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Barbara Kay: The lesson of Dominique Strauss-Khan — women lie too
National Post (Canada) ^ | July 2, 2011 | Barbara Kay

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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To: ConservativeStatement
This is really interesting.

It seems that everyone involved is effectively a criminal, or has unethical connections and engages in character assassination.

DSK ruling elitist with the standard leftist Kennedy proclivity weakness.

The "Maid" drug gang money and prostitution connections. Immigration perjury. Muslim

Nifong style Investigators and Prosecutors

The Union Local 6 work assignments and shakedown demonstrations and work stoppages.

Hotel management.

The new female IMF replacement Chicago connection, with The IMF going after Quadaffi's gold, and France after the oil.

Dsk likely won't succeed Sarkozy, now.

My opinion, they're ALL the bad guys, and us ordinary people are the victims.

21 posted on 07/02/2011 9:49:45 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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To: Eva

“We jumped all over this guy like the Ethnic Studies profs at Duke jumped all over the Duke lacrosse team. “

Hardly an apt comparison. We literally “jumped all over this guy” because he left his stuff in the hotel room and boarded a flight back to France — which has a history of never extraditing criminals. They barely got there in time to drag him off the plane.

Some people need jumping.


22 posted on 07/02/2011 9:50:42 AM PDT by Blue Ink
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To: org.whodat

No one knew the history of the woman in the Duke lacrosse case in the first couple of days. What the authorities had on this woman in NY was the tape recorded telephone conversation with her imprisoned boyfriend, asking him for advice on how to exploit the situation.

The woman had no right to the expectation of privacy when communicating with a prisoner. She was just plain stupid. All conversations with prisoners, are recorded. I don’t know how they work it with conversations between prisoners and lawyers.


23 posted on 07/02/2011 9:54:20 AM PDT by Eva
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To: org.whodat
I have yet to read any proof you did not do what she said. Now, you prove your innocence!
24 posted on 07/02/2011 9:55:39 AM PDT by CharlyFord
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To: Texas Fossil

Big bucks, big lawyer, no problem “settling” this.
Nothing to see, move along, see?


25 posted on 07/02/2011 9:56:14 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
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To: SuzyQue

There’s was an article in the NYT some days ago about the no. of bank accounts this woman has and the no. of people transferring money into it. Likewise for her phone, when she had disclosed to prosecutors that she had only 1 line. She’s also on tape asking someone if she should say that he raped her. The prosecution’s case is starting to look extremely shaky.


26 posted on 07/02/2011 9:58:03 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (There is no native criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain)
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To: Signalman

Yes, the man is as guilty as hell from the facts given to date.


27 posted on 07/02/2011 9:58:22 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Blue Ink

I am not talking about the police arrest. I am talking about the trial in the press. The authorities knew the next day that there was something a little off about the victim, yet they let the one sided story continue to be pushed by the press. It was selling papers.

I’m wondering if the story about the woman living in an AiDs housing building is true. The way that part of the story was written was always that she lived there, not that she has AIDS.


28 posted on 07/02/2011 10:00:11 AM PDT by Eva
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To: definitelynotaliberal

None of which can be used as evidence in this case, the woman and her back ground is not on trial.


29 posted on 07/02/2011 10:00:15 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: CharlyFord
When you are charged with rape, we do not allow, the she ask for it defense. Neither do we allow the nuts and sluts defense. The only thing important here is what happened to the maid after dumbass came out of the bath room. Does the medical examiner say in his opinion she was raped and is there evidence of force.
30 posted on 07/02/2011 10:05:48 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Eva

Rubbish. Polticians of any description should reasonably be presumed guilty unless shown to be innocent.

The ideal rule of law has been so thoroughly corrupted and there are so many depraved sociopaths in high positions, that is manifestly unsafe to assume innocence when powerful individuals are involved.

The true law of the land is the “Golden Rule”. Those who have the gold make the rule.


31 posted on 07/02/2011 10:09:08 AM PDT by flamberge (What could possibly go wrong with that?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Unions pimp out their members. For real, not metaphorically speaking.
That’s the real story here.


32 posted on 07/02/2011 10:12:37 AM PDT by Rytas
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To: flamberge

He isn’t OUR politician, so we cannot hold him to a higher standard.

You cannot just throw out the rule of law when it suits you. That’s what the Democrats do.


33 posted on 07/02/2011 10:13:33 AM PDT by Eva
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To: ConservativeStatement

Let’s see: we have the Brawley case and Sharpton, The Duke, La Crosse case, now this case. Are there others with the same common features?


34 posted on 07/02/2011 10:13:47 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: ConservativeStatement

These two are a matched pair of jerks.

Chas. Krauthammer said their contact might have been “contractual”- I almost peed myself!


35 posted on 07/02/2011 10:17:54 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Michael Savage said from the very beginning that this was a setup orchestrated by either Nicolas Sarkozy or Christine Lagarde, and that William Cohen should be investigated for his active participation.

He's the only person who didn't fall for it.

I suspect his take on who was responsible is equally accurate.

36 posted on 07/02/2011 10:25:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Regardless of her past or character she was either raped or she was not. Let the evidence speak.


37 posted on 07/02/2011 10:26:54 AM PDT by Peter from Rutland
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To: org.whodat

Agreed. More likely the lesson to be learned here is that the New World Order has spoken. They want that Euro Trash to run for President of France so they are springing him.


38 posted on 07/02/2011 10:30:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Peter from Rutland

I thought it was revealed today that she’s been offering prostitution services along with room cleaning?


39 posted on 07/02/2011 10:31:08 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Jane Austen
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.

But there is the issue of reasonable doubt. If (and that's a big if) the recent reports are true and she is a crook and a liar, how is the prosecution going to get a jury to convict in what is basically a “he said, she said” situation?
40 posted on 07/02/2011 10:37:52 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Barack Obama, the Stickless Wonder.)
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