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Thread started 10/03/11 3:36pm

scriptgirl

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Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned

via the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/amanda-knoxs-sister-speaks-outside-courthouse/2011/10/03/gIQA8knlIL_video.html

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Reply #1 posted 10/03/11 4:11pm

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If you are a cute, white girl you can murder anybody you like. [Snip - luv4u]

Scriptgirl, kill, kill!!

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #2 posted 10/03/11 4:15pm

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Wow.................................u can get away with murder......faint

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Reply #3 posted 10/03/11 4:24pm

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While I'm not surprised about this happening, what disgusts me about the whole episode is that our mainstream media sent correspondents over to Italy to cover the verdict live and led their newscasts with this story. Meanwhile, thousands of people jammed Wall Street and the Brooklyn Bridge in protest to all those investment bankers ruining the economy, and while this story is grabbing huge headlines around the world and is being covered extensively by the BBC and CBC, there's nary a peep about this on the nightly news reports here.

mad disbelief typing

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Reply #4 posted 10/03/11 4:27pm

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2freaky4church1 said:

If you are a cute, white girl you can murder anybody you like. Time to kill my fine sistas..lol.

Scriptgirl, kill, kill!!

And speaking the lingo helps.....lol

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Reply #5 posted 10/03/11 5:25pm

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728huey said:

While I'm not surprised about this happening, what disgusts me about the whole episode is that our mainstream media sent correspondents over to Italy to cover the verdict live and led their newscasts with this story. Meanwhile, thousands of people jammed Wall Street and the Brooklyn Bridge in protest to all those investment bankers ruining the economy, and while this story is grabbing huge headlines around the world and is being covered extensively by the BBC and CBC, there's nary a peep about this on the nightly news reports here.

mad disbelief typing

Reminds me of Clinton. The obsession of the America media and people about his affair really had an impact on the world. Everybody thought it was so funny that the American people obsessed about an affair in stead of the real politics that were implemented. Everybody gets what they deserve I guess.

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Reply #6 posted 10/03/11 7:21pm

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Turning a blind eye is what some do best.

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Reply #7 posted 10/03/11 8:14pm

scriptgirl

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I think old girl was railroaded. The DNA was not handled properly-it was contaminated.

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Reply #8 posted 10/03/11 8:16pm

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It seems to me that if you're an attractive Caucasian girl, you can get away with murder... nod shrug disbelief

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Reply #9 posted 10/03/11 9:21pm

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Does anyone else in this thread have actual information that somehow is lost on the jury (which consisted of at least 2 judges)?

I don't know much about this story, but I keep hearing all these stalwart protestations about what is or isn't happening. Odd, but I never heard about this bitch until just now. Where was the self righteous indignation you all spout before!?!?

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Reply #10 posted 10/03/11 9:28pm

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Tittypants said:

It seems to me that you're an attractive Caucasian girl, you can get away with murder... nod shrug disbelief

True that. I always thought O.J was an atractive caucasian girl.

You aren't going to fall for a confirmation bias logical fallacy based on a solitary data point are you?

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Reply #11 posted 10/03/11 10:38pm

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lust said:

Tittypants said:

It seems to me that you're an attractive Caucasian girl, you can get away with murder... nod shrug disbelief

True that. I always thought O.J was an atractive caucasian girl.

You aren't going to fall for a confirmation bias logical fallacy based on a solitary data point are you?

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hmmm .... neutral never mind

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الحيوان النادلة ((((|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|)))) ...AND THAT'S THE WAY THE "TITTY" MILKS IT!
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Reply #12 posted 10/03/11 11:01pm

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Tittypants said:



lust said:




Tittypants said:


It seems to me that you're an attractive Caucasian girl, you can get away with murder... nod shrug disbelief



True that. I always thought O.J was an atractive caucasian girl.



You aren't going to fall for a confirmation bias logical fallacy based on a solitary data point are you?


