Natalee Holloway and those incompetent Arubans

Maybe someone should remind Bill O'Reilly and the crew at Fox (not that I hold the rest of the media in any greater esteem) that the U.S. legal system is a hideous mess. We imprison more of our citizens that the former Soviet Union and Red China combined. While we imprison 760 of every 100,000, nations like German jail 75. Cuba, whose "human rights abuses" our government an media rail, rant, and rave about almost daily, imprisons 109. Six and two-thirds million people are in jail or on probation in the Land of the Free, one in every 32 citizens. We imprison for rape more than fifty times as many men as any other nation on the planet, literally hundreds of them innocent. It is a statistically incontrovertible and unavoidable fact that we frequently execute - that's murder, folks - innocent men.

It has always been a source of abject astonishment to me that a nation whose government screws up just about everything it touches - take Iraq, for instance - still clamors to give that same government the power of the death penalty. Good Grief.

And now we have the stupendous arrogance and pecksniffian criticism of people like Fox news. My God. Aruba needs to give us a scapegoat, like our government does. The last person - hell, persons, if necessary - to be seen with Natalee is good enough. What more do you need? That puts people in jail here. Why not in a little jerkwater like Aruba?!

Hey, we need "closure." People like Fox are already hinting that we should do to Aruba what we've done to Cuba. Sure. Make us a bigger horse's butt with the world community than we already are. Has it ever occured to any of you that the rest of the world doesn't make money the be-all and end-all of everything? Maybe they'll just tell us to take our money and shove it. Now THAT would be interesting. Real news, too.