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Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as in Jeopardy
The New York Times ^ | June 30, 2011 |  JIM DWYER, WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and JOHN ELIGON

Posted on 06/30/2011 8:54:27 PM PDT by Cincinna

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To: Cincinna

I always new his diplomatic credentials would allow him to get away with this crime.


21 posted on 06/30/2011 10:17:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Cincinna

This is really sad. Another case of a powerful man being able to rape a powerless victim and getting away with it.

It doesn’t matter if her boyfriend is a crook, or even that she lied on her asylum forms, or helped her guy launder drug money. It is not OK to rape people, even if they are of dubious character. It’s not even OK to rape prostitutes.

I still believe this was actual rape because all we were told that day about how she was found point to a scared, injured maid (weren’t there drops of her blood found after he anally penetrated her? Do you REALLY think a maid goes in to clean a room and feels lucky to get to do the backdoor with a big Frenchman?) who was cowering in a closet, and spitting and trying to vomit his evidence?

Also, his actions — racing off to the airport, leaving his cell phone behind — are not those of a man who happily enjoyed a romp with the willing housekeeper. He wanted out of there rapidly. (I believe he also told the hotel he was out of the room so they would send a maid in.)

It would be nice if the victim were not now found to be a poor character, but even people of poor character don’t deserve rape. Sadly, all the good legal muscle is on the other side, and if S-K gets out of house arrest, someone will sneak him onto a private plane and get him to an island where a new diplomatic passport could be waiting for him, and he returns to France.


22 posted on 06/30/2011 10:36:05 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Cincinna

DSK may be a sleaze, but it seems obvious that the accuser has no credibility and he will walk. Was there a conspiracy to get rid of him? Unlikely, because a conspiracy would have found a more credible accuser.


23 posted on 06/30/2011 10:56:44 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: Cincinna

If this gets dismissed he goes back to France a victim and a hero, and will probably end up President of France next year.


24 posted on 06/30/2011 11:13:22 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

The French have to be crazy if that’s how they would pick a president.


25 posted on 06/30/2011 11:14:46 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Yaelle

This pudgy clown must have been extremely horny to gamble on whatever housekeeper the hotel would send to his reportedly “unoccupied” room. What if they’d sent a guy?


26 posted on 06/30/2011 11:17:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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Reminds me how Carvelle tried to discredit Paula - drag a dollar through a trailer park, something like that. So much for her hospital tests and the cops said she was very credible at that part.

Paula's most lasting contribution to US history is that Clinton's crookedness is literal.

27 posted on 06/30/2011 11:28:12 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: HiTech RedNeck

He was the frontrunner to be president of France before this incident in NYC. If this case is dismissed because of the severe character flaws described here for the maid, he will appear a victim of her and US law enforcement and the US legal system.

It could be that with his arrest too many other, similar storiees have emerged and he is just toast, but I could certainly see him and a PR team turning him into a heroic victim, a good and decent and important man, a man falsely accused, then dragged off his return flight home to be booked on outrageous and made up charges


28 posted on 06/30/2011 11:47:23 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Yaelle
This is really sad. Another case of a powerful man being able to rape a powerless victim and getting away with it.

Did you read the article? If it's correct, then she's not your average humble chamber maid, is she? She's dirt, and now she must experience the full consequences of being dirt!

Of course, I'll grant you, it's not OK to rape even dirt. But when dirt makes an accusation, then dirt's testimony is lousy evidence! That's a heavy burden for any prosecution to bear LOL.

She has served her purpose. A leftard frog presidential candidate has been put through the wringer on the wrong side of the pond (for him), losing his job to the skinny dried up bitch from Chicago and Paris. Good show. Now it's time to focus on other problems, namely, the dirt problem, and in particular, the illegal immigrant subset thereof.

Also, his actions — racing off to the airport, leaving his cell phone behind — are not those of a man who happily enjoyed a romp with the willing housekeeper. He wanted out of there rapidly. (I believe he also told the hotel he was out of the room so they would send a maid in.)

