Comments on: Can You Forgive Casey?

By: Rex Lutherin

Rex Lutherin — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:12:16 +0000

Great way to attract new business, isn’t this? I would expect this and not much else from a CNN Belief Blog contributor, as well as someone who caters to celebrities. Yourself and the Anthony family aside, the people who should Never be forgiven in this case are the jurors. After all, they had the chance to find Casey Anthony guilty of the disappearance and death of her child and they failed to do so. You don’t need forensic evidence to say “YOU were the last person the child was seen with therefore YOU were fully responsible for her safety and well being. Seeing as the child is dead, YOU are responsible.” The third charge was completely suited for that reality and obviously was never considered by a jury composed of spineless idiots. Wake up and think people, what the ruling in this case means is that any parent(s) can now directly or indirectly cause the death of their child and get away with it. All they have to do is lie through their teeth and not give any plausible explanation as to what happened. And for that, my sincere wish is that each and every juror in this case spend the rest of their life living with guilt in the shadow of the precedent they just set, never able to forgive THEMSELVES. Some may even commit suicide when they start to witness the implications of this outcome, some maybe even sooner. In the meantime, while everyone is busily preoccupied discussing million dollar interviews, book deals, and movie stars best suited for the tentative film production, where is Caylee in all of this? It would appear that the most innocent of victims in this sick crime is long forgotten and deemed not important. If there is ONE person who should be asked to forgive Casey Anthony in all of this, it’s her daughter. However, that is impossible because she is dead. As for you, Mr. Wanis, you should be quite ashamed for having the gall trying to cash in on this fiasco.

By: alli

alli — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:48:05 +0000

Another good reminder for us to be forgiving and cut the cords that keep us bound in a state of ever-increasing toxin accumulation.

At the same time, when it comes to Casey Anthony, forgiveness rests really with Caylee, not with us. If it’s anyone she wronged, it was her. But, I think, the sign of a healthy, thinking, feeling, and fair society is that people SHOULD feel angry when clearly someone hasn’t been punished for what they did – in Casey Anthony’s case, people aren’t stupid. The hoi polloi know that she had something to do with her daughter’s death, and she should be punished with obstruction of justice or negligence of some kind, at the very least.
I know for me, what really draws my ire is the fact that with the RIGHT lawyer, some select people of our society can get away free just like OJ and now Casey. It’s the legal system that we’re angry at – it’s not fairly holding people accountable for damages they’ve done. There’s already an understanding within our society – that there’s a legal system for one group, and a legal system for the rest of us, as we’ve seen with the slap on the wrist the b@nksters have gotten with their aid in turning over the economy, corporations getting away from paying ta#es for financially backing the pr3s, etc. It just adds to the feeling like there’s not so many institutions or systems we can turn to and trust anymore.

By: natacha

natacha — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:12:32 +0000

Thank you Patrick for this beautiful article. Being resentful, not forgiving is like drinking poison, hoping that the other person will die! It only slows you down! Forgiveness is a gift that you do to yourself first!
Thank you, God bless, natacha

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:16:21 +0000

Last year, I was wronged by a long-time friend I had trusted. It was deeply hurtful, and I had to do a lot of soul searching to come to terms with it. But I ran across one word painted on a sidewalk (by whom and directed whomever, I probably will never know), and that word was “forgive.” I took a picture of it and still see it on an almost daily basis. It led me to studying, discussing and pondering what forgiveness means. I am now much more at peace with what happened. I have risen above another person’s mistake. I am able to put it in context. I know this person is sorry by subsequent actions and communications, even if there is no stated contrition. The relationship is not what it once was, but we can be in each other’s presence with no sense of anger or malice. It took forgiveness to move past hostility to a place where vestiges of the former friendship are allowed to continue living. The good things of that friendship are not buried with the bad.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:59:30 +0000

Patrick, we met long ago during work here in Orlando, through Leda. I have received your newsletter since you began and find it always insightful and applicable. In this case however I disagree. I was not in Orlando when this fiasco started, I was out of the country for four years and would have been a perfect juror because I had no previous knowledge of the case. Long story short I believe the reason people are so angry is because they could not get to the truth and only she holds it. There was no satisfaction of knowing what happened it will be kept within that family alone. I believe they are all guilty of reaping the benefits of that child’s death and for that they should all be ostracized and never forgiven!!!