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Title: Why Casey Anthony Got Away With It…
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LewRockwell.com
URL Source: http://lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e69.1.html
Published: Jul 16, 2011
Author: Eric Peters
Post Date: 2011-07-16 17:18:18 by James Deffenbach
Keywords: None
Views: 310
Comments: 17
I know why child-killer Casey Anthony was found (cough) “not guilty.” It’s the same reason why American drivers - most of them - will never dare turn right on red (even if the way is obviously clear) or pass a slowpoke over the double yellow, even if the double yellow used to be an official passing zone but was just recently painted over. It’s The Law. The American mindset has undergone a startling metamorphosis. I grew up in the ‘70s, when WW II-era Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker cartoons were still on the air, unedited. These cartoons reflected an American mentality that has been almost completely snuffed out. A don’t-trust-authority (and use your own best judgment) mentality combined with a BS detector of tremendous sensitivity. Bugs Bunny was a snarky individualist who busted balls - and took no ball-busting from anyone, even if they had a badge. In fact, Bugs tolerated it even less if they had a badge or wore a black dress or some other Official Costume. Ditto Woody Woodpecker - the pre-sanitized, politically (very) incorrect version, anyhow. Now we have a generation reared on Tele-Tubbies. Soft, passive. Wait to be Told What To Do. And whatever you do, don’t think. These are the people who sat as jurors for the Casey Anthony trial - the same people who will never disobey a No Right on Red sign or any other law, rule or edict. Because they’ve been well-trained (and increasingly, thoroughly doped-up since they were tots). Never exercise initiative. Don’t question. Submit. Obey. In the trial, the hideous totality of evidence presented that Anthony killed her kid, then covered it up, counted for naught because the Jots and Tittles of The Law had not been satisfied - according to the tortured interpretation and admonitions of shyster lawyers. Instead of ignoring the shysters’ pedantic sophistry and using their own best judgment as to what really mattered - did this woman kill her kid? - they chose to follow The Law. If, for example, they were told by the man in the black dress to ignore damning evidence because said damning evidence was not presented in quite the proper way, they would actually throw a switch inside their heads and exclude said damning evidence from their (cough) deliberations. Reason - hell, common sense - never enters into it. Just whatever arbitrary construct The Law presents them as the template for their actions (and non-actions). It’s the same mindset that causes decent people to forgo the means of self-defense if The Law says that only criminals may possess them. It never occurs to them that obeying The Law is less important than staying alive - The Law be damned. The same mindset that instills the depressing automatic compliance which increasingly characterizes the Modern American - whether it makes any sense to comply or not. The other day I was heading down the mountain (as we say around here) when I rolled up behind a CloverCluster. The leader was not a Clover - just a VDOT tractor with a long arm that was cutting overgrowth along the shoulder. Behind it were the Clovers - two of them. Neither would even try to pass the tractor, even though the sight lines ahead were good for more than a quarter mile. The official-looking VDOT tractor with its blinking orange lights was a dazzling incarnation of The Law to these Clovers. So even though the tractor operator was not a cop and had no power to cite anyone for anything - much less pursue anyone to present a citation - the Clovers cringed in deference, patiently awaiting to be told when it was OK to pass. Not I. This Bugs Bunny-reared Gen Xer evaluated the situation, saw it was perfectly safe to pass - and did so. Double yellow (and orange blinking lights) be damned. Much to the absolute horror of the two Clovers, one of whom did the pathetic flashing of his car’s headlights and tooting of his horn at me as I sailed past. I have no doubt he spent the rest of the day angrily denouncing me as a reckless Law Breaker to anyone within his Roche limit. I will not cotton to the first - but eagerly embrace the second. When a law makes sense, I abide by it. Interestingly, laws that make sense - especially laws that make moral sense - are laws we really don’t need anyhow. Because we should not need to be told by a law to do what is obviously right - and to not do that which is obviously wrong. Laws are mostly if not entirely for the Clovers. People who are no longer capable of exercising judgment (perhaps they never were) and who lack the capacity to reason a thing out and ask themselves: Is this harmful or not? Non-Clovers don’t need laws to tell them not to steal, beat people up or commit fraud because they are intellectually and morally awake. Clovers are asleep, just as the Tele-Tubbies intended. End result? Casey Anthony is free and soon to be a millionaire. And you and I are stuck behind that Clover up ahead, who just won’t move over... Because it’s The Law!
