crunchy on 9/11/2007 at 00:51
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
it was the darkie
Does that mean political correctness is dead?
madwolf on 9/11/2007 at 16:36
I think it means irony is alive and well.
Aerothorn on 11/11/2007 at 12:34
I generally gave up saying "don't do that" quite a while ago (and for the better!) but yeah, as much as I enjoy TTLG style catfights, I really think we shouldn't be attacking people for posting topics we don't like. Don't like it, don't read it. Topics of Questionable Worth > No Topics At All.
LesserFollies on 12/11/2007 at 15:20
I don't see how Knox's saying she heard screaming amounts to a "partial confession." Perhaps she and her boyfriend *were* involved, and are trying to pin it on the Person-from-the-Congo, but unless they've got more on her than that, she's being pilloried by the media. (Besides, I watch enough crime procedurals to know that the guilty parties will ultimately be found to be terrorists or the Mob, or both. ¬¬ )
Hey, I'm trying, in my waxy way.
SubJeff on 12/11/2007 at 18:09
I think she keeps changing her story. Not an admission of guilt but still a wtf are you doing?
SD on 12/11/2007 at 18:41
Quote Posted by LesserFollies
Perhaps she and her boyfriend *were* involved
If she wasn't involved, she's gonna have a hell of a job explaining how her handprint ended up on the murdered girl's face.
LesserFollies on 12/11/2007 at 22:29
That particular detail wasn't in the original link, but yeah, appears there's a lot more going on.
SubJeff on 5/12/2009 at 10:48
So Foxy Knoxy got sent down for 26 years AND is expected to pay up 2 Million Euros (almost $3Mil) somehow. Do they have jobs in prison over there? :confused:
What's amazing about this verdict, to me anyway, is the way the Knox's supporters are behaving. I haven't followed the trail much tbh but I don't remember so much disbelief at a verdict before or so much dismissing of the evidence or the judicial process. Even more odd is the way we're only getting the Knox side of this and that other dude's (what's his name? lol) side is quiet. Is that because they accept the verdict or because UK media outlets are still frenzied over Foxy/a US citizen?
Aerothorn on 5/12/2009 at 11:59
I completely missed this topic the first time around.
It is unfortunate that this got so much media attention - while there are things I like about the British media relative to the American media (their greater willingness to question politicians and the official government line) the tabloids scare the shit out of me and the "respectable" papers seem to frequently act rather tabloidish. Yikes. Mind you, one could easilly make the "a press as good as its people" argument - there's certainly a large incentive for the tabloids to be as sensationalist as possible given that people seem to pay for it.
Anyway, so I'm assuming this was a public trial? Why the guilty verdict? In the USA, conviction for murder carries a very high burden of proof - "beyond a reasonable doubt" - and from the stories linked in this topic it made it sound like there was at least a "reasonable doubt" even if it looks likely she did it. Did they get DNA evidence or something?
Also, from the BBC story:
"They discovered that the University of Washington student had been arrested and fined in 2007 for her role in a drunken party that police were called to."
NO RELEVANCE AT ALL. Jesus Christ. I know the UW. It's actually pretty respectable relative to most state universities, and isn't an out-and-out "party school" in the way that, say, University of Hawaii or University of Georgia is known to be. But it's still an American university, and (particularly in the present day) that means widespread alcohol abuse. Which is to say, being arrested and fined for a drunken party isn't a sign of some INNER DARKNESS; it's incredibly common, and the difference between her and most others is that she got caught/the police bothered to get involved.
