WEIGHING IN ON THE CAYLEE STORY

I’ve been somewhat silent on the Caylee Anthony story from day one. For one thing, I’m not in possession of all of the facts. For another, the stories on the national political scene and overseas with Russia, Georgia, North Korea, Iran…..have been preoccupying my mind, although the national media and press doesn’t seem to share the same interests.

Here we are, just about three months down the road. For one of those months, no one knew Caylee was missing. For two following months, mom has been stonewalling and grandmother has been grand-standing. Yes, grand-mom has been playing the media like suckers, keeping Nancy and Greta running around like busy little beavers trying to extract the facts, to no avail. Enter one bail bondsman and the circus has really come to town.

Down the road, has any positive information come out? Has anyone really investigated the role that the grandfather, a retired policeman, might be playing in a cover-up? Actually, the news has been really negative. The Anthony’s, all of them, are stonewalling it. Grand-mom, ala O.J. Simpson, seems to be running around with T-Shirts and signs pleading for people to go find Caylee. Grand-dad is now taking on the media and others on his doorstep. Caylee’s mom isn’t talking.

We have the smell of death in the trunk of a car, cadaver dogs who hit on it, pizza claims (no one has ever explained why they left the damned pizza in the trunk in the first place), chloroform, and denial, denial, denial. We have mom, virtually hours after Caylee goes bye-bye, out partying and acting as if everything is great. We even have friends saying that mom didn’t say anything about Caylee being missing, and we have Caylee insisting that she was looking on her own, in between parties, I presume.

We have a mom, obviously addicted to drugs or sex or both, (call it narcissism if you want), who steals from her parents without retribution and says, without any evidence to back it up, that she knows her daughter is safe. Well, anyone in heaven is safe. It probably is, I think, that grandmother knows her daughter is guilty and she has decided she doesn’t want to lose both a grand daughter and a daughter, so she has enlisted the aid of her husband in devising a way to…make the truth go away.

So, where do I stand? For one thing, I think Jon Benet Ramsey’s killer did it. Actually, I don’t mean that, but the Boulder City cops totally screwed up the investigation, as we all know. And, I think that the Orlando cops followed suit, led down some dumb paths by grandmother, maybe, but they have screwed it up.

The way the Anthonys are protecting poor little and innocent Casey leads me to believe that she is in total denial, thinking they will save her. She’s probably always lived in this cocoon where mommy and daddy isolated her from reality. Yes, I think they are trying to save her, which makes them accomplices. If it was my choice, I’d throw all three of them into a dark, damp cell, and then I’d start pulling toenails and fingernails until I got the answer. But, this is America and, like O.J. Simpson, Casey is entitled to go free if she and her parents are clever enough to outwit the Orlando justice system.

And, that’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.