Wednesday, July 6, 2011

31 DAYS

You find car accident victims in or near cars and roads.
You find airplane accident victims amongst the debris of plane crashes.
You find drowning victims in or near bodies of water
....except in Florida where it is perfectly rational to 12 jurors and their alternates to find a "horrific drowning accident" victim with their mouth taped shut, wrapped in a blanket, stuffed in a laundry bag, shoved into a trash bag and thrown in the woods.  At least that is what the jury for Anthony have deduced from the evidence and their imaginations no doubt honed by CSI and Law & Order episodes, thereby giving them the sharp skills to piece together what they "feel" happened to this "dysfunctional family".  They took a sharp left at rationale and went right into storybook land to create an event where there is nothing to support it EXCEPT the rantings of a pathological liar. Every thing she says grows her nose a foot, yet somehow this is the truth? Why? Because it is easier for the jurors to understand than the fact she acted with pure emotionless disregard for her child.  Think about it.

We (spectators) have watched this unfold with our hands to our hearts and mouth in absolute disgust. "WHY?" we have asked for years.  It is impossible at times to get our minds around how you could even maybe hurt a child, let alone kill and dispose and pretend it never ever happened. Our brains have a hard time computing that a Mother could actually take the life she labored to bring into this world.  This is not the first time we have seen this, and we were equally alarmed at those tragedies as well.  In the case of Susan Smith there was a moment when the idea of "someone taking her boys" was an easier pill to swallow than thinking of the alternative.  However all good lies do come to an end and hers did as well. It all is Crazy because we are not.  That is why it hurts our heads to try to answer the Why.  My instructions to the jury would have included NOT to try to grapple with the why, because to do so would require a break from all logic and we need your thinking cap in tact as you assess this situation.

This was not a case that lacked evidence, however it was missing a mother distraught over the accidental drowning of her child and angered by the disposal of her baby by her Horrible father, thus robbing her of grieving rights ....we should have seen that. Where is the mother sitting in her back yard screaming at EMT's to help her baby?  Then at least there would have been a body to autopsy, and there would have been lungs to show us weather Caylee took her last breath before or after being you a ledge she drowned in the pool....Instead 31 days pass BEFORE Casey Anthony indicated anything was even wrong all while spinning tales of nannies and vacations...to only her family - remember she was actually hanging out with friends in town??? She was even caught in the house by her "accomplice" aka George, who was under the impression she and the baby were in Tampa w/ the fake nanny - and yet she told him she was in town to get "Zannys' insurance papers"?  Why would she need to tell him that if he knew the baby was dead? Why would she need to tell him any lie actually about where she is? DID YOU 12 ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS or were you more interested in a good story?  31 Days she stalled her parents for time, hiding from them at a boyfriends house and another 150 days of Wasted resources hunting for a nanny who kidnapped her baby...Her father is not who spun that tale, nor is her mother, Casey is. All her parents did was act like desperate parents - trying to not loose faith in their child while looking for hers.  Trying to hold onto hope that Casey didn't do what they feared...And yet the morally defunct Baez has the nerve to suggest that "none of the police officials wanted to see any other possibilities"?, We hear the detectives ask her, feverishly if this was an accident? Did something happen? She was not under arrest at that time, they were sitting in Universal where her first lie bubble was being busted, and the first of many more to come. Right there she Could have said, "ask my Dad"   - We hear her parents, brother and close friend break down over and over pleading with her to tell them something, her reply? She wasted her time calling them and let me talk to my boyfriend.  Susan Smith kept asking about a boyfriend at the most inappropriate time as well....when they were looking for her children. hmmm.

There is a body discarded in bags in a swamp. There is a mother who pretends for 31 days she is alive and well. And when she can't stall anymore invents a kidnapping (thankfully this time it was not the token "a black guy did it", but she still went after the Hispanic minority...or did she? I must add that coincidentally, and I use that term sarcastically, the 2 houses that back up to the woods on Suburban Dr. where Caylee lay, were in 08 owned by a woman named Zanieda Almodovar and the other by a Gonzales family - verified with Tax Records, White page listings as well as testimony from a friend of Casey...) - that coupled with the video and phone call tapes from her jail time BEFORE Caylee was recovered is better than Anthony on the stand, these were her own words rantings and tantrums before and in jail. Somehow we are to believe at the moment the silver bracelets were snapped on you wouldn't shriek "It was my molesting father, he knows!!!!"??? Instead, for MONTHS Casey insisted to BOTH her parents that Caylee was "still alive because she felt it in her heart", and that she "could be more help if she was out", and she is a victim too, and yelling at her mom for questioning her involvement...jeeeeesh, that seemed as good a time as any to tell Mom "ask Dad"?

