowhere near as important as our brave young lad, and were unduly prejudiced by the discovery of date rape drugs in his car.
Stop to think of that. Don't we all carry date rape drugs in our car? It's the Happening Thing these days, perfectly innocent, I can't imagine why the Peruvians considered this a suspicious circumstance. And Joran, being a handsome young jet-setting kind of dude, probably just went to Chile because he can't be tied down to one place too long. I can't imagine why they would consider this the "flight" of a "suspect."
Anyway, those Peruvian meanies seem to have informed the Chilean authorities of the wild and wacky exploits of young Joran, and the Chileans -- who apparently also have no sense of humor, have arrested Joran van der Sloot and sent him back to Peru. Imagine that! Arrested him, just as if he were some sort of grubby little criminal, instead of the Very Important and Very Special person that we know him to be!
And it's not looking too good for Joran van der Sloot right now. The Peruvians look like they're going to prosecute, and to the unsophisticated mind a dead girl, who was last seen disappearing with him into the room in which she died, the presence of so-called "date rape" drugs in his car, and Joran's sudden desire to vacation in another country, coupled with Joran's record of being involved in criminal activities, might lead to prejudice against this exemplary fellow. Indeed, I fear that the chances are very good that Joran may spend years, even decades, of his immensely valuable life in a Peruvian prison.
The thought is so sad. Especially since he's a rich foreigner, with a deservedly high self-esteem, whom ignorant brutal Peruvian criminal types might, well, resent a little. And the Peruvian prison system isn't exactly the best in the world. He might not even be able to get bottled water. Or air, once one of those big Peruvian brutes gets his hands around his throat.
Really, it's all so dismaying I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Cry, for Senor Flores, who lost his daughter because the Aruban authorities were venal cowards. Or laugh, because Van der Sloot's fate is liable to be far, far worse than if he had stood trial for the murder of Natalee Holloway.
But on one thing we all agree.
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
No, literally. It probaby couldn't. A nicer guy wouldn't have done half of what Van Der Sloot has done. Heck, most of the felons with whom I lived during a particularly low period in my life over half a decade ago wouldn't have committed those crimes. They were too decent.
Bye bye, Joran Van Der Sloot. Don't let the door hit you on the way to Hell.
First, they kept harassing him in Aruba over the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old American tourist. Those old fogies and puritanical Americans just don't understand the way that kids like to have fun these days.
CNN has the report here (http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/04/peru.murder.case/index.html).
I mean, if you meet a pretty young girl, of course you're going to get her drunk to the point of severe alcohol poisoning. And of course you're going to think of selling her to sex slavers -- that's what all the cool kids do these days. And when she seems to be dead, of course your first thought will be "Oh no! I'd better dump the body offshore." You'd have to be some sort of stick-in-the-mud to consider kidnapping, rape, enslavement, murder and disposing of the evidence to be somehow illegal or morally wrong or other archaic concepts of that sort, right?
Secondly, they got mad at him just because he admitted all this on videotape. I mean the poor naive young lad was probably just boasting -- here he is, this cool kid hanging out with international criminals and expressing his individuality through poisoning, rape, kidnapping and murder, just like we all do at that age (well, I didn't but then I never hung out with the really cool kids) -- and they want to hold his words against him like this was some sort of criminal investigation or nonsense like that.
It sure was lucky for our plucky hero that his father Paul van der Sloot was a rich businessman and the family was connnected with the Aruban judiciary. Why, do you know that if he hadn't been well-connected, poor young Joran might have been treated like -- you know -- a criminal? Imagine that -- just for having a little fun with a teenage girl that she didn't happen to survive -- nothing worse than I'm sure that we've all done at one time or another (for values of "we" including the typical psychopathic serial killer).
But now, alas, Joran van der Sloot is in trouble again, in Peru, and this time Daddy's dead (collapsed during a tennis match, no doubt now regaling Hell with his upper-crust society anecdotes). And the trouble happened in a Latin American country with absolutely no respect for him.
Appears that Joran took a young woman named Flores back to a hotel room in Lima for some normal healthy young adult fun. Sadly, Senorita Flores seems to have wound up dead -- the phrase "bludgeoned" is being used to describe what were no doubt perfectly innocent hijinx -- and Van der Sloot for some reason then decided to take a trip to Chile. The Peruvian authorities had no sense of humor about the fate of yet another girl who was of course nowhere near as important as our brave young lad, and were unduly prejudiced by the discovery of date rape drugs in his car.
Stop to think of that. Don't we all carry date rape drugs in our car? It's the Happening Thing these days, perfectly innocent, I can't imagine why the Peruvians considered this a suspicious circumstance. And Joran, being a handsome young jet-setting kind of dude, probably just went to Chile because he can't be tied down to one place too long. I can't imagine why they would consider this the "flight" of a "suspect."
Anyway, those Peruvian meanies seem to have informed the Chilean authorities of the wild and wacky exploits of young Joran, and the Chileans -- who apparently also have no sense of humor, have arrested Joran van der Sloot and sent him back to Peru. Imagine that! Arrested him, just as if he were some sort of grubby little criminal, instead of the Very Important and Very Special person that we know him to be!
And it's not looking too good for Joran van der Sloot right now. The Peruvians look like they're going to prosecute, and to the unsophisticated mind a dead girl, who was last seen disappearing with him into the room in which she died, the presence of so-called "date rape" drugs in his car, and Joran's sudden desire to vacation in another country, coupled with Joran's record of being involved in criminal activities, might lead to prejudice against this exemplary fellow. Indeed, I fear that the chances are very good that Joran may spend years, even decades, of his immensely valuable life in a Peruvian prison.
The thought is so sad. Especially since he's a rich foreigner, with a deservedly high self-esteem, whom ignorant brutal Peruvian criminal types might, well, resent a little. And the Peruvian prison system isn't exactly the best in the world. He might not even be able to get bottled water. Or air, once one of those big Peruvian brutes gets his hands around his throat.
Really, it's all so dismaying I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Cry, for Senor Flores, who lost his daughter because the Aruban authorities were venal cowards. Or laugh, because Van der Sloot's fate is liable to be far, far worse than if he had stood trial for the murder of Natalee Holloway.
But on one thing we all agree.
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
No, literally. It probaby couldn't. A nicer guy wouldn't have done half of what Van Der Sloot has done. Heck, most of the felons with whom I lived during a particularly low period in my life over half a decade ago wouldn't have committed those crimes. They were too decent.
Bye bye, Joran Van Der Sloot. Don't let the door hit you on the way to Hell.