After The Love-fest, Answers
Ces is back! She’s safe! Whee!
Now, after the love-fest, answers.
- Who kidnapped her?
- Can she identify them from mugshots and such?
- Did she know where she was held?
- What can she remember about the place where she was held? Any geographic landmarks?
- How many people held her?
- How were they armed? How were they provisioned? Who was feeding her captors?
- Did they have a political agenda?
- Why did she refuse the escorts?
- Was she ever in any real danger?
- Was this an abduction in quest of an exclusive?
- Is there a book or movie deal in any of this? If so, who’s gonna play her (LOL!)
Of course, I’m not saying she should be debriefed today. Tomorrow will be soon enough. Or even the day after that. The point is, just because she’s back and unharmed, doesn’t make her off-limits like fragile porcelain. She can play that angle, of course, but I hope she saves it for all the Oprah-esque talkshows, interviews, and magazines that will inevitably mob her.
But for the sake of the rest of us not terribly interested in that saccharine pap, i hope she does get debriefed in deadly earnest. It’s wonderful that she got out of that unscathed, but that experience should at least be mined for lessons. And you don’t get lessons when you handle her with kid gloves.
Or will journalists once again exercise the much vaunted ‘freedom of the press’ to suppress the information they think we don’t need to have (or the information their former captors don’t wish us to have)?
[June 18, 2008]
