junofeb's Journal

I started poking into this a little last night. I hadn't paid attention to this trial before, it just seemed like a 'missing white girl' item, but I happened to hear about the 'occult angle' and, having read 'Monster of Florence' last summer, something sort of tripped in my head regarding the similarities. I go poking around at some other sites and whattya know, here's all these not-so-weird coinkydinks that aren't being discussed.

For example here's a bit of background I stumbled upon.

Luther Blissett.

Luther Blissett is not a real person. Luther Blissett is a mostly European anonymus collective. In the late 90's they played an eleborate prank in central Italy.
(From a wiki article: )

Luther Blissett's most complex prank was played by dozens of people in Latium, central Italy, in 1997. It lasted a year, involving black masses, satanism, Christian witch-hunters in the backwoods of Viterbo and so on. The local and national media bought everything with no fact-checking at all, politicians jumped on the bandwagon of moral panic, there was even video footage of a (rather clumsy) satanic ritual abuse being broadcast on national TV, until Luther Blissett claimed responsibility for the whole racket and produced a huge mass of evidence. Blissett activists called this "homoepathic counter-information": by injecting a calculated dose of falsehood in the media, they meant to show the unprofessionality of most reporters and the groundlessness of moral panic. The hoax was praised and analyzed by scholars and media experts, and became a case study in several academic texts<13>.

There's a lot there. I'm doing some more research on this and am thinking of posting an article for sh*ts and g*ggles. Knox seems to be a little weird herself, and who knows maybe it was a fair cop, but certain Italians seem to be riding social sentiment and a lazy tabloid media for attention, money and power. They certainly are displaying a very particular MO and a fondness for repeating it with americans who speak little Italian.