I can see what you are trying to say, if this was any other case....but absolutely not in Aliayah's case! What do you see when you look at her pictures? Is that a happy and healthy girl you see? Bruises, and eyes filled with hopelessness and anguish are indeed factual information for me! Add that to the fact that the main person who should be questioning why her baby girl looks so tormented, searching high and low for her, and helping LE in every way....is acting as if she doesn't even have a daughter named Aliayah! I am grateful to anyone and everyone who takes the time to make sure that this innocent baby is not forgotten....even though that may be want LL and RL want!!! MOO.
And that's my point. I don't know that LL is acting as if she doesn't have a daughter named Aliayah. I do know that people are
saying that that's what she's doing, but I have no idea whether that's true or not. I don't know what LL thinks, and I don't equate going to a store or not wanting to answer questions hurled at her when she's out in public with not caring. And I don't know for sure what Aliayah's pictures show; if there are indeed real bruises on her face, I don't know how they got there or what was going on in this child's life.
I need more than others' opinions to go on in this or any other case.
If I had to make a guess about why LL has not been front-and-center since her daughter's disappearance, it would be this: I think that a person who is involved in some sort of illegal activity (i.e. drugs), whether doing it herself or by living with someone who is, is very likely to keep a low profile and keep her distance from the police and media. People with criminal records and/or those who are doing something illegal learn to be secretive, and I think that spills over to all aspects of their lives. While LL's behavior may seem peculiar to some or indicative of guilt, I think it's just as likely that she's just behaving as she always has and doesn't know how to do anything else.
And I haven't eliminated the possibility that LL might be afraid of somebody or something other than LE. I think there's a possibility that there's far far more going on here than any of us know about.
You say that protesting won't help the situation, but do you think putting people (who don't even know Aliayah, but yet care enough about her to dedicate their time) down, and potentially creating tension on this forum actually helps? ETA- I understand why you don't want to point fingers at anyone without hard evidence, but you should understand why most of us refuse to excuse LL's cavalier attitude toward her daughter, at the very least. BTW- no disrespect intended from this response.
I'm not putting 'people' down; I don't know anybody who is part of the various activities that are going on in the Weston area. I don't know who the people who follow LL and RL and the family around are and don't need to know. My comments are about the techniques they are using, and my feelings about that would be the same regardless of who uses them and in which case. I do have a low opinion of a lot of the tactics and behaviors I've seen associated with Aliayah's case, which I think are doing far more harm than good, but have no opinion about the people themselves.
And tension on this forum? As I understand it, different viewpoints and opinions are invited here. Mine are often in the minority, as I apparently approach these cases far differently from the way some others might. But that does not mean that I am creating any tension. I think it takes more than one different viewpoint to create tension anyway--or at least it should, on a forum like this.
Besides, it's quite probable that there are others who share my opinions, at least in part.