Teach Your Children Well

Everyone will be on a soap box about the Casey Anthony case. I honestly didn't pay any attention to the case until last week when I started to listen to the morning talk show folks talk about it on the radio. In my heart I feel like she is guilty. In my heart, I feel like they showed enough "reasonable doubt" for the jury to come back with the not guilty verdict they did. I can tell you, that is one task I would never want to have.

I would never want to look at day after day of evidence and interrogations. I would never want the weight of a life in my hands. I would never want America to feel towards me the way so many Americans feel towards the twelve who held her fate in their hands.

Reasonable doubt is there to protect the innocent. Sometimes things set in place for our protection are abused. I feel this is the case. It disgusts me that there is celebration. However: We pay a price in this country for the freedoms we have. We have the chance to due process and a trial by jury. Sometimes things don't happen the way we (on the whole) want them to. Sometimes justice is not served.

I wonder now if people will bother looking for a murderer (since ergo: Casey Anthony didn't do it) for Caylee or if we, as a society, will all too soon forget her and her memory.

I see her memory being all too soon forgotten and the world looking under a microscope at our judicial system as it fails her. I see movies being mad, book deals rolling in, and profits being made over the life of a toddler, who slowly fades away. Hug you children closer tonight. Give them a few more kisses. Let them know they are loved. That's just how I feel after getting swept up in this whole thing.

Cuddles and Kisses,
The Mrs.