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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Bill Clinton got a free (um) pass, why not DSK?
Strange story. I think want to wait before I convict this guy.
These IMF loan guarantees should be ended immediately as well as any further participation in the IMF. We can no longer afford to pay for this foolishness.
The Ruling Class will insure that nothing happens to their friends.
Now pay your taxes and have a nice day.
Isn’t he one of the ones who led the witch hunt against Paul Wolfowitz for hiring his girlfriend?
I couldn’t find anything on it
It’s all over the place! Big story in NYC. A 32 year old chambermaid (of African origin), with an excellent work record, entered the hotel room, thinking it was empty. He jumped her bones and twice tried to assault her. She fought and escaped, sustaining injuries when she took a bad fall. Despite his power, the authorities pulled him off a flight back to France (he bought a ticket at the last minute, apparently doing something no American has been allowed to do for nearly 20 years), and he spent a night in our own tax-supported hotel: The Tombs.
Yeah Fox News reported all of that
I’m reading the NY papers. Fox must be reading them, too.
My brother says that he has never met a Socialist who couldn't be bought.
It's too bad that the French authorities didn't have a cause or opportunity to arrest B.J. Clinton before 1992.
-——of African origin-——
Like Barack Obama or like Eleanor Holmes Norton
Actually, she is apparently an immigrant from Guinea, a former French colony, which makes the case so much worse for DSK back home, because of anti-colonial sentiment.
What’s your point?
If you can go to the English papers, which are reporting on the French papers, (God love those English papers!) you ‘ll see they are closing ranks around DSK as he is known. The maid can go to hell as far as they’re concerned. Highly predictable. Makes me all the more proud to be an American and know that the NYPD and FBI did the right thing.
The distinction was not made.
Are you saying this maid is basically Eleanor Norton Holmes in an uniform or that she is nothing like the woman? Your post was confusing.
No, Is she recent out of Africa or old generational out of Africa
was the question.
No, Is she recent out of Africa or old generational out of Africa
was the question.
Oh. I think she’s fairly recently out of Africa.
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