JCC JediWarrior And Connemara Missing In Afghanistan (Update: What a ****show.)

I did flinch when one of the very first things he told the media, in the airport I believe, was that his wife was raped. Did they have a little conversation on the plane where she gave him permission to announce this to the media when they were finally in Canada? I pretty much think not.

But honestly he seems to have had some issues and ego excess before all this and now he's presumably really suffering and shell shocked. So I cut him some slack (not that my opinion has any meaning) and I wish the media would also step back slowly and say hey, let's revisit this in six months instead of lapping up trauma while its freshest.

 

That was announced years ago in one of the proof of life views. Not new news.

 

It wasn't so much announced as implied, but yeah I see your point.

 

Still should be her decision whether to discuss it or not.

Interesting waste description given by the AP journalist who was on the plane (and whose behavior is certainly a subject for discussion in journalism ethics). He snuck into business class, asked her a question or two before State Department officials ushered him back to coach.

He tried his luck later with Josh, State officials immediately cut him off again, but Josh jumped up and told the reporter he wanted to talk.

 

The Guardian article where the parents say Josh is traumatized and media please back off has been taken down "pending update".

This is kind of hinky.. maybe someone here knows who this is?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41656159

"Edwards says he received mostly disinterest when he tried to get the Star Wars and Firefly fan communities - Boyle was an aficionado of both - to help raise awareness of their case. "

What exactly was fandom supposed to do? Write letters? Have fundraisers for.. well there was no ransom gofundme. Plaster their faces on t-shirts with AFGHANISTAN - IT'S A TRAP! in SW font stamped across them?

 

Apparently we personally failed them. Yes, us. Not the guy who took his pregnant wife to Afghanistan in the first place.


Of course I wish all the best for their recovery, regardless of any of the circumstances. I am partly sad to hear Caitlin had to be hospitalized.... But at the same time, to be honest they probably all should have been to some degree. Hopefully she can get whatever help she needs, and for her children as well. Hopefully Josh realizes how important it is and concedes to this, too.

I just hope some real experts can help them. It's so beyond most people's comprehension, including mine, how to recover from something like this. But I hope they can at least get the help they need, especially for the sake of the children.

 

Or, in one person's case, tell her how he felt so she would have been with FIDo him instead.

I get the Edwards guy was a mate of JW, but there's a limit to what nerds can achieve unless it's demanding having obscure scenes from the film fleshed out until the joy is sucked out of Star Wars.

 

That hit a bit too close to home.

 

This is obviously all @jointheschwarz‘s fault. If only we had a top-notch head mod like in the good old black-and-yellow days.

And cutting edge gifs, obviously.

 

Isn't it illegal for Americans to pay ransoms to terrorist groups? I think for Europeans it's allowed, but not for us.

 

Had Edwards posted his rallying cry here rather than (one assumes) the Outer Rim Sieges, I'm sure we'd have held a bake sale or charity auction or all changed our icons to Josh or Conne's old one or whathaveyou and this whole horrid episode would have been sorted years ago.

 

Obama changed the policy a couple of years ago that allowed families of those abducted by terrorists to negotiate a ransom payment (following the controversy surrounding the death of James Foley). Of course with Trump as President, who knows if families will still be allowed to do so. It is still illegal for the US Government to pay out ransom demands.

 

@ Alex Edwards did you really reach out here?

Edit: Not even a member! The charlatan.

 

Conn speaks.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/freed-taliban-hostage-caitlin-coleman-114049249.html

 

Yeah, that's what stood out to me too

 

probably not the high profile proponents the home schooling community was looking for.

 

Yes, but since it's the homeschooling community, they'll miss the parts about breathtaking naiveity and under-education, and have a bit "nawww" moment for the importance the couple placed on home-schooling.

Thus, proving the point about homeschooling we all know.

 

Well she's done a big interview now. I wonder what the US's response to them disputing where they were held and when will be.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...ficial-account-of-her-rescue-in-pakistan.html

 

yeah I read this article:

http://deathrattlesports.com/freed-...good-thing-about-her-familys-captivity/125121

All about doing math and having field trips with rubbish and all I could think was how the homeschoolers I've know will be all over this, they will be homeshool darilings. Of course they were doing what they needed to do in horrible circumstances, entertaining and educating their kids as well as giving themselves something to focus on. But it will get presented as something amazing, just like homeschoolers always go on about how their kids learn math in the supermarket as if this is something you can't do if your kids go to school lol

 

"Growing up I loved the personalized curriculum that homeschooling offered, and hope now to give the same to my children,” Coleman said. “Field trips to local historical sites and nature parks, projects and experiments and crafts abound in my memory and Joshua’s.”

How about a field trip to North Korea, or somewhere in the jungles of the Philippines?

 

Also, unrelated topic, but great film. Hugely underrated. Bigly, even.

 

Josh's latest letter to the media:

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/joshua-boyle-releases-new-statement-to-ctv-ottawa-1.3647048

While it is gratifying to hear the children are doing well it seems there will never be any "we made a mistake" from this guy, just more egotistical hero stuff.

Different paradigms aka I AM SPECIAL. What the heck did they think they were doing there anyway? As far as I know they had no medical training, no aid supplies, were not connected to any aid organizations..

Well let's hope when the kids are well they don't go off and be special with them somewhere else dangerous.

 

Sorry, I'm somewhat religious leaders. I also have several friends who are members of the clergy and have done work among the poorest of the poor. There's a line you don't cross when you're wife is 7 months pregnant. Anyone with functioning brain cells understands that.

And he may be trying to sell it as his desire to do charity work now, but go back to the interviews with people who met them during their trip before they were captured -- the talk is about adventure, not missionary work.