{"id":98,"date":"2004-04-03T21:41:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-04T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=98"},"modified":"2004-04-03T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2004-04-04T02:41:24","slug":"yet-another-stupid-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Stupid Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s open season in Texas on kids this April, which happens to be Child Abuse Prevention Month: li&#8217;l Deanna Laney, bless her, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/LAW\/04\/03\/children.slain.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">aquitted<\/a> of the murder of her 6 and 8 year old children by reason of insanity.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nYa know, it fascinates me how low-rent baby-killers like li&#8217;l Deanna and Andrea Yates managed to escape the death penalty with their &#8220;poor pathetic me&#8221; pleas for sympathy to a court system that seems mired in stupidity.<br \/>\nIt fascinates me because these two broads have immense, gigantic egos, so swollen in fact that both of them believed they were divinely chosen by G*d &#8212; &#8220;just as Mary was chosen to bear Christ &#8212; to kill (their) children as a test of faith and then serve as witness(es) after the world ended.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen I was a young mother, I lived with the constant fear that my child would be taken away from me because I was homely and wore glasses and was, therefore, &#8220;unworthy&#8221; of being a parent.<br \/>\nBut in America, I guess if you&#8217;re cute, even if you&#8217;re a psychopath, you don&#8217;t have to worry about stuff like that.<br \/>\nHeck, you can even kill your children and get away with it.  In fact, if you&#8217;re cute, you&#8217;re pretty much guaranteed, post-filicide, to have a loving and devoted husband who forgives you, understands you and wouldn&#8217;t consider divorcing you, let alone strangling you with his bare hands.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t get it, but then again, I don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; anyone who votes for George Bush, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s open season in Texas on kids this April, which happens to be Child Abuse Prevention Month: li&#8217;l Deanna Laney, bless her, was aquitted of the murder of her 6 and 8 year old children by reason of insanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}