No Justice For Caylee: In The Good Ole USA, Kids & Fetuses Don't Matter At All

I've not followed the Casey Anthony investigation or trial at all.  And that's been hard to do.

How the disappearance and murder of one little girl has grabbed the headlines for so long . . . when there are so many children out there who are  neglected and physically/mentally/sexually brutalized and murdered every single day . . . is something I've not been able to wrap my head around.  Why does the media latch on to what and who it does?

How many children/families still alive/still suffering could have been helped with even a small portion of the air time devoted to a murder trial presented as entertainment . . . the ultimate in "reality TV"?

I can't deny that, without a conscious effort to avoid following the case, it would have been easy for me to get sucked in.  As someone who never had children, I cannot comprehend the kind of evil it would take to snuff the life out of that gorgeous little girl in the pictures.

The media circus has been a truly sickening thing to behold - even for someone like me who exercised every opportunity to change the channel.  Nancy Grace, Geraldo and all the rest of the vultures feeding off this case are worthy of a stint in one of the lower circles of Hell.

I've known all along that justice would not be served for Caylee Anthony, and the "non-guilty" verdicts on the felony counts were exactly what I expected and predicted . . . not because I believe her Mother isn't guilty-beyond-any-reasonable-doubt (it's hard to get past the weeks of Casey lying about where her daughter was, or the car trunk reeking with decomp, or duct-tape covering the child's skull where her nose and mouth used to be - information I must have absorbed by osmosis because I did not purposely sit down and read/watch anything about the case) . . . but because the justice system in this country is so fundamentally warped.

I'm not "speechless".  I'm not "shocked".  I can't even work up outrage.  I'm just resigned.  I absorbed the news and kept working as colleagues around me fumed.  Indeed, I wasn't going to comment at all on the "trial of the century" until I saw a "tweet" posted by Roseanne Barr after the verdict:

"Kids only matter in this country when they are fetuses."

There'd be a lot of truth in that statement if fetuses actually mattered.  The devaluation of children in this country starts in the womb - when taking their lives is someone else's "right".

I'm very sorry for poor Caylee.  It's not right.

But alas, there's a lot that's not right in this sorry world.  Just ask the "fetuses" who did not make it in.


7/6 Update:

News reports state that Casey Anthony is set to "make millions" via book deals and media appearances. 

Of COURSE, she is.

Kill a child - either deliberately or via gross parental negligence - and lie you ass off/cover up the death - and you too can become a media sensation and a millionaire.

Save a child's life and . . . well . . . read the sidebar.