Charity Distances Itself From Anthonys; Shoe Donations

[Kentjbkent]

Exactly! very well stated!!!
And where are the new attorneys? Why aren't they advising Cindy to STOP this madness, and graciously excuse herself from attending this event so as not to cause any problems for the charity???? Not a good start for the new attorneys IMO.

So whatcha think is going through Conway's head right about now? :waitasec:

Perhaps, "Think I will go out fishing today....:"woohoo:

 

[wonders]

I think I get what you are saying, wonders.

I think the issue is not doing this anonymously. IOW, if Cindy had just anonymously donated some of Cayleee's shoes, no one would ever know who they belonged to. It would not be any different that any other donor. That would be a sincere contribution w/o any ulterior motive.

Personally, I think Caylee would be honored if her shoes went to an orphan that had none. Unfortunately, Cindy went about this all the wrong way.

Thank you Beach. Your right in all that you said especially what I bolded.
Again I'm not trying to be mean about Caylee's memory. I wouldn't be able to put a pair of Caylee's shoes on my child knowing what horrible things she must have suffered in those last minutes of her life. As it is whenever I think of Caylee I can't help but wonder what she went through and wish I had been able to stop it.
Can you tell me what IOW means? Thank you.

 

[Horace Finklestein]

BBM
Yes, Wonders I understand what you are saying and you have put it into words nicely.IMO.

I too wished she would have quietly donated and helped this Charity without the self-promoting and self-aggrandizing comments to the media..

The media outlet should also be scrutinized for reporting it they way they did. Local 6 could have chosen to just put the flier up on their website or shown it during live newscasts without any mention on Cindy Anthony.
:twocents:

She didn't genuinely want to do anything to help the charity, or she would have given more than ONE pair of shoes, worth about 1/1250th of what they've put in casey's bean and cheese snack account. It was supposed to be a symbolic gesture. One pair of shoes. Wow.

Don't spend all of your "Caylee capital" in one place, Cindy...make it last, you only have so many genuine Caylee articles of clothes and toys to last you the rest of your life. There's always ebay ya know!!

 

[kaRN]

Would anybody be talking about this had Cindy NOT sent an email to the press? Maybe she just wanted to help a charity out by putting their name in the press? IMO this is much ado about nothing. In my eyes she was doing a GOOD DEED and just because her granddaughter died doesn't mean she can't donate her things, that act does not make her a bad person, my sisters child died at 7months and she donated all his clothes and bedding and I don't think that made her a bad person, she wanted to help the children that were still here

THIS IS JMOO please don't hate me

PS I don't think Cindy had anything to do with Casey killing Caylee and don't see any point in making her a villain when the killer is in jail JMOO

Hi and welcome!! Nobody would even know without the email alert, that Cindy had done a good deed or was about to. The act is not what is being criticized. It's a wonderful charity. It's the personal endorsment that's offensive.
Cindy has lied, derailed LE, criticized us, the media, attempted to destroy the lives of several young people, lived off the profits generated by her grandaughters image, denied her death but never searched and impeded those who came in and searched on her behalf.........................................
She's not a celebrity spokesman for anything but familial dysfunction and she needs to realize that. She villainized herself.
But now she knows what her media endorsment buys and hopefully her new team of criminal lawyers will reign her in and gag her. MOO I respect YO too.

 

[kaRN]

She didn't genuinely want to do anything to help the charity, or she would have given more than ONE pair of shoes, worth about 1/1250th of what they've put in casey's bean and cheese snack account. It was supposed to be a symbolic gesture. One pair of shoes. Wow.

Don't spend all of your "Caylee capital" in one place, Cindy...make it last, you only have so many genuine Caylee articles of clothes and toys to last you the rest of your life. There's always ebay ya know!!

ITA. Altruism and Cindy are complete strangers.

 

[ziggy]

Her sense of entitlement, her narsisism shines through, all the time...JMHO

She wants recognition, she wants and loves the attention, negative or positive, doesn't matter to her...as long as she's in the news...JMHO


Justice for Caylee

Sounds like you are describing Casey. Fruit meet Tree.

 

[wonders]

Would anybody be talking about this had Cindy NOT sent an email to the press? Maybe she just wanted to help a charity out by putting their name in the press? IMO this is much ado about nothing. In my eyes she was doing a GOOD DEED and just because her granddaughter died doesn't mean she can't donate her things, that act does not make her a bad person, my sisters child died at 7months and she donated all his clothes and bedding and I don't think that made her a bad person, she wanted to help the children that were still here

THIS IS JMOO please don't hate me

PS I don't think Cindy had anything to do with Casey killing Caylee and don't see any point in making her a villain when the killer is in jail JMOO

j.r.k., no hate from me at all. I do however encourage you to read and watch everything on WS and other sites about this case in order to understand where our hearts lay.

