In my opinion this circumstance is not on the scale of nor of the same nature of the Oklahoma City Bombing and probably shouldn't be compared to the memorial there.
My feeling is, we have cemeteries for a reason, and that is so that among other things, families can build monuments to themselves and to their loved ones. So, I say, save the monuments for the cemeteries. It is not appropriate in any way, shape, or form for anyone to build a Dead and Murdered Baby Monument, much less in the location where Caylee's dead body was callously dumped by her mother.
With that said, this group of people, the Bring the Kid Home and the Amway Pastor with 3 Doctorates, a Master's and a Bachelor's, is most likely, in my opinion, a scam. Plain and simple.
Those who followed the JonBenet Ramsey case closely, might remember the "
Santa's Children Memorial Parks" project. This article was published June or July of 1997:
Ramsey Case Sideshow
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Texas Man Investigated For Possible Fraud For
Raising Funds in JonBenét's Name
Consumer fraud investigators asked sharp questions of a Round Rock, Texas man soliciting donations for what he said would be memorials to JonBenét Ramsey. Ricardo Gracia's announced plan is to erect memorial parks in Texas and three other states to honor the slain child beauty queen and other children who have died violently.
The parks, called "Santa's Children Memorial Parks," would be in Round Rock; Boulder; Kenosha, Wisconsin; and Marietta, Georgia, he said. "The amount of money it's going to take, you can pretty much picture it close to a million dollars," he told Austin television station KTBC for a story aired July 21, 1997.
Gracia was selling inscribed bricks and soliciting cash contributions outside central Texas stores. He also created an Internet Web page to ask for donations of land, building materials and cash contributions ranging from $50 to $1,000. KTBC reported that Gracia removed the Ramsey child's picture from his Web site and fund-raising literature after Ramsey family objected."
More recently, in 2009, there was an article in the Round Rock Leader:
Some scams amuse, others disgust
By Brad Stutzman, Editor
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"While out making my rounds one day in June 1997, I came across a man selling key chains at the intersection of Interstate 35 and RM 620.
Later that same day, I saw someone else selling similar key chains outside Wal-Mart.
Figuring the two sales might be related - and wondering what was up - I stopped and read one of their flyers.
"Santa's Children Memorial Parks," it said. "Let the Children Play.""
The article goes on, in great detail actually. It was a family affair, they were selling bricks, etc, etc, and so forth.
In the end, local authorities and the Texas Attorney General's Office went after them, they were told to give back the money they had collected, and ultimately the family of five disappeared from Round Rock.
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Local and state law enforcement officials warned that there are two trademarks common among false fund-raisers: They might use a sympathetic-sounding name. And it might be a family-run operation."
Its a very good article, and well worth the read for those who might be inclined to want to throw their money at such capers and at such organizations as the Bring the Kid Home which is being talked about on this thread.
