Monday, July 11, 2011
Thoughts on Jaycee Lee Dugard
It was Compelling TV. I wasn't gonna watch all of it but I did, the Diane Sawyer/Primetime Live Special with the first exclusive interview with Jaycee Lee Dugard who in 1991 was kidnapped at the age of 11 somewhere in CA and held captive in a nightmarish world for the next 18 yrs. by the charming Phillip and Nancy Garrido couple. Now during the latter years of her ordeal she had ample opportunity to escape with the two daughters Mr. Garrido helped sire with her so why didn't she??? They were at an amusement park couple of occasions, there was Phillip's new printing company (what Hallmark Cards with a pervy twist?) which gave her access to the Web and the chatter inevitably turns to Stockholm Syndrome or some variant thereof and yet why do so many of us stay in bad jobs, forms of corporate slavery, endless mindgames, manipulative bosses, the alternate reality of the Office, the Hell on Earth that is the 9-5? They say there is a soulmate for everybody and Nancy fell in love with Phillip Garrido while he was serving time in prison for earlier sex crimes. She went to visit an uncle then something must have happened, a romantic spark, the lust on the apple or maybe it was just his eyes, those psychotic baby blues. This husband and wife perv team, this existentially creepy couple, him with his quirks hearing angels' voices and making some contraption to commune with God and her holding the kid down in the backseat of the car, this 1/2 Manson who made her life a living hell yet somehow didn't kill her, fed her and gave her kittens in between molesting her...and yet so many nice men out there who can't seem to find Someone and conjugate with them who eventually spiral down into the circle-jerk hell of bad gas station porn and Jose Cuervo. The second half of the special had Chris Cuomo's investigative report on why the federal bureaucracy didn't work in this case. I mean how could parole agents have visited that fantastic Garrido compound on 60 separate occasions and not notice anything even remotely peculiar? took two amateur female campus security officers to get things rolling. Chris needs to seriously bone up on his Peter Principle, this is the way a bureaucracy is supposed to function. Jaycee came off well and poised for a gal who's been through so much and her book or memoir comes out today. I can't believe I'm living:)
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Guess I missed that one.
ReplyDeleteTrying to mix up the topics here:)
ReplyDeleteToday's Gospel maybe gives us the answers, Z-man. Jesus told the parable of the slaves who told their master that weeds were growing among the wheat and maybe they should just get rid of the weeds, but the master said that in uprooting the weeds that the good wheat may get taken, too, so let them grow together.
ReplyDeleteThe Gospel also I think answers The God Problem as you called it in your Saturday post.
ReplyDeleteSome people I know think the Dugard case is stupid in the sense she had ample and I mean ample opportunity to escape many many times and yet chose not to so we shouldn't be celebrating her or using her as some type of inspiring example. Just their opinion, not necessarily mine. Seems to me we're a society not really geared towards self-defense. IMO self-defense should be a skill learned in youth just like swimming and first aid. Mostly we're a nation of Victims.
ReplyDeleteI really don't know enough about the case but if she was young when abducted, then the kidnappers really could have done some major brainwashing her that made her not even think of escaping. There are some real sickos out there though.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they gave her any mind-altering drugs like LSD. This hasn't been covered in the media but could help explain things.
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