Friday, January 31, 2014

Raymond and Amanda are both Americans.

On 1 November, 2007 a 21 year British student Meredith Kercher was found dead on the floor of her apartment in Perugia in Italy. Her roommate, an American called Amanda Knox, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Solicito were charged with the murder. Under questioning by the police Knox changed her story several times and her alibi did not hold up. They were tried and sentenced to 26 and 25 years in prison. One Rudy Guede of Ivory Coast is serving a 16 year sentence for the sexual assault and murder of Kercher. However, in October, 2011 an appeal court overturned the guilty verdict and Knox promptly flew back to the US where she has been appearing on TV and has earned lots of money from a book. No wonder she was known affectionately as Foxy Knoxy by her friends. The Italian prosecutors appealed and now a higher court has set aside the earlier verdict and has sentenced Amanda Knox to 28.5 years in prison and Sollecito to 25 years. On hearing the news Knox said, " I'm going to fight this until the very end. And it's not right and it's not fair and I'm going to do everything that I can." No remorse or any conscience. And why should she? Isn't she an American and don't Americans have the right to kill and torture anyone in the world? How dare any court convict an American? Raymond Davies killed 2 Pakistanis in cold blood in Lahore, Pakistan in January 2011 and a car coming from the US Consulate on the wrong side of the road killed a third man in a hit and run. The US claimed retrospective diplomatic immunity for Davies and forced Pakistan to release him after paying blood money to the families. In 2007 an Apache attack helicopter went hunting over Baghdad and shot dead 12 innocent people, including 2 Reuters journalists. The murderers went unpunished. The US government has committed more mass murders and genocides than any other nation in the history of the world. Hydrogen bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, napalm on Korea, napalm and dioxin on Vietnam, and depleted Uranium and Phosphorus bombs on Iraq. However, Americans do not kill only foreigners. Unarmed 16 year old, Trayvon Martin was shot dead by a much bigger man, George Zimmerman in Florida in February, 2012. Zimmerman walked free under the ' Stand Your Ground Law '. Unarmed Martin was not allowed to stand his ground. Every year 20,000 are killed by guns because it is sanctioned by the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution. Yet we die to go to this country of killers.

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