Posted on 07/12/2011 6:50:38 AM PDT by truthkeeper
Tape may be released. Judge Perry will make this call.
I got the impression the family all thought it being reported Caylee drowned was just the latest in the MSM stories and they scoffed at it.
Was this video shown in the trial?
And the whole thing about the drowning got me. How many people have never reported an accidental drowning of a child? And then covered it up by taping a child’s mouth shut and wrapping them up and throwing them away like so much garbage? I kept hearing, “it’s a very dysfunctional family, very dysfunctional. Look how Lee cried...blah...blah...blah.” It was as if all the pundits and commentators suddenly became experts on dysfunctional families and how they act. Gotta tell ya, I have never in my 59 years met a family that wasn’t dysfunctional to one degree or other.
You may have heard that regarding another set of bones found in a park in which Casey scoffed at.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2747387/posts
Investigators press conference at 1:30 today.
(Don’t know what channel.)
I agree and I did the same thing you did. I also tried to watch a clip of Greta with Mark Furhman. She disagreed with him and never let him say a word. He kept trying too; but she would not allow it. I knew there was a reason I never watched her. It was one of the most biased interviews I have ever seen.
According to police GEORGE ANTHONY WAS NEVER a SUSPECT
According to police....CASEY ANTHONY IS THE SUSPECT!!!
It’s so sad.
Well, since Free Republic didn’t consider this an article I could post, but rather a common, off-the-cuff remark, I will go ahead and post it here as nothing more than a really insightful comment on an “existing thread” as they suggested:
Who Does one Petition as the Ultimate Authority?
I don’t know why we were surprised Casey Anthony is getting out of prison in a few days. I mean, after Rodney King and O.J.Simpson, what was left? My view of life drastically changed after the Rodney King verdict. Actually, there were three epiphanies in my life like that:
1) Rodney King: Seeing a man beaten on video and the assailants being set free (forget subsequent trials).
2) O.J.Simpson: Slaughtering two people, then stands smirking, unable to get his hand into his own glove while everyone laughs, and
3) President Bush: Leaving his home in Texas to fly to Washington to sign emergency legislation for the Terri Schiavo case. We all know how that turned out. One was left feeling like even the King couldn’t grant a pardon. Who does one petition as the ultimate authority? Society had unraveled.
I declared after all of these that the justice system in the United States had failed. Each one also brought to light a formerly latent evil in my fellow human beings. Most law enforcement across the country, as usual, were ready to stick by the cops in the Rodney King beating. Not because they thought it was right, but because they had all made a blood oath in the tree house. Not that I was ever taught to trust Officer Friendly, but the whole stereotype of a policeman (or woman) being a person on a career long trip of institutionalized sadism sure seemed well suited after that.
Like many, I followed the O.J. case closely. I could not shake the daydream of being able to get to Nicole Brown Simpson and tell her “don’t go to the door tonight.” The gruesomeness of the murder scene, so much blood, her poor Akita howling for hours, images that never quite faded from my memory. And that poor boy, returning a pair of glasses in his last good deed. I saw so many vehement people insisting O.J. was innocent. It was a cool thing to do. Part of it was sexism, “the tramp had it coming.” This thought permeated society, whether spoken out loud or not. Part of it was racism “A good black man shouldn’t be with a white woman anyway.” Some were saying it, others were thinking it. It was amazing the emotions it brought out in people. And somehow you looked at people you thought were friends and said to yourself, “This person has some major problems. I don’t know if I want them to influence my life in any way.”
Then came the Terri Schiavo case. Most people who had a beef with their in-laws saw the case through their own eyes. Others were just grossed out by the imperfection and ugliness of Terri lying in a bed, mouth agape, rolling her eyes around. They could not imagine if it were their own loved one, and knowing what those eyes and smile meant. They certainly did not want to imagine themselves like that. So, if asked to cast a ballot, they would vote to exterminate her to alleviate her suffering, while really wanting to alleviate their own and remove her from their sight.
Most people that wanted to Terri Schiavo dead never read the facts about her relationship with her husband, a large 6’ 6” man who had been fired from six jobs in a 2 year period. Nope, that’s not a red flag. Neither was Terri’s 1991 bone scan indicating broken bones and fractures that had probably occurred near or before the time of her so called “heart attack.” A man who berates a woman for spending her own money at a hairdresser when he can’t even hold down a job is not an indicator of violence. Right? What about the many other signs of domestic abuse? Back then the mantra was beginning to become repetitive, “Yes, but that doesn’t prove he killed her!” Yep. And I’ve got some arsenic in a drink here and I keep talking of killing my neighbor; but if he ends up dead of arsenic poisoning, you can’t pin it on me! Not unless you have a photo of me pouring the drink down his throat and my fingerprints on his neck.
As Judge Jeanine Pirro and Sean Hannity have pointed out, the Casey Anthony case was tried through the lens of CSI, the television show. The truth is, people have been tried and rightfully convicted on much less circumstantial evidence. Circumstantial evidence and well, common sense. Thirty years ago, Casey Anthony would have been in jail for a long time; if not for first degree murder, for aggravated manslaughter or aggravated child abuse. Let’s not kid ourselves. And while we’ve learned to depend heavily on DNA, we’ve learned that’s not always as accurate as we thought either. It’s about as foolproof as carbon dating.
