Read the blog entries that she said she enjoys reading. They are difficult to follow but it appears she is saying the opposite. I don't know why the Perugian authorities would go to the trouble of prosecuting RG and RS if all they wanted to do was find a foreign woman to put into prison.
This is easily the most unusual thing I've ever seen posted regarding this case.
Really? It's pretty much been included in the discussion since Day One. Have you never noticed in the blogs how many hundreds of times Amanda has been called a whore, a tramp, a skank, a bitch, a slut, a nympho, a bimbo? Does this not suggest to you that there is a sexual aspect to the case that attracts the kind of people who would use that terminology?
Have you never noticed how often in the past 2 1/2 years the video of Amanda and Raffaele kissing in the yard outside the cottage has been shown on TV, over and over and over, many more times than any other video related to the crime? Have you never reflected on why that might be?
Do you think the police in Perugia never saw the video or that they were not influenced by it?
Someone in another blog asked me to prove that the members of the jury panel were influenced by what they saw about the crime in the media. I replied that there was no way to measure it -- even if we asked them, they would deny they were influenced at all -- but that we can use what we know about socialization, learning and human nature to conclude their minds had been affected by the media exposure.
In the same way, we can't measure the hormone levels in the men who dealt with Amanda over the course of the days leading up to her arrest, and we can't get an accurate report of what feelings rose in Mignini when he watched a young Italian boy kissing a young American girl on his TV twenty, thirty or fifty times in those days, but we can put all the pieces together -- like Fiona -- to hazard a pretty good guess.
The picture Kermit posted comes in another version, which actually may be a cropped version of the original version. It shows Amanda surrounded by eight men, like moths to a flame. That's how hormones work, guys, and it happens whether you're aware of it or not. Why do you think, out of all the pictures they have of Amanda, they chose that one to frame and hang and hang on the wall in Rome?
Can you say "trophy?"
