The Idiot Parade at the Anthony Home
Posted at 9:58 PM Sep 18, 2008
Video via Anakerie on YouTube. Here's Anakerie's blog.
The video above is just raw footage of a clash between Cindy and George Anthony and protesters outside their home in Orange County, Florida. I like it better without any announcer breathlessly clouding the narrative. It lays bare the bones of the idiocy now occurring outside this suburban home under siege near Orlando -- you know, the home of Disney, the happiest place on Earth?
As you can see, late in the video, there is a real-live parade of idiots walking back and forth in front of the Anthony residence.
Inside that home are George and Cindy, missing toddler Caylee's grandparents, and of course, the vacantly pretty mother who is to blame for starting all this crap in the first place, one Casey Anthony. If you're really bored, you can read the transcript of her call 911 about these mouth-breathers outside the house by clicking here.
There are a lot of reasons I think these people protesting at the Anthony home are idiots. That's saying something, if you consider the fact that I have no doubt that police will one day find that key bit of evidence they need to put Casey away for her daughter's murder. It's saying a lot when you know that I find Casey's parents' behavior disgusting as well. Cindy and George Anthony are two of the worst cases of denial and enabling I've ever seen play their family drama out in the news. It seems as though they could care less about their missing granddaughter, no matter what they say -- at this point, they only care about Casey, and keeping her sorry ass out of jail.
These people protesting, though -- what the hell is wrong with them? Who are they? Have they made some kind of sick fucking pilgrimage to the Anthony home to do this crap?
I don't think they care about what happened to Caylee, either. No. The protesters are attention whores, pure and simple. They're just troublemakers who have found a way to flip their usual paradigm and seem like they're on the side of right by protesting someone whom they perceive as a child-killer. By protesting a family they see (admittedly rightly, in my opinion) as enablers of their adult daughter's crimes and deceptions.
At this point, I see them as only marginally better than the Anthonys, and rather hope that someone snags some raw video sometime soon of the police finding a reason to pepper-spray the whole lot of them.
Here's what news coverage of these righteous folk could cause: the jury pool could be tainted. The protesters are helping to set up a beautiful case for a change of venue. Jose Baez could plausibly now say to a judge that there is no way in hell his client could get a fair trial for anything anywhere in Orange County.
The change of venue would cost Florida taxpayers more money, and it could work in Casey Anthony's favor. All it would take for Casey to get a mistrial would be one lone juror who didn't watch the coverage -- easier to find outside of the Orlando area -- and found her somehow sympathetic.
Here's the other reason I am appalled by these ridiculous freaks and the clown show they are putting on at the Anthony home -- at times ably assisted by Cindy and George, of course -- they're doing the impossible, and almost -- almost making the Anthonys somewhat sympathetic.
If I can even think of such a thing, it tells me that someone else will truly feel sympathy for the Anthonys. That could lead to another attorney willing to jump in and help pro-bono with this oh-so-high profile case. It could lead to further financial assistance for the family, ensuring that should Casey be arrested again -- and with a (most likely) inherently criminal personality like hers, she will be -- she will still have money for bail, should a judge still set bail for her.
In fact, someone with lots of money, looking for a "story" could even see this sort of footage and want to give Casey herself some more cash. For a narcissistic personality like hers, incapable of guilt, that would be heaven.
So -- even though there is a moment of schadenfreude whenever I see George and Cindy paying a little for their willful blindness towards what Casey truly is, I have only one simple thing I'd want to say to all the stupid protesters: you're not helping.
Look, justice rarely moves rapidly enough for anyone. Whether you're an innocent person falsely convicted or a stone-cold killer who will one day go away forever, justice still moves at its own pace. Nothing shouted in the middle of a humid Florida night by some half-wit, backwoods idiot with a misspelled protest sign shaped like a tombstone is ever going to change that.
The other thing about the protests of the Anthony home is this -- they will become the story (if they haven't already). I fear they'll become the story in a bad, ugly way, if people don't stand down, soon. If that happens, little Caylee will fade further into the shadows. Lest anyone forgets -- this is still, in the end, her story. No midnight protests will bring her justice. They will only bring the protesters attention, make the family look sympathetic, and further obscure the only thing anyone really wants in this case -- the truth.
Comments
I agree 100%! Your blog says it better than I could ever put into words.
Posted 09/19/2008 at 12:04:50 AMI too agree 100% Excellent blog Steve.
These protesters need to get a life. They make me want to spit. I don't agree with how the parents are acting either. They need to be slapped (snap out of it). But none of us,(and be honest) know how we would react in the same scenario with a manipulating daughter that we love and a missing grandchild that was also loved (and hugely in denial and blindly praying that she is still alive). And a whole bunch of nuts protesting and ranting in front of their home along with all the media attention and bashing. Do we? I know how I should act, but.....