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#1. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
How will that happen? The millionaire part.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
Wait til this case hits the courts ! Nude Woman Found Dead At SoCal Mansion Of Pharmaceutical Firm CEO
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat
Idiots willing to pay her for her "story." And they say she may write a book but that seems a bit of a stretch to me--someone may write one for her. At any rate, there will be people willing to pay her for an interview and she will make money. What remains to be seen is if there are enough people she has hurt and cost money who will sue her and make her spend most of her life in court and away from any blood money she is hoping for. That is what I am hoping for.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
You got that right.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
hope in one hand..
Give it to the idiot Anthony jurors. They will probably rule it a suicide.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
In that regard "all U.S. citizens" are collectively responsible for the demise of the country. People say "it's always been this way or all politicians are crooks" without doing a freakin thing about it ! The song above has a nice line about lawyers ... so I used it as an excuse to play it !
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat
Well, I figure the state of Florida is going to sue her for all the expenses they incurred because of her lies and then there is Equsearch. They had a ton of time and effort hunting Caylee. And then there is the woman who said she lost her job because of the stupid bitch's lies, a woman who happened to have the name she used when she lied about Caylee being kidnapped by the nanny. Her troubles may not be over yet.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
I said, "there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must then hire another to defend my right, it being against all rules of law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself. Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will. The second disadvantage is, that my lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, and abhorred by his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law. And therefore I have but two methods to preserve my cow. The first is, to gain over my adversary's lawyer with a double fee, who will then betray his client by insinuating that he hath justice on his side. The second way is for my lawyer to make my cause appear as unjust as he can, by allowing the cow to belong to my adversary: and this, if it be skilfully done, will certainly bespeak the favour of the bench. Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of property, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perjury, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing any thing unbecoming their nature or their office. "It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice, and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly. "In pleading, they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause; but are loud, violent, and tedious, in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to the purpose. For instance, in the case already mentioned; they never desire to know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad; what diseases she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue. "It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; so that it will take thirty years to decide, whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off. "In the trial of persons accused for crimes against the state, the method is much more short and commendable: the judge first sends to sound the disposition of those in power, after which he can easily hang or save a criminal, strictly preserving all due forms of law." Here my master interposing, said, "it was a pity, that creatures endowed with such prodigious abilities of mind, as these lawyers, by the description I gave of them, must certainly be, were not rather encouraged to be instructors of others in wisdom and knowledge." In answer to which I assured his honour, "that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession." Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
Masterful explanation concerning the paradox of the legal profession.
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat
I have more respect for everyday hookers, than I do for the legal profession.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments
Swift was an excellent writer.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
I bet if you took a poll most people would agree with you.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
I bet if you took a poll most people would agree with you. I bet if you had enough "poles" to shove one up the arse of every lawyer ... most people would applaud you !
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat
LOL! I would bet you're right on that.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." ~ Ben Franklin "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
End result? Casey Anthony is free and soon to be a millionaire.
#2. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
losangeles.cbslocal.com/2...-pharmaceutical-firm-ceo/
#4. To: Fred Mertz (#1)
How will that happen? The millionaire part.
OsamaBinGoldstein
#5. To: Eric Stratton (#2)
With few exceptions, there isn't a lawyer or judge that I respect these days! I don't care how "upstanding a person" and "great contributor to the community" he/she is, they all are collectively responsible in a huge way, directly or indirectly, for sending this nation down the terlet.
OsamaBinGoldstein
#6. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
That is what I am hoping for.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#7. To: noone222 (#3)
From your link: "Rebecca Nalepa, 32, was found dead at the historic Spreckels mansion in Coronado, hanging from a balcony in the nude with her hands tied behind her back and her feet bound."
OsamaBinGoldstein
#8. To: Eric Stratton (#2)
With few exceptions, there isn't a lawyer or judge that I respect these days! I don't care how "upstanding a person" and "great contributor to the community" he/she is, they all are collectively responsible in a huge way, directly or indirectly, for sending this nation down the terlet.
#9. To: Rotara (#6)
hope in one hand..
OsamaBinGoldstein
#10. To: noone222 (#8)
OsamaBinGoldstein
#11. To: James Deffenbach (#10)
#12. To: noone222, 4 (#11)
#13. To: noone222 (#11)
Masterful explanation concerning the paradox of the legal profession.
OsamaBinGoldstein
#14. To: Lod (#12)
I have more respect for everyday hookers, than I do for the legal profession.
OsamaBinGoldstein
#15. To: James Deffenbach (#14)
I have more respect for everyday hookers, than I do for the legal profession.
#16. To: noone222 (#15)
I bet if you had enough "poles" to shove one up the arse of every lawyer ... most people would applaud you !
OsamaBinGoldstein
#17. To: noone222 (#8)
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