There was a case a few years ago where CIA agents (who have since been convicted in abstentia in Italian courts) kidnapped a subject in Italy and transferred him to Egypt to be tortured on behalf of the US.Knox should be very concerned about Italy doing a similar snatch and grab as payback for the US operation.
Guilty as sin! Should have to do everyone of her 28 years. What a grubby story and what a grubby individual.
Amanda Knox lives in Seattle. She is the one accused of killing her female roommate in Italy in 2007.If you have kept up with this story, do you think she is guilty?
It is difficult to say whether or not she is guilty or not...She said she wanted to study the Italian language and culture ... but she seems to have overseen the fact that Italy has many “unwritten social laws” of how young girls should behave, especially young girls who live/travel without their parents... or family...She is “guilty” of many “social mishaps” which made her guilty in the eyes of many Italian/Continental people... First of all: despite the fact that she was in Italy, her behaviour (according to Italian standards) was rather the behaviour of a “lady of the night” ... certainly not the behaviour of a “respectable girl” according to Italian “social etiqette” ... She also lived (as a girl) in a disrespectable area and only seems to have used her own room to change her clothes ...After the body of her dead flat-mate was discovered, she passionately kissed her current boyfriend publicly. She could not give the dead girl at least one minute of respectful silent thought.... such a gesture would have been an absolute “humanitarian gesture”... The fact that her friend was murdered in such a beastly way in the same flat did not seem to touch her in the least...At first she was only asked to stay as a friend of the dead girl but her own strange behaviour implicated her... she only seems to have started to be interested in the murder of her friend and flat-mate, when she was being investigated herself ... but not before...She can’t have studied or understood much of the Italian culture ... and did not seem to have bothered either...That reminds me of an observation I made once in Casablanca: I saw three American girls walking in hot-pants and very tight t-shirts through the old market talking to each other. They ignored completely, that a huge male crowd of Arabs followed them... I would not like to know what happened to those three girls in one of those little dark side-roads... There was nothing anyone could do, not even “go to the Police” because in Casablanca no one goes to the Police... I myself was protected because I covered myself with a huge Jelabba and was hiding my long blond hair behind a scarf ...I was wearing huge sunglasses and all that protected me well enough...
I never believed she was guilty, or her ex-boyfriend. Meredith has (rightly or wrongly, I obviously didn't know the girl) been painted as a perfectly innocent young lady whilst Amanda has been painted as the kinkily seductive tramp who must have been repsonible ... look at how she brazenly kissed her boyfriend in front of the world's media when she should have been sobbing her heart out and banging her fists on the ground in a fit of grief ... .
Quote from: Simon Dog on January 31, 2014, 09:35:22 AMThere was a case a few years ago where CIA agents (who have since been convicted in abstentia in Italian courts) kidnapped a subject in Italy and transferred him to Egypt to be tortured on behalf of the US.Knox should be very concerned about Italy doing a similar snatch and grab as payback for the US operation.Bit of a false analogy, don't you think? What do you think the political outcry would be if a girl who has been very much in the public eye was kidnapped by Italian secret agents off the streets of Seattle?
When I was around Knox's age, I joined a program put together by St. Louis University and studied in Madrid. Part of the fee I paid went toward room and board with a Spanish family, which was to be a valuable part of the experience. We were to have a roommate who was also part of the program, and we were to live with a family. For some reason, I was deemed to be "independent", and since there was an odd number of female students, I ended up living alone with an elderly widow. I was pretty much on my own, and I ended up being fair game for every horny Spanish male I came into even passing contact with. Riding to class on the Metro was a nightmare. One Saturday I was walking with the grandchildren of the lady who lived one building over. I was taking them for ice cream. I spied a group of young men walking toward us down the wide boulevard, and sure enough, as they got close to us, one of them reached out a hand to grab me. I grabbed him by the wrist and scratched his arm. I couldn't understand why I was so constantly molested. Even the adult son (who had a daughter only about 7 years younger than myself) of the woman I lived with would come up from Ciudad Real and pester me.It wasn't until a few months passed that I realized what the problem was. It was the color of my clothing. Women in Madrid dressed in muted colors. Being from a hot climate like the American South, I wore lighter colors, and sometimes even bright colors. So I went shopping and bought a lot of dreadfully dull clothes, and I was then left in peace.My point is that it is hard to study a culture unless you've spent some time there. Moroccan culture is so different from British culture that it seems to be a bit easier to be prepared before you leave the white cliffs of Dover.
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