Casey Anthony - And No One Gets Rich

Yesterday, Casey Anthony commandeered the spotlight once again, after a "video diary" she created surfaced on You Tube.

Holly and Jon Briley, who maintain a Facebook page titled "Boycott Casey Anthony's Future Earnings - No Money for Murder" were sent a link for the video. Jon did some internet searching and discovered that the video was available for viewing on a couple of pay-per-view sites, for the princely sum of two to five dollars. Jon was, however, able to download the video for free from another link. Jon and Holly then posted the video to You Tube, where it can be seen, at no cost, by millions. 

The Brileys found themselves in an unexpected spotlight after posting the video. Their reason for making the video available to the public? Casey Anthony should not be allowed to profit, in ANY way, from the death of her daughter. Both Holly and Jon made that quite plain in their interviews with Vinnie Politan and Nancy Grace. The Brileys made NO money by posting the video, and were NOT paid for their susequent interviews.

By yesterday afternoon, one of Casey's attorneys, Cheney "Mumbles" Mason, had responded in his usual florid manner. According to Mumbles, Her Heinous was "maintaining some notes for her personal use and for future counseling purposes." He called the release of the video "unauthorized" and "inappropriate", going so far as to say that Casey's computer must have somehow been hacked.

Whatever. Casey's defense team has adopted Casey's "lie and deny" tactics for so long, that little weight is given to any of their proclamations. And who does the old goat think he's fooling, anyway? Casey's defense team hopped aboard the Lying Train for their own personal gain, period.

Mason himself stated in a taped interview that Casey was guilty, then, months later, joined her defense team. How "inappropriate" is that moral about-face? Isn't the old fart supposedly writing a book about the trial, as well?

Let's not forget the alacrity with which Bozo Baez hopped a plane to New York the day after Casey was found not guilty. Within 24 hours he'd secured an agent (who dropped him five hours later), sat for an interview with Barbara Walters, and has been Geraldo Rivera's pet ever since (Geraldo is loathsome in his perpetual championing of Baez, but that's another story for another day). Baez, who sucks as an attorney, has decided that real lawyering ain't for him. Gary Giordano, anyone?

Point blank - the guys on Casey's defense team have been thwarted at every turn in their attempts to cash in on Casey's notoriety ever since the Pinellas Pinheads handed Casey her get-out-of-jail-free card. In attempting to champion Casey, their Cashless Cow, they have destroyed whatever shred of credibility they may have once possessed.

As for Her Heinous? She remains pure poison in the court of public opinion. Whereas networks may have jockeyed for an initial interview with her, and rumors of a book deal were bandied about, they quickly learned that the public will not now, nor will they ever, accept Casey Anthony profiting from her daughter's murder.

Casey, being Casey, will live the rest of her life seeing people as disposable, and herself as the only star in her twisted universe. Her lawyers will huff and puff and eventually blow themselves, mercifully, out of the public eye.

But they will never, ever profit from Caylee's death. In many ways, that is perhaps far more of a life sentence then Bozo, Mumbles, and Her Heinous realize.



***Note - Found the above picture on Google images. No credit was posted for the individual who created it. However, they have my thanks for their creativity!