This call for a tourism boycott of the island of Aruba has me thinking.

First of all, I have been to Aruba twice in the last couple of years (both sides) and have never felt safer.

But here's the thing, there are literally thousands of women who travel to various parts of the United States every year and go missing and are presumed dead. Is there to be a boycott of every state where investigations turn up nothing by the home state of the victim too ?

The actions that precipitated this call apparently came in the last two weeks when the police stopped returning calls from the family and denied the family's private investigators, police from Alabama, and the FBI, permission to enter the country to conduct further investigations. Mrs. Holloway's media tirades are understandable but her accusations against the people of Aruba have not been helpful either.

I wonder if the state of Alabama would allow agents of the Aruban government to conduct their own investigations on American soil ?

It's water under the bridge now but I can tell you, I would never send my teenage daughter to no small island with a group of similarly naive young women to whoop it up at some resort. But that's just me.

On the other hand, I could be wrong, but I just feel that these young men know more than they are telling. Or worse, if they have told, the info is not being acted upon.