Posted on 05/16/2011 7:27:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Scandal: The less said about the shocking arrest of International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn the better. Except for this: It reflects poorly on the IMF and raises serious questions about its future.
Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he's universally known in France, has big problems. Not only has he been charged with the sexual assault of a 32-year-old African-born chambermaid, but this isn't the first time.
A French journalist alleges he sexually assaulted her in an apartment in 2002. And, in 2008, the IMF discovered DSK, who is married to French journalist Anne Sinclair, having an affair with a married subordinate.
For this, he got a mere hand-slap and kept his job.
All of which suggests this is as much an IMF problem as it is a Strauss-Kahn problem. For Americans, this is important, since most us know so little about the IMF, its immense power and its lack of transparency.
Few know, for instance, that the U.S. owns about 17% of its shares. Or that we guarantee more than $100 billion of its loans. Or that it's been run mostly by European socialists who have imposed disastrous policies on the Third World and former communist nations.
As such, DSK is just a symptom of a deeper malaise.
The dapper former Communist — and, until his arrest, presumed Socialist candidate for the French presidency — has long had what French pundit Sylvie Pierre-Brossolette describes as a way of dealing with women that is "too pressing, often on the edge of harassment."
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Oh those Frenchmen! They are so suave, so debonair, have such eclat, such savoir faire. No wonder we clumsy américains cannot compete with them in les choses du cœur !
At least Clinton was chivalrous enough to offer his victim some ice.
But maybe you have a different perspective.
You can’t be serious trying to compare him with Maurice Chevalier
Throw out your hands
Stick out your tush
Hands on your hips
Give ‘em a push
You’ll be surprised
You’re doing the French Mistake!
Voila!
I just have not herd any evidence of a struggle. If the accuser has been penetrated that would be hard to achieve in a struggle. Blood is common in deviant copulation. Still very strange to me. As far as what lawyers and media say you know they have an agenda and the facts get skewed. I think I need to wait and see and let justice proceed.
“If the accuser has been penetrated that would be hard to achieve in a struggle.”
Rapists seem to have not had too much of a problem with it, throughout human history. In fact it was said a Mongol warrior could accomplish the task on horseback - but then again he was most likely both a skilled rider and an experienced rapist.
Innocent men don’t start by saying they have an airtight alibi - and then shift to “it was consensual” once they hear that there is DNA evidence on hand.
It is a 64 year old man,not a mongol warrior who beat his victim into submission. The reporting is bad and I have not read they have found smoking gun evidence of dna. The reporting convicts the guy but evidence leaves me with reasonable doubt at this time. We will see,
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