The catalyst for the hate campaign.
I'm sick of seeing this skated around. I believe it can be established precisely what catalysed the hate-campaign against Amanda Knox which puzzled me for so long, and I would guess continues to puzzle many.
I first became aware of the plight of AK and RS about the time they were indicted in late 2008, and my attention was actually drawn to it by this extraordinary media and internet hate-campaign that had gained serious momentum by then.
But I noticed the
"my people killed your people!" quote appear all over the media, and no matter how I parsed it, or in whatever tableaux I tried to imagine her saying it, it just sounded completely and utterly bizarre - simply not believable, in fact. The quote was never sourced no matter where it was reproduced.
It wasn't until about the middle of this year that I found out where it originated, in an article written for a Seattle journal called "The Stranger" by one Charles Mudede, who is co-editor.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=504236
Odd, is it not, that he finds it necessary to "protect" the identity of his "source" and "old friend"? Why would this jewish person be afraid of having this 'quote' attributed to them?
Because in my experience it is "antisemites" who have reason to be afraid of being "outed", never their accusers. Think about it - to be found "guilty" of "antisemitism" is, quite literally, the Kiss Of Death to almost ANY professional career in the former West, particularly the US, where the baleful American Defamation League (sic) will mobilise in an instant to ensure it.
Mudede himself is perceived as having an vindictive, racist "blame whitey" agenda, which he cloaks under Marxist ‘ideology’. He refers to 'race' and 'racism' frequently, but expects it to be understood (as it largely is) that 'racism' means
white hatred of
coloured people. He is tolerated in Seattle because the climate of Political Correctness makes him "right on" in the view of hyper-liberal 'intellectuals' ("intellectual" and "liberal" are practically synonymous in most peoples' minds).
At the time he wrote it in February 2008, the arrest of Patrik Lumumba and his release and substitution with Rudy Guede were recent events, and the misinformation campaign (lies) from the Perugian prosecutors office had been in full swing for some months, little of it refuted at that time.
I doubt Mudede was better informed than anyone else, had no reason to be convinced that Guede was indeed the murderer, and perceived it as an out-and-out - you guessed it - race issue.
He would have heard, of course, about Amanda's "accusation" of Lumumba and the assertions by the Perugian cops that they had only arrested him because of her, and I believe that he was inflamed by it. SO - he decided to use his position in the media to "give it to" Amanda in the form of his little tale about "Matthew".
(I believe he had read her facebook page which mentions "my inner-nazi", had seen the Youtube video in which some one makes the crass "you dirty jew" remark, and it is these that gave him the idea.)
I exchanged a couple of emails with Mudede a few months ago (I hadn't expected a response, but I guess my accusatory tone got to him). When I asked him why anyone should believe he hadn't simply made the story up (“Whatever, for all I know, you completely invented your never-to-be heard-from-again "friend" and his (frankly utterly implausible) little anecdote”)., he had this to say;
“sorry, the person who told me that, and I named where he worked, and so he and his co-workers knew who i was talking about, never came out and challenged my reporting of his words.
my source is as good as gold.
sorry to tell you this.”
No-one has “challenged my reporting of his words”? Now, I don’t know if it's simply disingenuousness, or if he simply isn't too bright, but the ONLY person in a position to come forward and say Amanda
didn’t say something is
Amanda. More to the point is that its conspicuous that no-one has come forward to
corroborate what he claims. Nothing, The sound of crickets. His little story sits there, an orphan from reality, but continuing to do great harm to Amanda Knox.
I believe it would serve Amanda's interests if someone representing her in Seattle forced Mudede to either provide details of his "sources" and the context in which Amanda allegedly said what he claims,
or make a complete public retraction. By that, I mean legal action, straight up - he certainly isn't going to publically admit to lying otherwise. To be honest, I'm surprised this hasn't already been done.
Perhaps he'll read this and claim I'm defaming him? Go for it Charlie.
