Rev Grund's statement on myspace

by Teresa Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:21 am

The Memorial - My Statement
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I've been asked many times today if I or my family will be attending the "memorial" tomorrow at First Baptist Church of Orlando.

Recently it was reported on various news outlets that my name and my son Jesse's name appeared on the "not welcome" list. I reached out to have it confirmed and has been confirmed. So, I do not want to feed into the madness of this "event" by showing up and being led away by security and I do not want to allow anyone who might be behind this banishment to have any joy in that either. Because I cherish Caylee, her life and her memory, and always will, I have chosen to meet with friends at the site on Suburban Drive. This IS NOT, as has been reported, an alternate memorial. If others happen to show up we will remember Caylee together. If I can offer any comfort or prayerful guidance I will be glad to so.

I have always felt it was the family's right to have their funeral before anyone else did anything. To my dismay and surprise a Public Memorial is being staged before a private family funeral. In most high profile situations a private family funeral is given precedence and then the public is allowed their time to mourn. With the threat of protesters, the smothering blanket of security and the presence of certain fringe groups who claim to be Christians but act with hate and vile accusations against others staging a protest outside I fear that this will not be about Caylee at all but about an event about Caylee.

I must also state that I am dismayed by the decision of the leadership of the First Baptist Church of Orlando to host any event where the goal is to heal and restore a community but will also bar people from that community who want to attend under the threat of being removed by security. I cannot find a scriptural verification of such a stance. In fact, what I found was in the Parable of the Lost Sheep in Luke Chapter 15 where the Lord said He would risk leaving the 99 to find that 1 sheep that was lost. His heart has always been for that one person who needed Him. I wonder how He feels to know that someone who might need His comfort tomorrow is not welcome in a place where He is supposed to reside. Instead the area I found that seems to match the spirit of this rule is in John 18:14 where Caiaphas counseled that the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the one. If this memorial was truly about Caylee it would be built around Caylee and a child's love. For the love of Caylee all feuds, disagreements and hard feelings should have been set aside for her. Apparently that is not the case, and for that I sincerely disheartened.

The fact is, every day of our life is a memorial for Caylee. Not a day goes by that we don't cherish her memory and smile and have love for her fill our hearts. No one day or one event would ever be enough to cover that. We know that she is in Heaven and although some would like to make her into an angel and give her a job we prefer to follow scriptural teaching and not New Age teachings or paganistic influence and realize that she is safe in her Father's arms, running and playing and being a child. She doesn't need a job. He's got all that covered for her. If His eyes are on the sparrow I know He can manage watching over the little children too!

So, what ever you do tomorrow, make sure you do it for the right reasons. Do not be weighed down by such impossible requirements of having a pure heart and honorable intentions before you remember Caylee. The truth is our intentions are purely selfish because we miss her and if love is in our heart that should be good enough. A requirement of a pure heart and honorable intentions would mean that any sanctuary would be empty and the parking lots vacant. The Lord's heart is pure and His intentions for Caylee are more then honorable. His Grace is sufficient for all of us.

God bless you and thank you for letting me share this time with you.
Richard Grund

by mom_in_il Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:15 pm

MySpace post by Richard Grund, 2/11/2009

Good evening everyone!

First of all, let me apologize to all of you who have been visited, infected or attacked because of a few misdirected and evil spirited people. If you feel you need to delete me from your friends list because of this, go ahead.

Up until now I've been ready to accept new friends, to communicate with people and to help in any way I can regarding Caylee's story. As some of you know personally, I've spent hours sharing with and trying to help you through your pain as I dealt with mine. I don't say that for praise but to say it was my way of caring. A handful of "people" and I use that word loosely from a site called teamcaylee.yuku.com have taken it upon themselves to attack me, my family, other witnesses in the case, members of Websleuths and Scared Monkey's. If you are one of the people who have been terrorized or bullied by these people here is the site to let someone know: Cybercrime If they have defamed you, written libelous comments or posted private information these are the people to tell. The owners of the server where this site is hosted can be reached at Yuku.com. Do not allow these people to bully you.

Their "leader" goes by the names of Duh, Clovis, Good Catch, Oh Snap, Who shot J.R., and others. Some of the other screen names are somethingswrong, antiRG, TTT, UFgirl, CaliMom, and TeamCaylee. If you let them bully you they win. If EVERYONE who has been terrorized by these people were to rally together to file complaints, contact the server owners and local law enforcement, if they posted addresses or private information they will have to pay for that. If they've done this on the Topix forum please contact the General Counsel for the Tribune Company in Chicago, who own the Orlando Sentinel and other papers the Topix Forum is run. They already have a file in place on this and you can add to it. If you want a person's name, address and fax number please let me know.

If you have seen a rise in your friends list of late, please go through my friends list and let me know of anyone that either seems suspicious or you've been bothered by. I know that they are in my list of "friends". They have hacked into other pages and tried to get "information" on me and my son Jesse. Go through my list and let me know if you see any of them.

Now, all of you ladies out there, I want you to hear this part - recently I wrote about a site called Team Jesse that someone created on the Topix forum to support Jesse. These people, who also call themselves the "A-Team" with the "A" being the first letter of a certain well known last name, decided to hijack this forum to attack us. They have attacked and hurt my wife in the process. Their leader took all of her blogs from here and another site, cut and pasted personal things she wrote to friends and family out of context as a way to defame us, harass us and to ridicule her. When she wrote them to ask them to stop - they mocked her and did it even more. What makes that so astounding is that four of these people doing this are WOMEN themselves.

Many people have said ignore them, they will go away. Well, all of you who have been targeted by them know that is not the case. They've gone too far and now must be dealt with. Local LE have been alerted to them long ago. Federal LE have no jurisdiction as yet but one of these people is a professional who has access to private information and is using that access to obtain private information and is posting it online. That is ILLEGAL and will be exposed.

If you are a TROLL and have been lurking around here I want to say this to you - I've treated all of you with respect, consideration and compassion. I have always known who a few of you are and still was always been Christ-like to you. Some of you I gave a lot of my time to in a sincere effort to be of help over these 6-months knowing full well who you were. If you want to redeem yourself and know who these people are, please let me know.

I would suggest everyone back up their information, change your passwords and be prepared for ugliness from their "fearless" leader. I did not start this and when they hurt my wife they went too far and that is what the change in my status has been of late.

I had hoped to not have to go this route but tonight at the Topix forum for my son their leader, posted as Oh Snap, pasted MORE of my wife's blogs in an attempt to hurt us and ridicule her.

Why am I writing all of this - Ephesians 5:11 "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness but rather expose them"...consider yourself EXPOSED!

Thank you,
Richard Grund
aka the Sword of THE KING