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'Dog the Bounty Hunter' joins the search for Brian Laundrie
Unless someone has been living in a parallel universe, most likely they're quite familiar with the cast of characters and the sad ending of one beautiful young life. What's remarkable is how swiftly this missing person case has escalated into a murder and now a manhunt in the swampland of South Florida, do in large part to the lax surveillance of a hick, small town police department. As of now it seems as-if most of the military equipment and manpower that was stationed over in Kabul is now being deployed in the Carlton Nature Preserve in southern Sarasota County to find an elusive 23-year-old murder suspect. John Walsh from America's Most Wanted angrily snapped they were wasting time; by now Brian Laundrie has had more than sufficient time to leave the country. Heck, he could be basking on a far-off tropical beach while searchers were busy dodging giant alligators and 15-foot Burmese pythons in the swamp.
But where this case really departs from an ordinary manhunt into a crass, Made In America reality show, are the usual suspects elbowing and falling over one another to get in the media spotlight. In California, an African-American Congresswoman Maxine Waters and a number of her brethren complained vociferously over the amount of publicity and exposure this case had earned. Although I seldom pay attention to what Maxine Waters says, I gather that she was upset over the fact that Gabby Pepito was young, blonde and attractive. According to Ms. Waters, if Gabby were a member of a minority group (or ugly) there would be no all-terrain vehicles with tank treads plowing through the marsh, air boats and helicopters equipped with infrared thermal imaging flying in a grid pattern over Carlton Preserve, collectively seeking to find one felonious, murdering geek.
And now-- in the interest of all things surreal-- the other cowboy boot with shoe lifts has dropped auspiciously right in the middle of this hootenanny. Duane (Dog) Chapman, reality show bounty hunter has arrived in North Port, Florida with his flowing, dyed-blonde thinning locks and hair extensions, cool-dude sunglasses and a can of pepper spray-- Dog Chapman doesn't avow the use of weapons in the capture of his stupid and inept TV suspects eluding justice. If I were Brian Laundrie I'd be quaking in my hiking shoes.
In the midst of all this theater a basic message is being lost. One doesn't have to look half a world away at the Taliban in Afghanistan to find the pandemic of violence against women thriving. It's alive and well right here in the U.S.A..
Unless someone has been living in a parallel universe, most likely they're quite familiar with the cast of characters and the sad ending of one beautiful young life. What's remarkable is how swiftly this missing person case has escalated into a murder and now a manhunt in the swampland of South Florida, do in large part to the lax surveillance of a hick, small town police department. As of now it seems as-if most of the military equipment and manpower that was stationed over in Kabul is now being deployed in the Carlton Nature Preserve in southern Sarasota County to find an elusive 23-year-old murder suspect. John Walsh from America's Most Wanted angrily snapped they were wasting time; by now Brian Laundrie has had more than sufficient time to leave the country. Heck, he could be basking on a far-off tropical beach while searchers were busy dodging giant alligators and 15-foot Burmese pythons in the swamp.
But where this case really departs from an ordinary manhunt into a crass, Made In America reality show, are the usual suspects elbowing and falling over one another to get in the media spotlight. In California, an African-American Congresswoman Maxine Waters and a number of her brethren complained vociferously over the amount of publicity and exposure this case had earned. Although I seldom pay attention to what Maxine Waters says, I gather that she was upset over the fact that Gabby Pepito was young, blonde and attractive. According to Ms. Waters, if Gabby were a member of a minority group (or ugly) there would be no all-terrain vehicles with tank treads plowing through the marsh, air boats and helicopters equipped with infrared thermal imaging flying in a grid pattern over Carlton Preserve, collectively seeking to find one felonious, murdering geek.
And now-- in the interest of all things surreal-- the other cowboy boot with shoe lifts has dropped auspiciously right in the middle of this hootenanny. Duane (Dog) Chapman, reality show bounty hunter has arrived in North Port, Florida with his flowing, dyed-blonde thinning locks and hair extensions, cool-dude sunglasses and a can of pepper spray-- Dog Chapman doesn't avow the use of weapons in the capture of his stupid and inept TV suspects eluding justice. If I were Brian Laundrie I'd be quaking in my hiking shoes.
In the midst of all this theater a basic message is being lost. One doesn't have to look half a world away at the Taliban in Afghanistan to find the pandemic of violence against women thriving. It's alive and well right here in the U.S.A..
