I've been on a chat room in Salt Lake City talking about the Smart girl. I'm thrilled that she is alive and safe and reuinted with her family. But my question is: A girl her age is conscious enough to know that all she would have to do is run down the busy street yelling,"I'M ELIZABETH SMART!" Everyone would run to her and surround her captors. Or walk up to the Burger King counter and whisper, "I'm Elizabeth Smart."

What are we missing? The captors apparently weren't armed. They have pictures of her from 2002 at a party with her captors, dressed in a pseudo-Islamic garb.

Something is really fishy here. Smart doesn't seem to have desired escape. And the press is sceptical. I'm reminded of Patty Hearst.

Agreed, something is very fishy about it.

i agree, but i have thought something had been off from the beginning. sort of like the chandra levy thing and jon-benet ramsey.
details never meshed...
i watch way too much law and order, i do believe.

kimmie

I'm very confused. . . who the hell is Elizabeth Smart?

EvilVegan wrote:I'm very confused. . . who the hell is Elizabeth Smart?

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The whole story did sound kind of weird to me, and I think perhaps she didn't want to be found... but then again, she has stated she was never alone, always with 2 people... I'd be scared to say anything to anyone at the local McDonald's too!

Happy reading!

thanks thanks thanks, no longer confused.

It all sounds like a poor setup for a Slow News Day story that could be wheeled and dealed into book rights and a made-for-TV movie on Lifetime.

Maybe Elizabeth Smart, wasn't......

After watching the fragments of info so far, I am presently convinced that the girl chose to stay with her "captors" and maybe had a hand in her own escape.

Yeah, I can't wait for the Lifetime movie.

I find it very interesting that she never once pulled off the veil, wig, or other disguise her captors were making her wear(she's stated she was always disguised in public)- her story was so publicized, she would have had to have known on some mental level, that in that one act, she could return home...
I think this is a testament to the psychological power one person can have over another. I believe that by the time she was found, she had probably so resigned herself to her captors, and given up hope of rescue or escape, that she believed it wasn't worth trying. To be held under constant physical (and possibly sexual, no one knows yet) threat for such a long time is bound to grind a child's resolve down to the nubby bone.
Of course we know that if she had only cried out in a mall or grocery store, "I'm Elizabeth Smart! Help me!" that someone would have come running, but chances are in her resigned and submissive state, that perhaps, perhaps, it didn't even cross her mind.

But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

this is why i'm firmly behind the legalization of immolation of stupid people.

"you interrupted my regularly scheduled programming for what?"

also, when somebody has a name like "smart", it's inevitable that they aren't. it's like a big blip on the idiot radar. and damn, if they're in a position of authority, avoid them like the plague!

because then you're most likely to have to deal with a "smart" ass.