[QUOTE="xTheExploited"]26 years is a joke. She should be put away for a hell of a lot longer.JohnBean42

Well, the life sentence in Italy is 30 years. So 4 years isn't that much longer.

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This case had so many flaws. The reason people say she is innocent isn't so much that she's American, it's because the prosecutionhad virtually no evidence. No DNA other than a knife that was aurgued wasn't the weapon because the injuries didn't match it, no fingerprints, nothing. Just the fact she changed her story when she was 19 years old and being beaten by a cop and the fact that the other man,Rudy Guede, said all three of them did it doesn't mean SHE did it.

Prosecution also said that at first it was just a drunk party gone wrong, then a story that she just didn't like her roommate, then that was just out of jealousy. No one, on either side, could get their story straight.

It's sad it happened it Italy, because if your accused of something..your most likely going to be found guilty, so you really have to fight to prove you're innocent. There legal system can be really messed up.

I dont know how it is in other countries but the school systems in America require people to take Spanish as a language, or certain jobs you have to learn another Language..why should most have to go out of their way to learn a language that is the most common in your own country, shouldnt the people who come here that dont know english crack the books hard to learn our language instead of us having to learn theirs?

cee1gee

Apparently Robotic Hamsters are a must have this season as far as toys are concerned:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/68bed592-cccd-11de-8e30-00144feabdc0.html

Here is a video of it in action. They usually cost around $10 and have been selling out of Walmart and Target:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtgsgDHmQFI

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Epic win. Standing up for what you believe in.

RogueShodown

[QUOTE="Jocubus"]I don't understand why you are using those as counterexamples. Say, for the sake or argument, I don't believe anything requiring the service of others is a right. That would extend to the justice system (in the form of lawyers), education (in the form of teachers), etc. I only singled out healthcare because it is very relevant at the moment. I agree with what a few others have said in this thread- it is not a right but people like to throw the phrase "healthcare is a right" around pretty carelessly.

11Marcel

I'm just saying, if you're saying that healthcare isn't a right because it requires a service, you've got a very narrow definition of what's a "right". The only right you'd have is just... not be harmed. That would probably be the only one. Your right to vote requires a service, your right to freedom requires a service... I think you get what I'm saying.

HOLY SHI..... There is no way my dorm can compare: