Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Crime Live With This
Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM
In a letter Amanda Knox sent to "her former boyfriend [Raffaele Sollecito] about her ongoing trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher": 
The philosopher Hannah Arendt once pointed out that to kill a person is to permanently move in with a killer. You must live with you, a killer. If (and this is a real if) Amanda did what many think she did, then that list of criminals she is confined with should have included a murderer.
The thing about women's prison is there about 70 of us altogether at the maximum and we all live on the same floor, so all of us are mixed together regardless of the length or type of conviction.For instance in my very own cell I'm living with a drug addict, a thief and an accomplice to murder... if I have to get down to their crimes they are here for.
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Charles, I don't want to not like you. My problem stems from not/barely understanding anything you ever say. My apologies.
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@2 - Maybe we would all be as informed if you clearly reported the facts in this case rather than the faux-philisophical editorializing that you like to do.
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The girl is guilty as sin.
Um, #3, what the hell are you talking about?? Charles is perfectly comprehensible to me.
Um, #3, what the hell are you talking about?? Charles is perfectly comprehensible to me.
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Actually Charles, whether or not she is convicted has nothing to do with it. She either is or isn't already living with a murderer. The verdict is immaterial.
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Charles, 'fess up: Even though you think she's guilty, you'd still do her in a heartbeat, wouldn't you?
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@7, i agree. i will change the wording. as for 9, no. nothing can make me desire a convicted murder. nothing.
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See 5 and look at all his other slog posts (and even his regular Stranger articles). I just don't understand all the philosophical nonsense.
See 5 and look at all his other slog posts (and even his regular Stranger articles). I just don't understand all the philosophical nonsense.
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In Italian "Justice" you're presumed Guilty until proven Innocent.
Kind of like how they treat their wives.
Kind of like how they treat their wives.
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um, i meant they do the reverse aspect with wives. Husbands, however, conform to the Guilty until proven Innocent rule.
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Why do you repeatedly take life-and-death situations and behave as if they exist to test your various philosophical ideas, which are usually pretty shallow? If she killed someone she should be confined with a murderer, because, like, if you become a murderer you're living with yourself as a murderer, so, like, being in a cell with another murderer is kind of like the same thing. Wow, man.
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Charles hasn't ever explained why he thinks she's guilty. He never discusses the facts, the evidence, the theory of the case.
That's below Charles.
He does often use her pretty face to get hits and spout his nonsense.
It's basically chickenshit.
That's below Charles.
He does often use her pretty face to get hits and spout his nonsense.
It's basically chickenshit.
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What I think is amazing is that she is an American "University Student" and she can't construct a sentence or use proper punctuation.
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my verdict is still out, but seriously it'd be a cool journalistic move to share with us all the reasons or dare i say facts...about why you think she is without a doubt guilty
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