Not true. He checked out of the hotel as if nothing unusual had happened. Then he had lunch with his ex and their daughter before proceeding to the airport. At that point, he realized he was missing one of his phones and called the hotel to ask if they had it. When they said they'd courier it to him, he told them he was at the airport waiting to board an Air France flight. They sent the Port Authority Police instead. Hardly the actions of a guilty man! If he'd headed directly for the airport and not called about the phone, he'd have been high over the North Atlantic before the NYPD would have had a clue.

29 posted on 06/30/2011 11:50:18 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: EDINVA

Humm, this is an interesting twist. In all the brouhaha over this alleged sexcapade of his, and it sure looks weird how he reacted, it’s scarcely been mentioned that he was heir apparent to the presidency of France. Well, now France knows him a lot better. Maybe they’ll be glad they did.


30 posted on 06/30/2011 11:52:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: cynwoody

Well, granted that maybe DSK thought he was going to go scot free even though he called the hotel. He miscalculated America.


31 posted on 06/30/2011 11:55:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: EDINVA

“If this gets dismissed he goes back to France a victim and a hero, and will probably end up President of France next year.”

My guess is, no way. He may skate with this conviction, but too much is coming out of the woodwork back home. This guy is a serial predator, and the facade is now off. His friends can’t cover for him, anymore.


32 posted on 06/30/2011 11:57:07 PM PDT by tanuki (O-voters: wanted Uberman, got Underdog....)
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He’ll also find that, a la OJ, even if the criminal system is too high minded to convict him, he can be sued. That’s hardly the last to be heard from the “lady” because it’s awful hard to get DNA to lie.


33 posted on 07/01/2011 12:02:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Good point. You don’t skate away from a real legal system THAT easily.


34 posted on 07/01/2011 12:18:44 AM PDT by tanuki (O-voters: wanted Uberman, got Underdog....)
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To: EDINVA
but I could certainly see him and a PR team turning him into a heroic victim, a good and decent and important man, a man falsely accused, then dragged off his return flight home to be booked on outrageous and made up charges

That's certainly possible.

It's not as if his ways with women were unknown among knowledgeable Frogs.

For instance, there is the case of the lovely Tristane Banon, whom fellow leftard Frogs admonished, "We know it's true, but bury the case, because politically he is the last chance that remains for the left." [17:17] Yes, a man who has an Achilles heel, actually the heel of Priapus, which is huge [LOL!!].

But do the Frog sheeple know? Do they care? Hopefully, they are just tired of socialists. But, if not, then may they reject a top socialist for the wrong reasons! As long as they reject him!

35 posted on 07/01/2011 12:35:19 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Well, granted that maybe DSK thought he was going to go scot free even though he called the hotel.

The point is, DSK obviously didn't think he'd done anything out of the ordinary, nothing to go scot free (or frog free) about. Just a quick boink and time to have lunch with the grad student daughter and head back across the pond and brief Chancellor Angela in the morning. If he'd been fleeing a crime, he'd have known better than to call the hotel.

36 posted on 07/01/2011 12:41:16 AM PDT by cynwoody
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I find it a little hard to believe the only way DSK would have been able to be located was by the call to the hotel. Not with our database keeping ubergropemeisters on duty (even if the high horse diplomats get a pass from actual groping).


37 posted on 07/01/2011 1:04:31 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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I find it a little hard to believe the only way DSK would have been able to be located was by the call to the hotel.

You assume 911 was called immediately, and the NYPD was on the case from the beginning. That's not how it unfolded. It wasn't until about 15:30 that the NYPD was really on it, and that was about when the call from DSK came in. If DSK had been running, he wouldn't have called, and the NYPD would have been too late.

Then it would have been up to the State Department to try to get him extradited. And, you may recall how long that took in the case of Ira Einhorn, an American client of Arlen Spector's who was wanted for murdering his girlfriend in Philly and who had been living in France with his French girlfriend for years. Think how much longer it would have taken to extradite a top Frog! Think eternity!

38 posted on 07/01/2011 1:17:49 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
I think the next president of France will be this woman...


39 posted on 07/01/2011 2:27:14 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you dropped your bow?")
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To: Cincinna

Well this should help to further stabilize the euro and european politics. /s

When does WW III begin?


40 posted on 07/01/2011 3:39:50 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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