Amanda Knox is serving a 26-year prison term after she was convicted of murder and sexual assault in December. She has denied murdering Kercher, a 21-year-old Briton, and her appeal is set to begin Nov. 24. In the meantime, Knox has also been ordered by an Italian judge to stand trial on slander charges for claiming she was beaten by police when questioned in 2007 about her roommate’s slaying.
See, it’s not like America.
Though we continue to be influenced by the super-smart “leaders” in our nation to adopt foreign law, to make ourselves citizens of the world, the truth is — and this is truth that those same leaders would just as soon you don’t know — the truth is, Americans have the best system of law in the world.
Better than the United Kingdom. Better than Canada. Better than Japan or Germany or Russia. Way better than Italy.
And you don’t even want to know what passes for law in the Islamic world.
Americans have legal rights that the rest of the world doesn’t even presume to consider.
So when Amanda Knox is trying to get justice in Italy, she’s fighting an uphill battle.
Hence this most recent turn of events.
According to the Associated Press, Knox “claimed she was beaten and put under pressure by police during questioning over the slaying of Meredith Kercher three years ago. She said police repeatedly called her a ‘stupid liar.’
“Police denied misconduct and filed charges saying Knox’s comments were slanderous.”
In Italy, all the cops have to do is get a judge — who isn’t crazy about Americans to begin with — to agree, and you’re in court again.
It remains to be seen whether it’s possible for Knox to get any justice in an Italian court.
It remains to be seen whether the current national administration will bother to do anything to help this American.
What is clear, or should be, is that Americans need to guard our legal system and stop our “leaders” from their efforts to Europeanize it.
— Chuck Smith