And all I can wonder is if your father was your accomplice then why were you telling him you "told police all you knew?"  He already knew right? And we should have seen awkward glances between you and you father during those calls, the father who was letting you take the fall, You really expect me to believe you would just sit in jail leaving your accomplice free to help the "media make you look bad"??? (fails logic test) Even when the police began doubting, she maintained that story, (even telling her dad - you know, the other killer? that police were wrong and needed to check NY records) WASTING TIME! That is until the body shows up - and that is where the tall tales ended and the character assassinations began. For Baez and Anthony, victory by any means possible.  Get an alternate story that introduces sympathy - insert molestation and another body to take the punch - Hello George.

And the last ingredient to this gross injustice, 15 jurors that failed to understand that having an "unanswered question" is not the same as reasonable doubt. When I heard that Jack ASS alternate Huekler actually say that #1 - Prosecution did not Prove HOW Caylee died, but they felt instead it was a "horrific accident that was covered up by Casey and George" - my heart stopped just a little. WHERE IN GODS NAME WAS ANY EVIDENCE OF THAT...as a matter of fact that little "theory" falls directly under the term speculation, imagination, and presumption which Judge Perry instructed you NOT to do if there was no evidence or testimony to support. or #2 that George being "combative" while he is cross examined by the attorney who is making a name for himself calling him a molester and child killing accomplice must have meant he was "hiding something" as opposed to just hating the guy....again remind me where that is evidence George committed a crime or as the verdict implies No crime was committed by Casey? Because George was not the guy on trial. (Please George, repay the man for his kindness with a Defamation suit PRONTO) and lastly Juror #3 who has issued a statement of "I did not say she was innocent. I just said there was not enough evidence. If you cannot prove what the crime was, you cannot determine what the punishment should be." Well guess what Jurors, it was not the punishment phase of the trial, it was the Innocent or not, and if you didn't think she was innocent then she was....GUILTY. You were not supposed to be deciding over punishment - that would come through Perry in the NEXT phase.  But thank you Ms. Ford for confirming my fear that none of you really wanted her head in your hands. So in the end dysfunction excuses depraved indifference to human life and apparently it's not a crime to hide bodies either as long as you think it may have been accidental, what a great Jury of Peers Casey got...a bunch of lunatics just like her. 

I can only wonder that if there was a law to prevent jury members from earning any MONEY following a trial we would have had a different day in court? It is no accident they all walked past the 12 seats in the media room, that would have been free info coupled with a beating by the press - networks are up to 5 figures in their offers to get a story from them.  I cringe to think of Mason and Baez and their subsequent book jackets as well, actually I really hope Florida Law Enforcement and the FBI come after Baez for Obstruction of Justice, Anthony as well for perpetuating a Fraud. 31 days Casey. 31 Days. and further more sue their faces off to recover the thousands spent in search and recovery efforts from July until December while looking for a baby that according to Baez "was never missing".  I pray that TV and Entertainment shun her as they have already begun to do and that CIVIL proceedings haunt her the rest of her miserable days.

Matthew 10:26 - There will be nothing hidden that won’t be revealed. This will not be in vain. Justice will be served somehow for this Angel.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Swim For Your Life

....a reflection on the weeks unfolding events.  Change is inevitable. The more you resist the harder it will be to catch up.  This is certain.  Change is the spoon of life, it comes along to stir the stagnant waters especially at times when you are laying on your raft floating in oblivion...*ZING - and like that, you are treading water watching the flotation device drift further and further away.  You look around, as if to ask what? where? why?  with no guarantee that you will ever answer any of those and no idea how you'll get out of the water...

I don't know if you will either.  I am constantly swimming against the tide of my own ocean of life and you expect me to know how you'll fare?  How about this, as good or as bad as you choose to. That is what my infinite wisdom has shown me thus far. I think you get handed loads in life based on your willingness to step up and take it.  If you happen to be one of those for whom the 'load' seems unfairly balanced, seems to never end? To you I say, well done!!! For the universe would not waste energy giving to those that can not handle it.  Do not envy the guy that seems to never have a thing go wrong - it simply means they could not cope if it did.  Instead I urge you as you feverishly swim for your life to give thanks, for there is another anomaly to this scenario...I have almost always found that those who carry these heavy loads need only look to the right or left and find they have also been blessed with the strongest of shoulders to help.  If and only If they will share it.

Back to my original sentiment, "as good or as bad as you choose to" And I mean that.  If you choose to bear your crosses alone, than you will.  If you choose to let it overcome you, it will. If you choose to do nothing, then that is what you will get.  And likewise, should you choose to lean on and accept the help of others, then lighter the load will get. If you choose to attack head on, then you can over come. And as long as you are in action you will have momentum.  You can not swim out of the water if you do not move your legs and arms friend.

As this day gives way to all that has yet to be, I know that I am ready. For what? No Clue, But you can bet your bottom dollar that when strife and struggle rears it's head (and it will) I'll be ready with an army of shoulders beside me. And should it be a false alarm then I will raise my glass with them instead in celebration and live to fight another day <3