CA OCT-07-2004 L.A. coroners office identifies man reported missing - 1991

[AmyStrange]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/counties/alameda_county/9862886.htm



What is the point of my post, you may ask, since it so clearly seems not to be political, and thus not really DU material in any way, shape, or form?

What is the point of ANY post, but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

And finally, missing persons and serial killers are an example of why the budgets of LE (both here in the U.S and abroad) should be raised (and NOT just for homeland security) which is A VERY POLITICAL subject - in my opinion,

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[henslee]

1. Thanks for posting.

[AmyStrange]

3. thank YOU for reading and caring...

your kind words are most definitely appreciated,

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[Dem2theMax]

2. I was watching 'Without a Trace' on TV tonight. They always

show information on a real missing person sometime during the commercial breaks. Tonight it was for a two year old boy who has been missing for two years. And I immediately thought of these posts of yours here at DU. Every missing person in this world has to have someone, somewhere, who is going crazy because they don't know what happened to their loved ones. Thank you for putting these posts here. We all need to remember and we all need to care, and to do something about this.

[AmyStrange]

4. thank you for your very kind words...

missing persons is more of a problem than people think and that's why I appreciate your kind thoughts even more,

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