Posted on 07/03/2011 12:32:09 AM PDT by goods
Funny how the world works: The NYT broke the story June 30 that the DSK case is falling apart and suddenly major media, press and tabloids are filled with “scoops” and “inside information” as to why this case stinks and how rotten the accusing Maid is. These reports are available, at CNBC, AP, Reuters, New York Post, the New York Daily News, and I only named a half a dozen.
My question is: Where was all this digging back in mid-May when the story first broke? Where were all these inside info of the incompetence of the Manhattan DA that is running this DSK case? Why didn’t we see a month ago any reports that the Maid in the case – who was sold as a ‘poor immigrant, and devout Muslim’ – was in fact a slut (with “service” on the side) who lied in the past about being raped in her African home country and who works as a front for drug traffickers and money launderers? Why do we have all these reports from the media only a month AFTER a man’s professional life went through a major ruin?
My questions to the Media and Press are: Why are you ready to give headline and front page coverage to a case before a person is convicted? Why are you running film when zealous and self-serving Prosecutors and Cops are giving someone a prep-walk before that person was found guilty? Why didn’t you grill and torture the Manhattan DA back in mid-May as to how credible his source is? Why didn’t you dig up information of the accuser and splash that on the front pages in the place and space of the face of DSK? Why didn’t you grill the Government as to why a person – officially “innocent until proven guilty” – cannot have bail almost a full week until after his arrest?
You may claim that DSK may have escaped. Well, em ere… Why should he at all been apprehended before the accuser’s story is fully fact-checked? Is DSK some fly by-night guy? He came and went from the USA multiple times a year. Why not take him down after you have your facts a month or two later. You may be stupid to think that someone with responsibilities as IMF boss won’t return to the USA out of fear of being arrested. Fine. Good. Would it not be good enough that the World Court or Interpol should be alerted after you have your facts 6-8 weeks later? Why the rush to drag DSK off a plane? Why the rush to keep people behind bars without bail for days and months? Confiscating a person’s passport and placing an ankle bracelet should be way more than enough if that person isn’t convicted yet. Why do we treat people as world-criminals when the are just hours before or after being charged with a crime?
On May 19, the week of the DSK arrest, I tweeted this: “Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been indicted #DSK You Are Innocent Until Accused!” a few days earlier, on Sunday May 15 the first day of DSK’s arrest news, people were already asking that he step down as head of the IMF. I however tweeted, “Wo wo. Why should IMF Boss Strauss-Kahn resign? As of now he is NOT proven guilty on any unethical charges!” In a May 17 Tweet, I asked what every reporter who is out there “for the truth” should have asked: “In a country where ‘Innocent Until Proven Guilty’ is said with such frequency, why can’t #DSK be out on bail?”
THE REASON why people in this country are seen as guilty even before any chargers are presented to a Judge; the reason why people in the USA are Innocent Until Accused, is due to the Media/Press giving full scale coverage to prosecutors! Whatever a prosecutor says or claims is good enough to make news without a challenge. Instead of journalists ignoring these publicity-hungry press conferences where prosecutors act as Judge and Jury too, the reporters rush to get a good seat in the room. Instead of reporters asking Law Enforcement officials why they keep tight hand-cuffs on defendants and schlep them around all day chained to others like dunkies when these people were barley charged, the Media runs in the evening with tape of these infamous Perp-Walks.
Reports wrote constantly that “prosecutors say they found DNA in the hotel room.” This implied that something “ahhmm” took place. Well great! You can find DNA in my bedroom too. Now what? You want to arrest me too? So my questions to the Media/press are, now – after you destroyed a person – you come with all your “inside information” to tell us as to why DSK is perhaps not guilty? Now you are rushing to press with all your great “scoops”? Only now you are asking the DA why in hell he didn’t complete a full investigation before sending people to drag down DSD from the plane like a convicted and known criminal? Take all your reporting and shove it where its dark! Ok?
Regardless if DSK did commit something illegals or criminal, it is still unjust and communist-like how this person was treated! We don’t need a ban on Perp-Walks, nor do we need “five lessons” based on the DSK case as to what we should know for next time. Instead, my dear journalists when any criminal case breaks and prosecutors announce a press conference just don’t go! Next time officials give a person – not yet convicted – the perp-walk, shut your cameras! When you are “forced” to report a story – like of an IMF Boss being schlepped off the place like Jews in the 1930’s – aim your ammunition at the DA as to what are the basis and backing of his investigations! Put prosecutors under pressure and give them hell every time they are looking for publicity! Do this for three months, and prosecutors will think twenty times before taking down people based on faulty evidence or just blowing cases out of proportion with drama for their personal childish ego.
