CA knew precisely when she last saw Caylee, IMO.
- She's a nurse. Nurses are trained to note dates and times. It's been true of every nurse I've ever known, and I've known quite a few.
- Even in her position as an administrator, she had to be conscious of dates.
- She hadn't seen Caylee in a month when she made that statement. It's not as though she was asked to recall a date on the spur of the moment. We know from her MS post that by July 3rd, she was quite concerned. I'm sure she had reviewed all of the events over and over in her mind a million times and knew the day, date, hour and minute when she last saw Caylee.
The date discrepancy has been discussed since the beginning. Some of us came to the conclusion that CA might've lied to prevent her parents from becoming involved. She knew that if she said June 15th, LE would ask her to recall the events of that day, which would mean telling them about the nursing home visit, and she was adamantly opposed to LE talking to her parents. (Remember how she threatened not to cooperate if YM questioned her father?) In the beginning it might've seemed inconsequential to her, a little white lie that would protect her parents. After all, except for that one day she spent with Caylee, the last time she saw her was about a week earlier.
GA and LA might've been telling the truth. GA got with the game later and changed his story to June 16th. I think SP went along to protect CA. She e-mailed her sister about the FD visit. I'm pretty sure she knew the date. That's my take, FWIW. As for the tart mom, I'm not sure why she lied. Was she just confused? She sure had the 31 days down. If anyone has a theory on why she gave the wrong date, please share.
Sorry, Mods, for being OT.
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Everything you wrote makes so much sense to me. Great post. Thank you. I also wonder why Casey gave that date. Maybe we should start a thread? Or is there already a thread? I am sure it has been discussed, I'll keep an eye out for it...
IMHO everyone is right re: one fight, two fights, on going fight...it is all of these. Cindy is controlling and as long as children are small, so are the rifts but when kids reach teen and young adult-things can get messy. To say the least. Cindy says she "gave and gave", she makes her feelings of being betrayed and used open when she posted the myspace message. Cindy never forgets and she never forgives: any fight is just the continuation of the struggle. A battle in the war.
Why has Cindy not acted in the best interests of Caylee, Casey, her family, nor even herself? Because it is not about those things, it is only about being in control.
This is the kind of control game that can only be seen by knowing the details, Cindy gives
only to have control. To use it against anyone later, to get the upper hand, again. I.E. Giving TM the "back pills" and then throwing that in his face later.
Cindy's myspace message says: poor me. Look everyone, at all I did-for this ungrateful daughter who betrayed me. And the whole time she is using Caylee for this purpose. IMHO these are immature games, not the dealings of a mature caring matriarch. Control freaks don't care about what they are trying to control, only that they are in control.
Cindy was engaged with Casey in this struggle from the moment she(Casey) was born and they are still engaged. In Mommy Dearest, when Joan beats Christina at swimming(again)she says to her daughter, "I will always win." Not all mothers are mammalian in there instinct to raise offspring. IMHO, some mothers behave as reptiles, seeing their children as enemies. Hatching them and then leaving them to their own devices or lording over them as masters to be obeyed and feared.
Cindy wanted to control Casey and Caylee was one of the things she used to do so-imo. Nothing Cindy has done throughout this whole case has made any sense, she has put her self in situations that could have been avoided easily. But she can't help herself, she has to be in control.
I had held off watching the video where the protesters/media is outside of the Anthony home, and Cindy has her hammer. I knew it would make my blood boil and I do not enjoy being angry at these people, I am just following a case for reasons that are elusive. Anywho: I did see it recently. What I did not know was (and please correct me if I am wrong, please):
Casey was in the house! Caylee had not been found in the woods yet, and that family had Casey out of jail, like she had wanted-and they were just hanging out at home. Huh. Wow. :crazy: In that video, IMHO-we see what Cindy really cares about: being in control. Where's Caylee? Oh, I don't know...but I know I want you off of my property!
Cindy argued with her brother about things their own mother had told him, just to be "right" and in control. Basically, calling her own mother a liar. Cindy was willing to lie bold faced straight to her own mother and father about Casey being pregnant, yet when LE wanted to speak to her parents she plays the "respect my parents" card. Just like Cindy tells some people that Casey is "unfit" and a "sociopath", while becoming enraged at anyone suggesting Casey was anything other than mother of the year.
IMHO, this is generational. SP obviously covers for Cindy and her lies, enables Cindy. Why didn't SP confront Cindy at the wedding, she allowed Cindy to perpetuate the "truth" that Casey was not pregnant, when it was obvious to everyone she was. The July 3rd message makes perfect "sense" to me. That is exactly how someone more concerned with "drama" and having control, than doing what is actually right: would do.
Caylee was "missing" but Cindy wasn't going to budge an inch. In fact, she went right on myspace and left a message she knew/hoped Casey would see and that Casey's friends would/might see. She knew it would push Casey's buttons, but not in a
clever mother to get done bringing the baby home way, it was done to make matters worse, to get across "hurt" feelings. The myspace page was written as Cindy's latest move in the chess game that was their relationship to show everyone how Cindy is good and Casey is bad. That message was never going to make Casey bring Caylee home, even if she had been alive.
Cindy created Casey so that she can be the martyr Mother, without actually having to sacrifice anything of herself. There have been many cases where mothers, women use children to receive attention for themselves. Aggg. The worst kind of "love" is the kind where they make it look like they give you everything but beneath it all is control.
It's when you are so selfish you want everyone to think you are not selfish at all. This is what Casey was trying to do, is still trying to do.
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but I know a LOT of messed up people, and am related to a great number of them, and the Anthonys do not fit into what I think of as normal in any way shape or form. Nothing about them says normal or typical...unless we are looking at the segment of society who have emotional problems, psychological issues, and control dilemnas...THEN, in that case, yep, they are as normal as it gets in their own segment of society...Normal...huh...that's a new one. 
