Well, I’ve been visiting all the primary states,...

11:08 pm - Thu, Jul 7, 2011: 239 notes

Well, I’ve been visiting all the primary states, and I’ve been talking to people, and people all over the place are asking me, why, in Barack Obama’s America, someone who murders a baby who happens to be white doesn’t get punished.

Michele Bachmann to Sean Hannity on the Casey Anthony verdict

(via oldfamiliarway)

This will be the first and most likely last time you will hear me talk about the Casey Anthony trial as I am sick of hearing about it (I feel as a Floridian I am being bombarded more with this then other non-Floridians). I’m basically just going to ignore Bachmann because nothing she says should be taken seriously because she is this election cycle’s Palin(Palin still isn’t officially running right?). If you want to blame anyone for Anthony getting off you should be blaming the prosecution. They did a horrible job of presenting the case. The evidence was circumstantial at best and they never even came up with a cause of death. Yes I think Anthony did it and I believe she is a horrible reprehensible human being, that isn’t what I’m arguing here. What I am saying is that the State’s Attorney should have developed a stronger case instead of hastily jumping into things which ultimately caused them to lose. In cases like these there is a fine line between innocent and not guilty, declaring someone not guilty does not mean they are innocent. The charges and the stakes were too high for almost the entire case to be built around character (keep in mind that she most likely would have received the death penalty). The state of Florida walked that aforementioned line and defaulted into failure. The prosecution had no conclusive evidence and could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that she committed murder and that’s what got her off. It’s the same law that protects me and you from being wrongfully convicted. You can say Casey was heartless and cruel, that human intuition tells us she was guilty, but where was the conclusive evidence? Call it a justice system all you want, it is not a justice system. It’s a legal system and whether or not justice is served on any given day is highly debatable.

(Source: fridaphile, via oldfamiliarway)