Death in Perugia

Just because in Sealtte, she portrayed herself as some innocent girl does not mean she did not have another evil, crazy side..that could pull something like this off. she did it ...they did it...something sick and twisted went terribly worng....end of story!

Sounds like the poor innocent little American girl finally messed up.....but her family will no doubt pay a huge sum to a defense lawyer and the two men will be the ones who face charges....

it is a system and we are all a part of it. If we cut off a "bad" part, we cut off a part of the system. not to say we are all in deep s... . There is a way out. I suggest we all go back to living off the land and get rid of cell phones, TVs, and start growing our own potatoes and enjoy LIFE around us. it is really amazing to See, Feel, Smell, Hear, and Taste life. Help an insect that is in the water to fly again. It makes a dramitic change in the way you think abount things...

Knox is in big trouble. She will never get even close to a fair trial. What's with that judge? I thought he's suppose to be neutral. He's already telling the world what happened and who did it.. Yikes! Knox better get a extremely good lawyer.

I know and understand why and how the media wants to embellish and distort the story. The forces behind the need for monetary return, overwhelm the desire to be honest and truthful. I hate the exaggeration and innuendo perpetuated upon a readership by the media writers, but am powerless to effect a change. Just a snapshot of the world today demonstrating the tolerance for situational ethics and moral collapse.

You are amused by this? You are laughing?
These are children-our children. We have failed them.
We have taught them to indulge. We have provided them with everything, and given them nothing.
You laugh?
You are culpable. You and I both have failed in the most important task of our lives. That of providing a roadmap for the young to follow.
With our "respect" for one another, and our "attention" to doing the right things, we have failed to teach our young the basics of right and wrong. Our advanced degrees and "freedom of speech" arguments have left our young without a conscience.
"Ironic", is how our generation will be remembered.

Anyone else ready to tackle instant gratification?
Myself, I grew up in the dawn of the age of IG. I cannot claim to be a prude.
I realized that self respect is larger than just me.
We are a stronger people when we hold ourselves to high standards. We are an admirable people when we can clearly distinguish right and wrong. We are to be emulated when we can manage our freedoms without descending into hedonism.
Are we ready to lead again?

Americans just making friends wherever they go.... They should ban us from entering their countries. Spoiled, materialistic, selfish, bored with normalcy and goodness, we seek out evil in all its forms to just "feel" again.
Don't think its true? Look at the number of student school shootings we have, cutting fetuses out of wombs.
Amanda just instigating the fallen values of her country. You can take the girl out of the evil, but you can't take the evil out of the girl. The Italians probably feel the same way about Sollecito.

Comment?
There is such despair, such awful disrespect of life, and with so much gratification readily available. We have so much freedom, but we have not taught our young about the restraint required by freedom.
Someone out there thought this was funny. They bragged about laughing. They too, neglect the responsibilty of freedom.
Civilizations greater than this one have vanished for many of the same basil issues.
If there are any adults out there, this is yet another wake up call! Enough with the self indulgence! Enough with the intellectual arrogance! Our kids hurt! We have failed them with out political correctness and our impotence to teach right and wrong. Is there anybody out there?

Sometimes "politics" outweigh the actual crime.
This girl, no matter the cirumstances of her life and her decision, was still a person hopes and dreams and aspirations, was someones daughter, sister, friend, and acquaintance.
And she was brutally raped and murdered.
Lets hope someone will find justice for her soul, whether its an american college student, an italian, an immigrant, or a perfect stranger.

If young kids were taught the way they use to be. (Abstinence)
there would be far less violence or murder. Young people are only told by their parents, to wait for the "right one" before having sexual relations. The family of the young girl that was murdered is so awful, words can't even begin to heal their misery. narcy420@msn.com

It is amazing how you supposedly 'intelligent people' go way off the subject and inject some insidious notion about race and everything else on this topic when the real fact is that here you have some pretty perverted notion about sex and the means to an end that distorts the loveliness of the act, and the societal lack of morals underlying this hideous crime. We need to nip ind

First of all, if she did it - she is very lucky to commit this heinous crime in Europe, where the legal system is far more advanced, far more balanced and far more professional than that of the US.

She wil be judged by a panel of professional judges with years of expirience based on the case made by the procsecution and the defense and those judges have to adhere to the letter of the law versus US, where the judges and the jury make their decision based on their personal feelings toward the accused and the victim.

The judges may want Amanda Knox to be skinned alive, but if the law says, that based on the evidence and the involvement she gets 8 yrs, she will get 8 yrs. One thing is sure - she will spend less time in prison for murder, that in the US you get for smoking weed.

hi, idon't know if many peolpe are aware of some of the issues at play here. i lived in italy for 7 years, as a type of exchange student. i witnesses some very depressing scenerios to a free american girl. for one thing, it is a very patriartic society, in which the girl is still considered nothing until she marries, and this is true for the current generation as well as the older one, around parents age. it is against a girl who lives and supports itself on her own. "she should stay at home and wait for a husband." also, girls are treated as sexual playthings even if one doesn' t dress provocatively. in the north it is only slightly better than in the south. FYI, perugia is in central italy, near the where the pope lives in rome, about 220 km (double that for a very rough miles estimate). and the church still thinks that a woman should be extremly obediant to all male.
another aspect of that society that should interest and disgust people is this: males are allowed to be extremly permiscous, even while married and the woman is simply supposed to accept it and remain faithful. however, if a woman should do the same, even when single and moved out the family would tantamount disown her. in the south its worse. use your imagination. and if she is promiscous while married, the husband can legally pretty much divorce her. gives you something to think about, doesn't it?
if amanda had wanted to keep her boyfriend, and kercher didn't really know the setting... and Sollectico (it mean ticklish by the way) said only one one condition to help my friend.. can give someone somehting to think about defenitly. also, forget the hype over europe in an uproar, i live here and there hasn't even been a whisper. so take the story with a grain of salt, especially since italian boys are known to be just a little overdramatic.

yeah america is AWESOME, SURE. and people are innoent until proven guitly here,, SURE. please Recu, wake up. everyone in the world hates us american its embarrasing and now some stupid white trash girl goes and kills another girl in italy.. i hope she rots in jail in a foreign country ALONE.