Posted 09/19/2008 at 12:43:41 AMI especially like the T-shirts and ball caps the protesters are wearing; quite sophisticated for such an outing, wouldn't you say?
Posted 09/19/2008 at 12:54:39 AMThis is sickening!!! Its pretty pathetic when you have nothing better to do with your life than harrass other AMERICANS in their own home. If these people have a problem with how the Orlando police are doing their jobs, then go protest there! You know why they don't? Because they don't have the BALLS!
Posted 09/19/2008 at 09:19:18 AMIt isn't just the moronic protesting - they were throwing things at their windows and doors! The Anthony's have every right to privacy in their own home. While I cannot abide their stance of protecting their daughter at the expense of their grandchild, they probably think Casey is all they have left. I have no doubt that they may very well think, in the back of their minds, that Caylee is dead.
Posted 09/19/2008 at 09:31:04 AMAnd the protesters are doing nothing more than giving the Anthony's a reason to "protect" Casey even more.
The whole "protester" scenario is analogous to Steve's reminder about trolls: don't feed them.
If the Anthonys would stay in their house (part of the price they must pay for all this--they are now public figures), the social misfits on the sidewalk would have no payoff.
The Anthonys should STOP ENGAGING. Ignore the protesters--absolutely nothing can be gained from having any dialogue with these folks.
The protesters should GO HOME, so LE can concentrate their energies on the actual investigation of Caylee's disappearance, and not these ridiculous sideshows.
Thank you, Steve, for all the research and attitude you bring to these cases.
Posted 09/19/2008 at 01:28:45 PMThe only aspect of the protesting that I find counter-productive is when the protesters cross the property line in any way. Peer pressure is an excellent tool that should be used on the Anthony family. The right reaction We The People should have towards this is to intensify the demand for Casey to do the right thing, not get mad at the protesters. We should not let ourselves be so easily distracted by anything other than hearing the truth from the person/s responsible for Caylee. Don't worry, Our Media will harp on the sensationally inconsequential, it's all they're good at.
Posted 09/19/2008 at 02:08:47 PMCasey Anthony has a host of mental disorders, not the least being a habitual liar, narcissist, probably a Cluster b (comprised of the Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder)- nagging her, "demanding" that she "tell the truth" isn't going to work.
Sorry, I put the protesters almost as high up there are her parents.....freakish behavior.
Posted 09/19/2008 at 02:40:27 PMI said this when they first started:
http://ronnisrants.blogspot.com/2008/09/git-rope.html#links
...and I am even more appalled as their activities have escalated.
Posted 09/21/2008 at 03:35:07 PMI dunno', I'd like to see this society try, at least try, to effectively use peer pressure, not all that different from what the protesters are doing, to compel a member to do the right thing. We apparently don't have the strength to do it. Right now the Anthony family is holding out. They're waiting to see who blinks first, us or them.
Posted 09/23/2008 at 02:31:53 AMJust steady, strong, committed peer pressure.
Sorry, but our courts have been broken for a very long time. There's precious little justice there. We handed over our authority to handle crimes to lawyers and have consistently refused to make any corrections or take any personal responsibility.
If you are a child in this country, be afraid. We will do as little as possible to help you. Especially if it risks offending the neighbors. Learn fast: your little life means not much... not all that much... at all.
At the least, the protesters are letting their human outrage actually show. Speech in the name of a child... that's an exercise of the 1st Amendment worth defending.
Youre exactly right,when the protesters first started i was all for them,heck if i could have afforded it i would have went too,but the violence is stupid as hell and especially bring your own child to rally against another person accused of child neglect,signs around their neck,kids arm gets caught in the door and hes klaying there screaming and still no one cared he was holding his arm screaming in pain and that guy jerks him right up,i was so afraid that guy was gonna grab the arm he had hurt,and then though shes yelling,we are going to the ER and that bitch is gonna pay for it........why?? dumb woman,shes the one who took him and she knew why she was going!!!! What kid needs to hear that another childs mom killed her,i mean my God,once a child has that in his head lord he has no protector.....then george was grabbed,there are things you just dont do......ever!!!
Posted 09/25/2008 at 02:05:15 PMI dont care for none of the anthonys,i did at one point,I'm a grandma too....thats before they told the 1st lie which was what.2 mins after it broke....but i wouldve been there to just try to get them to see the evidence and that casey is responsible but violence helps nobody!!! The protesters
are well on their way of making them look like victims???
Caylee didnt need that!!