Also WELCOME to WS.

 

[ScubaTwinn]

What I would love to see, as CA is walking up to the bin, cameras rolling, a volunteer is praising a person who has donated a large sack of shoes. CA walks up and hands here one pair of shoes to volunteer and starts with 'These were my granddaughter's Caylee sh..' volunteer interrupts her with an abrupt 'thanks' and casually tosses them into the bin - then quickly reaches past CA to the person behind her who has just come up with two large bags of shoes and starts praising this new person for her generous donation as CA is left there with her mouth open.

This would really be priceless. And then they wouldn't know which pair of shoes were thrown in there by her either.

 

[Nore]

Please understand I'm not trying to be mean to Caylee's memory in any way, but something is really bothering me.

ALL of us here love a little girl by the name of Caylee who in our opinion was murdered by her mother.
Along comes George and Cindy the grandparents of the murderer and murdered, making all kinds of trouble for so many innocent people.
This is where I so don't want to be mean to Caylee's memory.
In my opinion the only value of Caylee's belonging's would only mean something to the family and they would be priceless. No? IMO I feel that it's creepy that Cindy would think that Caylee's belonging's would mean anything to us as the public. Am I making sense here? I mean, lets say Cindy tried to sell Caylee's belonging's on e-bay or something like that. Would you feel comfortable paying money for a dead childs belonging's if you knew what that child went through?
I hope you all understand what I'm trying to say, maybe one of you can put into words what I'm trying to say.

If Cindy were sincere in this chairty, she wouldn't have done what she did. She could have quitely gone to family, friends and neighbors to seek a pair of shoes to be donated. She could even have gone to thrift stores and brought shoes to donate quitely.

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Yes wonders.I feel that way.I still have clothing from my son.I cant part with it.You can open a drawer here and find something from him and also his Dad.My husband had a sock thing,many pairs never worn just sitting in a drawer.Now that was easy.I thought of all the men who would have socks.
We have shoes here from little Johnny worn a couple times and outgrown I will be sending shoes.big feet run in our family.:dance: Doing this will make all of us (WS) happy.Thanks to those who got the addy.

 

[Snaz]

Hi and welcome!! Nobody would even know without the email alert, that Cindy had done a good deed or was about to. The act is not what is being criticized. It's a wonderful charity. It's the personal endorsment that's offensive.
Cindy has lied, derailed LE, criticized us, the media, attempted to destroy the lives of several young people, lived off the profits generated by her grandaughters image, denied her death but never searched and impeded those who came in and searched on her behalf.........................................
She's not a celebrity spokesman for anything but familial dysfunction and she needs to realize that. She villainized herself.
But now she knows what her media endorsment buys and hopefully her new team of criminal lawyers will reign her in and gag her. MOO I respect YO too.

BBM

This says it in a nutshell..... thank you!

 

[Sparky]

And here we go again...I posted the other day in Tim Miller's Interview thread about the media and Cindy Anthony. Cindy "thinks" she is control because the media gives it to her. Cindy knows how "stir the pot", and walk away so to speak. She is using the Children of Love Foundation to bring herself and KC back into the lime light.

And what has happened since this story broke? The public again has gotten pizzed, has come together just like with Tim Miller and are donating. That's a good thing! It's a great thing that the public is not donating to Cindy's "Foundation"

I don't shop at the Walgreens where this will be held however, because it's not far from where I live, I will go by Walmart in the morning and then take the shoes I have purchased to Walgreens tomorrow. Not Saturday, but tomorrow. That way I will not have taken the chance to see Cindy Anthony.

So the pot was stirred, I got the message, and I know that the shoes will be sent to children less fortunate than mine. But...I will also know that my friends and I will not be sending any money to the "Foundation." Oh what a good day it will be!

And one more thing...I do not believe Cindy Anthony is donating her grand daughter Caylee Anthony's shoes. I believe she will go around the corner to Walmart and purchase a new pair. JMO

 

[ziggy]

Please understand I'm not trying to be mean to Caylee's memory in any way, but something is really bothering me.

ALL of us here love a little girl by the name of Caylee who in our opinion was murdered by her mother.
Along comes George and Cindy the grandparents of the murderer and murdered, making all kinds of trouble for so many innocent people.
This is where I so don't want to be mean to Caylee's memory.
In my opinion the only value of Caylee's belonging's would only mean something to the family and they would be priceless. No? IMO I feel that it's creepy that Cindy would think that Caylee's belonging's would mean anything to us as the public. Am I making sense here? I mean, lets say Cindy tried to sell Caylee's belonging's on e-bay or something like that. Would you feel comfortable paying money for a dead childs belonging's if you knew what that child went through?
I hope you all understand what I'm trying to say, maybe one of you can put into words what I'm trying to say.

