First World countries enjoy a measure of security that Third Worlds do not–laws, bylaws, statutes, and treaties protect us.  We have a host of officials to enact those laws or raise awareness when someone is illegally tinkering with them.  That Safety Net  is available to every one of us as Due Process and it is our birthright.  If those laws …

The August 26, 2013, edition of Perugia Today printed a scathing article trying to shame Amanda Knox into returning to Italy for the next level of appeal.  Since the release of the June 2013 Italian Supreme Court’s motivation requesting that the case be sent back to the appeal level for review, Amanda has been the topic of brutal and skewed …

November 1, 2007, Via Della Pergola 7, Perugia, Italy, about 9:30pm.  All Saint’s Day would end with the tragic death of Meredith Kercher, an exchange student from Leeds University in the United Kingdom.  Meredith, a London native, dreamed of a year abroad and planned to follow her father’s footsteps and become a writer. She had been in Perugia approximately 45 …

“To say that Amanda embraced the experience as a growing up exercise is a step too far. In my judgement Amanda is loyal, principled, honest, trusting and inherently a private person. It took her (and all of us) a long time to understand that this prosecution was not a cock-up; it was a conspiracy from the start. How deep and …

“To say that Amanda embraced the experience as a growing up exercise is a step too far. In my judgement Amanda is loyal, principled, honest, trusting and inherently a private person. It took her (and all of us) a long time to understand that this prosecution was not a cock-up; it was a conspiracy from the start. How deep and …

“The world will not be destroyed by those doing evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”—Albert Einstein. The Perugian officials say Amanda lied, but is it really a lie when another person does your talking for you? Is Amanda really a liar because the police used a sentence from an interrogative technique called a “Visualization,” a visualization …