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2011-07-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-

NYT: Dominique Strauss-Kahn accusation falling apart

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Posted by 2011-07-01 00:38|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 This should bring French politics to a lively boil.

Posted by ryuge 2011-07-01 00:55|| 2011-07-01 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I think he's done in France for two reasons:

1) a lot of other women are coming out of the woodwork to talk about him

2) there are limits to what a 'Socialist' can do in public, and he's exceeded those limits with his lavish lifestyle

But I've already been wrong once on this one.

Posted by Steve White 2011-07-01 01:05|| 2011-07-01 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 willing to let it play out, however, the multiple sources, the buy-out offers by DSK friends, et al, lean me toward "arrogant asshole who thinks hotel staff is his plaything". See: "algore - crazed sex poodle". Irregardless, this is an unstable predator-like personality who should be domestically beaten, if not jailed.

Posted by Frank G 2011-07-01 01:12|| 2011-07-01 01:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Moslem woman, Jewish man, lurid sex crime.

I thought the whole thing looked dodgy.

Posted by phil_b 2011-07-01 01:19|| 2011-07-01 01:19|| Front Page Top

#5 A 32 year old woman if she was raped by a 62 year old man should leave some physical wounds.

Posted by Bernardz 2011-07-01 04:41|| 2011-07-01 04:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Early on, it was suggested that his best defense is to use his wealth and connections to destroy his accuser.

Examine the story. If indeed they are citing police investigators, who are anonymous in the story, then those investigators are unethical. And since the NYT seems to have no problem fabricating its stories to support its friends and attack its enemies...

The forensic evidence is that her clothing had his semen on it.

She is an illegal alien, with little education, and likely no great comprehension of legal trickery or linguistic tricks that create the appearance of lying on the part of a witness.

Then assume she is involved in a drug ring, uses drugs, etc. Can a drug user be raped? It is an apples and oranges argument.

Likewise, the idea that a hotel maid would be part of a grand conspiracy to tear down a great and noble internationalist banker, just because he likes to rape peasants a little.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-01 09:03|| 2011-07-01 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 A "maid" with hundreds of dollars worth of phone charges every month, who has had many "individuals" make deposits to her bank account totalling over $50,000 per year?

This reminds me of the story about the old hooker who came back with $13.25.

Posted by KBK 2011-07-01 09:40|| 2011-07-01 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I personally think the NYT is on a mission to save their precious DSK and the reputation of the IMF. My goodness, that bastion of internationalism and socialist principals has to be saved at all cost, so what if it costs a poor maid her reputation?

Of course, the press will always go over the top initially on any kind of high profile sex crime. AND all of the police departments of every major city have political agendas that require press time to get television time, foster the perception of "tough on crime" and get votes.

Now that everyone has taken a deep breath and the NYT is running cover for Strauss-Kahn, this will disappear under the media rug.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-07-01 10:49|| 2011-07-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 ...the NYT seems to have no problem fabricating its stories...

That was the first thought to cross my mind. But, whatever, this case needs to go to trial and until it does DSK needs to be considered a flight risk.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-07-01 11:40|| 2011-07-01 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 That'll teach her to think America is different.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-07-01 11:44|| 2011-07-01 11:44|| Front Page Top

#11 OK, wait a minute. The Manhattan district attorney is Cyrus Vance, Jr.. Hmmmm, I though that name rang a bell.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-07-01 11:51|| 2011-07-01 11:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Court ends house arrest for former IMF chief
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has been under strict house arrest on charges of attempted rape of a hotel housekeeper, was released on his own recognizance today after prosecutors called the accuser's credibility into question.

Update at 12:48 p.m. ET: District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. says the charges against Strauss-Kahn have not been dismissed and the investigation will continue.

Posted by tipper 2011-07-01 15:25|| 2011-07-01 15:25|| Front Page Top

#13 The quest for the Great White Defendant goes on...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-07-01 17:40|| 2011-07-01 17:40|| Front Page Top

#14 The New York Times is not above a smear to help a fellow socialist. Whether or not the victim, to call her what she is, lied or had bad friends or took money illegally ultimately make, or at least should make, little difference to the matter at hand: rape.

It is entirely possible for a person receiving the proceeds of illegal activity to be raped. The apparent thrust of the article is that it matters.

Jerome Kersland, the guy who shot the kid in the farmacia robbery last year, had lied to police in the initial interview about having military experience, which he in truth did not. That he lied in an interview about matters that had nothing to do with the crime he was eventually convicted of did not make even the smallest difference as to whether to prosecute the case. It was a little detail the cops had no business releasing to smear Kersland, as if they needed this tidbit to charge him.

If they cut this Frog f*cker loose, every case, and I mean every rape case I read from here on about I will point out every tiny bad thing about the victim to show why the accused must be released.

If they release this frog f*cker, it will change how rape law are pursued, or at least how they should be pursued:

She did ganja? She must not have been raped!

She slept with her college professor five years before the incident in question? It must mean she wasn't raped!

See where the NY Times is leading us?

Posted by badanov 2011-07-01 18:40|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2011-07-01 18:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Sexual assault is a he said, she said crime.

Posted by phil_b 2011-07-01 19:39|| 2011-07-01 19:39|| Front Page Top

#16 Bad., it's not so much as he didn't rape her as she will not make a credible witness. The burden of proof is on the prosecution and with a proven liar & probable criminal, this woman will not (and should not) be able to make an accusation that is "beyond all shadow of a doubt".

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2011-07-01 19:40|| 2011-07-01 19:40|| Front Page Top

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