If Cindy were sincere in this chairty, she wouldn't have done what she did. She could have quitely gone to family, friends and neighbors to seek a pair of shoes to be donated. She could even have gone to thrift stores and brought shoes to donate quitely.

I understand - disclosing that she would be donating her murdered grandaughter's shoes was going that one step too far because it's creepy when we know about it, but done with discretion would have fullfilled the simple goal of donating a pair of shoes for a kid who needs them without the creep factor and the negativity in the media and the story.

Cindy can never really help the charities because she does it for ulterior motives. It has to be about her publicity and because she is viewed as a traitor to Caylee in defending Casey, she will carry a negative stigma - as negative as the stigma on a murdered child's shoes

 

[beach]

Thank you Beach. Your right in all that you said especially what I bolded.
Again I'm not trying to be mean about Caylee's memory. I wouldn't be able to put a pair of Caylee's shoes on my child knowing what horrible things she must have suffered in those last minutes of her life. As it is whenever I think of Caylee I can't help but wonder what she went through and wish I had been able to stop it.
Can you tell me what IOW means? Thank you.

bbm

IOW = In other words.

wonders, I didn't interpret a word of your post to be mean or disrespectful towards Caylee. :hug: I completely understand what you are saying. If I would have known they were Caylee's, I would have a hard time putting them on my child, too.

I think it is a very personal decision to donate a loved one's items. The way Cindy chose to announce it is what seems exploitive and self-serving to me.

 

[wildchild1961]

You are right ohiogirl. I feel bad for this woman, getting phone calls at home and at work - that is way over the line. I can understand the intense emotions people have toward this family, and I thought Cindy sending an email out about this was over the top myself. However, this woman is being harassed through no fault of her own and that is wrong! When the emotions spill over into other areas, it's time to stop.

You know, this type of thing makes me understand why neither George or Cindy are working. Can you imagine how an employer would be harassed if it was announced where they were working?

I just don't understand this type behavior, I really don't.

I agree Macushla.. however once again.. we see it is completely self inflicted. Cindy could have donated quietly and been done with it. It's not like she doesn't have experience with charities turning her away or organizations refusing her help. This wasn't her first rodeo.. she knew beforehand what trouble she could potentially cause for that woman.

I will be sending a note and a donation to that lady )not mentioning WS of course) .. she sounds like she is full of heart and did not remotely deserve those nasty emails.

wild

 

[wonders]

bbm

IOW = In other words.

wonders, I didn't interpret a word of your post to be mean or disrespectful towards Caylee. :hug: I completely understand what you are saying. If I would have known they were Caylee's, I would have a hard time putting them on my child, too.

I think it is a very personal decision to donate a loved one's items. The way Cindy chose to announce it is what seems exploitive and self-serving to me.[/QUOTE]

Thank you Beach for IOW. I just have to pound that into my head now. LOL.

Thank also for understanding me. HUGS back to you. I agree totally with what you say.

 

[Tulessa]

Would anybody be talking about this had Cindy NOT sent an email to the press? Maybe she just wanted to help a charity out by putting their name in the press? IMO this is much ado about nothing. In my eyes she was doing a GOOD DEED and just because her granddaughter died doesn't mean she can't donate her things, that act does not make her a bad person, my sisters child died at 7months and she donated all his clothes and bedding and I don't think that made her a bad person, she wanted to help the children that were still here

THIS IS JMOO please don't hate me

PS I don't think Cindy had anything to do with Casey killing Caylee and don't see any point in making her a villain when the killer is in jail JMOO

Sorry to disagree here but this woman has tried to thwart LE in every way possible. That MAKES her a villain in my book. Why would we hate you? We welcome EVERYONES input on any given subject & welcome to WS.

 

[wonders]

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Yes wonders.I feel that way.I still have clothing from my son.I cant part with it.You can open a drawer here and find something from him and also his Dad.My husband had a sock thing,many pairs never worn just sitting in a drawer.Now that was easy.I thought of all the men who would have socks.
We have shoes here from little Johnny worn a couple times and outgrown I will be sending shoes.big feet run in our family.:dance: Doing this will make all of us (WS) happy.Thanks to those who got the addy.

Nore, my heart goes out to you. Please accept my heart felt condolences.
My disrespect is for Cindy and the steamroller she rides on.
I hope many blessings are coming to the lady and chairty that has been treated so badly because of Cindy.

