Casey Anthony Released

This weekend Casey Anthony went free from jail, free to live the rest of her life an innocent women.  Despite the release being shortly after midnight, there were people who made the effort to travel to the jail, stand out in the rain, and hurl abuse at this person as she walked to the car surrounded by armed guards.

First off, I don't know what derangement possesses someone to travel all that way, and wait around all night hoping to yell at someone who a jury found innocent on all charges (other than lying).

But my comment is simply this, Casey Anthony was destroyed in the media, she had to contend with that vile little bitch Nancy Grace et al telling Americans how she was guilty and how she should be put to death.  And now Anthony has to live in society with these crazy people, knowing that threats have been made against her life.

The media, indignant that a jury did not share their thirst for blood, went on the offensive talking about how she will probably make millions doing interviews and a book deal etc.  To all this, I say, so what, and leave this poor woman alone.

We have a criminal justice system that is deeply flawed, and clearly racist.  Innocent people get thrown in jail all the time, including petty criminals who certainly don't need to be in jail.  So even if Casey Anthony deliberately murdered her baby in cold blood, so be it.  All the evidence was presented, and the jury couldn't even find her guilty of mistreating or abusing the child, much less killing her.  Even if some people think she had a hand in the child's death by being irresponsible, just let it go already.  Thanks to our infant mortality rate (46th in the world - GO AMERICA!), dozens of babies will die today in America because we don't make quality affordable health care available to the poor.  These dead babies will not get 30 days of blanket media coverage, in fact they won't even make a newspaper headline.  It will just be another statistic, another oh well.  I suspect in fact that during the time Casey Anthony was in jail, the number of babies that died unnecessarily in America because of our fuck you attitude towards the poor would have hit tens of thousands.  How can we as a nation have such an outpouring of emotion over this one kid, but continue to support policies and political ideologies that sentence millions to die prematurely?

This woman is either so unstable she deliberately killed her child, so irresponsible she accidentally killed the child through action or inaction, or just plain unlucky.  But in any case she is going to have to live with that fact and the infamy forever.  Not a day will ever go by in her life when she will not be haunted by what happened, the death of her child, the three years in jail, the media circus, the death threats, the threat of death row, and the unwanted celebrity status (where you get almost all the bad, and almost none of the good benefits of being a celebrity).  She will never be able to lead a normal life, have a normal job, have normal friends and co-workers.  What happened will define her entire life in a pretty horrific way.  So for these assholes to be talking about what happened as her walking away 'scott free' is just beyond brainless.

As far as I am concerned I am totally okay that she is free.  I also could not care less if she makes a few million from what happened, because she isn't going to be able to earn that money in any kind of normal way.  Above all else, I really was appalled by the witch hunt and the trial by media.  I am further appalled at the despicable and disgusting fucktards who protested the trial, and waited around for hours and days just to hurl abuse at her.  It is so uncivilized, and is one step away from stoning people to death.  These protestors could have been working a soup kitchen, volunteering for the homeless, fostering an unwanted baby.  Any number of things.  But instead they were making an already horrific situation worse by being assholes.  So if you were one of those people; fuck you.

Casey Anthony

I have to start out by saying; I have not watched the trial of Casey Anthony nor have I become a part of the media frenzy surrounding this case.  However, as people all over the media and on Facebook tell me their opinion, I feel I should push back with mine.

In my mind there are three likely scenarios in this case:

Murder Most Foul

The young mother had a plethora of reasons for hating her daughter, and decided to terminate her in a very late term abortion.  Unfortunately, my understanding is that dozens of witnesses came forward and spoke to a very positive relationship between mother and daughter, so I find this pretty unlikely.

Manslaughter

The lack of sleep, stress of raising a child, and other general pressures caused Casey to snap and kill her child.  Possible I guess, but doesn't seem all that likely.

Death By Misadventure

Some terrible accident occurs that may or may not have been the result of negligence on the part of Casey, and the child dies.  The parent loses a grip on reality and makes up a series of lies to hide what has happened, with no clue how to make it right.

I don't know what happened, but I do know that I have a very hard time believing that a mother would plot to kill her little daughter and then do so in cold blood in a manner that would qualify her for the death penalty.  It just doesn't make any real sense.  It is not in keeping with typical human behavior.  Also even a stupid person would realize that if you just flat out kill your child, sooner or later someone is going to ask questions or find the body.

If you are going to take the time to plan a murder why not simply make it look like an accident?  Let the kid drown in the bath tub, or swimming pool.  Let the kid fall from an open window.  Putting masking tape over their face and dumping their body in a trash bag is clearly not much of a murder plan.

But I don't want to become just some other pundit expressing a baseless opinion about this case.  What I want to talk about first off is America's need for blood.  The number of otherwise normal people baying for an execution is really quite disturbing.  Even if she actually plotted and actually murdered her own child, do we really need to execute her?  Is she going to get released after 30 years in jail, have another kid and then murder them?  Execution should be reserved for war crimes, crimes against humanity, serial killers, and utterly heinous acts.  Something like this?  I don't think so.  And let's also be clear, the only countries in the world who still execute people suck.  We should not be striving to be like the Middle East, third world counties, or Communist China.

I'm also a little sick of people talking about this woman getting off 'Scott free.'  Really?  Scott free?  In any realistic scenario, she is going to have to live with the death of her child forever.  Then the assholes who judge this woman are going to make her life terrible for at least a decade or so.  She isn't going to be able to get a real job, so she is just going to have to write an autobiography or sell the movie rights because between that and welfare, is the only likely way she is going to make any kind of money any time soon.  And let us not forget she has already served close to three years with a death sentence hanging over her head.

I think what I find most sad about this event is that the media have chosen to spend hundreds of hours of television time milking this story in every possible way.  Not interested in the troops dying in our two wars, not interested with trying to fix the economy that the Republicans fucked up, not talking about the gun crimes happening every day in the inner cities of America, not concerned with actual world events.  No, instead we are turning the tragic story of this death into headline news for months.

People are so sick, I saw a news story this morning where random people were actually traveling to the spot where the child's body was recovered to see it 'for themselves.'  I mean really?  What kind of sick fuck travels across the country to see a place where a child's corpse was recovered?

In conclusion, if we are to pretend that people are innocent until proven guilty, we need to put a stop to trial in the media.  And as usual, the American media need to get back to the 'good old days' of journalism, and reporting actual news rather than creating a media circus and then reporting on themselves.