Jurors have come to expect CSI episode crimes, where everything can be solved in one hour. If it’s not clear, and someone keeps hammering “beyond a reasonable doubt,” they will acquit. The truth is everyone has “reasonable doubt” about everything now. I sometimes have reasonable doubt the world is round. Especially after a long day. The ability to come to a conclusion only seems to work when people come to the conclusion that they cannot come to a conclusion. They feel like they’ve really used their noggins when that happens. Smoke pours out of their ears. Not black smoke, not white smoke, but gray smoke. Gray, to them, is beautiful.
The justice system has always had its faults and trap doors. In other countries where they’ve had longer to perfect it, it’s unraveling as well. Take the case of Levi Bellfield in England. A man who’s story is unfolding as perhaps one of the worst of that country’s serial murderers. A girl is nearly abducted by him but gets away. The next day, less than 3 miles away, another girl IS abducted by him and ends up murdered. While the police search for years and more young women are killed, the police ignore the reports from the girl nearly abducted the day before the first murder. (Or the first they knew of in their area should I say.) AND – evidence and testimony from previous girlfriends and wives documenting that they were beaten and raped by him, and how he begged them to dress like school girls? Inadmissible in court! The jury couldn’t hear any of that.
If half of the jurors these days are the equivalent of those airheads we see on Leno’s “Jay Walking” skits, the other half are being asked to pass a verdict without being given all the facts. It’s nonsense, not justice.
Bellfield is in jail now, the first man in British legal history to receive “two whole life sentences” as they say across the pond. Too bad it was another botched investigation and a sloppy judicial system waited until a few more girls were dead before “justice was served.”
Back to Casey Anthony: “So she liked to party, so what?” I read again and again. Everyone transfers their own feelings to others’ situations, that is normal to some extent. But society today does it to a point of total irrationality. They want to justify ... everything! And who has helped them do it? I can recall lots of people. “Just because Bill Clinton had sex in the Oval Office doesn’t mean he couldn’t lead our country!” “It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.” And yes, when they tried to justify how Rodney King was tasered and beat ridiculously beyond the force required to subdue him, in a disgusting show of sadism by LA Cops, that helped teach us all that “justification” for any action was as easy as the next lie that comes out of one’s mouth . After a little history like that, society learns they can justify…anything! All they have to do is speak it.
It seems like nothing surprises me anymore. What does surprise me is the lack of vigilante justice being offered up. Since Lee Harvey Oswald, I can’t think of one high profile murderer who has had their fate decided outside of the justice system. And frankly, I am not sure what that says about us as a society. Are we a bunch of law abiding citizens or have we lost a sincere thirst for justice? In the end, I’m not sure what is more offensive and detrimental to a society, vigilante justice in robes, or vigilante justice on the street. Both are deplorable.
One of the huge arguments many have held here is that we should “respect the jury’s decision.” I’m seeing now that the SEIU was found not guilty in the Gladney case. This is yet another miscarriage of justice, and on that, I’m sure we all agree. But the question I have to ask is: why is it ok to dispute that verdict, but not the Casey Anthony verdict?
When Baez started Casey’s defense with that ugly charge of child molestation, it was like dumping a truckload of toxic waste on George. George never could adequately defend himself against the charges. The charges were so ugly that they really stuck. From then on it was all about what is that evil George up to.
The justice system has been tainted. Prepare yourself for more of the guilty walking free.
And don't blame the Constitution. Blame the idiots.
This is fascinating, where did you get the information about George’s gambling problem and their marital difficulties?
As I have said before, Jose Baez sold that jury especially on a lot of unproven theories(IMO lies). He reminded them more than once he did not have t prove a damn thing and he didn’t. It’s like thwarting the law. The evidence circumstantial or not was there. He took reasonable doubt to another level; a level of deceit.
Thank you, it needs to be said. We owe it to our society and our system of justice to select jurors with I.Q.s higher than plant life.
It's really pathetic that it has come to this.
Exactly
Her parents would probably have kicked out Casey before if it wasn’t for Caylee. They didn’t want Caylee to be out there in the clutches of Casey without the grandparents protection. I think Casey used Caylee as a kind of blackmail.
I believe you are right about this. I have a friend whose unscrupulous and manipulative daughter had a child, I believe, simply to ensure that her mother would continue to help her financially. My friend is practically a hostage to her love for her grandchild. She continues to support and bail out her daughter over and over for the sake of the dear grandchild.
My prediction: Casey will have another child in the near future to pull her enabling, codependent mother back to her. She’ll say she’s doing it because she misses Caylee so much, but the net result will be she continues to party and neglect her child while the grandmother supports her.
Bingo! It happens all the time. Most of the time it doesn’t lead to murder, but sometimes it obviously does depending on the psyche of the offender.
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