Posted on 07/02/2011 9:14:51 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The allegation of sexual assault by a New York hotel chambermaid against then IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan (DSK) on May 14 seemed like a slam dunk.
Here was DSK, a powerful man with a long history of aggressive womanizing on a grand scale, a man known to be impervious to propriety, ethics and professional boundaries in his pursuit of new conquests.
The 32-year old chambermaid, his alleged victim, on the other hand, appeared to be the poster woman for female powerlessness. She is an immigrant from Guinea and a single mother, struggling to make ends meet.
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I have yet to read any proof he did not do what she said.
How do you prove a negative?
How is this case much different than the Duke Lacrosse case, except we’re not supposed to like this guy?
I hate hypocrisy.
They found his DNA. Yet her false claims of rape cause her to lose credibility. Although both parties are scum, that, as you said, does not mean her claims this time are false.
Agreed. After all, he himself has a history.
Proving a negative?
Proof that we need to protect BOTH identities or NEITHER of them in allegations that may destroy both parties
Innocent until proven guilty. That’s the law of the land.
We jumped all over this guy like the Ethnic Studies profs at Duke jumped all over the Duke lacrosse team. It was disgraceful, even if it turns out that he is, indeed, guilty.
This latest twist in the case gives a lot of credence to the conspiracy theory surrounding DSK’s arrest.
Yes, it’s hard to know what the truth is. DSK’s team said they would destroy her credibility. Are they doing so based on the evidence, or because that’s what defense lawyers do?
I don’t know. Will have to wait for more information.
There has not been one word given out about what the woman may have are may not have done that would be allowed in court. Even if she is the digest damn illegal slut in new York, she still does not have a sign on her neck that says rape me and you get a freebie. And there is no one damn thing here that is similar to what happened at duke.
Well the Duke stripper said she was gang raped - but her blood and their semen was nowhere to be found.
The Hotel maid is slutty and stupid - but there was her blood and his semen on the sheets and the floor.
In the Duke case they said nothing sexual took place - other than the dancing she was hired to do.
In this case he was having lunch with his daughter - then they found out about the DNA - and then it was consensual.
This woman is simply too stupid and too shady for this to have been a set up. She got into the DA’s office and admitted to perjuring herself in her asylum application, about a claim of gang-rape, about her income to get subsidized housing, about her children in order to avoid taxes, etc, etc.
In other words, she sat down and admitted she had no compunction about lying in official proceedings and on official documents in order to get asylum, housing, avoid taxes, and any number of other things.
They say that rape defense has two strategies...
1) It wasn't me / nothing happened
2) it was consensual
DSK tried #1 - then reverted back to #2 when they found out about the DNA.
The lacrosse players at Duke went with #1 - and all evidence supported that - thus their exoneration.
No, the defense attorneys are hold a public lynching and the judge needs to have a sit down with them.
True, On all points!!!!!
He originally lied to the cops about where he was. His alibi fell apart within the first 24 hours. The Duke Lax kids never lied. So believing him became much more difficult. He now won’t deny that sex did occur between them, but it was consensual if it did. The Duke kids denied any sex from the start.
I have no idea what’s the story here, but a guy who lied about where he was and them says “if we did have sex it was consensual” isn’t exactly looking innocent. This case, unlike the Duke case looks like “who’s lying least.”
You said it better than I did.
DSK's friends? Why? To make this go away?
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