Strauss-Kahn guilty or not?

[maaarc]

So what do you think? Is Strauss-Kahn guilty or is it all some vast right wing conspiracy




http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110516/...f_head_assault

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...hn-debt-crisis

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43048790

[Dino Velvet]

Wait for the evidence or lack of before deciding. Who knows what happened in that room?

[maaarc]

guilty or not it will be interesting to see what happens with the IMF and the French elections as a result of this little bit of business.

[robertlouis]

guilty or not it will be interesting to see what happens with the IMF and the French elections as a result of this little bit of business.

The IMF seems to be paralysed without him, which makes the next run of funding for euro state bailouts more fraught than ever.

As far as France is concerned, he's already past tense. He hadn't declared for the presidency, but would certainly have been a stronger and more credible candidate for the left than either Segolene Royal or her erstwhile partner Francois Hollande after her disastrous performance in 2007. Nobody loves Sarko - ok, maybe Carla does - so there is a bit of a void. Worry is that the Front Nationale, fundamentally a fascist party, under the new leadership of Marine le Pen, which has carefully moved towards mimicking Sarkozy's policies, will move to fill the space created. Interesting but worrying too.

[muh_muh]

loosely translated from an awesome german satire magazine

Fact: IWF-boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn supposedly attacked a maid while being naked.
Question: Is he going to stop running for the french presidency now and try for the italian presidency instead?

[robertlouis]

loosely translated from an awesome german satire magazine

Fact: IWF-boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn supposedly attacked a maid while being naked.
Question: Is he going to stop running for the french presidency now and try for the italian presidency instead?

Yes, Berlusconi's continuing rule does nothing for Italy's external reputation. He's a right-wing control freak with a svengali like hold over the Italian people as well as a virtual stranglehold on the media. You wonder just what he would actually have to do to be removed.

[hippifried]

Does it matter if he's guilty or not? I certainly don't care one way or the other. But this is really top notch entertainment. I'll be watching with great interest & my usual supply of wise cracks.

I wonder if they're going to deport the maid after they don't need her testimony anymore.

[robertlouis]

Does it matter if he's guilty or not? I certainly don't care one way or the other. But this is really top notch entertainment. I'll be watching with great interest & my usual supply of wise cracks.

I wonder if they're going to deport the maid after they don't need her testimony anymore.

Ooooh cynical. But probably correct.

[Stavros]

I liked this comment from Gilles Savary reported in today's Independent (my underlining):

Nonetheless, the conspiracy talk thrives. Gilles Savary, a friend of DSK and Socialist Euro MP, said that the presidential front-runner was an easy and obvious target.
"To be honest, everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a libertine," he said in his blog. "He is only different from lots of others by not hiding the fact. In puritan America, impregnated with rigorous Protestantism, they tolerate money games but not the pleasures of the flesh. So it is easy to trap a public figure who is so little resistant to feminine charms as DSK."


Is a philanderer a rapist? Tristane Banon, a family friend has described what happened when she went to interview him 9 years ago:
" Ms Banon said she had gone along to interview DSK in an empty flat for her first book. "He [name withheld] wanted to hold my hand, then my arm," she told the TV show. "We ended up scuffling on the ground. I kicked him. He unfastened my bra and tried to take down my jeans."I used the word 'rape' to try to scare him. It didn't scare him. He was like a champanzee in rut."


Puritan Americans, French lotharios, truth and lies, the conspiracy theories...about the ony fact we know is that right now the Head of the IMF is in Rikers Island...

[robertlouis]

I liked this comment from Gilles Savary reported in today's Independent (my underlining):

Nonetheless, the conspiracy talk thrives. Gilles Savary, a friend of DSK and Socialist Euro MP, said that the presidential front-runner was an easy and obvious target.
"To be honest, everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a libertine," he said in his blog. "He is only different from lots of others by not hiding the fact. In puritan America, impregnated with rigorous Protestantism, they tolerate money games but not the pleasures of the flesh. So it is easy to trap a public figure who is so little resistant to feminine charms as DSK."


Is a philanderer a rapist? Tristane Banon, a family friend has described what happened when she went to interview him 9 years ago:
" Ms Banon said she had gone along to interview DSK in an empty flat for her first book. "He [name withheld] wanted to hold my hand, then my arm," she told the TV show. "We ended up scuffling on the ground. I kicked him. He unfastened my bra and tried to take down my jeans."I used the word 'rape' to try to scare him. It didn't scare him. He was like a champanzee in rut."


Puritan Americans, French lotharios, truth and lies, the conspiracy theories...about the ony fact we know is that right now the Head of the IMF is in Rikers Island...

All I can usefully add to that is that it's a great pity that most of Wall St wasn't already there.