I won't make excuses for the jurors, but if there's an undeniable public mood of grave consternation out there as you mention, it sure didn't seem to be prevalent in the jury box considering that it didn't take the jury very long at all to rule that the prosecutions' case was dog poop.
Look, this trial didn't take place in a vaccuum. We were able to watch good portions of it. The jurors can't act as if they know things we don't. They took nine hours to nulify the case brough against Anthony. The verdicts are almost universally deplored. Please don't attempt to use the jury as the yardstick with which to measure others. I could just as easily give you a seven inch ruler, and tell you it's a foot.
After all, if there really is a huge public sentiment about the Casey Anthony case to the point where the jurors need to watch their backs, you'd think that it would reflect in the jury's conclusion. Casey Anthony should never have had a flippin' chance no matter who sat on the jury, right? There you go again. The jury came up with this verdict, so how can I or anyone object? You worded the comments to avoid this direct implication, but it's there none the less. I'm not buying it. The verdicts in this case defy logic. This woman is going to walk after killing her daughter. That's the truth of it.
It didn't, so where's the disconnect? Allow me to make a humble suggestion: The jury was hearing the state's evidence allowed to them by the judge on a daily basis, but the rest of America was watching Nancy Grace, Anderson Cooper, Geraldo, reading a bunch of unfounded innuendo on the Internet, and speculating amongst themselves in the way that children enjoy creeping each other out with scary ghost stories. All fine and dandy, but I haven't watch one minute of Nancy Grace, Anderson Cooper, Heraldo, or read a bunch of unfounded innundo on the internet. I haven't read the threads here. I have read reports of the day's revelations and evidence, but I have not been buried in this stuff as if there was no existence outside of this case.
I know you're not holding a pitchfork or a torch in this. Also, you've been on FR long enough to understand that Freepers can confuse themselves into a mistaken frothing fury through mob action alone. You know better than to confuse that side of FR with 'The Real World®'. I came to F.R. to express my own opinions. My first comments came way down in the thread, but I arrived late to the game. I wasn't reading anyone else's comments and feeding off of them, or building a frenzy based on the emotions here. My reaction was in response to the idiotic verdicts.
Hell, man: There were five or six threads larger than this one last Fall focused on demanding that the USA nuke China for their act of war in firing a submarine-launched ballistic missile off the coast of Southern California near Catalina Island. Remember your concern for that idiotic spectacle of 'the mood out there'? I do believe you were (correctly) a skeptic then, right? Look, you're twisting two different mind-sets. Folks were advocating something back then, and I tried to sound the voice of reason. Here we have a jury that so badly ignored the evidence, that this woman is going to walk. None the less, I have not advocated for any course of action. I have merely stated that I think there is a very good chance that some folks are not going to buy off on this, and they very well could take action. You may not like hearing that, but it is a statement based on my perception of the mood of the public.
There is also the fact that it bothers you considerably that the public might not accept the jury decision in this, but you don't care what the jury decison was, you'll blindly follow them where-ever they want to go. I can't do that. I am not going to advocate for anything that is against the law, but the defense attorney was openly belittling people for thinking Anthony was guilty, and trying to state that only media hype could make her look guilty. This guy is messing with fire here. He needs to lay low and let this pass. Well he's not going to. I think that's literally dangerous. Evidently the police do too. I believe the police urged them to put on their loafers and get outa Dodge.
You're a long-timer here. I know you. Your credentials for not being an hysteric are well founded in my opinion. Okay, then when I make statements that the police evidently agree with, it might be a good idea to take them for the sound comments they are.
I do appreciate the comments meant to convey that you don't think I'm hysterical. I consider that to mean you were going out of your way to be somewhat cordial, and that was a nice thing to do. Take care.