[Yaelle]

I hear you. I would not want anyone convicted of a crime they did not commit. But this was a bloody, violent attack, and FROM WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR (from the sources we happen to have), I definitely believe the maid and the after-the-crime witnesses of her. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing to lead me to think this was a set up.

That’s why I feel as I do about this case. I don’t feel that way about every accusation of rape, not by far.

By the way, the reason a rape accusation will ruin a guy’s life is because rape of an innocent woman is such a HORRIBLE, HEINOUS crime. So you need to at least CONSIDER this man’s potential guilt.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

In the hours and days that followed the arrest, a string of friends and Socialist allies stepped forward to defend a man they insisted could not have done such a thing. Jean-François Kahn, a well-known journalist, said he was "practically certain" that what had taken place had not been an attempted rape, but "an imprudence… the skirt-lifting of a domestic". Jack Lang, a former Socialist culture minister, wondered why, when "no man had died", Strauss-Kahn had not been released on bail immediately. Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, meanwhile, raged against a legal system that had treated DSK like "any other person". "Everybody," declared the philosopher, "is not everybody!"

Sad how many ostensibly "conservative" FReepers sound exactly like these openly socialist, rapist-defending scumbags, ain't it...?

[ladyjane]

Many people are talking about blood but all we know officially is they found DNA. DNA is not necessarily sperm or any bodily fluid.