[Edited 10/3/11 21:29pm]



hmmm .... neutral never mind

[Edited 10/3/11 22:40pm]



No, come on. Don't be like that. I am not trying to be an arse. Look, if the situation were the same but Knox was black. You could just as easily say that she spent 4 years in jail on shoddy evidence for a crime she has been equitted of. She would not have been found guilty in the first place if she was white.

that would seem to be an easier argument to make but you can't make the race argument both ways or it's a no win situation. Be honest, would you not have made the argument I mention. No need to answer. I am not trying to make a race issue of it. It's more a call for critical thinking in all subjects.

I always flip a scenario in my head and ask myself how I would see it then before forming opinions. It helps me avoid my natural human instinct towards myopia.
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Reply #13 posted 10/04/11 1:15am

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lust said:

Tittypants said:



lust said:




Tittypants said:


It seems to me that you're an attractive Caucasian girl, you can get away with murder... nod shrug disbelief



True that. I always thought O.J was an atractive caucasian girl.



You aren't going to fall for a confirmation bias logical fallacy based on a solitary data point are you?


[Edited 10/3/11 21:29pm]



hmmm .... neutral never mind

[Edited 10/3/11 22:40pm]



No, come on. Don't be like that. I am not trying to be an arse. Look, if the situation were the same but Knox was black. You could just as easily say that she spent 4 years in jail on shoddy evidence for a crime she has been equitted of. She would not have been found guilty in the first place if she was white.

that would seem to be an easier argument to make but you can't make the race argument both ways or it's a no win situation. Be honest, would you not have made the argument I mention. No need to answer. I am not trying to make a race issue of it. It's more a call for critical thinking in all subjects.

I always flip a scenario in my head and ask myself how I would see it then before forming opinions. It helps me avoid my natural human instinct towards myopia.


^^^^ This

All this "if you're white you can get away with murder" BS is just lazy, knee-jerk, illogical "anti-thought".

1. Prisons are filled with Caucasians convicted of murder.

2. A criminal trial and/or appeal is not a quest for the truth. It is a rule-based process whereby the state attempts to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt using admissible evidence. If for some reason the evidence is not available or admissible (for example, because of doubts about cross contamination), then the defendant must be acquitted or their conviction overturned. This means that sometimes people "get away with it", but that is the price we (ie: in "the West") pay for having a civilised and relatively humane criminal justice system. There is a saying - "Better that 100 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man be convicted".

Her conviction and successful appeal proves nothing more than something went wrong somewhere.
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Reply #14 posted 10/04/11 1:28am

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lust said:

Tittypants said:

hmmm .... neutral never mind

[Edited 10/3/11 22:40pm]

No, come on. Don't be like that. I am not trying to be an arse. Look, if the situation were the same but Knox was black. You could just as easily say that she spent 4 years in jail on shoddy evidence for a crime she has been equitted of. She would not have been found guilty in the first place if she was white. that would seem to be an easier argument to make but you can't make the race argument both ways or it's a no win situation. Be honest, would you not have made the argument I mention. No need to answer. I am not trying to make a race issue of it. It's more a call for critical thinking in all subjects. I always flip a scenario in my head and ask myself how I would see it then before forming opinions. It helps me avoid my natural human instinct towards myopia.

At this point....I bow out. I'm not interested in being a called an "asshole" again on this site [like whenever I said anything bad about Prince in the my beginnings here lol ]. So hey, let's just end this right now. And don't worry, Lust, It's all good. thumbs up!

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Reply #15 posted 10/04/11 8:56am

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It's not so surprising she was convicted and held in jail for 4 years, it's actually more surprising that the verdict was overturned on appeal.

Italy's court system is not known for doing such things.

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Reply #16 posted 10/05/11 7:15am

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davetherave6767 said:

Wow.................................u can get away with murder......faint

Yep neutral

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Reply #17 posted 10/05/11 1:14pm

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Well did she murder or not?

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Reply #18 posted 10/06/11 12:33pm

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I heard about that. I have not been following that case.

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