New York is rotten to the core and if you can pay there you can pay anywhere...
Strauss-Kahn is a modern day Marquis de Sade, an aristocratic serial rapist and quite possibly an accomplished killer.
He got caught up with an equally conniving piece of shiite and there was an unavoidable scene.
So, now the New York establishment has to run this big puppet show to find out if this raped whore has any information on any of the other equally filthy VIP characters they love before they arrange a cover up and her death...
This guy is mostly, VERY right, this appears to be another one of those media stories that are like a pencil drawn, totally straight up, and totally straight down, psychedelic, roller coaster ride that ends at the beginning, without ever really moving.
Actually, I suspect someone in the Zero administration wanted Strauss-Kahn out at the IMF. The Old Media ran cover. That being accomplished, he can now be released. The Old Media is running cover again.
Noone in Washington or NY really cares if the guy is a serial rapist.
If someone really wanted him out of the way...
It isn’t as difficult to place an assassin as it is a honey-pot sex scandal.
He is an aristocrat serial rapist like the Marqquis de Sade and he embarrassed the wrong people, so they create an elaborate puppet show so he doesn’t talk, get him out of it and find out what the maid knows about their other VIP filth before they have her taken out...
Since that chamber maid cleaned that room, I'd guess that her DNA was in that room, before, during and after DSK slept there.
As I see it, anything happening during o'bama's term is ripe with corruption. Time to clean up America and I don't mean the litter.
Since that chamber maid cleaned that room, I'd guess that her DNA was in that room, before, during and after DSK slept there.
As I see it, anything happening during o'bama's term is ripe with corruption. Time to clean up America and I don't mean the litter.
Not so fast...now everyone is swinging too far the other way.
DSK’s semen was on the woman. Sex of some kind obviously occurred. He left quickly, in a suspicious manner, leaving his belongings behind.
The woman has weaknesses — she might have lied to get in the country, she might have been friends with drug dealers, etc. But something happened. Pressure from high places might have intervened on DSK’s behalf. A scared, confused woman speaking poor english might have been either misunderstood or made to look like she changed her story. Did she ever really have a chance?
Something happened, but it is unlikely that we will see justice here.
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Go Progressives!!!!!!!!!!!!
We either regain the founders intent or The New National Socialists (Progressives) will achieve absolute control of our children's destiny.
He wasn’t framed...
He raped a whore and embarrassed his socialist masters in the European Union.
So now they have to construct this elaborate puppet show, find out what everybody knows, who will talk or just keep quiet about their other filth for fear of their lives or their families’ well being.
If someone really wanted him out of the way, he would have been poisoned, shot, strangled or given something else like a polonium pellet.
The cover story he was visiting family in New York is also a lie... If he is so wealthy, why wouldn’t he stay with his family? Or are their accommodations that tawdry if his wife can rent a $30,000 a month apartment for him to be held on house arrest?
Ambrose Bierce... Devil’s Dictionary...
MAMMON, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
My point was about the media, what did I say wrong about them in relation to this story as I agreed with much that the author captured?
What is your point?
I think people are misunderstanding this. The only reason they are abandoning the case, is because DSK is too important. The U.S. government considers U.S. citizens (and apparently others living here) lower than scum. They are trashing this women to exonerate DSK.
“...the reason why people in the USA are Innocent Until Accused, is due to the Media/Press giving full scale coverage to prosecutors!”
The real reason is Political Correctness. Same answer when asking how that guy got on that plane with all that bad paper (as opposed to grandma in her depends), or how come no one pointed at the Ft. Hood shooter long before he became the Ft. Hood shooter.
Other stories say nothing about rape. It was consensual oral sex. I guess your vehemence about this clouds reality.
Usually a DA wouldn’t act on such a case unless they had almost overwhelming evidence. Thus the media tend to be comfortable pushing such stories as will sell.
Now it is sounding as if the DA seriously overstepped his bounds. The prostitution angle is part of the emerging story, but so is the DA’s actions.
The story within the story here is that a person (related to Obama) from chicago is now head of the IMF
That well may be. And the connection of Cyrus Vance Jr as the DA may not be coincidental. Or maybe they’re just ever opportunistic. I don’t know.
But the ‘evidence’ of a single attorney in a large firm having donated to Obama is no evidence at all.
He is a modern day Marquis de Sade, a serial rapist, probably a killer as well.
Drag a $20 bill through a liberal newsroom...
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