Let me start by stressing that I have no strong opinion either way concerning Amanda Knox, the American exchange student who was tried and convicted in Italy of murdering another college student.
Innocent? Guilty? I don't know. I didn't follow the trial and barely noticed the verdict. My own rule for traveling abroad is this -- don't lick the taxi seats. Also, don't engage in drug-fueled romps with strangers and knives.
Those simple rules, plus my habit of always traveling under an assumed name after receiving extensive plastic surgery to alter my appearance, has always served me well.
But now I hear that the Italian police are suing Amanda Knox's parents for libel, after they reported mistreatment of their daughter by the cops.
Oh, so convicting their daughter wasn't enough, Italian police? Now you've got to sue the mortified parents because they dared to insinuate you might have engaged in (gasp) mild police misconduct?
That's just not cool. You got your verdict. Justice was presumably served.
Suing Mom and Pop because they acted like parents just smacks of petty spite.
I hope the Knoxes tell you where to shove your libel suit. Heck, Italian police, maybe you'd like to sue me for libel. After all, I did just call each and every one of you a doorknob-sucking hacksaw snacker. I also hinted that it takes six of you to count to four. Too, your language sounds like a ferret sneezing.
Come and get me.
I'm in Rome right now, at the Hotel della Minerva, under the alias 'Samsonite M. Pennyfathing, Esq.'
I dare you.
Innocent? Guilty? I don't know. I didn't follow the trial and barely noticed the verdict. My own rule for traveling abroad is this -- don't lick the taxi seats. Also, don't engage in drug-fueled romps with strangers and knives.
Those simple rules, plus my habit of always traveling under an assumed name after receiving extensive plastic surgery to alter my appearance, has always served me well.
But now I hear that the Italian police are suing Amanda Knox's parents for libel, after they reported mistreatment of their daughter by the cops.
Oh, so convicting their daughter wasn't enough, Italian police? Now you've got to sue the mortified parents because they dared to insinuate you might have engaged in (gasp) mild police misconduct?
That's just not cool. You got your verdict. Justice was presumably served.
Suing Mom and Pop because they acted like parents just smacks of petty spite.
I hope the Knoxes tell you where to shove your libel suit. Heck, Italian police, maybe you'd like to sue me for libel. After all, I did just call each and every one of you a doorknob-sucking hacksaw snacker. I also hinted that it takes six of you to count to four. Too, your language sounds like a ferret sneezing.
Come and get me.
I'm in Rome right now, at the Hotel della Minerva, under the alias 'Samsonite M. Pennyfathing, Esq.'
I dare you.
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