Alabama legislature: BOYCOTT ARUBA!

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama House passed a resolution Friday asking Alabama residents to boycott travel to Aruba, where a teenager has been missing for more than seven weeks.

The resolution expresses concern that no one has been charged in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway of Mountain Brook, Alabama....

"This is a way to say to the authorities down there that you have to get serious about this," Vance said....

The resolution is not a law. Vance said it is just a recommendation asking Alabama tourists to avoid Aruba until the Holloway case is resolved.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-07-22-alabama-aruba_x.htm

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(P.S.....are there any unsolved murders in Alabama? Should a tourist boycott be called for in our state legislatures because we are 'concerned' that no one has been charged in those crimes?)

:shrug:

:eyes:

Grrrr.

or is there?

Jeez. I guess they just want the authorities to pick out some poor bloke and punish him for the crime just to make the citizens of Alabama feel better.

i didn't follow that case but wasn't there a long time between the crime and an arrest?

:eyes:

:hi:

:toast:

:rofl: We are trying to get to a blue state.

Create a new DUtopia of liberal minded Democrats. We'll be called neo-Southerners and we'll all cheer for The Tide (who else plays there?).

Monday night.

And tuesday. And wednesday. And thur... ok ok I'll stop.

I'm sure the entire island is shivering in its boots.

They'd probably just as soon not have tourists who consider themselves to be the epicenter of the entire universe anyway.

Aren't they still giving hourly updates?

:)

I am sure that Faux is deeply entrenched in Aruba coverage, though!

how long Faux dragged it out - to the point of absurdity, really.

...are up to (extended) thread number 8:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446077/posts


Freepers sure love a diversion.

and quiet.

:hi: Bye and don't come to Alabama

You have this guy protecting you in Gulf Shores:

http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=04/08/19/00451453

:puke:

... and now we know why. They behave like they live under a 12-ton granite slab and crawl out when the sun goes down.

Because no one's yet been convicted of 9-11?

:toast:

I'm sure Aruba's economy will collapse over this :sarcasm:

I think if the Alabama government could pass a law to keep Alabamans from going anywhere and get away with it, they would.

Between the government, courts, and correctional facilities there, the're already doing a pretty good job at it.

What was Jon Stewart joking about the other night - Alabama doesn't get to see the Daily Show - as if it were banned from the state?

maybe he'll get lost too...:evilgrin:

And they're just pissed because someone successfully fled the state!

:rofl: