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Italian uproar erupts after Amanda Knox acquittal
The Daily Caller ^ | 10/03/2011 | Stephen Robert Morse

Posted on 10/03/2011 7:58:01 PM PDT by Eagle911

PERUGIA, Italy — It was silent in the courtroom for a long time after Amanda Knox, the now-exonerated American woman, was led into an Italian courtroom for the last time. A presiding judge spoke. We heard not a word from the jury. And then she was declared “innocenta.”

And then anger erupted in the streets outside.

News crews — mostly Italians — alternated between filming and shouting “Vergogna! Vergogna!” (“Shame! Shame!”) for the first five minutes.

A mass of people took up the calls of “Shame!” outside the courthouse, and in a second gathering area nearby.

Italy's Corriere Della Sera newspaper reported that the angry mob on the streets of Perugia also shouted "Bastards!" and "Bought!"

(Excerpt) Read more at thedc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amandaknox; anger; italy; mob
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Note: When they whistle in Italy, it doesn't mean "Yaaay!" It means "you suck."
1 posted on 10/03/2011 7:58:03 PM PDT by Eagle911
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The news crews were shouting “shame! shame!”

Good to know they aren’t biased. lol.


2 posted on 10/03/2011 8:00:02 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Eagle911

Italy - they invented the brainless street mob!


3 posted on 10/03/2011 8:00:19 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: Eagle911
This is a very good reason for Americans (and easily mistaken for Canadians) to keep their kids out of Italy.

Don't send these people any more of our money. Buy Spanish olive oil!

4 posted on 10/03/2011 8:00:39 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: GeronL

>>Good to know they aren’t biased. lol.<<

CNN is obviously everywhere...


5 posted on 10/03/2011 8:03:56 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
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To: muawiyah

The Italian stuff that would be hardest for me to get rid of is not olive oil, but pasta. I don’t know why it should be difficult for America to do pasta well, it has the highest technology and farms that are second to none. But the water has less starch in it after Italian pastas are cooked. An obscure brand, Columbia, is about the best I’ve seen for American pastas.

Anyhow, what did America ever do to Italy that it should deserve such Italian raspberries?


6 posted on 10/03/2011 8:06:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Eagle911

I have always very definitely thought she is innocent.


7 posted on 10/03/2011 8:08:54 PM PDT by CGalen
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To: HiTech RedNeck
What did we do? Hmm. WWII?

Their allies started it so they shouldn't be angry at all.

More likely it's just jealousy as they see all those American dollars fleeing the Italian mattresses to go on deposit back in America where they are safer.

Here's what we did about Italian made pasta a long time ago ~ we got a pasta making machine and learned to make our own! Now we do gluten free stuff.

8 posted on 10/03/2011 8:14:48 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: CGalen

Shes as guilty as homemade sin.
Innocent people don’t make up a string of alibis that fall apart the minute the phone records are examined. “I was at my boyfriends, sleeping,,phones off”. “No wait,, we rented movies online.
“What? My boyfriend said something different and our computer records show that didnt happen?”
“Ok,, then i was there when the Bar owner did it,,covering my ears for an eternity as she was murdered”
“What??,, 100 people were with him ALL night?
Ohh,, guess i better do some cartwheels.

PS,,, ever notice, none of the other 2 roomates seem to be defending Amanda? They got her number, thats why.


9 posted on 10/03/2011 8:20:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: CGalen

I have always very definitely thought she is innocent.

....ahhh, she was standing over the body with her bloody feet, but yeah, just like OJ, doesn’t even know who possibly could have done it??? Please, she’s a pervert and torturous killer and the money set her free... good grief....

ymmv


10 posted on 10/03/2011 8:21:23 PM PDT by ElectionInspector (Molon Labe...)
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To: Eagle911
Vergogna, si?

Well, basta!

No DNA, no convict.

11 posted on 10/03/2011 8:23:53 PM PDT by stboz
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To: Eagle911

“Vergogna”

Oh. It means ‘shame’? I thought it was a new “meat log”. I was getting hungry thinking about it.


12 posted on 10/03/2011 8:24:13 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Eagle911

I wanna know what kind of people turn out for these court verdicts to protest? No matter what one may think of the accused, or how interested people may be in a trial, to turn out with signs and protest verdicts strikes me as bizarre.


13 posted on 10/03/2011 8:25:53 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: ElectionInspector

but donald trump on greta just said that she’s innocent!


14 posted on 10/03/2011 8:26:13 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: Eagle911

I was watching CBS tonight. They keep running commercials promoting the Dave Letterman show, where Dave has a funny top ten list of things that Amanda thought today. It gives me the creeps that Letterman thinks this is something to laugh about. I understand if there’s a public figure like O.J. or Martha Stewart involved, but here we just have a kid who went to Italy to study.


15 posted on 10/03/2011 8:28:42 PM PDT by purplelobster
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To: muawiyah

I would keep my daughter out of Italy. People like Amanda Knox have made it dangerous for good kids. She was a slutty little liberal party girl, screwing everything in sight,,,who grossed out her euro roomies by never flushing and living in filth.

Good kids will be abused in Europe because of chicks like her.
The mentality towards American girls was immortalized in a song. Thanks Amanda!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngHDYzhDBk4


16 posted on 10/03/2011 8:31:02 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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Yep, the psycho-skank Knox has gotten away with murder. Oh well... only a fool depends on a justice system for justice. It’s up to the murdered girl’s family to seek justice now, if that’s what they want.


17 posted on 10/03/2011 8:34:41 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Eagle911
I have given this trial only very cursory attention, but the one thing I have noticed is that people are absolutely sure she is innocent and people are absolutely sure that she is guilty.

I have no idea, personally.

18 posted on 10/03/2011 8:34:41 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Eagle911

Rather hear them sing “luna mezzo mare”....


19 posted on 10/03/2011 8:35:17 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Longbow1969

Right with you on that. The only verdict I would be there for is Obamas impeachment over fast and furious. His attempt to subvert the second amendment, by violating firearms export laws to arm the Mexican cartels.


20 posted on 10/03/2011 8:35:23 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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