Well the daily posting has not gone so well. I have had several rants. I'm just not really in the habit of posting them. Plus my Blitz addiction hasn't gone so well recently, my top score is fading fast and I find that I am lost without running the leaderboard! Sad huh. I have successfully avoided laundry until today when we officially ran out of clothes. I also dealt with a spider bite that left my right foot the size of a cantaloupe. That was fun but it is all healed up now necessitating me crawling out of bed and not whining constantly. Well the healed foot and the no laundry necessitated that!
I did spend some time on FB posting about the Casey Anthony trial. I realize that the whole world seems to have decided that this woman is guilty except for the jury but I have to say I agree with them. I did not see any proof that this child was even murdered, much less that her mother was responsible for it. I thought the bunk forensics by the prosecution were an insult to human intelligence and found the drowning story not only plausible but likely. That at least made more sense to me than that this woman would murder her two year old child to party? I mean really? I think it much more likely she was negligent in her care or at least felt so and the child died on her watch. She got scared and covered it up. Not the smartest move but judging by Law & Orders "ripped from the headlines" stories not that uncommon. I mean where was the motive? Where was the gain? They kept saying that the only one who benefited from her death was her mother. Where did she benefit? At any point she could have given this child up for adoption, even sold the child if she was the sociopath everyone claimed. The kid was two, obviously well love and cared for judging by slide shows the prosecution paraded. I was disappointed in the defenses need to muddy the waters. I think that molestation claims and all were just smoke screen. Whether that happened or not it was not relevant to the case and was just an attempt to make her a victim. As for the infamous tattoo? Well you know what after I lost my daughter (to SIDS at two months old) I did some pretty crazy stuff too. I can remember spending the day before Christmas Eve that year firing up my first joint in over ten years with some friends just to escape the reality of life. It was a lot easier to hide from the horror of my reality than to deal with it. And at the very least, I do think our justice system worked. You can't put someone on death row for a murder you can't even prove was a murder. If there was ever a case of reasonable doubt this was it. So I am probably not going to boycott the inevitable book or movie. I will watch it with interest and see what her version of the real story is. After all she didn't take the stand (and I don't blame her, can you imagine facing the lies she told?) and I would like to hear her side. So call me an idiot liberal or whatever but this case reaffirmed for me that our justice system can work.
I think that my perception of this case though was clouded by an experience I had the year my daughter died. I met shortly after losing my daughter a woman online who had also recently lost her infant child. In fact her child was one week younger than mine, and died one week after mine. She lived far from me and her child had died in a tragic accident. She had fallen down the stairs and her daughter had suffered head injuries that killed her. Her behavior immediately after the fall was erratic (keep in mind she had also suffered injuries in the fall) and she did not recognize that her daughter was ill. We began telephone and email correspondence and became quite good friends. Within a few months of her daughters death the police began to suspect foul play. Ultimately she was jailed and put in solitary confinement for months. We kept up our correspondence however limited it could be during this time. When she was finally released pending the trial we still communicated. I watched the media rip this woman apart. She was labelled a baby killer and blasted by everyone. I spent countless hours defending her on blogs (my one prior experience with them) and met with a lot of resistance. In the end, the case was dismissed because the autopsy report confirmed her story. I watched the media wreck this woman's life and dissect her grief in ways that were unimaginable. When it was all said and done the negative blog posts were quietly removed and one media station did an interview with her now being called wrongfully accused. There was much less fanfare than when she was a "babykiller". I still talk occasionally to this woman who has somehow managed to piece her life back together through trials I can never fully understand. I love and admire her beyond belief and while the Casey Anthony case was different there was a parallel in the rush to judgment and the need to blame.
I pray for Casey Anthony. I hope she finds somehow the strength to move on, as my friend has. I hope that she can make piece with this tragic time in her life and remember her daughter with dignity and love.
As for any other rants I might have this week they seem quite insignificant in comparison so I will leave them for another day. Tomorrow unfortunately the laundry battle continues....