 

[Horace Finklestein]

Would anybody be talking about this had Cindy NOT sent an email to the press? Maybe she just wanted to help a charity out by putting their name in the press? IMO this is much ado about nothing. In my eyes she was doing a GOOD DEED and just because her granddaughter died doesn't mean she can't donate her things, that act does not make her a bad person, my sisters child died at 7months and she donated all his clothes and bedding and I don't think that made her a bad person, she wanted to help the children that were still here

THIS IS JMOO please don't hate me

PS I don't think Cindy had anything to do with Casey killing Caylee and don't see any point in making her a villain when the killer is in jail JMOO

I think the problem people have is that she emailed the media to attach herself to something she had nothing to do with. Then only donated one paor of shoes - it was purely a symbolic gesture, and a very macabre one, given that she thinks caylee is some sort of celeb. If it were a genuine, generous, normal donation, people wouldn't care. The end result, as usual, is destructive as the charity is now considering stopping the shoe "drives".

 

[The World According]

I agree Beach,
All Cindy had to do was email the Shoe Drive flier to the media and ask "her contacts" to do a Public Service Announcement..The End.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/24764997/detail.html
"I will be attending this event on Saturday, donating some of Caylee's shoes. I think that this project is worth mentioning," Cindy Anthony wrote."

Yes, Cindy the Charity IS worth mentioning what is NOT worth mentioning is the following:
Cindy DID NOT
Have to say she was donating Caylee's shoe's.
Though a wonderful thing to do, knowing the controversy surrounding her family, donating quietly without self-promotion would have been better for the Charity.

Cindy DID NOT
Have to publicize she would be in attendance.
WHY? So the media can swarm around you and ask you how you're doing since Brad resigned and how you like your new lawyers? thus taking focus away from the Charity Shoe drive & car wash.

And then the icing on the cake, Cindy DID NOT
Have to make the comment that "the media would have not covered the event if it wasn't' for her involvement."
:tsktsk: :tsktsk: What a self-centered and self- aggrandizing statement for her to make afterward...a simple I am sorry to the Charity if my actions have harmed it's efforts in anyway...would have been more appropriate response to the Charity organizers than the negativity and you sent their way.

Cindy Anthony responded to the controversy, saying, "Hopefully everyone will be respectful to what this event is all about. It's not about my family. It's about doing a good thing for others. My goal is to help this foundation collect shoes for the orphans in Honduras. Unfortunately, the media would not have normally covered this event had it not been for my involvement."

:blowkiss: I just know that Brad is thinking glad I bailed and it was not a moment too soon. You really could never make up such a thing, one is to donate one or two pair of shoes, and refer to that as being involved in a charity. Apparently she has never done any charity work. I take my nieces to the food bank once a month and we work, hard. Even at their age my brother is trying to teach them about service to others. If only Casey grew up in a home that truly did charity work, perhaps we wouldn't have the Casey we have in front of us. Someone asked me why I bash Cindy since she is just a side note. I just don't see her as irrelevant. The more of these little stunts, the fake letter she wrote regarding Mark Nejame, the more I realize if Casey is morally bankrupt, she was not born that way. She had twenty two years of this type of behavior from mom, and lying and wasting away the family income and utter betrayal to learn at pop's knee. Don't get me wrong, Casey gets no pass from me. If the jury should find that she put tape over that beautiful child's mouth and nose so that she would have to fight to breathe, I want her in jail. Forever.
What I am saying is seeing Cindy in action, I no longer question how did the adorable little Casey in those family photos Terry Lennoman used in his memo to the ADA grow up to be without empathy, with out shame. She learned what she lived, lying, manipulating, and absence of honor and loyalty, hubris and utterly self serving behavior.
It is a cautionary tale. In order to model upstanding behavior, first one has to know what that is.

As the Bible tells us: "He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes" (Proverbs 13:24). The reason this didn't work with Casey, imo, is that Cindy did not recognize what situations would call for correction. Yep, that pretty much sums up the problem. If Cindy can take her seven month pregnant daughter to a family wedding with two hundred guests who see her beach ball tummy, then I now do agree that Casey may never plead guilty. IMO Casey is just a Cindy, Jr., in stripper boots.

Quotes from FL defense lawyers:

"I do think she will plead at the last minute, a trial would be suicide and only make things worse."
- Richard Hornsby
.http://www.wftv.com/video/18147900/index.html
"You can pretty well predict there's going to be a life sentence, either a plea and get it over with or have a circus trial and then be convicted and get life," lead attorney for Casey Anthony, Cheney Mason said.

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By Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.


If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Copyright © 1972 by Dorothy Law Nolte

moo

 

[AbbieNormal]

Quote from Cindy.
My goal is to help this foundation collect shoes for the orphans in Honduras. Unfortunately, the media would not have normally covered this event had it not been for my involvement."

Does she really think that highly of herself?

If her heart was truly in the spirit of charity, she would have had no need to donate the items and let it be known it was from her or that the shoes used to be Caylees.
There are plenty of donation sites in every city in THIS country for people to drop off items to donate for people to use that have nothing. Or, you can donate tem to Salavation Army or Good Will where they will be sold at a very low price to needy people or people shopping for a bargain.