She set up her fence with all her papers, shutting the agents out with a physical barrier. Watch her move her stuff over into the agent's space. Funny.
*I snipped DotsEyes here for length. A good post.
I admire your ability to be compassionate. I know we are viewing old tapes from early on in this debacle, so our jaded eyes and sensibilities have lost the empathetic nature we may have all once had. You're right on a great many of the points you've presented.
Cindy isn't just now coming to the realization that her daughter has lied; Cindy has been well aware of it. Cindy's nature is to control all those around her. She even does it with LE. While the agent is compassionate, he is also not there to be her new BFF and listen to the fable Cindy wants him to believe. She is making CONSCIOUS choices to direct them to Amy and Ricardo. Tapping her finger, saying "Suspect, suspect, suspect" was horrifying.
Raising children to adulthood physically must come with raising them to adulthood emotionally, morally, ethically, and spiritually. Cindy and George were not just dealt a bad seed, DotsEyes....they made one. Systematically throughout Casey's life, she has been subjected to the backward application that Cindy presents in her interview and the passive wish to follow a hard line with no backbone to do so that George presents in his interview with the FBI. Where up is down, truth is lie, Amy is Zanny, Ricardo is Jeff, decomp is pizza.....love is hatred, hatred is masked as love, discipline is ignoring bad behavior, stealing is accepted, etc etc.
Playing the "If" game is fruitless. Now it is time to say Cindy and George made Casey a bad seed where she never faced the consequences of her actions. These new FBI tapes are frustrating in that they demonstrate exactly to what levels Cindy would go in order to make sure Casey was spared the consequences of her latest action. To my mind, Cindy did everything possible to kill Casey's soul long before Casey ever got to adulthood. Caylee was born into this cycle.
George and Cindy don't believe what they're telling people: They want US to believe it, and that is vastly different. They know they're trying to sell a bill of goods and it is OKAY with them to do so if it means someone else has to take the fall for Casey and they can continue to pretend they have a picture perfect family.
I cannot bring Caylee back. Some days, I like to pretend she is with a loving family where they'll raise her to understand that no means no and that one respects others and one doesn't steal from family and friends and one doesn't emotionally abuse people to get one's way and that she'll grow into a lovely young woman who will face the world with all the potential every child should know. That's on those days when I don't want to deal with reality. Those days number exactly zero. The story is nice. I'd LIKE for it to be the truth. But it isn't. I can sit comfortably in my living room in Montana and be distanced from what the Anthony's are having to deal with. But I cannot distance myself from reality in order to allow them the license to implicate innocent people and to lie about who their daughter really is and what she may very well have done.
Removing Cindy's babbling tangents, the nuggets she lays down like the hammer she wielded to set those signs are done so with knowledge that she is lying and doing so to get her daughter out of trouble, and she does it with equal anger and vehemence. These tapes were done at the end of July. Nearly 4 months have passed since George and Cindy sat down with LE to begin spinning this web of deceit. Systematically. With notebooks to keep their lies in order. In any other instance, this would be called "malice aforethought."
My sympathy does lie with the whole Anthony family. Their drama is revealed for all the world to see, where most dysfunctional families keep it behind closed doors. But there is a missing little girl. "Mis-truths" told in order to steer people away from the doorstep of their dysfunctional family must not be set aside because there is a sympathetic situation they are living. It is exactly distorting the truth that got them to this place.