<p>I thought I was reading the Onion…</p>
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<p>Unbelievable! :eek:</p>
<p>This reminds me of an article I read years ago about a small town (don’t recall the country it was in) where the residents were concerned about a nearby volcano that had recently been showing signs of activity.</p>
<p>So they passed an ordinance making volcanic eruptions illegal within a certain radius of their town.</p>
<p>Problem solved!!</p>
<p>No kidding. It was an Italian court. What else can one expect?!</p>
<p>I’m trying hard to avoid the easy and obvious criticism that the Italian authorities richly deserve. These are the same folks who persecuted Leonardo and before 1492 imprisonsed anyone who thought anything existed beyond Gilbraltar and the western edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Is it any wonder Columbus had to go begging hat in hand to Spain to finance his voyage?</p>
<p>And the same ones who convicted Amanda Knox and her BF of a murder they didn’t commit.</p>
<p>The earthquake case sounds like a bad joke. But I don’t think America’s record of honesty and competence in murder trials is good enough to support partisan attacks on the Amanda Knox case.</p>
<p>I wonder if this win at the lower level is intended to appease the angry locals, and has been accomplished in full knowledge that the case will be overturned higher up.</p>
<p>An appeal is automatic but this can’t be good for Italy.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is any comparison to the Amanda Knox case - after all, I’m sure we have some wrongful convictions here in the US. </p>
<p>The problem is that the scientists were ever put on trial in the first place. Ridiculous. Every scientist/meteorologist in Italy should refuse to do any sort of research or forecasting until this travesty is overturned.</p>