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By Steve Huff in missing persons, unsolved
Thursday, Sep. 18 2008 @ 9:58PM


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.