Comments on: Update IV: Verdict In The Case Of Noxious Knox

By: Mari Tyers

Mari Tyers — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:19:11 +0000

Robert,
Two of my close high school friends went to Wake Forest, and spent a semester abroad at Wake Forest’s house on the Grand Canal in Venice. It was a great experience for them, and the other students at the house were good people as well.

What was the motive for the murder again?

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:29:25 +0000

With the overwhelming amount of DNA evidence, it’s difficult to believe that Knox is not guilty. Part of the problem here is that many wish to believe Knox is innocent because she looks like a “good girl.” Recommended DVD rental is “The Bad Seed” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Seed_(film), an excellent 1956 film.

As the verdict appears to have shaken up many of Knox’s Seattle friends, I’d suggest (as Myron had stated somewhere) that sometimes the nicest person in the whole world turns out to be a disgustingly evil fraud.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:11:25 +0000

I appreciate the use of evidence to show that justice was enacted in this case. However I notice a tendency to judge American youth culture by the acts of one American in Italy. I have no desire to try to defend American Culture, but I’ve seen that there isn’t a single culture here. There are some that hold to the principals and values of their forefathers, there are some that have abandoned all values and a majority that try to live by ‘honest values’ somewhere. The news and entertainment media will only report on the bad. I wonder how many good, moral American college students there are in Italy right now that are (thankfully) ignored by the press.

By: Eric Miller

Eric Miller — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:28:24 +0000

On the issue raised by M.B. Moon above, I would also pin much of the blame on popular entertainment. “Sex and the City” is the like the Bible to so many middle-class 20-something women, narcissism and meaningless sex its core teachings.

Anyway, this was a great blog by Ilana and would make a good candidate for development into a column.

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:29:16 +0000

The fact that Italy is a modern Western European nation is lost on these people. They think it is Italy of the 1920s run by mob bosses as depicted in (our) movies. Italy is as “anti-fascist” and “anti-sexist” as France or the Netherlands, where men are emasculated and women empowered. They had a foreign Black man they could have easily scapegoated but instead convicted one of their own (in addition to the foreign Black man) and the American woman.
Ilana has written about naive American parents sending their teenagers abroad to backwards places but civilized places can be just as dangerous to the corrupt youths. I can’t keep track of the number of my fellow students who have expressed a desire to travel to Europe, specifically to Amsterdam.
To absorb its culture and learn from thousands of years of history? No. To see the first corporate charter perhaps? The home of some of the greatest Renaissance artists? No. For legal dope and hookers.
Its terribly depressing because student exchanges can do wonders to strengthen the bonds between nations that share a common civilization.
Incidents like this one, and the reaction of the American press only divide us and confirm the worst of American stereotypes.

By: M. B. Moon

M. B. Moon — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:22:29 +0000

“I find American young people, women especially (with exceptions, of course), narcissistic, oversexed and over indulged.” IM

The were probably allowed to “discover their own morality” by our morally clueless government school system. I am more impressed by the manners of Mexican and Muslim immigrants.

By: M.P. O'Neal

M.P. O'Neal — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:35:53 +0000

Good!