My Thoughts on Lee Anthony’s Deposition

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I have watched your requested segments from Lee Anthony’s deposition below, and I, to my own surprise, do not see any indications that Lee is being deceptive. I believe, from the segments that I have seen, that he is telling us what “he believes to be true” in these segments (obviously, I am not speaking on behalf of the entire deposition as I have not watched it in its entirety).

I expected if anyone in the family were going to see the truth it would be Lee, but I don’t think he is there yet.

Lee’s movements, his body language, his words and his behaviors all seem consistent to me. I do not note any hot spots, or red flags. Honesty is always the hardest for me to convey. How do you identify sincerity, or genuineness?

Read moreLee basically tells us until he gets cold hard facts, he is going to believe his sister. I think he is being dead honest when he says that. He believes he knows his sister better than anyone, and he isn’t going to trust strangers and believe the worst without absolute proof. I don’t think one can fault him for that.

Accepting that you’ve been duped, duped huge, and that deception could have cost your niece or granddaughter her life, is not something that a person comes to accept easily.

Patricia Keays asks:

Can people be in denial to such an extent that they truly do believe things that others see as blatant lies?

Absolutely.

I see this most often with family members or people who were close to pathological liars. They have a horrible time accepting they’ve been duped, even when there isn’t a tragedy involved like this one. It’s hard for people to believe they didn’t see things as they really were, but instead they believed the falsities told to them. Those tall tales were their reality for a period of time, and they don’t give them up on them easily.

Now add that those tall tales make your own sister one of the most evil people you’ve seen in decades. Are you going to easily embrace that truth? It’s not likely.

I can’t help but see hints of George Clooney when I look at Lee. Do you see the resemblance?

Lee Anthony Requests

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Lee Anthony seems to be of interest to many of you, and you have asked that I review his deposition in the Zenaida Gonzalez defamation case. The deposition is several hours long, so at this time, if you would like to hear my thoughts on it, I just ask that you provide time markers, no longer than five minutes, of specific areas you like me to respond to, and I will consider it.

Feel free to make requests below.

Here is a page that links to all the depositions. Don’t forget to let me know which segment your time marker refers to.

“Pentagon lifts media ban on coffin photos”

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MSNBC is reporting that families will now get to decide if they want the caskets of their relatives killed in the line of duty and draped in flags, to be shown to the media or not. This reverses a move by the Bush administration in 1991 which banned photos or videos of war dead.

I rarely stick my head out in political issues, but I feel very strongly about this issue, and I am so glad to see that we as a people will be exposed to harsh realities of war. The fact that we have been sanitized from it, I feel, is wrong.

If we want to fight a war, we need to be prepared to deal with the realities and truth of it, and if the consequences of it is death, we need to accept it. Hiding it, while thousands of families suffer, is like denying them their ultimate sacrifice.

My Hard Drive is Back

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I decided to send my failed Seagate hard drive, a barracuda 7200.11 (500 GB), to a company called One World Data Recovery Services, based in Canada. I just received it back last night and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results.

In the business of data recovery, when companies quote prices from $250 and up for this service, I decided to take One World up on their special offer of 39.99 for the data recovery plus $35.99 for shipping (which only applies to Seagate Barracuda customers affected by the firmware issue failures as outlined by Seagate), and I am thrilled I did.

They returned my hard drive back in perfect working condition exactly as I had hoped. I got all my data back for a fraction of the cost of other recovery services. I had to wait 13 days for the turnaround, but One World Data Recovery set my expectations ahead of time, answered all of my questions (and I question things a lot), and they kept me up to date the entire time. Their customer service was an “A” plus. They even had their engineer call me once I got my product back to inquire about the stability of the replacement “Seagate” that HP gave me as I, of course, had more questions!

It’s rare today to find such a professional and customer service-oriented company, and so I wanted to put my word out there, that I am pleased with their service and the results I got. I highly recommend them should you face a problem, or have a Seagate firmware issue that locked your hard drive like I did.

If only HP treated their customers similarly…