in the version i saw, it looked like cindy absolutely did NOT instigate the whole thing. they showed her try to ignore it for a while, and then she answered them when she got fed up. it is also clear that the boy got smashed in the car door because his mother had to be restrained.
did we see different versions, perhaps? i saw the 'extended version' so it's a possibility.
Both Cindy and the protester were restrained, not just the protester. I think the protester instigated the first round, but she was actually trying to leave when Cindy chased her down and stood inside the car door yelling at her. They were both out of control. I think that's why the little boy made such a deal out of the door on his arm. I watched...it was not slammed, crushed or anything of the sort. I think he was so emotionally torn up that he thought maybe bringing attention to himself that way would make the rest of it stop. Pitiful!
I think Cindy was inside her house and heard what these people were yelling, and she got so incensed that she went outside and used the pretense of hammering in those signs (at midnight!) as an excuse to get out there, hoping one of them
did say something so she could let 'em have it. She purposefully went looking for trouble, IMO, and she got it.
Some have harped on the Anthonys' right to be in their yard whenever they want, as if some don't understand that. That isn't the point, though -- no one disagrees with that at all. But you don't have to exercise a right just because you have one, especially when it's to your own detriment to do so! I mean, if there's say a rapist striking in your neighborhood, you don't go jogging alone at night just because you have the right to...you use your common sense and do what's best for your own interests.
Same principle with these protesters. Cindy has every right to be in her yard, but it's certainly not the prudent thing to do since it puts her in jeopardy of confrontation. She's not stupid...she knew exactly what she was doing and knew full well before she went out there at midnight to hammer stakes and string tape that there were some nasty people out there. She put herself in that situation on purpose, IMO, because she wanted to confront them. She has no control over her family, the media, the community...and she's not used to having no control. It's eating her up.
Every time she does that, it feeds the beast and they keep coming back for more because they know she'll give it. They win...she loses. She wins when she does NOT give them what they want (a chance to confront her in person). That is how Cindy would triumph over these people, but she can't bear to let anything negative go unanswered, as we've seen over and over the past couple of months.
